New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-05-15

citizens Here public opinion was concentrate :,
sternly set against oppression, and safely direct
in org anixed resistance. Great town meetings
were those 10 Boston. where Samuel Adams was
the moderator; where James OTIS John Adams
and Josiah Quincy, Jr. were the orators; and
where Liberty was the grand inspiration theme;
and where those 70 respond 10 the burning words
were substantial intelligent men, in earnest about
their rights The Government had long felt their
effect and dresded their influence. This was the
reason why the Regulating Act prohibited them
after the LIST Of August, and why Gov. Gage sum.
noned the Selectmen to the Province House to tell
them that he should enforce the Act. The Select
men remarked that they should be governed by
the law Of the Province. Now, the clause framed
TO strangle free speech was clear enough as to
prohibition, bat was silent as to adjournment
Hence the source Of sediIious mischief which the
British Ministry expected this clause would dry
up, continued as prolific ever Hence, meetings
called before the LIST OF August were kept alive for
weeks and months ard they might be kept alive,
remarked Gage for years. The Governor and his
advisers were puzzled. They dared not order the
troops to Kill them and 10 their infinite annoyance,
the patriots continued to thunder in the forum
The people focked In crowds to Faneui Hail. q
place redolent with the bossoming Of young Amer
lea. When this overlooked, the resort was TO the
Old South Church, which hence has not lnapty
been called the Sanctuary OF Freedom. But 10
case an obnoxious Office was 10 be resigned, or
patriotic agreement was 20 be entered into, or
public measure was 10 be lampoOned, the cOncOurse
locked 10 Liberty Tree, where, agreeable to pre-
vioUs notice, the invisible genius of the place had
displayed the satirical embems or procured table,
paper and pens. IL was fine large old elm, near
the Boylston Market. staff ran through IL
reaching above it, on which flag was displayed,
and an inscription was put on il, stating that it
was pruned by order Of the Sons OF Liberty In
1766. All professions saluted it emblem OF
the popular cause. No wonder it put the Royal
Governors in mind Of Jack Cades Oak OF He
formation.
The battles Of Lexington, Concord and Busker
Hill of course. occupy a conspicuous place in the
narrative and are described with precision and
accuracy that produce the most distinct Impressions
Of the scene and throw clear and satisfactory
light on many details which have hitherto been in
volved in obscurity The account Of Boston during
the siege abounds in valuable details, showing the
suferings Of the inhabitants during that eventfdl
period, the frnness and courage with which the
most painful sacrifices were met, the embarrass
ments of the American army, aud the unrivaled
wisdom of the Commandern-chef in position OF
overw heming doubt and perplexity. The peculiar
traits of Washington's character have been seldom
exhibited in a more salient development than dur
ing the perilous months Of encampment on the hills
of Cambridge and Roxbury. Mr. FroIhingham's
veneration for the Father of his Country is dis
played in the faithful relation Of facts rather than
in any studied eulogum.
Several maps and illustrations accompany this
volume, including a Plan of Boston in l77j by
Lieut. Page now engraved in America for the first
time Plan of Bunker Hill Battle, by the same
person a Plan of Boston and its Environs, com
piled from various sources and other views and
representations on a smaller scale.
~ "THB ANGIO-AMERIcAS NEw-ESGLAyD
REPOSITORY" conducted by GEO. BUSH. mo. 5,
Nav 1901 contains the first of a series of articles
on the Princpa" of Swedenborg, which, from the
specimen afforded, must astound some Of his most
fervent admirers. The writer undertakes to show
that FIVE years before the elder Herschel was born
Swedenborg had distinctly announced not only the
general cosmical structures and arrangements OF
the siderea Heavens but had also pointed out the
exact spot in the Milky Way where our Sun andts
system are placed, and which Humboldt says Her
sche was the first TO indicate to the world. Ofthe
claims to original discovery the writer speaks thus
"To whom should the honorable wreath be
awarded-to the man who, by series of careful |
observations on the ellptical and eccentric form of
the planetary orbits, and by careful deduction, |
arrived at by geometrcal reasoning, from the facts
hereby established, Indicated the exact situation
in the heavens where our solar system is placed
equently before human eye had looked upon it.
mind conjectured il, and confidently predctedthe
exact location among the stars where fifty years |
subsequently, the eyes OF Hersche sought and |
foundit7 Or, shall it be awarded to the man who |
frat made the literal but less ment0rious dscov.
cry! How like the recent case of Leverrer and |
I, 81 tha MI |
rier, who saw it mentally, or DR.. Gale, who saw it |
teescopicaly, the real discoverer of the boundary
planet The whole civilized world have without |
the slightest demur, decided in favor of the person
who revealed its situation for the planets exist
ence was long suspected,) who saw it by intel |
lectual vision, before bodily eyes could even
pect GheTe 10 look for IT, There Is the essen |
tial difference between Leveriers discovery OF |
Neptune and Herschels discovery of Uranus, as |
there is between Swedenborgs discovery of our |
sun among the stars OF the milky way, and Her
schels discovery OF the same. In both Sweden
borgs and Leverriers case, the discovery is intel
ectual, and shows forth the triumphs and superb
ority OF reason over mere sensation"
This may seem to justify Prof. Bushs claim Of
amazing scientific prescience in behalf of the
Swedish philosopher. The incidents on which it
rests will be found detailed at length in the Re.
postory, which is to be had Of the Editor, and Of
Dewitt & Davenport, Tribune Buildings.
sPRoposrrross CONCERNING Protection AND FssE
TRADE" by WILLARD PHILLIPS B1ston Ltle
Brown. NewYork Sold BY c. S. Fraacis L CO.
Ismo. PIP. 251
The work Of powerful, active, and rejecting
mind, converted from the dOgmas of the old bunker
Political Economy to the beneicent principles Of
the Protective system. The author relates his
experience in this matter with good deal Of unc-
ton.
should be happy to believe that there Is little |
at stake and that the doctrines Of free trade do /
hot tend directly to the distress, decay and poti
cal subordnation and degradation Of this country |
and the too great entang cement Of its ind try and
irtnrns IA with fhnsn Of nfher ratnna IL has Il