Excerpt from My Connection With the Atlas Newspaper: Including a Sketch of the History of the Amory Hall Party of 1838, and an Account of the Senatorial and Representative Elections in the City of Boston for the Year 1839, So Far as the Question of Sustaining the License Law of 1838 Was Involved Therein I was partially induced to adopt this course, in consequence of Mr. Haughton's determination to bring forward and sustain Mr. Webster as the Whig presidential candidate, a procedure in the policy of which I did not concur. It was at this time that the paper was enlarged, to the eight dollar size, it having previously been a five dollar paper; and Mr. John O. Sargent, now in the New York Courier and Enquirer, was announced in its columns, as associate editor. Before going any farther, I here claim the liberty of making a few observations upon my contributions to the Atlas, during this, my first period of connection with it. Almost all the leading editorial articles were written by myself: They were for the most part short and pointed. Either from their spirit and vivacity, or for some other cause, they were very generally copied by our exchange papers, and I soon enjoyed the satisfaction - and to so young a writer, it was a satisfaction - of seeing my own articles coming back from the banks of the Ohio and Mississippi where they had been reprinted. At the time the Atlas began to be published, the affairs of the Whig party had fallen into great confusion. In 1831, the Anti-masons had first. appeared in this Commonwealth, as a distinct political party. They had thrown 13,650 votes for Mr. Lathrop, their candidate for governor, while the Jackson party had given Judge Morton 12,178 votes. Governor Lincoln had received 29,160 votes, and was elected by a majority of only 3,537. This was the first serious opposition made to the reelection of Governor Lincoln, and may be considered as the first decided outbreak of political warfare in this Commonwealth, after the five years' calm which bad been superinduced by the amalgamation of parties in 1825. In the following year (1832), at the election which took place a few months after the Atlas was established, Governor Lincoln received 34,154, while the united votes of Morton and Lathrop amounted to 30,104 larding Lincoln a majority of less than four thousand votes, and that too with all the aid he derived from the circumstance that presidential electors were that year chosen. Previous to the next election (that of 1833), Governor Lincoln announced his intention to be no longer a candidate. The Anti-masons, who were a strong and growing party, had prevailed on John Q. Adams, ex-president of the United States, to be their candidate, and the Whigs or National Republicans as they were then called, were in the greatest state of uncertainty and doubt as to the policy which they ought to pursue. Many were for yielding at once. Relinquishing all hope of electing a candidate of their own, they were for adopting the candidate of the Antimasonic party, and thus in filet surrendering at discretion. 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 historical works.