Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-01-13

ed United Stairs Senator from Rhode Island. by
the General Assembly of that State, for six years
from the 4th of March next. in place of Gen.
Charles T. james, administration doughface. MI
Simmons received SO votes to 81 for Charles
Jackson, administration, and scattering. Mr.
| S. was formerly Wing, and represented Rhode
| Island in the Senate from lS4l to al. He lost
his re. election at that time owing to his sympa.
thies with the Door party, John H. Clarke sue.
ceeding him. Mr.. Simmons is a manufacturer, a
self-ma4e, practical man, of acknowledged ability
as legislator, and will do eminent credit, as he
has in the past, to the free sentiments Of his ma
tive Commonwealth in the National Councils
THE CLovBN Foor DISPLAYED. The Tran.
script could not let the opportunity of Charles
Summers re election, on the part of the House,
to slipby without giving vent to Its long pent up
magnity against that distinguished Senator,
Statesman, and Favorite of the people of Mas
sachusetts. Accompanied with some compliments,
the better to disguise its purpose it makes an
assault on him, which, for falsehood and mean
ness, has not been equalled within our recollec.
tion, by any paper, the open political opponent Of
Mr.. Sumner in New England. 1t will afford
much com ort and satisfaction to those papers,
and TO the opponents of publicansm, freedom,
and liberal opinions generally. II says:
s.Mr. Sumner. it should be remembered. is
re elected not so much on his oton personal
merits as upon grounds of State policy and
State pride. Although he is man of supe-
rior talents and attainments and a worthy
representative of Massachusetts, in every lie.
spec;, yet we state no more than what will
be generally admitted. when we say that but
for the attack of Brooks upon him, his re.
election would have been doubtful. He is
not q man Of fhs people, has not their synpa-
thies, and cannot command from his own
political party half the attachment that his
colleague, Gen. Wilson, and several others
can. Mr.. Sumner is too scholarly, too cold,
too arstocratic, too isolated, to be classed
among popular men"
more false and slanderous paragraph than
the above could hardly be renned. II there is
any one man in Massachusetts or in New Eng
Land, who, more than all Others has deep hold
upon the affections of the people, that man is
Charles Sumner And it is of no sudden growth.
The Brooks affair has had little, very little, to 90
with it, l. ng before that occurred, he had over
come the bitter preiudices which were engendered
by the prou acted controversy attending his cleo
ton, and, from all quarters, heard the declar-
atoms of those who had been opposed to him,
that he was now their first choice for reelection
The conspirators who sought TO displace MIR.
Sumner and put Gov. Gardner in his stead, may
seek to their chagrin at the defeat of their
schemes, by the pretence that the assault Of
Brooks had any thing to do with it. The people
all know better. And here We may remark. that
Brookss assault, base and cowardly as it was
was not whit more mean than the present as.
sault of the Transcript.
The attempt of the Transcript to provoke a
comparison of the merits of Senator Wilson and
Mr.. Sumner. could have been dict,ted by no
friendship for the former, and we shall not, here
fore, be drawn into the making of any compar.
Ii is sufficient to say, that in all that at
taches people to public man-in all the char
acteIisties Of high statesman-in eloquence, in
purity Of heart and of life, in unaterabe devotion
to principle, in chivalric flelty thereto and to
his friends, whether personal or political, in the
graces of scholarship ana of the gentleman, and
ia all the amenities and courtesies of social life,
Charles Sumner has few equals, and no superior.
DutS says the transcript, = the time ana man
ner" of the election on the part of the House,
was not right The manner, it will be recoll cted,
was ciUa coce, and the trouble with this, that
it did not permit certain men to commit their in
tended treason to their constituents without ex-
posure. There is where the shoe pinches. Then
as to the lime, the Transcript says that " the
taking of the vote before the State Government
had been inaugurated, was intended as an insult
upon the Governor" "It could have been meant
for no other purpose than a slight to the Gov
ernor of the State" H W any such construction
could be put upon it, the Transcript does not
descend to inform us, and we confess our want of
discernment to find it out. The election was the
most impaI ttsaht business of the whole session.
and the House determined, very wisely. to take it
up at once, and dispose of it when there was a
full House, thus giving the greatest possible
number of the Representatives the opportunity
to carry out the will of their constituents; and
they did it, we doubt not, without any reference
to Gov. Gardner, one way or the other.