Speech of Benjamin Barstow, of Salem, on the Abolition Propensities of Caleb Cushing
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Excerpt from Speech of Benjamin Barstow, of Salem, on the Abolition Propensities of Caleb Cushing: Delivered at the Massachusetts National Democratic Convention, Held at Boston, Sept; 22, 1853 The National Democratic State Convention for Massachusetts met at Boston, at the Tremont Temple, September 22d, 1853. After the organization and the choice of Committees, Mr. Benjamin Barstow of Salem rose to make a personal explanation, requesting the indulgence of the Convention therefor. The President decided that leave must be requested of the Convention, and, on motion, Mr. Barstow was allowed to proceed. He spoke as follows: Mr. President and Gentlemen: I rise to a personal question, to make an explanation, and, as it may occupy some time, I ask your indulgence. I have been informed that I have been denounced to different members of the State Committee, and the National Democratic party of Massachusetts, for opinions which I saw fit to express during the early part of March last, in reference to the Hon. Caleb Cushing, while I was on a visit to Washington; and it has been stated that the State Committee and the whole party should be held responsible for what I said. Under these circumstances, feeling that I may have involved you and those you represent, I feel bound to state to you what I did say; and to give you my reasons for doing so. Upon the announcement that the Hon. Caleb Cushing was to be a member of the Cabinet, feeling indignant that the National Democracy of New England should be so misrepresented as it would be by one whose career for the greater part of his life has been in the Whig party, and whom I believe at the present time to be as much a Whig as ever, I accused him openly of being such, and also what is equally well known in Massachusetts, - of being a Coalitionist. For this, it seems, I incurred the wrath of that gentleman, and members of the State Committee were told by him that unless they stopped "that beardless boy," the whole party should be held responsible. If Gen. Cushing thinks a "beardless man" a finer looking object than a "beardless boy," he is welcome to his taste; but as to the charge of youth, I will say, that it has been my good fortune to have been a member of the Democratic party for twenty four years longer than Caleb Cushing, even taking his own dates, and I have only to refer him to his own defence against the same charge, in a statement over his name, accompanying a certain notorious affidavit in 1826, in which he says: "I am also accused of youth and ambition. As for the heinous fault of not being an old man, I may say with Chatham, in his youth, that I hope time will mend it; and that the charge comes with ill grace from some to whom age has arrived without wisdom. But in seriousness, it is needless to be wiser than the constitution." Before proceeding with the charges I made against General Cushing, I wish to call your attention to the gross injustice of attempting to throw upon my shoulders, and to attribute to any remarks of mine, a line of policy which extends throughout the whole North, and was determined upon a long time previously. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such
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