New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-06-11
FROM BOSTON.

Boston, Monday, June 9, 1856.
Since last wrote to THE TRIBUNE-at an mex
cusabIy remote date--we seem TO have lived an
age in Massachusetts, 90 much has occurred 10
that region of sensation in which s the measure of
our perception of time. Thanks to Mr. Brooks
and to the Federal Administration, the Anti
Slavery sentiment has made more Roadway in
fortnight than thousand eloquent tongues and pens
have been able to give it during quarter of cen
fury. The change in popular feeling about Sumner
and Wilson, about the South and the Union, is
really marvellous. l have never before witnessed
30 sudden and so great an intellectual revolution.
One of the most notable signs Of this revOlu-
tion was the Sumner indignation meeting at Cam
bridge, which l had the pleasure of witnessing.
1t was confined to Old Cambridge, the seat of
Harvard University, and was got up at days
notice. The largest hall in the place was 90 COM
petely filed before the hour of opening the meet
ing, that it was necessary to adjourn to large
church, which was also immediately filed and
kept full until nearly midnight. Since the close of
the Revolutionary War there has been such
gathering of the people of Cambridge, even in the
hottest periods of political excitement.
The call for the meeting was signed by the two
Professors of the Law School, Parker and Par
sOns, by Jared Sparks, Professors FELTON, and
LODgfellOw and by the clergy Of all the Protestant
Churches.
Judge Parker the senior Professor Of the Law
School, and former Chief Justice of New. Hamp-
shire presided and made an address, which has
produced profound impression throughout the
State, from its decision oftene, and from the we'll
known conservative character of the speaker.
Prot. FELTON,, between whom and MIR. Sumner an
estrangement has long existed, growing out of
Felton's opposition to Summers political course,
made noble speech, in which he paid glowing
tribute to the Senator'S private worth, to his
talents learning and accomplishments, and EN-.
phatically declared that if he had five hundred
votes to give for his reelection TO the Senate they
should all be at Summers service. The rest Of
| the speaking was Of a similar kind, and all from
! former opponents OF Mr. sumner, WIN the eAceP-
| ton of the younger Dana.
| The press of Boston has on the whole behaved
\ uncommonly well in this emergency. You know
We have SOW three ost-and-Out Republican jour
nails: The atlas, The Telegraph, and The Chronicle
! They of course would condemn the outrage on Mr..
Sumner and the atrocities in Kansas. But The
Journal, The Adcerttser, The Transcript, and The
Bee, all four papers of great influence The Journal
having the largest circulation of any New-England
paper, have pursued similar line and taken the
Northern side in the most unqualified manner.
The Trareller which is exceedingly Hunkerish
but very susceptible to popular influences was at
first inclined to paate the outrage, bat soon ind
ing which way the tide was setting, shaped Its
CouTtS kCCpTuHIll. vi Oui ivui sOoh ~"hy PoPS'r
Tie Post and The Courier have alone the honor OF
vindicatrg Mr.. Buffers gallant relative TIE
Post, being tho organ and dependent Of tho Ad-
ninistratiOn, had, to be sure, no alternative.
For The Courier no party is resPonsible its cir
culstion has dwndled to a few hundreds, And it
exists, Is newspapers sometimes will continue to
exist after all genuine sources of support arc eut
Of by certain desperate financial expedients which
have thus far postponed the inevitable extinction
which awaits it at no distant period. The true re.
sponsibility for The Courier rests only with its edl-
tor, a young Irishman. . jealous Catholic, and q
faithful follower Of Orestes A. Brownson. Like
his notorious master, he is opposed to liberty at
home ~ we'll as abroad; and though doubtless
sincere in his notons and entitled to the fullest
exposition of them, it is but just that Boston
should not be held responsible for their promuga'
ton.
The delegates to the Philadelphia Convention
have been chosen in all but the Xlth District,
believe. They are all for Fremont with perhaps
one exception, who is for Seward. but not obsti-
nately. Fremont stock is steadily rising, and it is
obvious that thousands Of men are ready to vote
for him who. with almost any other man as the
Republican candidate, would support Fillmore or
Buchanan. The article in The tribune of Satur
day on Presidential candidates put the question in
its true lieht-at least in that which, in Msssachu
sets, is almost universally 50 regarded. OLIVER.