New-York daily tribune., 1859-12-21

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ssv I have been told that swcdenborg says that
there are some people who have been dead nun
d,ed vears and have not found II out ye'- Wen,
tlese are ot that kind. There were no lcss tnan sI
departed Governors among the nuInher-dead nlsn'
eve,v man of them-rcry dead indeed-l0ng since
" laid out cold dead beyond the possoility OF
resuscitation bc the humanest of Humane Societies.
And go il was with many Others, mighty men IN
their day and generation, full OF power Once IRON
whose uostrs the last breath Of public ile departed
long aro. Who the rag-tag and bobiail were that
sipued the call, and made up the body nf the Assem-
by, caunot speak from actual knOwledgei Out 1
could not detect the O single hvlng politician
thatis, of any who had the breath OF Massachusetts
life in him. | suppose there were plenty OF Demo
Gratis. of course; but you know enough of Nassa-
cbusetts politics TO know that these never mean TO
have any political existence in the state. Anything
that they say Or do has more ssnIhcaney In ihls
matter than the savings and doiugs of any of the
White Trash in the Slave States, should they hold
a meeting TO declare their determination :" to man-
tain the Constitution and the Cnlon," which Is
the hmtricGR for catching negroes and letting their
masters do lust what they like with themselves.
Having thus gently slid down from the back Of
my aleg0ry, before it threw me over Its head-ior
they are still as headstrUng as Mrs. Maaprop said
they were on the banks of the Nile-l would say, IA
plain pedestrious phrase, that if the shareholders
are satisfied with that demonstration they are much
more easily pleased than they used to be. There
was not a u0me on the Gail, or a man on the plat
form, that represented human being beside hun
,elf As tar as influence is concerned, the names
might as well have been copied from the tombstOnes
in COpp's Hill aud the Kings Chapel buryips-
grounds, ard the men brought up,
"By some devish eantrp slight
from the graves there, as Tam O'Shanter saw them
in AIIoway Kirk. There were plenty of ex-Excel-
lencics and ex-hembers of Congress and eX-Whigs
Z IL L.. .f.f.
and natiOn but every man who holds Massachu-
sets office, or who thinks he has chance of get
ting one kept as clear of the Call as if it were IN
fected with the smallpox, and Stunned the meeting
as ii il were lazarettO. Even the Mayor, Mr..
+. w. Lincoln, an old " ebster Wing, aud set up
originally by the Hunkers though accepted for
some inscfutable reason by the Republicans, was
kept in the background. His name was on the list
OF Vice-PresiGentF, which does not necessarily i'm
ply knowledge or consent; but | could not find it
on the Call. The reason must have been, as he
was The proper person TO preside at such meeting,
that he and his friends knew would be fatal W bis
hopes of reelection the next Monday
TIE moral effect of the whole thing is just this:
If you propOfe making descent on Nirgnia, Mr.
Everett positively declines being counted IN.
He won't 30 with that " crowd" lie won't run
with that masheen." So you must Mt reckon upon
him. Nor vet on Gen. Gushing. He will not carry
market You must do without him too. And should
you apply TO the worthy old Wing milli0naires such
as the hessrs. Appleton, for the snews OF war; you
will he sent away empty. Thus that meeting may
cave YOU this much trouble, if YOU ever thought OF
taking it. There were good many very respect
able gentlemen Of great wealth and much private
worth who gave their names and their presence to
that meeting: but So far as weight and influence
went, they might just as well have sent their foot
men or eoachmen in their stead. As there lSno
limit 70 The gulliby OF an old Statestreet Whlg Il
is very likely these worthy persons really think that
they are of some Importance; that what they SAID IN
Faneuil Hall was of some more consequence than II
they said it ut their own dinner tables. If The
Courier should tell them that Nr. Webster (Or even
Mr.. Everett, 10 make the suppOsltion more extray-
agant) will be the next President, they would be-
Ieye It. But the shareholders know better. 1t must
strike an intelligent STAKEHOLDER, such as Mr.. Stuart
of MARYLAND (whO has already said these mon meet
ncs meGn nOthne) or Mr.. Curry of Alabama, we
should think, much in this way; "To what does
" all this amount As To the Democrats of Hassa-
" cbusetts the Cushngs Greenes and Haletts, We
know all about them We should as soon think
- of caring TO know The opinion of the Crockers and
" Sandhillers and other poor whites, whom we use
&" to catch runaway negroes, tar and feather sus-
"pected Abolitionists, and do our dirty work gen.
" crally as theirs AZ TO Mr. Everett and Cover
=" nor Lincoln and Mr. Nathan and hr. William
" Appleton and their like, we have much respect
" for them personally and the more because We
know that they have lost all political influence at
" home through their fidelity 10 as aud our instltu-
" tons but for this very reason the expression OF
their opinions is entirely supererogatory aud lnslg-
ni6cant But where were the men who do repre-
sent others The Governor of the State, the
President of the Senate, the Speaker of the
House, the Mayor of the cityl We can accept
a. that demonstration only as the expression of the
mi. yrIa af the within the VKalls Of faupuIl
" Hal (Which was entirely unnecessary, and not
90 0s that of tie State, or even of the city. We
" should be fimpletOns if we took it for more"
In fact, the whole thing was treated az joke by
the people generally, and most of the persons saw
who had given their names and presence, were
laughing among themselves about their " Saving the
Union" again. There was no kind OF seriousness
nor e0rnestress about the affair, unless it were
among the worthy antilles, who were made most
prominent On the platform and in the newspapers.
l would ret have you infer that all those who
fused to have anything to do with the meeting
in full communion with Capt. Brown. Very few of
them would have advised or assisted at his attempt.
But they did not think the panic which he had
struck into the Shareholders sufficient reason for
Massachusetts, TO get down ON her face in the dirt
to stop their believing. The general feeling, far
as can gather IT, is that which some one expressed
about Laayctte when he came on his wild-goo
chase 10 this Whatever NAV be thought
'Ot his prudence, no one can help admiring his
esprit"
his meeting was a striking contrast to the one
held in 1885. al which Theodore Lyman, the Mayor,
presided and Harrison Gray Otis and Peleg Sprague
spoke. That was a real thing; earnest fierce, ter
Tible The men that called and managed IL were
the men that had absolute control of the city aud
the State, and they were serious in their purpose
TO crush the Anti-Slayery uoyement in IT'S infancy
From ii proceeded the mob of gentlemen of prop
"erty end standing in fine broadcloth who would
have murdered George THOMPSON could they have