WASHINGTON, June 24, 1852.
MY DEAR SIR, — I
left home on Saturday, stopped over Sunday in New York, and came on on Monday.
At Philadelphia I heard the news of the nomination; and, when I arrived at
Baltimore, the first men I saw were some of our Massachusetts Hunker delegates.
Sadder-looking men away from a funeral I never saw. The Fillmore and Webster
men composed a majority of the convention, and therefore had every thing their
own way in the organization; in the Committee on Credentials, by which they let
in all their friends, and shut out all their enemies, without reference to the
fairness οr unfairness of their election — just as the Democrats did Rantoul;
and also in the Committee on Resolutions.
But, when they came
to the nomination, the antislavery and anticompromise portion of the convention
prevailed; and, if they did not win a full triumph, their enemies suffered a
terrible defeat. They withstood not only the Southern slavery phalanx, but all
the influence of the Government, and all the mammon Hunkerism of State Street,
Wall Street, and Walnut Street. . . .
H. M.
SOURCE: Mary Tyler
Peabody Mann, Life of Horace Mann, p.
370
