New-York daily tribune., 1858-11-12

next year, To compromise his rivdI with the North
the South 'br both. II will very likely turn out
To have been better fer Douglas To have had the
Legislature constituted that no election Of SEN
ator could be made Gov. Seward divides with Mr
Dougas the attention of the politicians. HIS
Rochester speech has been read with great saisiac
ton by those who believe that the contest between
Freedom and Slavery is one not to be settled by
any small maneuver at local election, but Is con-
test between systems which may last for years, and
which s of importance enough 10 bring out all lhc
powers of both sides 10 the controversy. Inc
country is not 20 BE- redeemed from the dominion
of the South by the propagation OF the doctrine
that Slavery is only matter oi prohl ana coh"e-
nlence, or the contrary, and that hsjorty oi one
may deternine for State whether its laborlng
porulston shall be- enslaved or not. The DOuglases
and Tbsyers may advocate this doctrine, but when
such man as Mr.. Seward rallies the country 10
the true issue there is no doubt whereabouts New
England will be- found in the contest.
The people were somewhat startled on Friday
and Saturday by an intimation from The Boston
Courier that the late election to go for nothing,
because all the voters had not voted The wise
men of that paper had discovered that only III 900
voters had taken interest enough in the election to
20 to the polls and that there were something like
234 900 voters in the State. 1t was easy enough
to discover the first fact, but how the second one
Was brought out is a mystery. In l-J0 there were,
according to the census, 2i1, 600 voters In the
State. This was a large estimate, and no doubt
included many thousands of persons who have not
voted for years, aud do not intend to vote as long
as they liye-old people, sick people, absentees who
have the legal right TO vote, but are not able to ex
eIcise it, such seamen, and so on. 1t would
be very liberal estimate to say that there
are lc0, 600 men who in any emergency, however
VITAL can be brought to the polls. Perhaps The
Couri,r is indebted for its figures to the eminent
matLematitiOn, Prof. Pierce who, gOverened, L
presume, by his desire to build up mathematical
party TO compete with the geographical party
v hch is making such alarming headway, has lately
Joined the Democracy. But no matter about the
number. The Cour,r's argument is as good with
IeO,O as with 234, 900 voters. The theory of
that paper il that the voters who did not vote
are disgusted with the conduct Of the Re-
pubcans, and would have voted against
them if they could have seen any chance OF sue
cess This won't do. The Courier had several
times demonstrated, after its fashion, that it was
entirely in the power of the men who voted for
Beach and Gardner last year, to combine and carry
both branches Of the Legislature and majority OF
Members of Congress. There majority of
e,UO0 against Gov. Banks last year. BY very sim
pie and easy arrangement, the 81 600 who voted
for Gardner and the 81 900 who voted for Beach
were to come together and they could easily over
power the 60, 600 who voted for Banks. So they
undoubtedly could if they had been so disposed.
But, by some curious Misunderstanding a large
majority of the Gardner men of last year, instead
of uniting with the Beach men, went the other
way, and the matter was made much worse;
and Gov. Banks instead Of being in minority Of
5000, is in a majority of l-,GOO. 1t seems to me
that The Courier had better pay attention 70 the
men who do vote, and for the present at least, let
the others 90. If it cannot hold its old voters,
what good will it do to bring out new ones Its
true policy is to have small vote, and not large
one. In 1886. when 100 600 men voted, Fremont
had 10s, 600 of them-a much larger proportion
than the Republicans have now received.
The Couritr talks about " the fagend of Know
Nothingism, and says, The decent men who
have been connected with that organization
" ought TO leave it at once; and surely they have
" but little motive to remain with body which
" counts but II 900 votes out OF so many IN the
I" Commonwealth" Here again The Courier dis
PLAYS lack of shIewdness as well as shocking n-
gratitude against the party it has acted with for
year OF past 1t did not support Know Nothing
ism until it got to be a fag-end, and 1t does not
finally desert until the last chance OIL success Is
given up. 1t was the only paper in Boston that
supported Mr.. Thompson for Congress in the lVth
District. and Mr.. ThOmpson's small vote is prob
ably to be attributed to the fact that he was bur
dened by The COurier's support. Then just think
of part, which musters 30, all told, poking fun
at the Know -NothDgs because they have only H.
COO Can the power of mpudence go further!
The conservative classes whO according to their
political propensites either hoped or feared that
the removal of Edward Greeley Loring from office
by the Republican Legislature of 1858, aided by
Gov Banks, would work political revolution III
the State, must be sadly disappointed by the result
of the election. The Republicans will be stronger
in both branches of the next Legislature than they
were in the last and Gov. Bankss vote is increased
in the aggregate, while the Opposition vote Is
greatly diminished. The people fully approve the
act OF removal, and there will be no further con-
troyersy about its wisdom or propriety. The
Democrats did their best TO make something out of
this issue; but in vain. Isaac II. Wright, b. +.
Hallett and Ed Riddle shed salt tears over the vio-
laton of the Constitution and the Independence OF
the judiciary, but IT was of no use. One man IN
Boston gave his vote for Lorine, for the Office OF
Governor; and tender him my sincere thanks for
giving such affecting illustration of the power Of
friendship, and afording me the materials for a
paragraph at time when news Is particularly
scarce.
The troubles at the Shawmut Church (OrthO
dox have been discussed by ecclesiastica coun-
Gil and the result is that the Rev. Mr.. Smith has
leave to withdraw. There are no charges against
his character. in any respect. The case resembles
very closely that of DR.. Fell, of which you have
heard many times. Ecclesiastical troubles are
constantly increasing in this neiehborhood. Many
of them are the result of spite and the contestants,
on one side and the other, exhibit character like
that given to Sambo by his master, VIZ, "Some
spunk, as we'll as all religion"
Ticknor & Fields's list of new publications IN
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among them is "Thorndale, or the Conflict of
Opinions" remarkably able work. as those who
have read the English edition can testify also.
Biographies OF Distinguished Scientific Men
by Arago This includes the lives of Hcrschel,