The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-04-13

The Massachusetts A6OlitiOnists were
trained 10 rough school. In their sin
gle.hAndrd contests with the champions
OF slavery they never asked Tor quarter,
and never desisted from an attack out Of
any consideration for the feelings OF their
alyersaries, They were often driven
from the platform by rUiIlanS, who
thought that the throwing Of eggs al
such peslileniial agitators was patriotic
duty that ought not to be shlrkel by con.
servativo citizens; but the fiery orators
generally managed to say something
about the mob leaders that made them
uncomfortable Tor the rest Of their lives.
It Is not surprising that the survivors oil
this remarkable body Of men should never
have learned gentlenCss o! speech Al
ways excepting the amiable Quaker poet
Whittier, they are Gas vlndictive u. set Of
old warriors as ever fought with tongue
pen.
The con test in the Massachusetts Leg
stature for Mr.. Summers seat in The
United States Senate has thoroughly
aroused Mr.. Garrison, Mr. Redpath and
their surviving compatriots, and they
arc slashing away at the candidates will
avim that forcibly recalls the anti slave
~ struggle Dir. Garrison, in letter e
the Boston Journal, polishes off Genera
Banks in tue prize-Gghter style. II
seems that tho ire Of the old Apostle o.
Freedom was excited by some rOsolu.
tions adopted by the Legislature in re-
spect 10 the memory OF Mr.. Fillmore
which were written by General Banks
Ono Of Garrison's coadjutors (Mr. But
ium) was also on the committee which
reported the resolutions, and he was frs
called to account Mr.. Bufum explained
that he had toned down General Banks
iulsome rhetoric; had stricken out lad
jective after adjective" and when the
vote was taken, had kept his seat. Mr.
Garrison reprlmSnds him for not obeyine
the Apostolic injunction, "havlng done
oil, to stand"
. The author Of the resolutions Is then
impaled by a Garrisonian home thrust:
perhaps "a fellow feeling toward the
signer Of the Fugitive Slave law may
have been awakened In the breast Of Gen
eral Banks by remembering that, as Gov,
ernor Of Massachusetts, he used his official
innueacG, In message to the Legislature,
70 get the Personal Liberty bill either
modihed or repealed, thus striking down
the only taieguard left for the protection
= OF our colored citizens against the prowl-
ing kidnappers and slave hunters of Inc
South. And there are some proiessed al,
mirers OF our departed Senator WIN sro
advocating the election Of General Ranks
10 fill the vacancy caused by his removal
Is there never to DO an end Of human in" ~
consistency" ~ .-.l'N
MIR. James Redpath Is a sort Of political
1shmaelite, who fights everybody that he
don't like, and often says disagreeablt
things about those who suppose them.
selves to be his friends. He thinks tha
there are only three men (among thos'
voted ior) who arc ct to take Mi. Sum.
ner's place, namely, William Lloyd CARR
son, Wendell Philips and ]. G. Whittier
Mr.. Redpath Is entirely impartial in hi
estimate Of the candidates representinI
the factions Of Butler and anti. Butler, anc
neither will be fAttered BY the following
passage in a letter published In the Bos.
ton Globe Of March 80th: "If the Twins
skeleton Of MIR. Bsruum had been tirec
with the ambition to play the part Of Fsl
stat, he would not have needed half AZ
much padding as either Mr., Dawes or mr.
boar Will need to FIJI the dead statesman
Neither does Mr., Redpa,h seem TO b,
greatly in love with "t6e gentleman Nv II Il
politics about whom we have heard A. a
much OF late, One faction in the Msssa-
chlsesta Legislature is trying to do homo