New-York daily tribune., 1856-08-01
FROM PHILADELPHIA.

FROM Our s7eciL Correspondent
PHnApELPHIA. Thursday, July 81, 1856.
am afrsid that the abolition Of time and space
the kind Of sboiitcD which Is not sectional In any
ont 8 opinion -or, in other words, the railroad and
telegraph. have not made the residents of the cities
OF New-fork ard Phladephis and Boston 20 well
acquainted with one another as they ought to be.
The vulgar supremacy of fast-gstten wealth, and
tbs Overweening grandeur of the spirit of foreign
commerce Gas il the greatest commerce we're not
performed without crossing seas), has blinded New
York to the claims Of Other cities as regards wealth.
progress and general resources. So the DOS
session Of certain good things especially
literary things, has diDmed the perception
of Boston to the claims of other cities,
while, as / think, it can be shown Boston has
net and never had any intellectual supremacy
viewed as unit. Her real position grows out of
the fact that all New England is homogeneous. A
great man Of Boston or even clever uan there
rejects the bills and vallies of all PuritaDdum
equally with the street Of the immediate town.
He is seized hold of. His speciaties are emba-
zened He is sent to the Senate. He then distin-
euishes himself nationally. He becomes GOd-lik
Now let US look at Philadelphia as abe is. It is
lust sufhcent for a man to have talents or genius
in Philadelphia, not be accepted or advanced by
the State Of PeDnsy lvania, the only State which
can advance him politically or nationally. The
derivation of the one s not that of the other There
ia in Pennsylvania no PlymOuth-R0ck whereOn to
shed annual common tears, and exat and vyify the
common memories and glories Of ancestry and the
sBcestry's descendants. What does the German
and Irish element of the interior OF Pennsylvania
have with the pure-blooded English element OF the
City of Philadelphia? Less than nothing. Not
a man Of Boston who has figured in the United
Gov
he been in Philadelphia. Mr. Webster, even,
never would have been in the Senate OF the United
STATE g. and the names of as good lawyers now in
Philadelpbis as ever Mr. Webster was are not
known in New EDgland-lawyers who have
nine parts out of ten for statesmen, the tenth
being the balot-box. But Pennsylvania has
been Democratic - that is, anti-democratic.
who naturally found Philadelphia, until compara-
tively recent period the financial and business
metropolis of the Union. and has practically
despi.ed them. For a bslf century she has gone
on the principle that no Governor and no Senator
can come fr.m Philadelphia Hence, owing to
the bestiality of this nation, which has exalted
political regulations at the expense of all Others
Philadelphia has had no reputation Of any kind.
Her political claims being overlooked BY her State,
her other claims are hamstrung aid dumb founded.
They neither 20 nor utter cry. Never since the
world began was city 80 accursed in her relations.
may be prepared to show at the proper time that
in nothing 10 Philadelphia deficient, compared with
any city of the Union, except newspapers and for.
eien commerce But in splendid and manifold
manufactures, in her contributions to science, to
art, to literature, TO eloquence-above al, to
forensic eloquence to poetry to the stage TO the
adelphia Circus, whose grandiose riders have as
Ini.hed Europe and distanced competition-to
ship p-buding, to original medical and humanitarian
foundations, practically and esthetcally viewed tt
various things which shine in history as it s written
and which should shine in history as it ought to bt
written-Philadelphi has claims which are over
looked.
Then, on the other hand, despise her dough
facery-her insipid, ignorant, anti police economic
devotion to the SOuth-her furious, braying, don
key dom about her dependence on the SOuth-All
her theological social, business and hustings def
prepce to the sum Of all villaiDies.