New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-20
FROM BOSTON.
'as.onal Correspondent.

From An Occasional Cone spondent.
Boston, Nov. IL, 1856.
You can't expect another letter from me this
time like that / sent you last. Such excellent
comedies as the one told you of-not Duke aud
No Duke" but Congressman and No Congress
nan-caunot be performed every week. There has
been rather lu Of course, in the political world.
The only diversion We have had has been the de-
icious rige Of the Filmourners at their ridiculous
deleat-at the lamentable discrepancy between
their proclamations and their ca npaign-and their
senstiyeness to the absurd predicament in which
they have put themselves. They must be left t,
such consolation as they can derive from the So
cicty Of Charles G.. Greene and Benjamin +. Hal
lett, to whom they have Joined themselves in vain.
They are in the hard case OF the negro who went
10 hear Whitfield preach, aud as the sermon pro-
cecded was moved as to roll himself in the mud
TO relieve his mental agitation. Whats the mat
ter with you ?" asked bystander. "Oh, Mass,
Whitfield so anectpg!' replied he. But, you
fool" said the other cit ism t Whitfield " Ism t
il responded poor Gully, getting up and shaking
himself. :" then Ire dirfied myself fer nothing -
SO it is with these poor fellows. They have drtied
themselves for nothing; and j don't believe they
will ever get themselves clean again.
They talk very big Of what they are going to DO
toward the upsettine Of Mr.. Burlingame's election
aud the setting up OF Mr. AppletOns, on the grouod
Of the shocking frauds which were practced. Now,
in the way ia which our elections are con iucted,
frauds are next TO impossible. That is, strictly legal
frauds. Moral frauds, such as those attributed 10
the Fillmourpers, moving voters Into the district
Just before election for the purpose ofturnng par
SECULAR election, for instance cannot DO prevented.
The omission Of an inspector TO quality himself
hardly comes within the purview Of any statute of
frauds II is an oHense in him, undoubtedly; but not
one Of nature TO vitae the votes he counts unless
il can be- shown he co united them wrong. Many peo-
ple think this is all mere bosh I'd believe that Mr..
Appleton would not lend himself to an attempt to un-
seat Mr.. Burlingame On q merely technical objection
like this. But rather think they reckon here with
cut their host or rather without the host OF their
iubilart Fillmourners Of election night l cannot
see Why man who had no objection TO running
candidate under the circumstances OF this case
sbould have any scruple about contesting the cleo
ton Of bis successful competitor to the last gasp.
The main security of the Republicans, If there be
indeed any prirna faeie Of the sort spoken Of
lies not in the magnanimiy ofther adyersaries, but
in the back fire which they may open upon them,
if il be true as affirmed that the same rregularity
can be fastened on Mr.. Appleton's best ward, so
to put the boot on the other leg-or, rather, TO
keep II Just where il is. Either way, We will hope
that they may put their foot in it, they try.
1t 10 rather pity that this most delicate mon.
ster "-tbe Wing Know Nothing Democratic party
-shoad have had its life 80 eflectually tr0dden out
Of II that it can scarcely ever breathe again. Cal