New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-11
FROM BOSTON.
From A. Oeessionsl Correspondent.

Boston, Monday, Jan. 7, 1856.
Felictate us Offer us the congratulations OF
me season don't mean the vulgar good wishes
OF the New Year. Let them pass. But on this
nuspieious day, Doctor Smith is kicked out of the
City Hall. know nothing of Mr.. Rice who reigns
10 his stead; but it is a natural, physical, moral
and psychological impOssibility that he can be SO
xupematuraly incompetent as our last dlsgraceiul
Mayor The Know-Nothings seem to have selected
him originally as the fit incarnation of that bssful
ignorance into the name of which they have bap-
tzed themselves After having disgraced themselves
and virtually Endorsed his worst act by renomlna-
ting and reelecting him last year, they threw him
over this year. either dsgusted with him themselves
sr satisfied that he was a milestone which they had
better get off their own necks soon as possible,
when they saw there was likelihood OF their
having a comfortable certainty OF sinking, at any
rate But it didn't save them, thank God
Though they procured respectable gentleman TO
stand in his place, that first hyohad made their
Dot of ointment TO stink so in the nOstrls OF all
the people. that they wouldn't take a successor
from the same hands that had given them him.
He, or his friends made stand against the decree
of Council which had set up another IN hls place,
and the walls of the city were white and black
with placards exhOrting the lieges 10 come to the
rescue Of DIR. Smith, and TO put him IN over the
heads of the other candidates. which effort resulted
in getting for him exactly forty votes, save one
ihe precise number of stripes that used to be al
mnistered to lesser offenders i'll the good old days
Of public loggng.
OF course il is of the smallest consequence pos
xible 10 anybody living out Of any city, who hap
pens TO be made its Urban PratOr-as the Cam
bridge Trennial Catalogue used TO distinguish such
Of the sons of Harvard as had attained to civic
crowns, until they became so many that 1t mad TO
shut down the gate against the crowd OF new arrly
ais, and TO turn out of its columns those that had
already got Judgment there. But this DR..
Smith has done what few Mayors OF any city can
do In these coster.mOnger days--damned himself
TO q very black corner of history His calling out
the militia TO make sure the kidnapping of poor
Burns, and putting the city under martial law,
and appointing one Edmonds, druggist by trade,
and d MaiOr-General by commission, Dictator
over us while he kept himself safely out of harms
way, will make him remembered as long as Slave
~ and the vllanies il does and occasions Others TO
do are remembered. OF course il was utterly ile
gal on his part to call out the militia at all, the
case contemplated for such resort not having &C.
CURED, while the cool passing over OF the whole
police power of the city~tO tradesman whose
talk is of SIENNA and Of rhubarb. of logwOod and of
madder, when 70 riot eXisted-aud Ifthere had the
precise procedure 70 be pursued was most minute
" pointed out by the statutes-al this, | say,
takes him out of the category Ot vulgar Mayors, OF
the ignOble crowd of consumers Of turtle-soup and
makers of corporation speeches DR.. Smith had
made himself ridiculous for years 10y his ludlcrouS
bunders as 10 the laws of nature which he under
took 10 expOund; and after he had the misfortune
10 be hoisted up into the Mayoralty he succeeded
in making himself infamous by bis Ignorance OF
the laws of the land which he undertook TO exc
cute But let him 60.
l am sorry TO say that the State House has not
undergone the SAME lustration as the City Hall.
Governor Gardner was indicted q second time into
office last Wednesday. You have read his In
augural, SO need not dilste upon It's beauties.
Whether he will succeed any better in taking of
the horns and tusks of the fightful Personal Lib
erty BILL than he did in tranglng il with his veto
last year, remains 10 be seen. But you need not
be alarmed for the safety Of the Union even If il
should remain unchanged. The cOnstitutionality
OF any law depends on the opinions Of the Judges.
and the opinions of the Judges depend on the
average opinion of the power that made them
such. In fact. cOnstitutionality is but another
name for that very thing. The average public sen
tment OF State street is the test OF the c0nsttu-
nonallty of any law in this State; and this with
are honesty on the part Of the Judges; but they
were made there, and that opinion is incorporated
INTO their very being We must have our Judges
elected by the people before we can hope the
average opinion of the whole State TO be taken as
She gauge OF copsututionslity STILL it would be q
tnousand pihes 70 have sopFetty cause of quarrel
removed out OF the way even to Obhge so eminent
M ornament Of our pohty as Governor Gardner But
your regular Correspondent; viii keep you much
better posted up as Il these thiuss than can who
know nothing about them but what see in the
pewspaPers.