New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-07-09
FROM PHILADELPHIA.

na it has just exhibited in Philadelphia, appears to
be suffering an eclipse, owing, perhaps to stolid
abuse received at the hands of political Office hold
ers al seekers. What might have been the effect
On the plumsge of that best-abused bird the Arreri
can Eagle, had the Fourth Of July come on the
fourth of JaIuary-wben, instead Of a thermome-
ter at foil Summer heat and roses and strawber-
lies blushDg under the soft kisses Of lambert
zephyr, and all nature beckOning patriotism TO an
outdoor joll6catioD-the earth would be frozen
into jagged f,rceness of expression and the
shrokiDg wines of the north drive all hands within
doors t1ct pit pedestrians and jehus, pure and sim
ple-it would BIZ hard to say Perhaps the whole
tone of feryid rational rhetoric would hsve been
lOwt red& and instead Of Summer .olstce like fine
| writing of the hottest glow, We should have had
literature on the topic. cool as that on Dr.
| Ksles Expedition All suffering doth cea'e, how
ever, ard Fourth of-July harapgues of the estab-
li.hed Summer heat appear to be dying out. Some
Nv years ago, iD this latitude, rising politician
was detailed for such an Grafton, according to Gus
tom, but about forty people all told assembled al
freseo to hear ii, and that was the last grOan Of
such patriotism here To this. of course, the
Custom House and tail afford an exception. be-
eye that they do-up the Declaration, but the tex.
of that document compared with their political
"plstfom" recalls the following anecdOte: A
stone cutter was busy on a toDb-slab, reciting
the virtues as Christian, husband, father,
friend, Of Mister Somebody; young gentleman
oa6De along reminded the stOnecutter that Nc.
Son ebody had died of mania. a-potu~after break
ing bis wije's heart ard conslgDing bis children to
the poor.hon.e. "Well, stoopd, wot's toat got
to 90 win his epitapb' ?" was the lapidary answer
he received for bis pains. So the Custom Hou-e
repe. in reference to the slight discrepancies be-
tween Borcer r .ffishism O,teDt MauifessOism and
Empire. Clubism, and the Declaration The
Fourth bere was especially Tranquil. at 4 o'clock
a. m tour whole guns we're discharged, and Chi
NJ sc orks whjzzed during the day; but munich
pal py rOtechnics we're walt Dg, and the occasion
WIS, as a whole simply day of repore-a guo-
powder Sunday thrust into the middle Of the week.
Another and the ch ef reason for the collapsed
state of Four'h.ofJuy celebrations may be in the
fact that, as a people, we are not sincere. we
have lied away our Inheritance. When we wrote
tie Declaration, it vas under the inspiration OF
Liberty Then we were not prOstltuted to Slavery
u. bdsge was secrOnal, transient, and had no emil
ntnt defender; the mtjs site repose of Washing
ton, or the hot npetuOurness Of Henry, being
equally corsecrated to Lberty-Liberty prospect
i've for ali. The sequences 70 such times and men
ut cessariIy epgeIdered Fourth of July-rhetoric
ard ALL But how csn auy decent man hear WITH
out blush the Declaration read sOlemnly on such
an occasion, when he remembers thai much the
are. ST portion of the UnlOn and all the territory
ADDED since 1857, is doomed to Slavery, aud the
hungry ogsrcbs will rot be satisfied with enslav.
ing the whole country AfricaL-wise, but now claim
to grip the white mechanic and labOrer Under
such fhcts-broad the continent and terrible as
deaft-the old fashioned mode of celebrating the
Fourth based on the action othe republican fathers,
is simply an impudent public alsehOod, and is like
an eesay on morality written by the chief criminal
in sibg Sirg No gov -rDment in the world stands
so utterls, so hideOusly pledged to oppression as
does that of this country. Like q reversed loco
motive the departure of our Government from the
goal of liberty is in as rapid ratio as its former
approaches to it..
Apropos: The First Congressional District of
Pbadepbia is represented by Mr.. Thomas b.
Florence Mr.. Florence was BY trade halter.
Not only merchant halter, but practical hat
"ter"s rs his SGD affirmed. He emphasized his
pc, frssion. He glo,ied in tis skill. He acclaimed
against the Bank srlstocracy, though Democratic
Alexander Dallas was responsible for that ia'titu
ton When Mr.. Charles Dickens came hither Mr
Fiorerce was prominent as leader OF 1.-The Elk
"hundred who rushed into the jaHs Of that lion
and the lion bit them in Martin Chuzzlewis be.
cause the lion Is not Democratic, though reforma'
tory and good hearted. So Mr.. Dickens revenged
b mt If because Mr.. Florence and his brethren
" with hearts in their hands," as Mr Florence
said, would 90 hesdlong Tito Mr.. Dickenss hotel
to sbske hsnos with him. Afsrward Mr.. Florence
We ut to Congress he went to represent Democ-
lacy Oh, poor lacera'ed spirit Democracy rep
resented BY predecessor who 'iened his name 10
letter in 1918, unfortunately published, Stating that
he and every other politician was mao of prInc''
pie ia proportion 10 his interest Democracy
too, represented few years ago 10 tho
lyth District by another gentleman, who in loo7
stated, in speech and print, that bad he LIVED Id
the time of the Revolution he would have been
Tory; Democracy, furthermore illustrated oy
another gentleman, who stated in certain letter
dire cited to Bradford County, in 1882 that (the)
State Constitution Convention had ga right to re-
store Slavery" (snd, of course, determine VINO
should be slayes) "snd make laws as bloody as
"those of Drsco." Well, il is absolutely aeces'
cary for a Northern Democrat, in order to di't'n'