New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-30
FROM BOSTON.
From An Occasional Correspondent

From An Occasional Correspondent
BOSTON, Dec. IS, 1856.
AMecry Christmas to you oil, my masters, aud
many II is merry enough here-at least, as merry
as clear, cold day, with good sleighiug 10 tAs
streets and slippery treadng on the sidewalks, esa
make it. Christmas is but parrenn holiday here.
It is only last Winter that our Great and Geaeral
Court erected it into legal hoiday-so called, per.
haps, from all legal business being forbidden.
capnot but think this rather incopsiderate lessh.
ton for our Know Nothing aw-makers, seeing how
very Catholic aFestival this of Christmas is. Who
knows but we may live to see St. Patrick's Day
marked with Red Letter in our political Kslss-
dar and jubilant Paddydom dancing over the bediss
of us PROSTATE natives Perhaps there would have
been no harm in repeating the old Colony law, lift
were still in force which made it penal ofense to
observe "any such day as Christmas" but to give
it legal recognition is very different affair
A great change has come over the habits
of society in these parts within my men,
DRY. When / was boy1not very long
ago. to be sure-we never knew Christmas
from any other day, excepting that the Chimes Of
Christ Church, at the North End, used to be heard
mysteriously welcoming it at midnight with their
airy music Nor did we know anything Of the be-
ginning, continuing or ending of Lent. SO small
was the element of Episcopallanism in our popula-
ton. Now, lady has to take it ints account
when she proposes giving ball: Lake good
sherris sack, however, It "bath twefod oper-
alton" Some hostesses avoid that forty days Of
fasting from the worlds vanties because L will cut
off their ehurch-ward friends. Other some, it is
said select it because il enables them to hill OF"
their dear FIVE hundred or thousand friends, a. the
case may be, with the certainty that Lenten scru
pies will keep away enough of the more rigid saints
TO leave room enough for the impenitent sinners
who, like Gallo 'care for none of these things.
But. of course, l speak only on the authority o.
common RumOr, who, as all the world Knows
oftener than not common Liar.
am very glad to see, from your report OF TIE
dinner of the England Society, that CoOad
Benton has found Cor at all events, lett the Union
in such coed repair in these Eastern parts. HAD
there been the least ssure or crack in that fragile
vessel, sometimes Of honor and sometimes o.
dishODor, which has to be handled as gingeriy as II
Il were a cracked tescup, I cannot doubt that 70
expert a workman would have tinkered 1t 10
deedily that it would have come cut OF his hands
as good as new. l was the rather cOmforted 40
happened to find myself, providentially on the last
Lords day, in old Plymouth, the mother-town Of m
all. There found in session meeting Of those
extreme and impracticable AbolitiOnists, whom the
enemy tried 80 upjustly to mix you Republicans
I'D with during the campaign just over, and which
Washington. 1hese fellows have been thorn in
the side of our Church and State for this quarter Of
century, and they have resisted successfully thus
far all attempts by persuasion or by force, to eX-
tract them from that unpleasant proximity. They
have way of seiziDg every available opportunity
for forcing their unpalatable doctrines down the
thrOats of the lieges. For example: The Pilgrim
Society," which always held its anniversary on tae
22d of December, in honor of the Landing OF the
Pilgrims on that day, having dropped it fewyesrs
ago, not like hot potato but like cold one, and
substituted the day of the sailing Of the Mayower
In a more comfortable season Of the year in its
stead, these interruptions persons incontinently
picked it up, and appropriated it to their own
reasonable purposes. Having some curiosity to
see what manner Of men these were that have for
80 long time excited the censure Ut our wisest
statesmen and COOLEST divines, and never perhaps
more so than now, was a. the pains to attend
most of their sessions.
You will be surprised and grieyed TO hear, though
the meeting was held at the usual hours Of Divine
service on the Sabbath day, that it was numerousy
attended in the daytime and crowded in the even.
ing, though held in the largest hall in the town,
and that there was no word of OppotitOn to the
shocking doctrines set forth and enforced. The
three chief speakers we're Mr.. Garrison--from
whom this movement has taken its popular Tor ~.
pOpular) appellation-Mr. Wendell Phillips, and
Mr.. Edmund Quincy. As the two first Oh these
persons are perhaps as notorious throughout all
parts Of the country as anybody in it, possibly those
of your readers who have never come across them
might like to know something about them. Mr..
Garrison, must admit did not have, at first sight,
the ferociOus and truculent look which one would
have expected from what one hears of him.
Indeed. his expression is rather mild than
otherwise until he kindes with bis subject,
when one can detect the FIRE which has suca 10
Lnol nh IA uovu hall
what suppose phrenoOgists would call a full one,
and bic eye is remarkably good. Indeed, If one
could dvest oneself of the associations connected
with his pane, he would pass for a very we'll
looking man indeed. L should Judge him 10 Dc
about fifty years old. His style of speaking IS
earnest and forcible, deriving its power from the
ubstance Of what he says rather than from the
rhetorical pains he takes to say it. OfcOurse what
,ays is of the most affective kind 10 all truly coDser.
yaiive souls. He has respect for our Statesman
like Men or reverence for our most Eminent DF
vines. He obviously judges of men and Of actors
by some crOtchety test taken from the blasphemous
Higher Law, and must say that there is very tuo
meal about his mouth when he talks about them.
And he has a very unpleasant way OF produclas
proofs of the charges he makes, watch csnnot DO
too much abOminated.
Mr. Philips is of an entirely diferentSnold ana
temperament from his elder aceonphee. hf.
CarIlsons eyes ana hhir ("hat tIere Is VI -;
black Mr.. Phips's eyes are blue, and his hsn
Of neutral tint, which On Abolitonist perhaP'
would style auburn, National Democrat sandy
and STAKEHOLDER red. His countensnce Is not us
comely, and when animated in speakiI 9, 10 thoas'
by his admirers not INEXPENSIVE. One cannot oe
Nv to his style of oratory the praise due to te.'
perfection Of art which keeps itself out Of sign;
That he has some natural turn for oratory, so.
that he has taken pains to improve his gtsyf tes'
Kind by careful study, believe is generally aa
mitted BY all sorts of people. We can only iiIsn'
that bis talent should be wrapped up IN tnis ~
ion napkin and buried to all practical and asS CIV