The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1857-06-19
The new N. II. Senator.

Hon. DANIEL CLARK, who has been elect
ed by the n. ii. Legislature, United State,
Senator to supply the vacancy occasionet
by the decease Of Hon. John Bell. is resi-
dent of Manchester. He is u lawyer by pro,
fession, and has the reputation of being one
of the best advocates in his State. He was
originally whi., when it was the fashion
of that party to oppose the extension Of
slavery, and has maintained inaexibly, the
principles which he, rs an anti.slayery
whig, maintained. Hew was one with Others
Of the whig party who could not, even a,
the Recommendation Of distinguished whig
leaders, conquer their prcjudices," and
who failed to discover the wisdom Of, or the
necessity for, the compromise measures Of
1850. Firmly adhering to his principles,
he has now that reward which, though
sometimes postponed, generally comes to him
who, when Others falter, stands firmly by
the right. lie is an able man and the re-
publicans of \. III. will have no cause to
blush for the character Of the men who are
TO represent her in the Senate of the United
States.
There is striking fact connected with
this action Of New Hampshire in putting
man like Mr.. Clark into the Senate of the
United States. New HamEs hirc was for
merly the strongest democratic State in the
North. She WAS even more democratic than
our own State. This was when her leading
men rcpudiated the heresies Of Calhoun, and
fought his dogma, that the constitution by
It's own inherent ylsor spread slavery over
all national territory. As the democratic
purity have neared the embrace OF slavery,
the people who never will adopt such per-
nieious doctrines, have left party that has
abandoned its principles, and in New IIamp
shire, once and again, have the people
spoken out against the new version Of De-
mocracy as promulgated in Baltimore and
Cincinnati Conventions. The just senti.
ment of the pcople-their love for genuine
republican liberty, and their adherence for
all forms Of oppression, have been stronger
than party ties and party leaders, and in
the progress OF time, even New Hampshire
who was once the pride and ornament Of
northern democracy, has become and will
continue thoroughly republican. The
Change in that State, as the Boston Travel
Ter justly remarks, sis the most signal that
has occurred in American politics" and the
cause oft is to be found in the subseryiency
OF the democratic party To slavery.
The election of Mr.. Clark brings to mind
another and u striking fact IN the history
of the fortunes of political men. Mr.. Clark
belongs, OF did belong, we have said, to that
class Ofwhigs who doubted the wisdom of
the compromises of 1850. The leading men
Of that class of wings who supported the
Of 1850 and insisted on their
being made u tombstone OF faith, have gone
down, one by one and disappeared beneath
the political horizon, no. even the eloQuence
Of " ebster calling upon the people of New
England "to conquer their prejudices" and
strange counsels of sacrifices to
be made to support the Union, were sufIi-
;ient to keep their stars from falling. Ev-
'rett, Winthrop, Ashman, Choate, and
'thers like them, all arc beneath the wave
'f popular sentiment and stand no chance
'f ever recovering their fcrraer position, 50
IouS as they resist the impulses for freedom
and for human rights that burn in free
mems hearts. The people have quietly left
Them to the retirement of private life, and
the pen OF history, if it does justice to
hem, will record their fate with an OK
preston of regret that they should have so
mistaken the intelligence and patriotism of
The people as to have supposed that a yield
ms aequiesence in wrong would bring them