New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-03-08
FROM BOSTON.

correspondent.
BosToN, Thursday, March 6, 1856.
The Banks Banquet, which was in all respects
an agreeable and highly successful affair developed
q feature of considerable political importance,
which appears to have escaped the notice of the
Boston Press-an oversight not indeed to be Won
dered at whenit is considered that so distinguished
paper as The Daily Adrenti@r has not yet learned
that there has been any banquet at all. allude
to tie speeches of Nessrs. John e. Palfrey and
Charles Francis Adams.
1t is well known 10 those who are cOnversant
with Massachusetts, politics, that several years
past Messrs. Palfrey and Adams have opposed.
more or less openly the general policy of the Free
Soil party in this State, and especially its coalitions
or affiliations with the Anti-Slayery Democrats
and the Know Nothings. The most conspicuous
Of the Coalition leaders were Banks and Wilson;
and in all well-informed political circles the i'm
preston has prevailed that Banks and Wilson were
regarded with distrust if not with settled hostil-
ity by Messrs. Palfrey and Adams This preya-
lent impression has been undoubtedly seriously
detrimental to the standing and influence OF Banks
and Wilson, and has kept multitudes OF honest
Ant-Sayery men from acting with the tree-SOll
party. 1t was a popular objection to that party,
that though its platform of principles was unex-
ceptonabe, its most efficient leaders were political
had not the confidence and support of the most
respectable members of even their own party.
The high personal standing and eminent political
talent of Messrs. Palfrey and Adams gave great
weight to this objection, the apparent force OF
which, q say apparent, because its real force was
MonstrOusy magnfed) was not without power
full effect on the ranks of even the ay0wed Free
Sellers large per centage of whom could never
be induced to cordially support the Coalition.
La has chanOp1 al
that. Messrs. PaliIey and Adams, who always act
in concert, and who always speak considerably,
have relinqushed their suspicious, conquered their
distrust and openly avOwet their entire conf
dence in Banks and Wilson Mr.. Adams, who was
at Washington during the contest for the Speaker
ship cOmplimented Mr.. Banks in the highest man
ner, while Mr. Palfrey said of General VIII
son that his speech on the Kansas question
was as brave as it was able, and as able as
it was brave. One result of this declaration will
be the perfect consolidation of the Anti-Slavery
element of the State, which has been disunted
since 1880 Another result hope, will be the
restoration of Mr. Adams TO that commanding III
fuence in the councils of bis party which is due to
his ability, his sagacity, his high attalnments in
political science and his unfaltering adherence to
the principles of Freedom and of true Democracy.
AS for Mr.. Palfrey, though his sympathy with
the movement against Slavery is undated, he has
of late withdrawn himself from the political arena.
and il il understood, intends to devote the re-
mander of his life to literature. He is writing
history Of New England, and will in few weeks
sail for England in order to prosecute his re-
searches in the archives Of the mother country.
The nomination of Fillmore and DOnelsOn was an
unexpected and severe shock to the American party
here The great body of that party is sincerely
Anti-Savery, and they hoped that the Philadelphia
Convention would at least give them plausible, if
not perfectly sound, platform, and toerably sat
isfactory candidates. Bnt Fillmore is looked upon
as the incarnation of the Fugitive Slave Law, and
of every species of Hunkerism. The action OF the
State Council in its recent session was declslVely
Anti Fillmore, though the resolutions were cum
nngly framed so as to conceal the real meaning OF
the proceedings. The leading men OF the party
will for the most part, | fancy, support the nOm-
nations They committed Themselves last Fall,
for Mr.. Gardeners benefit too deeply to make
il easy to withdraw themselves now. The ablest
and most sagacious men of the party foresaw, last
Fall, the exact state of things which has now come
TO pass. and saved themselves in time by joining In
the Republican movement. But the rank and hle
of the American party is rapidly melting away
since the nominations. In the town elections last
Tue.day the Americans were generally beaten
badly. And in many parts of the state the subor-
dinate Councils peremptorily repudiate Fillmore
and DonelsOn. The Lowell Councils last night
voted to reject the nominations Internationally.
The Straight W higs seem 70 De generally salts
fed with the nominations though some Ofthe Web
ster men cannot forget that Mr. Fillmore was Ar:
Webster's competitor at the last Wing National
Convention, and they have some bitter stories 10
tell about Mr.. Fimores intrigues against Dir.
Webster while be was all the time protesting to
desire 10 see him nominated. The satifsction OF
the Wings, however is not altogether agreeaDie
10 that portion of the American party which came
from the Democrats, who do not hesitate to avow
their conviction that the whole thing Is cheat
ard that il is neither more nor less than an at
tempt to revive the old Wing party under new
name
The musical festival OH Saturday night, to cele
brate the inauguration of CrawtOrds statue Of
Beethoven in the Music Hall, was brilliant affair
". W. Story, the son of Judge Story. pronounce1
L poetical prologue which was warmly aPplauded-
az il richly deserved to be. 1lr. Story possesses
an astonishing versatility of talent. he Is mu
stefan, poet, sculptor and writer on laF
Besides his noble statue of his father tor the Cha
pei of Mount Auburn he has himself executed a
beautiful bronze statue of Beethoven, which Is
now in private house in this city. His treatise
ON the Law Of Contracts still holds It's place In our
legal literature fourth edition of II, revised ana
enlarged being in press, and nearly ready for pub
LEGATION. | understand also that Little Brown N
Co. have in press new volume OF poems by AIM
chiefly on Italian subjects. OLIVER
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