...e part in the political campaign of that fall, the chief feature of which was the exciting contest between Mr. Varnum and Mr. Cushing. In addition to writing articles in the Herald and in Salem and Haverhill papers, he ventured to speak in a public meeting of Mr. Cushing's adherents in Newburyport, delivering a seathing rebuke of their candidate which excited great wrath. His opposition to the man whom...