New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-02-10
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BOsToS Feb :, 1855.
The Legislature has been in session somewhat
over thirty days. but it has not, if We may Judge
from present appearances, done half lts business
yet But, for all that, il has kept steadily at work,
and deserves great credit for diligence. Mr.. Cush-
ing takes up a good deal of time, but he is not
without his uses In all matters where he has no
to suppose his personal or political interests
or the interests of Slavery, are involved, his su.-
gestions are useful Then, again, he is of some
service az an example of excellence in public speak
ing, and as a warning against that sloppy, dsjonted,
ungrammatical, heltersketer style of oratory which
prevails in both branches Of Legislature. Luck
ily, the members of the House, are, as general
thing. able to see when Mr.. Gushing is trying to
mike use of them for political or personal pur-
pose, and on such occasions they proceed delibe-
rateIy to vote him down without taking the trouble
To answer him in any other way. Ii must
certainly be confessed that this method some
times looks cowardly, and an impression has
gone abroad among OF the people, that IT there
is no answer to be made to Mr. Gushing arguments,
perhaps his measures might as well be adopted.
This impression does injustice to the House. Some
of the men who have undertaken to lead the Repub-
lcAn party in the House are nothing but old-fash-
iOncd conservatives, VIII" have no Anti-Savery con-
vctiOns and are, therefore, incapable of answering
Gushing. They think the easiest way to get rid of
him is to avoid discussion, they get the previous
question moved on him. If they would be content
TO LET the Ants Slavery men debate matters connected
with Slavery, Cushing's overthrow would De just as
completes in the argument as in the vote, and the
people would b. satisfied when they read the debates
that the enemy was not only voted down but
answered. When the great question of Judge
LOring's removal comes up, Gushing must be- met
in argument, or the House and the people will not
BE- satisfied.
You have given to your readers sufficiently pre-
else account of Mr.. Cushine's assault upon the
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. Your honest
man, provided he possesses a reasonable degree OF
intelligence is generally your best logician. And if
any poorer exhibition of logic was ever made in the
Massachusetts House of Representatives than this
speech of Cushng's, have failed to hear of it. To
put it as nearly ! can in the form of sylOgism,
il was this:
The House has granted the use of III hall to the
Anti. Slayery Society;
At the meeting of the Society, Wendell Phillips
claimed that the Legislature was under the SOcietys
dctatiOn;
Therefore, the petitioners for Judge Loring's re-
mOval have leave to withdraw
If, instead of this conclusion Mr.. Gushing had
said:
Therefore, the petitioners for law regulating
the inspection of peanuts, or for a Board of Com
mssoners to consider the subject of the artificial
propagation of chipmunks, have leave to with
draw
Would not this have been just as logical a coneu.
sion from bis premises AZ the one which he drew
from them There has been no such logic since it
was authoritatiyely announced that
If who .nrnip, cries
Cry no, when his tafat, dies,
'Tis sign that be would rather
Have tnTnip than his yather'
In the course of his remarks Mr.. Gushing quoted
from my last letter to THE TRIBUNE, but without
giving credit to THE TRIBUNE. | can imagine no
reason for this injustice his part, unless he is in
the interest OF some rival newspaper-perhaps
Harpers Cirili:er. The Boston Courier, however,
which you know il particularly friendly To THE
TRIBUNE supplies the omission and not only
names the paper from which the letter was taken,
but also the name of the writer. The consequences
are as fearful as those which followed the naming
of a member Of the House of Commons BY the
Speaker.
doubt if there ia, or can be devised any way Of
keeping Mr.. Phillips and his cohort Of radicals out
of The State House. Only day or two after Mr.
Cushing had breathed out threaenings and slaughter
against them, stepped into the hall of the House.
and 10 there were lot of Abolitionsts under the
euise of persons seeking to emil ghten the committee
op the qualifications Of voters. Among them we're
Mr. Phillips himself Mr. Samuel +. Sewe Mrs.
Hsrriott X. Hunt, VI. d., and others. The Com
mttee aforesaid were giving hearing to the petit
TONERS for the extension Of the right of suffrage TO
women. One of the petitioners is Sarah f. Wall Of
Worcester who, like DR.. Hunt and Lucy Stone il
a taxpayer" and who now petitions the Legisa-
ture. as she says, for the third and last time in
behalf of the great principle that taxation and repre-
s.ntst;on are inseparable She argues the question
and winds up by saying
eve do not expect 10 remedy all the evils Of So
cie,y. or thai the defects Of woman will be speedily
corrected: she will commit her fohes STILL as man
doe. she will sometimes make mistake in voting
as many wise men have done; but with AL her foles,
and al her mistakes she cannot possibly bring the
country more perverted state Of the moral atmos-
pierre than the present or worse financial crisis than
hat through which We are now passing We do not
send our petitions TO you year after year, merely for
YOU 10 report " leave 10 withdraw We demand &C.
ton immediate action. II il cannot be done in the
name OF affection in the name Of justice il must
be done H. in the absence OF every argument,
after the removal of every objection n you sill, per.
or ler 10 take. ard that IT, 70 refuse 10 pay
e1e., and she will do IL Very few VII be willing 70