Massachusetts

The Liberty vote for Governor wis 6, 152. Oit the 12th, the House proceeded to fill ]6 vncancies in iheSennto. These were fiüed by Democrats. excepting Applcron IJowe, who is n Lileny man. The Sennte st.inda Democmtic L9. Whigs 10, Libeity I. The House proceeded to lnllot for two candidatos lor Governor, whose ñames sliould be sent to the sennte, Morton was elecied first candidato bv the following vote: Necessnry to a choice 1 74 Mnrcus Morton had J74 John Dnvis, ]C5 Samuel E. Sewall, 8 Two Whigs who votcd for Divis on the fust ballot, voted for Morton on the s econri. nnd ihus sent h;m to the Senate, or. in other words. made him Governor. John Dnvis WW selected as second enndidnte by a largn nmjoriiy. mnny of the Deinocraïs voiiu g for him. now tl e Senate wns Democratie, t-ewall received 21 vot.s fs second candi late. The Senate standing 2!) Democratie to 11 Whig, Morton waselecicd without difficully. fcThe Richmond (Va) Wbig propones n Fciiemc for staving the threat en ing1 proros.s of abolition. It odmits howevcr, that "tMs too niny fail, but if it des it will be a demonslration that nuy other or all otliers would have failed; and "if it sliould fail, Virginia will have takan eveiy steptn keep herselfinthe right, and to avert tho conseqi;ences ' - which enn bc no otl)er than univcnl cmancipation: becatif-e, if tliey cannot keep tlieir slnves from running; away, ns is plain lliey cannot, and if they cannot gef tlicm back nflei thpy have run away, the only alternative mu?t be to eniancipate them. The Wliigscheme is this; liScnd a snlemn cmbnssy to the Lcgisiaturcsofnll the non sl&véholdjnL sfaies - :m embas?v composcd of' ten or twnty of the most distinguislicd citizns of Virrini.i of all ( polilirnl partios, who will make it thetr duty to viVit the scatof governtnent ofevpry non slavehnldmg stnte - to dci-ire nn andience of flip n?presentatives of the peopli? - and to lay bcfore them in terms sni'nble to tho momentoiispsp of the fcubjecr, the conskquences of rlistinion nnd sirife. which must inevimhlv enene frm i he violation of Southern riphts if persisted-m. As the frontier slave Iioldmv state, nnd ns the first in territory anrf poütical weiplit, it becomes Virjinia to take the lead, and no nrin enn doubt 'hat her course would be npplauded by all her Southern sisters.1' fXWe cuf the fbllowing from the Free Press. It is nn ins'ancc of the speed wiih which public opinicnchangee. As sucli it is calculated to give encourngpment to the Liberty party. O.vtvAnD.- In alliiding fo the present statr of the partios ir, the Masi-achusetts lftgi.slitnrf the Post asks: - 'Do you nol remernberthe time eiht _voa:s ogo, when Mr. Roblnsnn, thr-n of Marblehend, wasin the Ilotiüe of Representatives of Massachusetfs, wirli but 47 demoerats to 500 whior, and w.isscarcely toleraied, ns he hroujrht forwardnnd susiained measures to aboüsh the monopoly of tlie Bar rules and to give to physicians wilho".t au M. D. the iegul right to rollect their fecs? It was a pleasant sight to sec this same gentleman on Tbursday, presiding over the twoHo uses gfembled n convention. „ the vcry hall wherc lio formerly stood au one ofan inflexible minonty of Jess tlmn one to ten Snehlias been the progrees of democratte principies nnd just view in ourgowl old cotnraonweallln'iMDMBMMBiiHMMMlWMMMütt7The correspondent of the Liberty Press writpsfrom Washington tbat Mr. Giddinga hns bern preparing n jries of articles for the press on the conslitutionnl riahts of the North which Imve boen vp ry cxtensively puMished ia t!ie politica! pnpers nfOhio. He i? aboir revising for repiibfication in a pumphlet fnrni in this city. He presents some new views of constitutionnl, obligalion well worthy ofnorthen con;ideration. Amonrjst ntliors, one view presented ff that. while the Consíitution pives (he tnaster n right to piir-ne and recopttire ;ƒ hi-. can, kis .slavp escapinjr info a fier State, ihnt neither ly force of the Constitntion nor any lnw of a slave Statr, is there. or can there 'ce any legn] or moral opligntion on thp pnrt of th? slave, whonhehas passed the line of a freoState, ín svbmil to hismasier andlc rettikrn. He insists that he mny resist lus mast er even to the taking ofhis Ufe, anrl he ennnot he punished for it. Thnt on Tree soil, he stands in precisHy the same lepnl ro'ation to his maslcr that he wouM on the soil of Afncn. He arrnps liiis fmm the langunge of the Cor.6titution, and the constrnction placed upon it by the Snpieme Court ín the Pngcr case. (tJWe approve of siorirs that are well written, and hayo n favorable effect on the mind and heart. The one on our first page, is of this charncier. The young ladies mav read il with profit. ■ "- O The Lnhmer Peiitinii', which hivti boen circulatin n M.issnchnsetis ha p nlroady reccived foi tj-threr. thousand s'pnntures. Thpse pciiiions nre to be presented together on the first ■■f February. EPXext week wc intend to publish a speech nf Mr. Gildinps on a proposition to pcy fc certnin slavcs lost by citizens of Florida about thirty rcars f incc.