New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-03-11
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Boston, Friday, March 4 1856.
Do you observe my date / had not intended
writing to you this week. l thought had the same
sufficient reason for not attempting letter that the
cherubs who came to hear st. Cecilia play and
sing had for not sitting down when she courteousy
waved them to chairs
They could M sir down, for they had MT de qraf'--
the lack to Wit of the essential wherewithal. But
happening to look the date of the mornings paper,
| II ought the anniversary Of the Seventh of March
speech ought not to pass by without word OF re-
membrance If Mr. Websters friends won't OBJ
serve it as Feast-day, we will try to keep its
memory fresh in mems minds. Poor Mr. Webster
He act his ali on the hazard of that die, and the
luck went against him. He gave the shareholders
all he had-his prestige, his dialectic skill, his
rhetoric, bis honor, his reputation-all. They
took il as their due, and when the day came
when he hoped to receive his penny for hav-
ING worked well if he did come in at the
eleventh hour, they turned him away empty, and
trampled the life out Of his heart. And thecrown
which had lured him on, and which he had filed
"his mind" TO clutch, dropped easily and naturally
on the baby brow of Frank Pierce
DO YOU know il is believed hereabOuts that the
electric telegraph was the fatal, innocent cause of
that speech and Of all the woes that it brought on
its maker and the Whigparty? do not youch for
the truth of the report, but men sayne," as old
Vaudeville hath it, that on the eve OF that speech
Mr.. Webster telegraphed to friend here, stating
that be proposed speaking the bill, and wishing
TO know how far il would do for him to 90. This
friend taking it for granted that he intended
sneak against the compromise, returned for an
swer that he couldn't 20 too far and that he might
rely On being backed up by Boston in anything he
said Mr. Webster. supposing that this was an
answer to his own state OF mind, went on aud
made the speech, which was at first received with
az much astOnishment by State street as by the
rest of mankind. But as he had taken the leap
thew all Jumped in after him most Loyalty, and, as
il is said happens to some other animals when
they take to swimming they succeeded etiectually
in cutting their own political thr0ats. You know
how the Boston Wings stood by Mr.. Webster,
and how tLey have been killed as dead as he was.
They seemed then to be as Intensely alive as the
green bay tree of the Psalmist and they have
vanished away like unto it, They literally fol-
lowed their leader to the death, many OF them.
Although Mr. Webster had most solemnly aver
red that he knew of no other safety for the Union
but the united Wing party, yet at the wave of his
diving hand they turned and rent il, and fulfilled
his diving wishes by doing their best to defeat Gen.
Scott and elect Frank Pierce. And verify they
have had their reward in having renegade Wing,
whom they despised, made Governor over their
heads last year, and in being forced to help re-
elect him this year to secure the aeieat OF tiie
PRINCIPLES they had themselves claimed as their
own when the seed of the Compromises blossOmed
into the repeal of the Missouri Act But enough
Of them. They have died by their own hands
and by Mr.. Webster's. We can afford to forget
them now. 80 80.
believe told you in my last letter OF the tilt
which was had in the Music Hall here by Mr.. Ey-
erett. accompanied by his trusty squire, Doctor
Holmes ON his dapple of muse, in honor and on
| bebaIf Of that peerless Dulcinea the American
| I-nion-a distressed damsel whose virtue and
GOOD name seem never able to stand their ground
without continual clamOr being kept up for the one
| and incessant championship maintained Tor the
| other. Well. last Saturday evening the Music
| Hall was the scene Of different kind OF service,
| and one in which harmony was the prevailing ana
| uniting element. 1t was musical celebration ia
| honor of Beethoven, on the occasion Oh lne .n-
DURATION of the bronze statue OF the grea. coP'
Ger which the country owes to the genius VI
| Crsuford and IN the hberality OF Mr. Charles "
| pin, The statue stood in the center oil tne
nI.,eorn covered with vail glitterlng with golden
| sstsrs The platform was most elegantly adorned
with natural flowers in the greatest PERCUSSION anu
All the ornamentstion OF the Hall was Done Ia 'ne
| best taste. The large and beausini rocm "a' en-
,;,aIv filled by full. dressed audience, and the
eject was CAV and brilliant in the extreme. MT
| W W. Story himself sculptor as well as poet
| gsve the word for the unvang OF the statue, aud
| then recited poem of great elegance and grace
which was received with unbounded applause.
The effect of the unvailing OF the statue OF course
was not 30 striking as it would have been had II
Zen then seen by the audience for the first time.
Sill though il had been on exhibition at the Athe-
psum Gallery for many months, and though all
n,esent were familiar with it, its majestic presence
when il appeared standing in its proper place BY
;tseH called forth genuine and fresh enthusiasm.
Tho Master stsads with the score Of the Nia@