New-York daily tribune., 1856-02-28
FROM BOSTON.
From Our Own Correspondent.


Boston, Monday, Feb. Is, 1856.
wsshington's Birthday was celebrated here on
On unusually extensive scale with oratioDs, dinnsrs
suppers, balls and parades. The chief occasion Of
the day was Mr Eyeretts Oration in the Music
HALL before the Mercantile Library Association.
| unluckily did not hear it, for though bad car
ried complimentary ticket in my pocket for sew
era days. did not happen to remember its ex-
istence until about o'clock on the evening of the
22d and as tickets for the last two days had been
readily selling at premiums of S5 or So, and even
of so, you see | lost not only the oration but a
respectable sum of money too
Competent judges of oratory who were present,
and who are politically opposed to Mr.. Everett
tell me that it was truly noble OratOn, and de-
liyered with that cOnsummate grace which dlstln-
gusbes Mr. Everett above all our Boston orators,
with perhaps the single exception OF Wendell
Phillips The newspapers were requested not to
report il, and were furnished with an abstract
prepared by Mr. Everett himself-a skeleton with
a little bit Of flesh On the head. and few mOrsels
hanging about the limbs
Before the oration an ode was sung, written by
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes in which that eminent
physician, poet, politician and patriot bids us
"Cherish the fs,erna spirit"
and then. to exemplify his meaning and improve
the harmony of the occasion, gives an annihating
slap TO Mr.. Speaker Banks, and administers blue
pili 10 the Union, to whose cure he seems to have
specially devoted himself:
doubt the patriot whose suggestions
Whisper that its props may atde"
As the Doctor himself is now one of the props
if not the great prop of the Union-it is OF course
natural that he should protest against the suspicion
of sliding OF backslidiDg; but certainly he might
have selected more suitable occasion for so doing.
A patriotic song forming part OF purely literary
entertainment before an audience composed OF all
parties. should not have been made the vehicle OF
partisan politics, nor Of personal fling at an eml-
nent political leader. But scarcely any considera-
ton can restrain the fanaticism OF the Unlonsaver
Courny, propriety the ties Of neighborbood and OF
kindred all give way before 1t. Inismed with an
unaccountable, an insane panic about imaginary
dangers. mingled with an extraysgantly aiectionate
concern for Shareholders whom he never saw, and OF
whose real condition he knows little or nothing,
and " bO despise bis fears and disdaln his sympa-
tby. he burns with animOsity against his own
neiobbors-against all who do not share his absurd
fears and Who are not ready to sacrifice the interest
the honor and the principles OF 20 OOo wv oi peoPs
TO the selfish passions OF few hundred tnousano
arrogant planters He has as yigilant scent Ior
:. reason as any English Tory Of the 4vlith
century and if be had the power, would doom
Seward Sumner. Banks and Wilson to the tate
Of Russell and sidney The mere sound OF such
word. as "' Freedom ;" Persousl Liberty" =" ha-
beas Corpus" Trial by jury" e1eltes him 10
frenzy lust as il used TO excite Judge Jenres ana
ike that notable Conservative, he immediately
bellows treason" or at least ''sedition; Thh
revival among US of phase OF political ieehhg
which long ago died out in England Is exceedingly
Beside the Mercantile Library affair, there was
a festival at Fsneuil Hall Of The United Sons OF
orstor OF another sort than Mr.. Everett distin-
sujshed bimsef-n.mely, my ilustrious friend His
Ezcellency Governor Gardner, who spread hlln-
self on american principles" In the most aP-
proved fashion; declared, Of course, that Amerl-
cans should rele America, which, as the ODD fei-
Ovs cay or sing, Nobody can deny; ana cor
Guided by touching little Oh the fhhsdeipniA
Convention. He said: So, IT..
81 thiok the omens Of to-day saspicions; Inc
new, borne here to day from another city OF the Cnloo
Of the Americas party Of the na~on on Pauo,u
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