Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-06-10
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THURSDAY. JUNE 10. 1858.
The Re-EleCtIou of John p Hale.

p-vtectfou of John p. Hale
II. t-;sDds Of freedom throughout the country
,l reoiee at the reelection. for another term Oh
- 70 the Senate of the United States,
49,. ,be Granite State, Of that tried and true
,b.mnion o liberty, John P. Hale. in spite Of
The efF,rts made, on the part of the more cog
servatiye members OF the party, to have him sup
nlanted by another of less radical mould on tno
assumed principle of ''rotation" in othce' we
rejoice to perceive that at the Republican caucus
of members Of the Legislature, held at Concord
on Tuesday night, (Which, however, the anu,
Hale members of the Senate refused to atlehuD
Mr. Hale was nominated for senator on the nrst
haIot by vote Of nearly two to one. Out OF lS4
votes cast John P. Hale received III, l. NJ Ea-
wards of Keene 20, Amos Tuck 70 AhtuOnS
Colby 7. G. W. Nesmith 4, and william ha"e
(Goyernor) l. And the telegraph informs US tna'
the Legislature yesterday completed the wo'k o.
re.electinp Mr.. Hale, the House giving him 100
votes TO IN for John S. Wells, Democrat, ana
scattering, aud the Senate undoubtedly concur
red.1
All the gentlemen above named except weils)
are true and reliable Republicans, land would 90
good and valuable service in any position IN
which they may be placed by the favor OF Their
fellow citizens yet there were peculiar reasons why
Mr.. Hale should be re elected, after the able ana
valiant manner in which he has served the cause
and his State in the councils Of the nation in the
mast. There are some points which he stands
head aud shoulders above any man VINO can "
proposed from among his competitors, for guam,
fca,ions TO meet the arguments and attacks Oh
the Southern blusterers and bullies in the Sem
ate, who will endeavor, as they have done mere
tofore. to browbeat Northern members into sub
servieney to the darling schemes OF the slavery
propagandists, under the name of some skulklng
"compromise," or other misnomer. 1t is no more
than Justice to him and to the cause which he has
so long and SO ably served, to return him again
to his old position, where he can add to the lau-
rels he has already won, and achieve still greater
victories in the hand to hand conflicts with the
advocates of oppression.
Mr., Hale is the first bona fda representative of
the political anti.slavery party, elected as SUCH
elevated to the Senate, and during the first two
years Of his membership, stood solitary and alone
as the only exponent of the principles of the
party Of freedom in that body. His first term of
service there commenced in lS47. In l849 he
was reinforced by Seward, and within two years
thereafter, Ohio added Chase, and Massachusetts
Charles Sumner; and since then, our forces
have gradually and continually increased, until
now, when the number of Republicans in the
Senate has been swelIed to twenty-and after tho
4th of March next we shall number in that body
at least twenty four. with prospect of more
BY 1861, on the Inauguration of new President
we shall hope to have obtained clear majority
in that heretofore citadel of conservative, pro-
slavery Democracy.
When we look back upon the career of Mr..
Hale, from tile time when he fought, single
handed and alone, the great political giants Of
the party of slavery, in the Senate, on the Wing
or Democratic side. up to his last great speech at
the present session, which has been SO much APP
plauded throughout the North, as we'll as by his
own immediate constituents, we find him on eV-
cry occasion fully equal to the crisis, and taking
a position and rank Of influence second to but
few who have figured in the Congressional arena.
Who can forget the fearless and independent
manner in which Mr.. Hale bore himself, on the
occasion OF his first crossing swords with Henry
Clay Mr. Clay, with all his eminent commend
able qualities, was noted for his dictatorial bear
ing and manner Of speech, toward men from the
North, whom he wished to coerce to silence,
if he saw them giving too free vent to their
honest sentiments and the honest sentiments Of
their constituents, on the slavery question, when
it came up in the course of debate in the Senate
Rufus Choate on his first essay IN speech to give
free uttersnce to the voice Of Massachusetts,, was
completely cowed down to silence at once, by the
great Dictator, who indicated to him, by sig
nifcant point Of the finger, that it would not do
"the interests of the Wing party South" would
not admit of it. So the eloquent but timid
Choate skunk back into his seat.
Not so with Mr.. Hale. During the delivery of
one Of his earliest and most eloquent and effect.
i've speeches in the Senate, against the slave
power, in defence Of those principles of which he
was then almost the sole representative in that
body Mr.. Clay, who had listened to it with
great deal Of impatience. arose, and essayed, by
the application OF his dictatorial wand to teach
the green New Hampshire Senator better man.
ners, the Kentucky Senator accompanying his
advice with words and manner that he should
have known, man Of Mr.. Hale's characteristic
featIessness and personal independence, would
not brook from any one. Mr.. Hale, in reply,
informed the distinguished Senator from Ken
lucky, that in saying what he had, he expressed
not merely his own cherished views, but the long
settled sentiments and convictions Of the great
mass Of the people of the Granite State, and her
hills could sooner be moved from their founda-
tons, than he be frightened or swerved from the
honest and fearless expression of his sentiments
come dictatiOn from whatever quarter it might;
that he (Hale) could not be intmidated there.
from, either by long mem or short men, in that
body or elsewhere! The great Kentuckian (who
stood over six feet in his stockings) never at
tempted to browbeat Hale after that.
This incident illustrates the kind Of men the
North wants in Congress. We have got quite
number Of such. in both branches, Iand let US
keep them there. There is now, it is true, no
Henry Clay 20 dictate to them, but there are
those who would be glad to make the attempt, if
they thought they could succeed.
GEER TERRY.--In the record Of recent deaths.
we notice that Of Geer Terry, Esq, who died at
Enfield, Ct, May 25th, aged SO years. Mr. Ter
~ was formerly, for many years, a resident OF
Worcester, whence he removed in 1874 to Enfield.