Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-08-27
THos ]. HArsLlP, Scc'y.
THE NORTHERN ALLIES OF THE BRECKINRIDGE
PARTY-WH0 ARE THEY?
BOsroN August Is 1860

BosroN, August is, 1860
To the Editor of the THiq:
Your paper always had its readers the in
Boston, and the interest ia it has certiiuy abated
since you have been engaged in the good work of
tanning the nominations OF Bell and Everett you al
ways sustained the Union cause. That cause h INK bea
ven, grows brighter aud brighter every day. ln this
State, our party has life than any other The
only which approIimates to il in spirit and enthus
is that Of the Douglas Democrats, whose leaders
tempted to sell out the party at Charleston and Bali
more, but, in fact, only sold thSnsives.
Some Southern politicians believe or affect to believe
that the Breckiuridge Of the North strictly
tional men, There never was a more silly and misera.
bic political fiction than this. The Breckniidge party in
this state is the old coa ion party which elected Cha9
Sumner to the U. s Senate. Butler Whitney, Loring,
Of Salem, &C. &c, always semabolitioniss. But
ler. you kuow with characteristic impudence left the
Convention at Baltimore, with the cunning exclamation
that he would not sit in a Convention with a who
advocated The ropening OF the savetrade Caleb Cush-
ing and Benz Hnlet always be ca'sed together, and
OF each il NAV only be said that they have the
principles which John Rindo 9h gave a neighbor
Of yours aud that each has
Been true to parry, and that is himself
DR.. Loring was formerly Garrison atoitionist and
mas written some OF the most violent and abusive arti-
c'es upon slavery which penncd. James S.
Whitney the right hand man who elected Chas Sum-
ner 70 he u S. Senate, when Chas Sumner Bit
But there is Il story about bney aud the Office which
be holds which will tell in another paragraph and
which is worth knowing by you gentlemen Of the South
As have said be ore Jas. S. Whitney leading
spirit in the abolition Legislature Of 1851. For his
vices in eecng Cbas Sumner to the United States Sen
ate he was rewarded with the sherlship Of Franklin
county which pittance he lost when aboionism went
cut Of fashion in 1883 Reekng he at that time
with abotonism-iu despair at being turned out OF Of
fee by the Wing Governor, CldJd-he became beg
gar at the national house Of mendcity at Washington
aud got the appointment Of superintendent Of Spring
6eld arsenal While there he professtd to be Douglas
Democrat and, Douglas Democrat year ago, he
elected State delegate to the National Democratic
Convention.
New for diversion. While this slmy Freesol dema.
gogue was sitting in onice under James Buchanan at
Springfield Arthur w. Austin collector Of Boston.
Mr. Austin a straight Underwriting Democrat, with
out an abolition bone in his whole body. He one ol
the most prominent dssenonsts from the infamous CO.
aiion league Of 1851, and he and Whitney we're as op
poste as fire and water.
But Whitney had friend at court That most emf.
nently distinguished swinder whose depredations upon
the national treasury in only line OF his operations
have conferred upon him the universally accepted appel
lation of Live0ak Swift, conceived the idea that from
his intimacy with the Secretaries Of the Treasury and
the Navy-an intimacy which perfectly disiHtrested
we may suppose the paris Of the immaculate Mes>rs
Cobb and Toucey-he should control the appointments
in the Boston Customhouse. Mr.. Austn's stiff back
rose up at this attempted interference with his rights and
privileges. But Swift had It all his own way. He
was one OF the scay abolilonists who helped to elect
Charles Sumner to the United States Senate, and he al
ways had frirndship for Whitney. Tney had steWed
together in the same po6cal pot And Howell Cobb
and James Buchanan manage TO get up quarrel with
Mr.. Austin, who is gentleman in his hab s, who was
ever prompt and sagacOus in his decisions aud who ];
universally respected by the Boston merchants and they
turn him out Of Office to put in his place an abolition
demsgogue, who has been floating amidst the scum o
political vagabordsm all his lifetime. Let Southern peo
pie read his-t is ouly Of a thousand illustrations
which can be made Of the mbecity aud utter dishonesty
OF the present administration.
Bu. we will leave the custom-house and its crooked
affairs Il is Of no prophesy when there
is danger and uncertainty in the way. If every man II
Massachusetts, who wishes 10 the Bell and Ever
EFT ticket could give to the wind" his fears and hi
preudices should carry the State, high and dry mex
November Things are working well. The omens arr
in our favor. The party that
! "sprung FORTH IKE las armed aud undehled"
will do good work in the Fall Meanwhile you shal
JUNIUs.