New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-01-14

or Turkey. Dtploring as we may, in common WIN
eli conservative minds, so melancholy state OF
things, we car not wink its existence out OF sgot'
spd are compelled to confront it and all its conse-
querces.
Among these consequences we are forced TO no'e
the change in the relative position of certain parties
which has come over them within the last twenty
year, Then, according TO Miss Martineau, it was
tie Abotionists that were the martyrs; now, If we
may believe the Southside prints it is the Pro
Slavery col fessors who are called upon to wear
that crown. A aew enccniast is needed to recife
the suferings and to e1alt the praises Of these
victims Of q newer persecution. The Worcester
Eeis, for example, referring to Senator Wilson's
aluson in bis speech to Judge Loring, and to
critici,m in The Congregationslist on DR.. Lords
pastorsl charge on Slavery goes on to make the fol-
lowirg judciOus remarks:
.Tbetrufh is II at venom and passion have dspos-
se ssed the New England heart OF lbs natural decency
that il reous more moral courage In son OF old Mas
eaehusets or of the Granite State to stand up, even
upon his own sores and express his honest sentiments
upon public policy, If they do not sccord WIN tne
whispering. of political 5emasogues and Panss N
saints in the popular ear than il would for Foster or
Garrson 10 aodiess q meeting under the veiy nose OF
Henry A. Wise. The time Is coming, we pstr1ohcaiy
trust when the Circumstance will net so exist but az
present there is denying its presence and vitality
This statement, coming as It does from the very
heart Of the Old Bay State, gives most painful
exp, esson to the features Of this question as we en-
yssQe IT, We had never heard of the cir substance,
but cannot now doubt the fact, that Judge Lorlng
has been dragged through the streets OF Boston as
Mr.. Garrison was by its First Men in 1885, while
The Mayor stood by incapable of helping him. DR..
Lord has uDquestionsbly, though we have never
happened to see the particulars, been dismissed
from his headsbip of Dartmouth College, and turned
upon the cold charity Of the slayehOding and Pro-
Slavery world And cold enough it is, if we may
Judge of it's warmth by The aims which we're doled
out by the South amounting to about 500, we
believe, to Mrs. Batehelder the widow of the Dep
uty Marshal in charge Of Burns, who fell on the
hight of the attempted rescue. They grsndilo-
ouently boosted that the City of Alexandria would
take care Of her, and per sion of $4,000 was pro-
posed on the part Of the nation; yet paltry 800
was all she ever received, and not cent from the
CITY of Alexandris What can DIR. Lord expect
from such world as that Can this new Beisa-
RUS hope to have even an ObOlus dropped into his
hat
Perhaps, indeed, matters are eyeo worse than
we have here surmised The writer intimates tina.
it requires u ore courage in Judge Loring and DIR.
Lord to maintain the legal AMI divine rights Of
Slavery in Massachusetts or New Hampshire, than
it would for Mr. Garrison or Mr.. Stephen Foster to
address meeting in Virgins, under the very nose
Of Henry A. WISE Now, as We presume no one
will deny that such presumption, on the part Of
those two Anti Slavery gentlemen, would be pun
ished with an extempOrized hanging, Outrunning
the tardy footsteps Of ordinary justice, we are ap
prehensive that like summary violence may have
been inflicted on the two ornaments respectively OF
the Law and of the Church, whose distresses we
have had occasion to bewail. Visions Of rails tar
and feathers sp-nooses, with the knotunder the left
ear dance before our affrghted Imagination when we
contemplate the nferenta possibilities of the fate OF
those suffering saints. Whether later adyices shall
confirm or contradict these gloomy forebodings, we
think thas no one can deny that sad reverse has
befallen a large and orce influential class of our
enow-ci,izens of which these two eminent patriots
are examples. Instead Of guiding and directing
public sentiment, public sentiment pats them aside
and regards them with contempt or adherence, ac-
eordjng TO the quality Of the actions BY which they
have distinguished themseve Instead of sitting
on the bench, they are put into the dock. Instead
Of passing judgment on culprits who have sinned
against the supreme law Of Slavery, they ate them
selves perfunctoriy condemned for acts which, less
than a score of years ago, would have crowned
them with general applause. Somehow, the world
has broken from its mooriogs and drifsed BY them,
while they hold fast to the old landmarks and are
Jeff high and dry. 1t is high time new Book OF
Martyrs vas written, to bring down that historical
.pec atty to the present martyrologic epoch.
TIL V,,ra,k M,rcury in the course of some very