New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-04-25

eiyes great satisfactlon 10 The Boston CeurIe',
though ii IL little put out by the failure OF the
Jury Ia convict Herbert, Csrther snd Ssaaiey OF
banging oiense. The responsible editor OF that
paper Is 10 the same condition OF mind rs the
;rstbetic butcher. of whom the story IS told that
bis wifi. observing him 10 D. very restless one
bright "mOob.hiDy night, asked hun ~eat the
matter Wss, Ind b. replied thai 80 II Sss sach
beautiful night be could not sleep, and felt as II
. he must get I'D and go out G-s!IrisTHg. Under
our new law judicial murders are dlstre.singly
scarce. ] believe you have two or three persons IN
New-IOrk uJ6er sentence at death. II the Presl-
dent should ere 81 TO commute Pumers sentence,
couldn't you leri rs one so that bunker editors
ard orthodox ministers need not 60 without the
moral example hch is supposed 10 be necessary
~ deter from committing tie crime OF murder.
Don't send Ms. liartTng. ! am afraid We should
not tolerate the hanging OF a woman, unless, 81
least, she had been tried by her peers.
There IA some stir here in relation to the " Two
" Years Amendment to the Constitution. Sem
stor Wilson IS actively opposing It, and VIII proba-
bly, take occasion in the course of next week 70
say something or rite something publicly against it.
There is some controversy 10 the position of the
Governor. but | have neither seen nor heard Of
anything which leads me 10 suppose that be has
chap his opinion since January, when he sue
stantiay recommended the Legislature To sdOpt IL.
Ii il quite possible that he IS Indifferent 10 its sto,
but that he is opposed to il there Is no evidence.
Those who argue that It's adoption must harm
Llm in the National Convention of l-6O, and
that, therefore, he must be opposed 10 it.
assume two th,Dgs-frst that be- would change
ground upon such consideration; and. second.
that he Ielies upon North Western support in the
Convention. presume neither of these sssump-
tons eau BE- sustained. Gov. Bauks's policy of
cOnciliating the American" element Mas begun
very early, aud has been 80 steadily pursued that
there is no reason TO suppose tina. 1t was not deb-
erately entered upon by him OF the wisdom Of
this policy, there may well be difference Of opin-
ion here 10 other States. And the feeling which
has been excited relative to the proposed amend
nIent of the Constitution grows out of the ieud
" hich has been kept up between the Know
Nothing and ant-knOw- Nothing elements IN the
Republican party since 1855. In the progress of
this dispute the anti Know N0,hiDgs have been con-
tnUal'y gaining upon their adeersarles. There IS
but little in the Constitution or the laws OF the
State to show that We were Oyerrun in 1891 by an
array of Know Nothings 1900 strong, who carried
every city aud town in the Commonwealth except
two. Half dozen Constitutional amendments
have been proposed bat of them have thus far
been adopted except the which provides that
no man shall vote unless he can write ms name and
read the Constitution in the English language
The only statute which reminds MA of the reign Of
the same party, IS the one which provides for the
r,aoing "f the " common English version" OF the
Ilbir m the public schools. Judging by the elO-
ouant platitudas which have been spoken and print
ed relative to this law, by the Durunts and Names.
one would suppose that it was at least as
old as the Constitution, but | believe there
is no law or custom going back more
than five years which provides for aUy such read
ing As regard for the Christian religion is not
supposed to have commenced in tbi, State IN 1853,
so 1t is not probable that it would be wholly ex-
tUguiShed if the statute of that year should be re-
peaed or f, into dsuse. Having thus almost
wholly failed Ia incorporate into our policy the
original proscriptve notions of the American party
it IL not matter Of surprise TIA, those Republicans
who sympathzed with that party should be u little
disturbed ST the present attempt 10 defeat the Two
Years Amendment. But such men, however will
hardly presume to FAY that 1t Is not fortunate Tor
the State and the Republican party tbat the Abtl-
Know Nothing policy has prev ailed 1.-THE present
proposition shall be defeated like those more danger
Gus ones Of l-5 and I-J6, there wil BE- few If any,
ho will not rejoice over the result two years hence.
lion the other hand i should be adopted, 1t quite
lkel, il will b., then | submit that the German
Republicans Of the North. We-t mu.t make the best
of il. If they complain that We let fugitive slave
vote as soon as he has been IN the State year
and foi bid white German Republican from voting
until he has been in the country seven years and
that in our Reading and Writing Amendment
We discriminate against the German and IN FAVOR OF
the Irishman then We may reply that 1t is one of
our privileges to be inconsistent, and that as
Hosea Biglcw says,
A maretfl l Providence fashioned u. hol~r
a purpa.e that might principles 'waler"
II this confederation is not sufficient, let me
assure the Germans that the amendments viii un-
ouestionably be dead letter. answering no
other purpose except TO bring our own ConstItu-
ton into disgrace and increase the crime OF per
jury. trust they viii not allow it 10 do any more
mischief by making it pretext for joining the
Pro Slavery Den ocratS, and giving the election OF
1860 to that party.