New-York daily tribune., 1858-07-26

Acd fvom cur IAN ~ t'rt w cs-
0u5 arvie caGlrs and tsties.
We: for sin their r,out.s vsre shut,
And We e..eemed Their bet,ers,
A. for Hams faur-so pa-sons tescF-
We keep our saves N fetters
TIE tree OF knowedge, heh 70 bal
For Adsm'e PeoesdLoes,
Perhaps entaItd this speech,ess curss
On ell IS Nafy feDcrE.
O'greep- haired cousipe In disgrsee
Ye ere the real gentry,
AID -e but laoksys, ft 70 stsnd
At ycCr broad castle > er-ry;
And though With si,en- ooartesy
Yo1 pa-oo1 our III uss.Rrers,
We mostly cGrg 20 chs.-eri1g towns
Forssklog your proad banners
Bat the lopg des,ended .burl
Sometimes he birth remembers,
When 10Y light breath or sorroTs blast
Rsyivss his souls grsy enbers;
~ We in 10Y or sorros seeg
Your fellowship SC sts:ely,
And utter in the friendly wcc6s
Whatever stIs 20 e-es.ly
Ard 90 to-day We We met TO keep
With our g,eat.heArteo brothers
Oar yearly friendly ies'iva,
Shared by so many Others;
For though We lack not IN Our band
Tie best OF human preachers,
We cannot spare the eOlemn wcrd
That these greer scriptures teach rs
The recent criticism OF the Atlantic Monthly upon
Mr.. Choate and his Grafton has excited good deal
Of attention, and, on the part OF the Pro-Siavery
party, anger. Nothing 80 severe and Just has ap-
peared against Mr.. Choate in this region since
JOSIAH Quincy's review Of his letter TO the "Loco-
foco Wings of Maine. There is no need of repro
duciDg this vigorous production of our most vigcr
Ous old man, but his description of Mr.. Choates
style and of the effect Of professional habits upon
his mind is 30 good that / think it worth reprint
ing. 1t describes the Grafton delivered in l-55 as
well as the letter Of ls56 Mr.. Quincy says:
"Of Mr. Choate have no reason, or feeling, to
speak otherwise than with respect. But he has
thrown himself into the public arena, in defense and
for the upholding the slavehodert dynasty and hi.
work must be examined according 10 iis nature and
truth. Ii j. no time to handy compliments. when the
Union of these States is in dsnger, to play With
meume.ts when cracked Crowns are in the field.
The first impression made upon the mind, on
rese ng this letter Of Mr.. Choate is that j. is the
work Of al intellect affected by professional habits.
1t ia a common subject Of remark, that long and
active practice al the bar has tendency TO make
oblque the intellectual vision, and 70 blunt the deli.
cacy Of moral sense. have heard this acknowledged
and regretted BY gentlemen OF the bar themselves.
The habit Of looking at every question, not merely TO
dscern what is in il of truth, bat 70 sse what an be
made ont OF il for particular purpose. unsvoidably
gives TO the intellectual eye sqnint, which, IN those
rguShed fer success 10 desperate cases Inevitably
becomes fixed. To II mind thu hebitusted no quee
ton appears IN it's natural state, but always wry and
sided. Both moral and intellectual Investigations
become not search after truth but trisl Of skill.
considering also the nature and ayowed awful
consequences of the subject discussed and the tenor
of Mr.. Choates letter, II is obvious that ne relies
for success aud influence, not So much on his state
ments and argument As on his ioregone reputation;
as if there was hidden and my ysteriOus power in
what he should utter, making exactness unnecessa-
~, either in statement in logical illation The
whole has the aspect OF Il race between Prose and
Poetry striving for the palm OF Fiction; by mixing
together fancy and fsct, metaphor and suggestion,
assuming little and asserting great deal; hs IT, by
the common arts Of throwing dust into the eyes of
Jury, those of a whole people might be mysufed.
Let any man Hook csndidly at this let
ter Of Mr. Choate, and Judge for himself whether
fancy does not predominant over fact, assumption
over direct statement; unsupported suggestions
made, where logical deductions might have been ex-
pected. One might we'll attempt t. analyze
the contents of Mlton's Chaos, before Satan took
his flight through it. as such a mass OF words.
The writer in The Atlantic is puzzled by Mr..
Choate's remark that "One may know Aristopha-
mes and Geography and the CosInlca Unity and
Teuuric Influences and the smaller morals of life
and the sounding pretensOns of philanthropy, aud
vet not know America" This perpexed many
people for Mr. Choste ought not to sneer at learn
ing even if he has changed his politics. But il has
been lstterly given on. that he meant To nit Mr..
Hunkers among our literary men; and perhaps the
alluson 10 "cosmical unity and telluric influences
is designed as thrust at Humboldt, who, it is very
well known, has an opinion BY no means fattering
of the men who followed Mr.. Webster into the sup
port Of the Fugitive Slave Law, and OF Slr. Web
ster himself. The Courier, in publishing Hum
boldts letter 10 Mr.. Tcknor, remarked that every.
thing from his pen ought to be laid before the pub
lie. recommend ii 10 publish paper read by
Theodore Parker before Anti-S,ayery meeting at
Framingham not long ago. in which are quotations
from the author of kosmos which must establish
his reputation as "fsnatic" on the Slavery quee-
ton OF the worst possible description.
Ii any Anti-Slayery man feels sggrieved at Mr.
Choate, or Mr. Everett, for their Uniol-ssy
efforts on the Fourth of July he vii have sweet re-
venge when he sees the pamphlet edition OF their
speeches. at the end Of which has been lacked sn
edtori,l article BY Mr. Lunt, copied from the paper
which he hoDors as the medium of bis commanca-
tions with the public" The emotions which str
in the breasts of the two orators they find them
selves compelled 10 mail and send away This article
in company with their speeches may be "ea;ier
conceived than described" Who Gays tha. men
don't receive their punishment as they 20 along
Some little opposition is developing itself IN tie
Second Congressional District against Mr.. Blfin-
Ton, the present member but DO rot think L VIII
snoun. 20 much. taban ". WHEATON OF Norton
"a member Of the Governors C9nsc.ll al NJ.
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