Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-09-12
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MASSACHUSETTS PoLtrtcs--M p. BaMks.--
The contest for the GovernOrship of Massachu-
sets is now exciting no little interest al over
the country. Massachusetts, represents within
her borders nearly all phases of political opin-
ion, notwithstanding the known sentiment of
the vast body Of her people. Gov. Gardner and
Ex.Spcaker Banks, are the two prominent tnen
before the people for Gubernatorial honors, and
one or the other of them is TO be the next Chief
Magistrate OF the State. Tho position of Gov.
Gardner is a very peculiar ono, and one hardly
susceptible Of aswen defined description. When
we think of him, we associate together in our
mind nm incorporation of Hunkerism aud pro-
erosion, fossilized relic of Silver Grayish,, of
Americanism, of latter day conservatism, and
vet with all, an indistinct Investment of the pc
culiar sentiment Of the State. There is diSni-
ty. vet a want Of dignity about him, that seems
perpetually jaring and rendering uncertain the
particular genus with which he ought to be
classed. This is about our idea Of Gov. Gardner.
On the other hand, We see Mr.. Banks, standing
out in clear, well defined political tenets. He is
the nominee of the people of heState, the rep
resentative of the industrial interests, both per-
sonally and politically. Discarding on the one
hand the IIunkerism and exploded issues Of the
past, he ON the other utterly repudiates the
rampant disorganizers of the Garrison school,
and the pulpit barebones Of the Parker tribe
They all regard him as their opponent, aud they
have all made a determined set at him. But the
people, with that equitable perception which
Benton so often asserts is intuitivc, recognise
in N. P. Banks the 'irOn man Of Walthau,,"
their true friend and the champion Of the solid
''plough, loom and anvil progress Of the State
and Of the country. He is Of them and from
them; his hammer was but few years ago
heard by them at the forge, and when the
hardy sons of labor gather about him to hear
him speak, they know by one common impulse
that he is the representative and prominent
embodiment Of the Peeruse of toll. AeOtempo-
Tary speaking of selftaught men, has well and
forcibly remarked, that no man can hold or rise
TO power, who has not sympathy with the strug-
giles Of the lOwly million. If he has risen by
the force of his own mental muscle aud indom-
liable viii from them, then he Is their child, and
the great mass know hin, through their hearts.
This. as all persons know, was Strikinglys eNen.
pliiisd in the character of llenry Clay. We
thought last winter, when day after day VIC
witnessed the manner in which Mr. Banks pre-
sided over the HOusco of Representatives, sway
ing so magicaly those troubled and angry sPir-
its before him, so ascCPtably too to each and
every one of them, that he, above all men be-
fore us, was most ct to represent what ought To
be the American character. At the close of the
last Congress he not only received the thanks
Of Congress. bnt the veteran editors OF the Ma.
tionai Iatsil;geneer declared lin to have been
next to Henry Clay, The abIest IMAM who ever
presided over the House.
Between the parties and tho men whom VIC
have mentioned, all men at all eOnvCrSant with
the issues OF the day, as they arc arranged in
the East, must sympathixe with, and wish for
the success of the Banks party. as being the
one nearest allied with true conservative pro
gress ..@....------