New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-08-23

sOlllty VIII Iest Oh Inc III IVY vi 'uc 'ooH'O
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MIS- Pariinpton has gained immortal fame by her
desperate effrts 30 keep out the rising sea with
her broom. Massachusetts appears, juss at this
mon ent, to have quite pumbe, of aspirants after
a similar glory. The Republican tide rises high
and fast in that State, every %here else at the
Norlb, sweeping everything before it, But that
does not Encourage the political PdrtingtOns, who
are all busy, if Lot with their brooms at least with
the pers, in full conviction apparently, OF being
able in that way to keep it out
Tia such men IA Rufus CbOate and George I.
Curtis should engage in such sort of labors is nos
to be wondered a., bu. 10 find a man of Mr Robert
c. Wintbrop's political experience and moral
cou men st nse wasting his rength upon such
hopeless undertaking, is a LITE surprising. AS
often hsppens with gentlemen who, not content
with writing letters, must needs venture upon the
sdoit onal folly of allowing them 10 be printed Mr.
Winthrop has placed himself by this means in a
very ridiculous pos ton before the public In q
Liter of his, which appeared few days since in
The Commercial AdreHi@r of this city, dated the
14th inst, in reply TO an invitation
to address a mass meeting of the friends
Of MIR. Fillmore at Brooklyn, Mr.. Winthrop
excuse 3 himself on the ground thit the Safe Cen
iIal Committee of 1.-THE old Wing party OF Ma.sa-
chuse that is Mr.. W,n'hrops phrase" had
,ssol-ea 20 r"atprne auy definite action in regard
"tO tie Presidential election until the usual au-
| "tumDal Convention, ard that, acquiesci1g in
this ment lie intends to keep himself I" free
"fr'm any absolute cOmmitta's," and to have him.
self "Optn 10 free impression and convictions, at
"ltsst until the date which has been fixed for that
"COhvt ntion shail have past
Hardly however has this determination of Mr.
Winthrop 10 hold himself in abryacce AID to wal.
The formal action of the old Wings been published
in New.Yrk, and that, appears from the letter
Itself by Mr. Winthrop's consent if not procure.
mtnt, when we find it announced in the Boston
papers that Mr.. Winthrop, along with Mr.. Everett,
GtorRe s. Hiilard, ard other superanuated a1d
stranded Massachusetts poitician', has annexed his
mime to prOnunciamentO in favor of Mr.. Fill
more Mr. Winthrop once occupied very dis
tpguisbed pc itcal position. He one, stood and
but for bis own lolly, or, perhaps, rather hs ex-
ttne natural tn1dity, he might sta I'D now at the
head Of the Massachusetts, column. But these
being tines that demand men of nerve, he has
ceased to be Of the least political consequence,
and we naturally should not take the trouble to e1-
I0se his Inconsistencies, or even to mention his
name except as some passages of his letter emb ,dy
certain political deSs which it is important TO re-
flute, aid Of which his own condact may serve in
part to show the fdtility.
Mr. Winthrop camtrs in this letter about ga
"msjority of the American people being reused up
"tO cOme between confer ding sections, and to pu.
ian end to strife and discOrd by the election of
"cendcate of known moderation and experience"
This distinguished politician, who writes letter
snd allows it to be published, announcing for him
stli a certain course of conduct, and within q week
after finds himself compelled by outside pressure
aid the current Of events to adopt course Of con
duct precisely the opposite to that which he bad laid
down fer himself, ought 10 learn we should think,
from his own experience, that circumstances are
stIor ger than men, and that the conduc. of indi-
'iduals AID much less the array of poiti.a
parties seldom be shaped in accordarc e with
the cries formed in the closet but is for the most
Iar', &c eImincd by attractions and repulsons act
rg upon atses and not to be cOntr0ver'ed by in.
dNit uals. With all due reepcct for Mr.. Winthrop's
judeu ent, II would, in our opinion, be JUS. as
wis to hope TO cure settled fever by administer
ing dose Of dish-wattr, 10 expect to quiet ex-
stirg poi agtaiions and sectional strife by
he eltc tion of such president as Mr. Fillmore
TIE administration of SIR Fillmore, when
% untmtvra'ely for the country he succeeded, by
an UhtoTaId calamity, TO the Presidential chair,
20 far from tending to quiet the sectional contest
already at that time begun, only added new ele-
NJ Its TO it Weak men are not the men to re-
stIan section agitatious. 1t needs Jackson t.
do that. TIE occupation of the Presidential chair
by such f ,tle, easy men Is Eli more AM Perc,,
gives aud9city everything 70 hope for from their
rauoW views ard ambitious wta knoss. s. fac from
tcryiTg in ary way TO lin I, rain, quiet tee
''ct nalsIit, authority ilt-us'ed to such un,tc ,dy
lhId9 IS but temptation t. new acgo ssion-.
iiT IIate mecca must be toe section Left to
net fer the yiIoicsOn Of its rights on the inc. rpo.
s"ion OF po)ici,rs Of the Winthrop and Fillmore
'e0oI Thor 'ct,me for qui,tirg sectional con.
"uoL IS uch he that o. The Dat. Justic' who
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