New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-09-20

mary respects. He is physically strong enjoy.
good health, and has great capacity for work. He
bss wonderfully quick perceptions, which render
him q very skillfsl practitioner at the bar. He
tries causes With great energy, and faishfulne,s
and ,hrewdness. He as not always good insured to
the Court or to witnesses; is no. distinguished by
grace OF person or Of elocution, but hss so nuc
real power that there defects are overlooked. He
has not great constructive faculty but is 81 as
tute critic and destroyer Of the work Of Others
Yet be drafted our present Liquor Law, under the
employ neot of the Temperance COMMITTEES, and
no flaw has yet been discovered in thst | have no
doubt there are ADLER men among our lawyers;
certainly men of greater learning and elo quence;
but since Mr.. CbOate's death, it seems to me be
has nOre resources than any other man. and wl,
win more cases, especially If fair proportion Of
theu be hard ones.
In politics Gen Butler is a Liberal and not
HUnker. He would be Republican to-day we're
it not for the damaging influence over him Of bis
brother in law, Fisher A. Hildreth, the Lowell
Postmaster, an able man, but about as warm.
bloOoed as an iceberg Buffers record on the
Slavery question is not . bad one. He maintained
the coalition with the Free Soilers 10 the last;
favored the election of Gen. Wilson to Congress in
the Middlesex District in 1852, aud has never pre-
tended to deny that he should have voted for Mr.
Sumner in ISL if he had had an opportunity.
Many Repu olican in good standing has greater
PrO-Slavery sins to answer for than be. | cannot,
at this moment call to mind any particularly out
rageous sentiment which he has avOwod, or vote
which be has given. He has had the good sense or
good luck to Keep out Of the saving meetings
and does not 90 about lndorsng all the onormi.
tres which the apprenticeship tools Of each sue
cessive Democratic Administration think them.
selves called upon to approve But it Is necessary
to say that Mr. Butler is lsckiug in the courage
which ought to lead him TO follow out bis convic-
tiOns. Undoubtedly he should have broken away
from his party long ago. think he is now 10
more dangerous position than ever before. 1t ~as
q bad sigo for bin when The Post aud the Hunkers
indicated their purpose not to contest his nomna-
ton. He ig now their caDddate; Hallett nom.
mated him; Gushing, and Lorng, and Heard and
Beach iudOrse hun, and be will be forced to endure
the Odum OF their coDpsnlOnsbip. The resolu.
tons, which he will be expected to approve, are
thoroughly Pro-Slayery, indorsing Buchanan and
the DIed Scott decision The speeches and the
whole tone Of the Convention were calculated and
intended to com promise their candidate, if not to
hamper and disgrace him. Aud they will do co.
No man, even though bis shoulders be a. bro,d
Gen. Buffers, can carry such load OF dOughface
nationality. The candidate represents the party.
and The party is base as Jefferson Davis himself
could desire it to be.
A msjority of the Convention were Dougla,
men, but the other side had the substantial fruits
of victory. Oliver Stevens was chosen delegate to
Charleston by only $50 majority tout of 1900
vOtet) over John L. Heard. This was the extent
Of the Douglas supremacy, even as to numbers.
The other delegates are Caleb Cushing who is
anti. Douglas; Isaac Davis who is DOuglas or anti
Douglas, Just as it may happen, and James S.
Whitney, who voted for Charles Sumner 10 1851,
and is now an Cfficehoder under Mr.. Buchanan.
One Douglas resolution was smother.d in Commit
tee, and another tabled by vote Of ten to ore.
George b. LoriDg WAS President Of the COnven-
ton. His ectiou is reckoned Douglas victory,
out if Mr. Douglas trusts him, he will get cheated
| understand that he has been exonerated Of the
charge of forging names to petition. II so. his
opponents we're remarkably unfortunate 10 pitching
upon the only political Ofiense Of which he has not
been gu lty A dozen years ago he was Gerrlt
Smith Abolltionist, in favor of dOUg away with
Slavery by Congressional action. In his speech to
the Convention on Thursday, he declared th,t
" the property of all our citizens shall DO sacred
on every rch of soil incosed within the bounds
" ries OF our Republic" If he meant by prop
erty," slorss he virtually declared that any man in
Msssact usetts might rees.sbllsh Slavery on his
own account. If he did not mean slaves he was
guilty of scandalous attempt TO cheat his hearers
and the Southern Democracy. Hallett-poor
cresture-was put to it for words. He evidently
cannot make up his mind whether Douglas will be
nominated or not On the settlement of this ques-
ticn depends his position So his speech was OF
1igzac and see. saw character. He intmated very
strongly that it was of 10 use to nominate Doug
las for he had strength at the South and alter
ward expressed the hope that the South might
Weld, for Douglas was strong at the north.
The general re,ult is, that the Douglas party is
numerically the strongest, but the Hunkers hsve
not relinqushed their control. and do not mean TO
do so. The party will not give any countenance
to rebellion or boiling on the part of Douglas or
any body else, but will support the shareholders in
their most extreme claims, provided they can re-
tain their hold upon the offices.