New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-08-09

htn Perforne r from your city, sppe,red upon the
boards ADO mad an encouraging recephcn. thus
wss reward enough for one. had no, had m, pre-
lmitay advertisement Of the downfall of Pop,
1bese eyes have looked upon the face of that great
| man. They bave rested tho ample exp.nsa If
| bis " bite rastcost aid are satisfied. Iou may
have heard him rpeak. If not, shall not do him
the H. Justice TO describe his oratory Its enough
| 10 say that in matter and in manner in substance
AID in form, III thought and in expression. it was
The Ne,o York Express in black coat and usnts.
looms and white wal-tcOat. Could Paneg, ric her
3, If, supposirg Ter personfed and TO do Der best
az, more The entertainments of the evening
con Guided with some ground aud lofty tumblng
(,>,, lofty. some Of it, by Mr.. David Paul Brown.
~ II iladrlphia / could not think that he sp.
.ssr..i TO so much advantage as on the scene
have be las - often distinguished himself as the
friend snd advocate Of the most oppressed and in
iur,d of our country men. / saw aud heard him
there m truly historical 0ccasiOn-the first hear
:, n yrdpl the Fugitive Slave Bl-when he ap-
n.sred ~ counsel for the slave and procured his
Gi.ehras, l shall never forget the expression Of
Grier', face AS he sr0ldtd the claimant for not
HAVING 20. UP his case properly so that he had to
discharge the and that after be had stretched
IN. law tc.the uttermout to give him chance to
perirct il. TX was new edition OF .Jetfreys with
additions aud eiuendatons But Mr. Browns
store of good wOrk ks in tn Kind is so large that
few politics 7sesr.'es will be passed lightly over
in making up she account of his life.
II is rhiher odd should have forgotten to say
ANYTHING in mY lha about .he Burlingame and
Brooks duel your Own Correspondent expressed
tbe sense Of tits community, that it woald have
been better pleased could Mr.. Burngame have
answered Brooks rs Mr.. Wilson aid But T. as
suppoae is the fact, he does hold 70 "the tribunal
OF ~ elye PAGES as an Appellate Jurisdiction of
the last resort and so could not tIke that ground
il is Thousand pties that he should not have re-
fused to meet Brooks on the ground that the per-
petrstor of felOncIs assault, attended with spch
circumstances OF COwardce and cruelty was no
more entitled to the equal satisfaction OF gentle
man than a feon just discharged from the peri.
Tertiary tor similar otiense would be. There IS
no equality in such meeting. 1t was the recog.
milton of Brooks a gentleman in his first COM
municatons with him that gave the people here
abouts kind Of disgust at the whole business At
first 1t is generally agreed, however, that Mr..
Burlingame stands now much better than at any
time, the fighting hypothesis being conceded. No
body doubts that he did mean to fight, aud that
the set elton of Canada for the place of meeting
was a proof of it, To be sure, The AdrertiSer
had twaddliDg article about his having APP
"pointed seemingly impossible place for the
"duelw As if two days were too much to devote
to pilgrimage to place where one was going to
risk all his days! And il must be within the MEM
ory of the senior editor of The Advertiser that the
parties to one Of the two three fatal dues ever
fought BY Boston men, thought 1t not too much to
take Journey 70 Canada, and in midEntcr too,
I think, for the purpose, some forty years ago,
when il must have taken a week or ten day hard
travelling to get there. When men are in earnest
about business like that they don't sickle about
n trife Of hundreds of miles, more or less.
BroOkss pretense of bodily fear in crossing New
Jersey and New-Iork though very likely real
tha Lag lauU hall
was a case of &" fearing each bush an officer
fut or the other haI d, the danger OF D1r Burlln-
game in Slave State would have been more than
imaginary. Suppose Brooks had shot hum In Viz
pina. of course he would have been unmOiested,
and probably would have bad a trumphal entry
into Richmond, and public dinner. But II BUT
Lin game had shot Brooks does any one believe
the matter would have rested there There Is
lust as much law in Virginia against duellng as IN
Nas sachusetts. Would Gov. Wise have suffered
the laws of bis State to be broken by a New
EnglaLder with impunity There would nave
been no need of appealing TO Judge Lyncn. Inc
regular criminal process would have Suifce1 eItner
to sacrifice him by form OF law, or 70 drive nun
into exile to avoid il. There can be no safety Tor
any Northern man if he fight duel with South
=, u one in any Slave State. Congress should set
auart portion of the Ten Miles Square 10 answer
this necessity. Rhode Islatd used to be the field
of honor to which Massachusetts men resortcd 10
settle tn. litte affairs OF this sort About twenty
wears $50 the last duel was fought there be;ween
a gentleman of this city and Joseph Leaweil Jones
of North Carolina, commonly called Shoceo Jones,
from his residence there. After 1t was over the
Governor Of X. l. was disposed 10 make some
.tir about it, upon which it was said
(for don't vouch for it) that ShOcco wrote to
his + vcallency advising him 10 be quiet, and TO
consider that it was great compliment 10 niue
State which Major Noah once proposed to put IN
his breeches pocket to have gentlemen use 1t tor
snch honorable purposes If he should be tron;
blesome the only difference it would make would
be that tie parties would take their stand on the
other side Of the opposite frontiers and tire across
the State 1t seems to We that some such arrange
ment should be made as to duels between North
ern and Southern men. The only safe place for
both parties will be exactly along Mason X Dix
on's Line. The Northern cOmbatant should stand
on the Free side of the Line and the Southern
mon on the Slave side, and fire across IT. WIN
this purely eratuitous suggestion, leave the sub
iect DfLhS'