New-York daily tribune., 1858-07-12

There 10 q passage somewhere in Cicero IN which
he draws comparison between those days upon
which we were saved and those days upon which
we were born; and our impression is that he be-
slows the greatest honor and glory upon the former
Did the Artfu Dodger of Tusculum live here and
now, he would unquestionably deliver Fourth-of-
July orationi, quite equal to those of Rufus Choate
or of Caleb Gushing; but whether he would con-
sider our Anniversary day upon which it il nsces.
sary to keep up saving the country, is more than
we know. Choate and Gushing, however, have no
doubt about their duty. The Honorable Caleb in
this city, like the Honorable Rufus in Boston, has
Just done what he could to rescue rs from perdi-
ton. Now of these doeful aud despairing speeches
we have in the first place to say that they appear to
us TO be vsporish and sene. If We were timid and
distrustfill if we did not believe in the capacity OF
this people to keep their nhertance if We though!
political .ystems OF ,elfgoyerDment fallacious, and
all attempts at selfgovernment farcical, we would
say 80 in 90 many words, and not publish our sad
,kepticsm in riddles. If we did not believe in the
stability Of the Union, we would cay 80 at once,
and, lifting up our voice, call upon our felow-citi.
zens to save themselves, their wives and children.
unfounded, the sooner to use nautical llustrs-
tion We bring out the long boat and make for the
shore the better it will be for our bodies II not for
cur souls No honest pilot will occupy three hours 10
telling crew and passengers that the ship is doomed.
What we need, if our houses be really on fire. is
short, monosy llabcal announcement to that effect
from the watchman. But when Choate weeps and
Gushing trembles, they do so with such artistic and
studied elegance that not soul Of Us loses his ap
petite or his sleep. Nobody's faith In the perpetu-
ty of the Union is shaken. The g,y still laugh and
the solemn train of care sti plods on, and each
one chaes as before bis favorte phantom. We
should be very cad and almost desperate-we are
very glad and positively hopeful When Mr.. Cush-
ing is in the hight Of his prophetic frenzy, stocks
do not sink at all. When Mr. Choate predicts
ruin, shrewd merchants continue to make perma-
Dent investments in the securities of the United
States.
The truth is, neither Of these sham Cassandras
in pantalooDs is sincere. They talk ruin, but they
do not believe in ruin; and the consequence is that
while men listen to these prettly turned periods.
they are net at all frightened. Why should they
be The system Of govern ueut is not q toy to be
ruined BY careless handling. The eminent men who
established it were not fair. weather schemers or
Summer day theorists. They had known grester
dangers than ours, and had escaped them. They
undertook to provide for their children, but no
parental weakness blinded them to the inevitable
faults and foibles of humanity. They knew that
storms would come; they knew that dissensiors
would arise; but they did not suppose that their
children would be hare-brained IDIOTS. Minute
precau ions they could not take, because minute
necessities could not be foreseen. The basis
Of their work was broad and its fouDda-
tons frm. They trusted TO our heads
and hearts and hands to finish the structure. We
do not believe that their confidence was misplaced.
We do believe in the common senie Of the na-
ton. Mr.. Cushing does not. Mr. Choate does
not. But those gentlemen have not had monopoly
of schools, of books and Of observation. If both
of them were to die to-day, they would leave be-
hipd them certain amount of intelligence and pub
lie virtue.
The majority of the people of the Free States
are quite q likely to be in the right a. these two
clever lawyers. They stake quite a much in
mailing their decision and in standing firmly BY it.
1t may suit the purposes Of Fsurth-of Jay ,ratOrs
to represent them - turbulent passionate, grssPing
and reckless. But fine words DO not alter the facts.
The opposition to the extension Of Slavery, so far
a. it has manifested itsef in political action, has
not been Of an excited character. The men Of
excitement have con,ciebhously kep. away from
the polls. The men Of the North who would dis
solve the Union do not vote. The men of the
North who would save the Union do vote, and
voting aeriouall but soberly wow thar Adherence