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A Picture of a Yankee Senator. --In the Yankee Senate, while the Conscription act was under discussion, Mr. Turpie, of Ind., in a short speech, gave the following sketch of Wilson, of Mass: Had the Senator from Massachusetts been in the Senate in the days of Jackson he would have opposed him, and every slander uttered against that old hero would have come from the lips of the Senator, though he might have but some reverence for Washington. Had he lived in the days of the Revolution he would have been a , and talked flippantly of rebels, and offered rewards for the heads of Sumter and Marion; and he would have betrayed his country as Arnold did. Had he lived in the days of Luther he would have sided with the Pope and feasted on the ashes of the martyrs, and lighted the fires of Smithfield. He might have had some reverence for that Delty which came to save the world, perhaps have obeyed him; he certainly would have followed him to the garden of Gethsemans through the stree
hey have invested their money in the war, and they intend to get it back, if they send every dollar they have left after that which is gone. If we were called upon to say which is the worse man, Wendell Phillips, who is the embodiment of Massachusetts fanaticism, Edward Everett, who represents its conservatism, or Caleb Cushing, its politicians, we should find no difficulty in a reply.--We have infinitely more respect for Wendell Phillips, or any honest fanatic, than either of the others. the slaves would increase the production of cotton, it would be converted in an hour into the very genius of universal emancipation.--We dread and detest such an enemy as this more than honest abolitionism. We despise and execrate Edward Everett and Caleb Cushing more than Phillips or Garrison. No man of honor could take Everett or Cushing by the hand — the latter especially. If there be a negro in the South as degraded as Cushing, he ought instantly to be freed and sent to Massachusetts.