New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-03-24
FROM BOSTON.
From An Occasional Correspondent.

From An Occasional Correspondent.
BosTON, March II, 1857
We are in despair again. Such general gloom
has not brooded over this community since i. WAS
psrsIyzed by the intelligence that Commissioner
Curtis had been in danger Of hs life at the time he
rescued the Union from the tre.sonous malice OF
Tom Slime. We have lost our Ii .lett. We have
scarcely yet recovered from the agony of cOlsefna
ton into which We were thrown by the news that
the gulllotipe had ia len knife, at any rsc-and
had laid 90 low that sacred head of bis. We have
not yet sufficiently recovered our scat cred sen.e~
to inquire the cause Of this cruel catastrophe. We
only feel 1t. Bat it he has fallen, who ia safe
II ,uch coIpueDce Of pubic services be not enough
10 Keep in little political life what is to oecods
of men Of leaner merit Is this the encouragement,
held out TO patriotic men 10 save the UalVn from
such nil creapts ss TON Sims and Tony Burns,
when they lay their malignant hands upon ITS pillars
and threaten il with universal and eve lasting
smash Can another nan be- expected IA put his
foot the laws of his State with such All emphasis
and snap his DAers III her face with such aa air Is
he did And all that niggers aud Frank p cree
might be put IN The safe keeping of those 70 whom
their labor and service were due The niggers
they took but poor Pierce they turned ont 10 Craze
on the cold common Of the world, like an old horse
that bad become spawned BY oyerwork for them
And now Hsllctt has followed him Such is the
gratitude of republics.
What are the hopes of man, But little more
than two years sgu after our rights and liberties
seemed 10 be secured 10 by the great victory of
the Second IF June, won by the Sims Bclg4de over
Burns, how happy We're We Tue city Was ia he
charge Of Doctor Smith. wh, So zeal for the Union
not IL be- withheld by the common restraints If
Lea Dvr.,n
MSj,r-GeIeral EdmandS, that " tru- apo hecary'
who fiji ched OF a, making up the prescription OF
bis superior; and both were under me direction OF
Dlstnct-Att' rney Hallett, who, iel. s..
sured, would stick al nothing 10 mailtan sacred
and uyUla'e cur great prerOgatye of catching o IT
masters slaves. And now, where are Wei ttha
very soonest moment possible after that great sers
Ice, Doctor Smith was ANONYMOUSLY kcksd ou. of
The City Hall; little later General Edmands i,
sbubbed ludlcrolsy out OF his commission; and
now our Hslett, our last remaining hope, Is torn
rutblrssly from our arms DID Fate ever beio
let her arrows ny with such perfect looseness
Iussi,'e .,cber would rot suffice
lance few the shaft, and three p.sc, ,.Ai-r
The quotation is not new, bu, mos, painfully ap-
posile.
Snll my friends, would not have you thiak TIA,
all is lot, though SO much j. risked. Do NOT le,
despair Tor the Republic settle down upon your
souls IN the blscsness of darkness Strive ~ Keep
your dependency, # possible on the hither SIDE of
suicide, for Mr. Charles Levi Woodbury.. who i.
thrust into the smPe shoes Of the lsmented H.lk;t
"a world too vide for bis shrunk sbank," will D.
the best be can 10 fill them, or 81 eas, 10 SHUTTLE
about in them. We cannot hope tha, his abihcy
will make good the loss OF his Industrious predeces-
sor but We thuk We can vouch for the excellence
Of h.s dispositions. OF course, all our other IA
tional appointments here are of uncomfortable im-
portaDce compared with tbs, - D0ne other have