New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-03-12

Letter from sThe Old Man of the Mountain.'
FRAScoSIA NoTcH, March !, 1876
To Ii. Editor Of The Neu York Tribune:
Iwrit a letter some months ago, 10 paper print
ed in the town Of Boston | think likely you may
have read it, or part OF H. for the paper printed H.
and it is one you would naturally take Tor ii is one
of the smartest papers in The whole Country-an old
paper. and very respectable. Well, wanted the
nrin,er of to send me something in return for my
letter He wasn't able ,o-at leas; he said he was Mt
and am afraid he said truly; and ne was kind
enough 10 say more g the pity, when he said II
and isn't it piiy-a thousand pues-ior bright Ed
,ors to lack any thing they WANT do trust 1t
the case with you. To be sure, there Is Kind OF
compensation principle in not having any body have
every thing and others nothing. The bright folks
have their brightness and the Opaque folks theirs
money. Non omnes ouansa, &c; that is to say every
BODY can I ride in the omnlbus-soue must go aioot
| should have sent my letter 10 you, Mr. Tribune,
as had thought of doing but NewYork is farther
off than Boston, and out Of New England. was
born in New.England, or rather have always been
here and l may say that have been here always
or near enough 10 Always 10 be tar back OF any mem
cries or accounts. dwell in New-Hampshre-the
Granite State you know-ihe same State the w hlte
Mountains are in and the same where DANIEL WI
sryR was born and where he would have been
brough, up il he had had bringingup any where
He did nj need any-he was up enough without
auy bringing. l sorry 10 hear ne spoke lightly
of his native State and said 1t was grand State 10
emigrate from He better not have said that Of
his native Rocks, and better never have emigrated
from them himself he ught 10 have lived and died
here among them, and been through life the great
aboriginal he was in his early days. Ii was as out
of place for him 10 quit the woods here for Boston
and for Washington City as it would be for Mount
Washington to be pulled up by the roots Jas Mil
tons Devils pulled up their hills to fling
others heads and set down somewhere in Penn
sylvania-
By the way, Webster is not the only great man
that has emigrated from New Hampshire, TO make
the Clues OF The other States proud. Boston Is iu!l
OF our great ernigrants; JkkE MAsOS Tor instance
as tall in his shoes Is Bunker Hull Monument, and
taller in intcllect-a giant Of Lawyer. he must
turn his back on humble New Hampshire, and
20 10 the City. he lett little mau behind him
ihat was his overmatcn before the jury or be-
fore The people, any where out before The
Kings Beuch--lcHABuD BARTLETT, OF the same
town Mason left. Bartlett; had too much sense
10 20. They al! CHI 10 have staid aud made law
GENERALIZATION ia The cold New Hampshire sky liza,
would have drawn the gaze Of the Legal Astroao-
1ncrs in all Inc land and from over The sea. w eb
sler and Mason and Bartlett and Fletcher and Bell,
mo matter hardly LII what order you name tnen and
others might name, they made bar That lowered
amid the law o the land, as the mountains OF their
little Commonwealth soar above the hills VI the
board States. Duuiel Webster had brother Ezekiel
-Zeke the people used 10 call hlm-tne best look
ing man. Inc most OF man that has trodden the
soil since George Washington. de was more
proper-iooklug man Than Daniel himself and
there was as little about him you could trlie with
as there is about The White Hills. And Yet ne
was as modest and delicate as child. Judge Liver
more said OF him, he model oil LHwy er and OF
q man He was New Hampshire Lawyer. He
is dead He iell dead IN the Court House IN The
very midst OF u mighty argument IN Il small New
Hampshire cuse. All eyes rveted upon him
es he was in the full tide of terrible remark the
testimony of az opposing witness. he paused Tor
BREATH rolled up his majestic eyes and Tell like
oak, entirely deal. Judge Livermore Instantly ad-
iourned the Court 1clth0ut day. He knew the Bar
and the people could do no more ousihess al term
where EZEKIEL WEBSTER mad fallen Ill their sight.
might name Judge LIvERMoRE himself another
New Hampshire Lawyer and great man, cotempo-
rary wiki Webster and Mason. n greater man. In
many respects than either OF them-Not SO much
an orator as the one such giant pieader as The
o,her-but man OF more native sense and sagacity
than either. Others l could name OF the New
Hampshire Bar and Bench. They crowd on my
recollection. They never ought 10 have lett the
State any of them, but staid al home as Old Judge
Llvermore has, there where he dwells al Cralge
Burn beside cllty cataract al Inc head VI the
Pemigewasseti Valley.
New Hampshire II is the native land oil great men.
But they migrate. don't know but my objection
TO il is owing 10 The fact tina. myself. cannot mi
CRATE | am compelled 10 stay at home. cant
move any more Than my neighoors, Moosehl!lock
and THE Hay stacks, and Mount w ashington II.
self. | am, Mr.. Tribune, abiding man. with an
inalienable homestead. You have heard OF the
Franconia Mountains here in New Hampshire and
of the Franconia Notch, and Tue Ola Man OF the
Mountain Well, may AS well Introduce my
self to YOU he. II you have ever Travelled TO the
w hi,e Hills, by way OF this Notch you have
seen me, though have no recollection of seeing you
| have heard OF you and think should know you.
You sc,A see me, il you have not Every body Will,
tor the Notch through these mountains Is soon TO
be the thoroughare of travel from The seaboard Cities
and The Old World 10 the New England Alps. The
Railroad will run through here yet and before long
Ii has come so far North already that can zee the
smoke of its locomotives from here; and soon
shall hear their thunder among these passes II Will
sound like The noise OF cnarots ana horsenen run
ming TO battle. And all the world will pour through
here from the Low Countries, In the hot seasons 10
yet a taste of New Hampshire S woods and noun
tains and do Ut know but the aakees W III invent
We, steam carriage, or something worse, 10 run TO
the top OF old Mount Washington. They ride horse
back W there now, where, q few years ago, lIwoud
have been thought a jaunt for wild goat Women
and even ladies' ride up ana down there now, horse
back all the way up into The mist and cloud OF The
boar old moun,ain-iop. Horses must feel queeriy
up there and would find il hard aeighing IN the
thin atmosphere.
l am writing rather more MIR. dior than SCI
out to, but " Old people are apt 10 run on-more
when they talk than when they Write am not the
kind OF Old Man, though, that grows nirm or deere
pid from years thousand years, for the matter OF
lhai Is ali one with day, TO
THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN.
General NDIlres.