New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-22

choicest yintag.s that crowned .he board. Thel
I nust bave been this in-xorable skeleton grnD'.
| ut them from among the rsrest exOVcs that gsI
lsIded IT, Franklin Pierre is President ~ thc Int
States. and mol 2aEia Hebsier DANIEL "EB>iE
! GOULD NOT LtEN EFFORT \ SINGLE yOiE fRol
| TIE INGkATiTtD Dr. OF THE SHAREHOLDERS M
| NOT ONLY COULD NOT COMMAND AZ
ELECTION, lie COULD NOT EVEN CCSf
! PASS NOMINAL ION :. | wonder wheths
they remembered how confidently they boosted
| even while the Baltimore Convention was sitting
not only of lis certain nomination but Of his sure
election, and bow they arranged his Cabinet, and
indicated his policy and predicted his s!cres
", nder, rather, whether they can have forgotten
it all.
o. that Twenty-First of June. Never before
vas there such day 10 State street; never il il
likely VIII there ever be such another again. Mr..
Webster having, as his parting benelaction to his
country, (the value of which /. for one, am not
dispo,ed to question cut the throat of the Wing
party OF Massachusetts,, il is not likely any other
can ever arise in its stead Of such preterDstural
creduliiy. Gu3geons do not begin to typify them.
Without bait, without book, without line, even
they made haste to hounce themselves into the
mud on the bark, and there founder up snd down
for the diversion Of all beholders. They did really
believe, not merely that Mr.. Webster would be
nominated, but that he would be elected, and their
rage was proPoriOnate to their absurd disappoint
ment. Like the tpsy Duke of Norfolk, who could
not help bis more rpsy companion ont of the KEN
lei into which he had fallen. they had lain down
by biz side. as the next best thing they could do,
End this was all they cot by il This prostration
was demanded by the South. But when the
reward was claimed they were ali kicked on one
side, and Mr.. Webster sent home to die, like the
old boubd in the fable, after te had helped to
swell IKE cry and to pull down the game for his
masters. Ii WIS justice TO him, indeed; but it
was ingratitude and cruelty in them.
Mr.. Everett presided, OF course. And as 1t ls
thought that be not only believed in the certain adj
vaDcement Of Mr.. Webster to the Presidency, but
even in the possibility of his own, il is entirely
likely nat he really thinks that it is safe TO leave
Mr.. Webster's great fame as Il Statesman to the
worlds care 1 cannot but think that MIR. Ev-
eret and his Boston friends had better take charge
of it themselves aud do better by il, too, than
they have by his legacy to them of his larger debts
The World is exacting taskInaster, though a
Just one, and when the great wage of immortal
fame is demanded at its hand il is not to look very
closely into the work that has been done to it,
And what has ar. Webster done that he should
receive this golden guerdOn statesman leaves
s. me monument to be remembered by,-What is
his He is the Defender OF the Constitution!
Against whom did he defend it He made bril-
liant rely TO IIayne. Did that defeat South Caro-
lins He made a speech in favor of the COmprO-
milcs on the 9TH of March Did it even get
vote for them Would not South Caro-
lima have been appeased by the sacrifice of the
Tariff in 1889, had Mr.. Webster never opened bis
lipsl And would not the Fugitive slave bill have
passed had he opposed il with all his might!
He settled our difficulties with England TO be
cure in Iei2, but it was by the very simple diplo-
macy of letting her take just what she likefand
icing content with what she left. What pub
lie measure did Mr.. Webster ever originate?
His whole political being during the forty-odd
years of his public life, was made out of the
broken meat that fell from the tables of more
thrifty politicians He was on all sides of all ques-
tions at different times but always day too late.
Whether Free-Trade or Tariff were in question;
whether Bank or No Bank whether Duties for
Protection or for Revenue, he has left no mark
on the statute-bOOk or on the country. He
only followed in the lead of more practical
men | think Mr.. Wcbstcr's friends err greatly
in irving to make their idol what he was
not and what the world will never admit that
he wee and Leave aide bis rsal groat-
ness. The forum and not the Senate was hi,
spLere Asa forensic orator he probably never
had a superior. Not merely was he great at both
eriDg juries, bullying Judges and browbestins
vi.nesses-in all which he exceled-but in clear
Of statement, force OF Argument, and iucidty
of Illustration, he was unsurpassed, Here his
true fame rests. But q statesman You cant
palm him off ON posterity for anything Of the sort
though YOU expend upon it hecatOmbs Of meat,
oceans OF wine, and hurricanes Of speeches.
You will observe from the report of the banquet
that there was not single prominent Wing present
i mean Of any real political significance. do
not call Mr. Elliot or Mr.. William Appleton any
body, though they happened, unluckily for them
selves, 10 stumble Cne day into Congress- where
one of them voted for the Fugitive Slave bill and
the other against its repeal. They are neither OF
them of anv Importance. Nor is Mr.. Hillard, as a
politician, though favoraby known rs the writer
Of a clever book of travels. / suppose that you
are rs competent to draw an inference from THIS
fhct as am They were not without sacred
bard. however, at their board. DR. Holmes was on
hand, ard again yielded to that infrmity which
lamented On bis account in former letter lie
VAS there. and recited one Of his own poems
again! Imagine a company sitting for half an
hour OF so, listening to poem on Danlei
Webster, BY DR.. Holmes il 1t were
fault in them to be there surely 1t carried It's
own punishment with it. Whatever may be
thought of the bon mots of DR.. Holmes, MS
poetry is certainly no Joke. Ia there no remedy
in the pharmccOpGid for an incOntinency oil rhyme
physician. heal thyselfr' The banquet Is said
70 have been one of the most admirable ones ever
got up in the c0untry-whch those VINO Know no"
the Revere House il conducted can readily believe;
with which parting sugar-plum take my leave OIL
the subject
The Opera opens here next Monday, Tor sea
son of three weeks. AIN told that the pest parts
of the house are already taken up for the season
which augurs we'll for the success OF the under
taking. But of that hereafter. BfLts'