New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-30


example, united himself with s5e National Demos.
rsry he would perhaps not have fallen far short of
the great reputation of Mr.. Benjamin r. Hallett or
even Colonel Benton himself And had Mr.. Phil
Ips only enlisted under the banners of the illus
tIious Fillmore, who knows but he might have won
the wreaths which now adOrn the brows of our
stevenson or ofyour own Erastus Brooks Leaving
these misguided men to the pangs such reflections
canr OF fail to cause, / will pass from them with
one word more as to Mr.. Phlips's hair. Your
readers will picture TO Themselves false portrait
If they imagine that his brow is crowned by hya-
cynthine curls. Far from it. Though several wears
Mr. Garrison's juniOr-being not much past forty.
should imagine-he is almost as bald as his con
tolerate. have been perplexed how to account
for this apparent ncompatbility of hair and fanati
eism, OF which there are other signal examples
Perhaps the hot-headedness of the parties consumes
and shrivels up the root from within, so that the
growth dies OF course. Or, it may be that at some
lucid intervals, becoming sensible Of the mschiefs
they have done and doing, they tear out their
hair by bandfus, seeking relief TO their mental an.
cush in this crneOus der acinatiOn. But | leave
this rice question to the decision of naturaliss and
moral philosophers.
Az to Mr.. Edmund Quincy, the third of this
tratOfOus triumvirate, l cannot speak as fully of
bis personal appearance as that of his two more
celebrated colleagues, inasmuch as could not get
90 good view of him Of them In point of years
should say he stood between the two though |
may be mistaken, as l recolect that Miss Bremen
whose judgment in a case of this kind should be
without appeal describes him in her book as "a
Young man." i considered him with the more in
Ierest that he has been thought capable by per-
sons OF limited means of information, of writing
10y letters to you. i did not think much of his
speeches at these meetings, and can only hope for
The sake of my own credit that he is not with
out some kind Of cleverness to which he may owe
the compliment of being mistaken for me- | OBJ
cd hat tS hos baA NOT, tnHar fhatf ION
sure of fansticism to which have speculated
above. He had some hair on the top of his head
in the place where the hair ought to grow for which
i only account on one Of two hypOtheses-
either that his fanaticism ia not of so fierce and
scOrcbing heat as that Of the other two, else
that with equally malicious intentions, his ability
has not enabled him to do any thing like their mis-
chief 30 that he may not have had so many or so
violent parOxysms of remOrse and despair as they.
Justice, however, cOmpels me to say one thing:
Having seen by THE TRIBUNE that responsible
editors in New-YOrk and Boston had described this
person as hyena, a wolf and ghoul, could not
but watch him closely so far as had the OppOrtu-
nifty, from laudable curiosity to observe the habits
of so remarkable a specimen of natural history.
And must declare to you, however reluctantly,
that saw nothing vampyrish or lycanthropic about
him. He seemed to be very quiet and civilly dis
posed person.; and, so far from suspectng him of
car nibal procvites give you my honor that, to
look at him, should not have supposed that he had
ever eaten so much as sucking child. But of
course, do not propose to set up my mere opinion
against the wel-considered judgment of your CO.
tempOr8ries.
/ had intended telling you something about Ply
mouth, with one or two odd anecdotes Of the last
age which came to my knowledge there; but
have neither the space nor the heart for anything
that savors of levity or frivOlity at this moment.
When consider that the avOwed purpose of those
frantic enthusiasts is to deprive us of that South
arm " we /
cannot but feel too serious for testing Suppose for
moment that they could have their way, what would
be the picture this now happy land would pre-
sent Our Commerce would have fit of palsy
and our Manufactures one of apOplexy. Deprived
of the care and protection of our Southern guard
ians, we should be as incapable of taking care of
ourselves as our black brethren the planta-
fiOns. Without our natural governors We should
snk at once into anarchy and ruin. Our cities
would become as Tyre and SidOn, Broadway and
Washington street would be valuable only for their
hay.crOps, and Wall street and State street
would become the pastures of sheep and oxen
instead Of the abOdes of bulls and bears.
Those of us that escaped the interchangeable cut
ting of thrOats that would at once would have
TO 90 to the AlmshOuse without fail. All New York
would be removed to Bellevue and all Boston to
Deer Island. Without any of those blessings which
we owe solely to our Southern brethren, without
commerce, manufactures, revenue, pOst-Ofce,
education, literature. religion what would become
of us The protecting arm of the South being
withdrawn we should fall unresistng victims to-
the first foreign invader that should take it into his
head to help himself to 1 shudder at the pros
pect.
"Io thy dread Empire Chaos Is restored
Light dies before thy uncreated word;
Thy hand, great Ansreh lets the curtain fall
And universal darkness covers all :"
With these lines, which Mr.. Thackeray pronounced
the finest in the English language Il must de-
vate enough from my resolution of saying nothing
funny to say that, will take my leave of you until
more cheerful hour shall be given me. BYLEs. |