The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-06-17
REELECTION OF SENATOR HALE.

The reelection of Mr.. Hale, United States
Senator for Six years, from the close of his pres.
ent term, will be hailed with pleasure by the
friends of Freedom throughout the Union. Ten
years ago, he appeared in the Senate, as the
first representative in that body of the Princi-
pies on which the Republican movement now
rests, ard, from that time to this, he has justi-
fed the wisdom of the People who sent him
to maintain and defend them. Prompt, cour.
ageous, and able true, consistent, and sagacious,
he has won a noble reputation and position of
great Influence, while long experience has quail.
fed him for additional usefulness. Anew Hamp.
shire paper, which has more sympathies with the
past than present, deplores the reelection of
Mr.. Hale, claims that some representative man
of the Wing Party ought to have succeeded
him, and that the old Free Soil Party is too
grasping after Office. The article is ungenerous,
unjust, and ill.advised. The present colleague
of Mr.. Hale is of Wing antecedents, as was the
late Senator Bell, while the Judiciary of the
State, the Executive Department, and the Leg.
islative Offices, are filled, to q great extent, BY
men formerly members of the Wing or Demo.
cratic Parties. The Free Soil Pioneers have
not complained, but they were right in insisting
upon the reelection Of man to the Senate who
struck tie first successful blow at the Slavery
Despotism which bound the State, who bastled
for Freedom when it cost a good deal more than
it now does. and who is better qualified by his
experience to do effectual service in the cause
in the Senate than any new man, no matter
what his merit.
The Boston Atlas and Bee says:
:" Mr.. Hale was among the foremost men in
the nation that came out from his party, and
placed himself in active opposition to the slave
power of the South. For several years, Mr..
Hale and Salmon P. Chase stood almost alone
in the Senate in defence of the principles
which now form the basis of that great Ameri.
can Republican party he means the Republi.
can party of the country, which he's gathered
within its fold majority of the INTELLIGENT. lib
erty-loving men of the Union. The seed which
these men sowed took root and grew, and has
borne good fruit. Ten years ago, Mr.. Hale
vas the only Republican. member of the Senate
from New England, now there is but one who
is not Republican, and the Legislature of
Rhode Island, q fortnight ago, weeded that one
out, so that in the next Congress the ak New
England States will be represented in the Sen.
ate by twelve Republican Senators, and we
trust that the delegation in the lower House
will be equally unanimous in the same direc-
ton"
UTAH-Late advices from Utah confirm the
report that Gov. Cumming had entered Salt
Lake City. The Mormons had given up the
idea of fighting, and were quietly at work. 1t
tits not at all unlikely that the warlike rumors
of few days ago we're the work of interested
parties who wanted all the appropriation bills
passed.
~ Congress has adjourned without doing
great deal of business which was ready for
its consideration. Several reports were waiting
to be made, and the private calendar was only
com .nenced. Doubtless, many schemes of plum.
der are STAYED off in this way, but it is also .
fact that very many honest and suffering claim.
ants are sent home penniless.
Va There has not, perhaps, been 90 much
lobbying at Washington the past session as at
previous ones, but there has been q plenty of it.
Several fat jobs have been pushed through both
Houses some in thegeneral appropriation bills,
others independently. Democrats and Repub-
licans have together voted for them.
D@- The closing sittings Of Congress we're
free OF many of the usual unpleasant accompa-
niments. There was little OF no drunkenness,
no personal alteration, and, upon the whole,
marked abstinence from the use of violent Ian
guage. In the House, the opinion, We believe.
was general, that Col. Orr has acquitted him.
self very handsomely during the session,