New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-31
Affairs mt Washington
espondence OF The n. Y. Tribune
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The city is very full of strangers, at
tracted hither by the approaching Convention.
Col. WARREs's place is filled by the promotion
of MIR. DUNDAs. Mr. DgSDAs is no Wing, but is
the best man at hand for the responsible and
arduous duties of the Office he is called to fill. 1t
has been all along reported that the place would
be given to some gentleman from Buffalo; but we
have always regarded the suggestion as one of the
numerous jibes that the enemies of the President
and Postmaster General seem to take delight in
thrusting at them.
We would affectionately remind our brethren o
the press, who have lately manifested such tu-
multi of indignation because we have in quiet
manner, innocently given few intems of intelli-
gence respecting the Presidents desires and con-
duct in relation to denomination, that they are
unduly sensitive. We have uttered nothing but
the unvamished truth in relation to the subject,
and this we consider to be not only our indsputa-
BILE privilege, but our bounden duty so long as we
undertake to write at all upon public affairs. Sure
". surely the stating of few facts in mild way,
ought not to raise such tempest Of objurgation.
If we were really disposed to bear down upon the
President, we might say things that would be reck
oned severe. But we have no aims of this sort
and try to cothe the disagreeable truths which
we feel bound to communicate, in inoffensive
phraseology as possible. If we are not so success
full in doing this as another might be- it is mis-
fortune rather than our fault.
The speeches upon that well known and highly
recommended political anodyne, termed the Com
promise, are daily laid before the House and the
country as regularly as cataplasm is changed
upon an inilamed patient. Sometimes the lngre-
dents are mustard and sometimes bread and
milk, and thus, of course, they at times start a
bis er, and again they temporarily reduce the Ia
Aammation. Our Congressional orators may be
fairly hkened to room full of grannies round the
bedside of suffering mortal who only needs to
cease taking their endless nostrums to recover
If the country could have had no Compromise, or
could even now be let alone, it would soon get
quite comfortable and composed. But the deter
mined effort to agtate it into quiet, makes small
headway in accomplishing the object.
Among the speeches of the week, of great sx-
ceence has been one from MIR. CARTIER, of Ohio
who made, off hand an admirable extemporaneous
effort and a speech from MIR. WAsHBURN, of
Maine On the one side and on the other, howev-
er. these speeches, though very good and perfect
" lust and true in all respects are reckoned ike
some of the letters in The Tribune, to be Ill
timed The state of parties is esteemed to be
something like that of a febrile and nervous inva
lid. They are not considered to be in condition
to bear excitement, to be roughly told the naked
truth. They are therefore watched with great
deal of solicltude by the political nurses, who try
to hush up all noise and confusion, to as great
degree as is possible. The slamming OF door, or
the thrashing of loose blind, anywhere about the
political mansion, throws them into an agony o
trepdation.
In one of the systems of Prison Discipline, the
prisoners are all hooded when they come in each
Others presence, so as to disguise their faces, and
thus prevent present and subsequent recognition.
Something akin to this is practced, or endeavored
to be practiced, between the North and South.
There is a constant effort to apply the hoodias
system in politics. The Southern Loco-Focos,
for example, think it dangerous in the extreme
when such brother Loco-Focos as Cleveland and
Cartier. and Rantoul, and Preston King, take off
their hoods and exhibit their ugly Northern faces
to the South. And so, to some extent, on the
other side. But we have no time to do more than
suggest the figure. J.s.P.