New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-10

believe in property rather than IN mas; Won "a
confidence in the people; you consult e,pedis.., 49,,
than principle; You are letter qualified 70 .n,,.I'
tfose con .deratiors OF commercial in,eres, VIII
EN- the sidewalks Of State street than 70 IA.
,ons Of eternal justice which Stir The souls Of ,,l,
Scattered through the Republican ma. ses ro,,-s
cree would have been 10 chill and d.couns.n.-
Packed IN a Conyention by yourselves and vot;a, :
Fillmore, You can do them ht;lc harm. Like a,
berg adm BY itself on the ocean, though yosh,.
the tuperaiure around you, the Republican. can ~.
YOU a wide berth and their good vessel VIII sas ca.
you far behind But II che had been is,tened q -.
eide, in some unwieldly iurch you nigh: Lays -
her
Mr.. Stevenson, believe in living God; b,y...
in Providence which rules in human Allan. y
Republican party has been raised up. AZ d.... :,
rescue the country from the imminent dangers q, ~
union and civil war; by puttirg down Southern .s,,.
alism and that Northern greed which is ia sion, ~.
The two great parties call ny ihsmselve. D.po.,.,
and Whg had both become corrupted by Tier K,,-
with the Slave Power, and il WAS necessary A,.A..
al ouh both be overturned. Just in this CTS, u.
American party arose, with a narrow purr... 4.
doips, the necessary work, by throwing sysrytl,,
into confusion, and so making the chaos which NM,
precede a new creation. Then arose the Repubyc.,
movement which Ike the infant Hercules IA,
recently in Maine grasped by the throat the ,vcps.
ties. The infant which DO such deels IN N. ca.
6le will be doubtless capable, when grown d n.
greater labor If destroy ing the Hydra Of PrcSsy.
with i,s many hesds kissing at rs from the So1,h s.d
,te North. and that If cleaning the Augean sabs 4,
Washir g,on, by pouring through it river Of hmm.
oo,vic.cns and lust actions. Ii will turn 70 acu.t.
o,he differing genernlics of the Declaration o! InA
'pepdence.'
We live. Mr.. Stevenson, in al epoch more mpota,
tban that Of the American Revouiion-we are N Il,
midst # great historic times. The War Of Iu,epeoA
ence. which relieved us from foreign yoke, VIII be
counted by posterity as oi less momen; than the
present resistance 10 internal despotism. Ald vet,
in time Ike this, you and your friends are oOutentel
TO be counted as cphersto occupy, at best, merely
n, gatiye positonto rail at the great moyemcao Of the
hour az being something merely sectional, when, il
fact il. success will be the destruction Of sestonsh,n
Whatever may be the reason, and whateyer may b.
the final provide initial cause. The fact IS now quite ev
d, nj that you and the members of your Convent o.
long ader of the Wing party in Massachusetts, and
Thereby leaders of the State, VIII be lie Leaders d
uo,e forever Too cold 10 sympathIze with the geo.
erous pulsation of the public heart too blind to see the
rory dawning Of coming day--too skepncal your
care of material interests to believe IN any unyersa
hrth-tco much fettered by combinations Of eiPe
depc, to sta nd finn 10 any puncple-too weak TO led
and too proud to follow Other leaders oupibhc vort
in Massachusetts, has passed by. You are lot men for
the Girls, end the crisi. har set you aside. When,
$50. the times came which tried mems souls, you
mol "a, an were
to the times which merely tried the lower
faculties of the intellect, which demanded
on, cool head, capable Of searching into questions
concerning taritis trade. manufactures ard banks
But for times which try mems souls You were nk
conn, M when ,our chief Daniel Webster, made
hi. 9Th Of March speech contradcting all the grand
pre-, dents of his past life State street was, m time
dir MAYED, and the insurance fces knew not what to
do. For week the result wa doubtful; 40 ong L
took Boston to decide whether to follow leave lis
old leader. Like ship going about with sails shsk
ing in the wind Tapping one way and then another 4
seemed for while doubtful whether this PalinUrds
would succeed in getting the ship about. For week
there few things 80 hard Az those which soms VI
you said Of the who put you to this trial But at
last the rhp felt her helm and came round. The saa
filed and she went on the new tack. You accepted
Mr.. Websters new doctlne-his surrender Of ID,
Wilot Proviso, his contempt for the higher law, he
ndorss ment Of the Fugitive Slave bill, his den.leA
lion of all Northern Anti-Slavery You wrote him 8
| letter. and signed it with nine hundred and eighty
seven names, in which you said that you "coassrs /
entirely in the sentiments Of his speech and to
him that he " had convinced the understanding and
touched the conscience Of nation" Yog Though.
| go but il was hot so. There crack behind yoo
between you and the people-faint and impercephke
then, but defined clearly enough now and which hs
now become split. The people Of Ns.sachcse.1
| loved Mr.. Webster as much you did, but more
| wisely. They did not follow him with a blind dol
| airy. They continued TO believe in COINCIDENCE and 10
Gods law, as being supreme aud higher thai any
human enactments; continued TO hate Saver and
| love Freedom; continued to believe in the Hg 10 q
man. These lines Of Brow ming seemed made 10 e.
press the public feeling Of the Free North cwsd y.
Webster:
Nv. who had loved him 40 followed bin, honorj b0,
Lyec in lis mild and masnihcenteye
Learned lis II, al Language caught biz clear sscen>
slakc,p' are was Of us, Milton va. foru.
Buns Shelley, with Us, they watch from .hr g~''
II. sion. breaks from the van end the ffrrm.n,
liz alone sinks 70 the rear and the slaves"
Massachusetts appealed from " Philip drunk "
Pl lip sober" from Mr. Webster and after the IN
Of March, $780, TO MIR. Webster during his whole pre-
yious lite
A crack does not become q spit Immediately, nd
you did not notice this crackyou went forward hrE'
ing TO be followed by the people as before. YOU
former admiration for Mr.. Webster now changed into
a blind worship. Your representative voted for the
Fugitive Bill, aud you sustained him. Turning yosr
backs on your old principles, you turned your backs %
the men who still maintained them. You thought 70
put down such men as Charles Sumner and John G.
Paley by petty social prescription. But THE ingeb
device for putting down truth could not quite
coed. II never did succeed often az has been ted
"1he poet Richter" says Thomas Carlyle, "w~ quite
.. xolndld fr..rl, Tic IXa.t III conk