New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-01-28

consisted of a single lobster and three fish, and
these not caught but purchased OF the Indians
for in the whole colony there was neither hook nor
net The pilgrims held their own, and transmit
ted their settlement to their progeny, but with
tenure 80 precarious that their bones were buried
without mark or sign, to preserve them from the
dissertation of the savages who might one day re-
cover the ground
such was the origin of New Englaud-s glori
Gus topie it must needs be owned, for justihable
defamation These Al families are nov repre-
sented by 2. ZOO. 600 souls. From single port OF
that settlement where neither hook nor net ex.
listed there row issue annually 600 ships, manned
bv rs 600 seamen 70 capture the mightlest mons
tiers of the deep. The capital Of the colony con-
tains nearly 900 inhabitants within It's walls
supports 10 daily and so weekly newspapers, and
maintains go public carriages, employing LOCO
horses irrespectively of railways, each of which
upon an average conveys l,0Oe passengers per
day Such is the picture OF modern Boston as
delineated ion the last Anniversary of Pilgrims
Day; and happy it is for England and America
when their representatives can unite IN exPa-
tiatiDg on these wonderful statistics instead oil
awakening the injurious and forgotten echoes oil
Bunker's Hill.
That the Americans owe to their ancient stock
the qualities which enable them to found and pre-
serve their system of Commonweaths IS TACT
which they may acknowledge without dlsparage-
ment of their intrinsic powers. They carried
with them across the ocean, not only the forms OF
good government, but the principles OF good ctl-
Zenship They never built upon political theories,
or affected any change except upon sound reasons
and by sober means. They did not substitute
Republic for a Monarchy in Difference to any I'M,
aeinarv code of rights antecedent to recorded
laws but when, in pursuance OF settled c0nvic'
tions, they had reluctantly renounced an allegi-
ance, they made the best provisions In their pow
er for administering the Government themselves.
Little was changed beyond the form OF the Exec
utive. They devised no new relations between
man and man, nor did they deem themselves COM
petent to recast the frame Of civil society. They
retained every institution and practice Wnlch
could be accommodated to Congress instead OF
n King. + ar from extemporising new laws, they
preserved, in their reverence, even she least de-
sirable attributes Of the old, and have only lusV
now reformed their system of procedure when
we. their elder brethren, are contesslng ike
necessity and acknowledging the goodness OF
their example
These were the principles which preserved
them. Amid a variety of temptations, apparent
ly infinite when viewed from this size Oh tue AT
lantic but perhaps less serious when more closely
contemplated, they have always acknowledge
that private opinions must yield TO the recorded
will of society at large, and that no community
can maintain political existence where every
citizen claims the right of promoting by violence
his own speculative conceits.
We believe Mr.. Webster was substantially jas
tilted in treating as already exploded the recent
agitation for the dissolution OF the Federal Mon
There is indeed, something so Unprecedented IN
this enormous aggregation of States and Terrific
ries that it is impossible to arrive at any probable
conclusion respecting the future destlnles oil
America. The weights on the two sea6oards are
now so immense that the Constitutional raorlc
must needs be exposed 10 severance from lts own
gravitation alone The thirteen States OF the
Union have already become three and thirty, II
not more for they increase as we write and there
is space and verge enough for converting the num-
Der into hundred.
1t is beyond all human power to calculate the
prospects of a Government to which one OonIl
nent supplies territory and another population
What California is to America, America is to the
whole world. No example has ever yet oeen
seen of such q mighty and interminable condux
of peoples Ireland alone supplies yearly to this
extraordinary State the population OF iirst class
city. San Francisco has increased more IN two
wears than Brighton in fifty. The treasures OF
the new territory have attracted immigrants In
equal numbers from the two proverbial extrem-
tiles of the world-from China and Peru and
vet by some wonderful process the system OF the
Union appears to absorb and asslmllate 10 its
Constitution these various and conflicting ele,
ments. No Spectator can prognostcate the END
of such prodigious experiment, or prophesy the
eventual decisions of a Chamber In which the de-
ligates of California and New Mexico will meet
the representatives of Florida and Maine. But
thus much we may at least say, that the Amer
can Union is now discharging provldentla part
in the progress of the world, and that II the pos
sible notifications of its Political Constitution are
but effected in obedience to the principles which
have hitherto maintained it, there can be no rea-
son why either Americans or Englishmen need
look with apprehension to the result
pu noIog,onh IN the NpW.Y0Fk TPihBue