The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-04-22
Our Boston Correspondence.
BosToS, April ~, 1851.
Tile End Of the Atmospheric Storm-Apmoach Of a
Political St@m--Attempts to Crush Mr.. Webster

Tile End of the atmospheric Storm-Agroach of a
Political Stmm-14tenpfS to Crush Mr. Webster
The Serard IYhigs-Dcmocrutic Movements, &c.
The storm has not SO far driven everything else
out Of our thoughts that do not talk little about
the refusal of our Board of Aldermen to allow Mr.
Webster to make solutions speech in Fancuil
Hall. The truth is, they made a mistake in re-
fusing the place to highly respectable men on the
other side; and, with sort of logic very proper in
Board of Aldermen, they have come to the con-
cluson that two wrongs do make right. The
impression, however, which our papers seek to con-
yey-that opinion in this matter is all one sde-is
by no means to be taken without very large pinch
of salt. There has been feeling hostility toward
Mr.. Webster, in this city, for some years past, Of
which every advantage has been taken by the
Seward-Scott portion of the wing party-a portion
Of it that embodes the great majority of the fight
ing men, and not little of its wealth But for the
existence of this enmity, MIR. Webster might have
made forty 7th Of March speeches, and have called
the habcaS corpus and the trial by Jury twin hum
bugs, and the whole Boston world would have
laughed Mt the jest; but the anti-savery "dodge"
was too important not to be nursed and made Of
for the purpose of killing the great man. 1t seemed
very like sort OF moral club sent by Providence,
with which TO beat out his brains. Not caring
straw whether the slaves all whipped to death
not. the leaders Of our abolition wings affect great
jurng their own principal enemy.
The lines OF distinction between the Webster
wings and the Seward wings are getting to be more
clear here with each succeeding week, and all that
Il gained to the wings by the contemplate blundcr
ing of the BOBBY coalition government, is lost by
their own dissensions. You must be prepared TO
see more remarkable developments here by and by.
by no possibility can the two Tor rather half score)
sections OF the whg party support the same candi
dates for State officers, unless one section shall un-
conditionally surrender to the other. And what
chance. do you suppose, there is Of that, with
Daniel Webster on the one eide and Horace Mann
| quarrel would be pronounced at once were it not
for the Senatorial question, the necessity Of attend
| ing to which, causes the wings to refrain from
| openly fighting. But this very question will make
their quarrel the more bitter when il shall have
| broken out for the Senatorship will be new bone
| Of contention between them, surprising tho present
Legislature shall make no choice Of Senator, and
the general opinion is that il will not That ques-
tioA will then 20 into the next contest and will
give life zest and purpose TO it. Being myself very
fond of seeing other people fight, though perfect
| peace man IN my own practice, | need hardly say
that feel highly pleased at the agreeable prospect
| that Is near us
Were it not for this chance Of the wings pitching
into each other IL would not be worth while peakin
q the coalitions prospects. 1t would not stand a
day against the united wing party but it can main
tain itself against the whig party If that party breaks
uT--not, however, without making change in can
didates. The declaration Is daily made by demo-
Governor
well again, all confidence In him, having been tles-
royod by his wishy-washy, shilly-shally course If
fclt at liberty to give what hear in private con-
versntion with many Of his Excellencys former
staunchest supportcrs-inen who have stood by him
ever since he commenced public life-it would as
tonish some people hercabouts. The truth H. that
his Excellcncy y either most sublime fool OF he is
laying one OF the deepest games that politician
Nentured upon Party by party, section by section
man by man, he has managed 70 ALLEVIATE all those
who have sad anything 60 do with his elevation.
lie disguised the frcc-soiers by his unnecessary
praises Of the Fugitive Slave law in his inaugural
lie Disguised the democrats BY giving the cold
shoulder, in the same document, Go all the state re-
form measures-so much so, that the wings have
made great use Of his Excecncy expressive silence
to put down the feeling that originally strong
in favor Of those measures All individuals who
were attached 10 him, he has aienated by his cold
indifference TO their fortunes. Few, very few, men
IN high office, have ever been little annoyed by
applications for office, by his immediate friends and
i Is lucky for them that such i their position that
place u Of no importance TO them. The bunker
portion Of the democrats offended by the neg
lect q Mr. liaiIett and other Of their leaders Of
which the Governor has been guilty, his legal adj
Nisers being among the mostq bitter and uncom-
promising wings in Massachusetts the cyfn, ds d.
o,me OF the old whig party Like Logan, his Tx
cclency stands alone; but unlike Logan, his friends
have fallen by his own hands. Such another massa-
ere 81 the innocents has not taken place for almost
nineteen centuries. The Governor Is perfect King
iieIod, but with this difference, that whereas the
husband OF Marianne killed by proxy, our llerod
kills with his own royal hands lie is king, Judge
jury, hangman. and all.
Where there is so much discomfort, men do not
SPEND much time in the selection of new leaders.
Already have there been brought forward the names
OF hall dozen persons, from among whom deter
mined efforts will be made to provide Governor
lhutwen with successor. The most prominent Of
these arc, Frederick Robinson, Of Essex, now
member Of the Senate; and Henry w. Cushman
of Franklin, now Lieutenant Governor. Both
these gentlemen are able, determined, enc yetic
persons who, their friends say would not be likely
to give aid and comfort" TO the wings, aaer the
manner that now prevails. There will DE fun in
the next democratic convention, weu Is in that
| Of the wings. Governor Boutwell, csnnot complain
Of this for according to hererort u those who
that there is nothing TO DO hoped Cor after this year
and he hsS only 70 get through his term ~ peace
ably ~ possible-a mighty unsolhsh notion, cor