New-York daily tribune., 1862-11-08


hatred to Rebellion, and its determination TO
stand by the Government without conditions'
In its undying admiration of Gen. Mcclellan
aud its unquestioning support OF President
Lincoln in all his measures, they CLAIMED
an exclusive monopoly. Their resolutions
attacked Gov. Andrew for wkat they
STYLED his conditional loyalty, and they put up
candidate against him whose idelity 10 MS
constitutional obligations had been approved oy
former slave hunting aacri'y in the Sims case.
They dominated no candidate for Senator at
their Convention, but at a mass meeting SUD-
sequently held in Springfield. presented tue
name of Mr. Charles Francis Adams, now
Minister to EogIand, as heir prcsumptIve to
Dir. Summers seat. Unhappy for them this
effort was thwarted by tho prompt announce
,nent thai the use of his name for such u
purpose had with characteristic caution been
prohibited in advance by the absent Minister.
Tho hopes therefore OF leading members oil
the party, like the Count Joanncs and joel
Parker, who aspred especially to the Senate
were suffered to blossom in the heat of their
own imagination till finally npped by the cleo
ton frost
Equally unfortunate was thoir pledge OF ad-
hesion 10 the Administration; for the once
uttered word had scarcely flown irrovocably
forth TO the world when the Emancipation
Proclamation was issued. Never were con-
seryatise gentlemen Of property and standing
in q more unhappy dilemma. They we're
nothing If not conservative; nothirg ii not de-
voted to the President. But the President had
suddenly proclaimed his own emancipation from
ono class Of conservatives, and that of the ne
proes from another; in other words, bad adopt
cd the very policy which was mos: odious to
conservatism, and joined hands with the Rad.
Gals. They must drop the President or gl'e
UP their prejudices, aud as they really cared
nothing for the former while deeply attached
to tie later. they clung desperately to toe
preiudices and remorselesSly cut loose from
Mr. Lincoln.
OF course, this change was concealed 20 Tar
a. possible from the people. Denouncing the
Proclamation as unwlse. unconstitutional, and
ineffective. they yet pretended to discriminate
between the Pfes.dont and bis act, and to sup
por. the President while they assaied bis
policy. Ingeniou,ly covering up their neon
sstency ia public discussion, and avoiding
statement OF their own purposes ana policy,
they conducted the canvass by help of the
military prestige Of Gen. Devens, aud by joint
attacks on Senator Sumner and Gov. Andrew,
appealing TO every personal motive of dislike.
bsilled ambition. disappointed avarice, or
ignorant prejudice which might increase the
opposition to either They combined in their
own ranks all clements OF discomfort. The
Democratic party had held Il Convention aud
adjourned, making no nominations; whereupcn
the Democratic papers put the Peoples
nominees at the head Of their columns. and tie
fusion became complete. Beside Democrats
thefc were IN this party the fossil remains of
the late Wing party which had since composed
the later Bell-Eyerett party aud which, being
now plainly too hfeless Tor independent action
became incorporated in the new organization.
publlcans of the rose-waler sort, who, hanging
formerly on the edge OF that party and never
heartily IN sympathy with lts convictions, had
done what might bc done By iorcc Of inertia
10 retard its progress. There were also
not few men who were discouraged aud dis
satisfied by the imbecllity OF the Admlnlstra-
ton, aud willing TO express their disgust at
cost Of seeming to oppose the war altogether.
Add TO these the weak.headed men whom such
an aggregation always attracts and del1des,
aud tie catalogue is tolerably complete. The
whole were inspired and united by hatred u
Sumner.
The Republicans were 70 far from being dis
mayed by this show of vigorous opposition that
they were net even reused into active effort
ill Ia.e in the canvass, aud there did at one
time seem b. be danger lest as aiterwari
occurred in Mr.. Rices district, tho election
might be suffered to so by default. Mr.
Sumner finally commenced speaking with bis
usual ygor AID effect and with other Republl.
can orators, went through most Of the larger
towns ia the State. On tho Peoples sids
miscbieyous mountebank, newly arrived from
England, where he had done bis country much
harm by being mistaken for representative
American, shared with Judge Abbott the
oratorical honors OF the campaign, while Mr..
joel Parker Of Cambridge appealed person
ally to radical support BY avowng himself in
favor of arming negroes, and of servile insur.
rec,iOns, us a means of putting down tho Rebel.
lion. The opposition lacked neither orators,
nor written addresses, nor money, nor any
munitions of political war. State street opened
its bank vaults to the enemies of Mr.. Sumner