New-York daily tribune., 1859-01-28

cour,e, die-for sucA is tie lot of even the NEST
wonderful rrimountanesr.. And blessed are the
dead Who die in Bostoo! For them sh,ll be ova-
tions endless process ons eLdless, conmemonuons
epdle.e. and monuments well nigh endless, TOO.
Celebrities in that curious county are regarded
much as the sarcopbagous gentleman OF tue Sousa
Seas regarded his wife, who, from shirog d"
couch came to deck bis dnns table; he found her
excellent while living ald delicious when dead.
Boston lives in condition Of chronic aPotheosls;
and you nsy be sure that when the citizens Ara rot
singing The Creation or tubularly and tympanically
doing the Seventh symphony. they are Getting up a
monument Of brass or OF wood. accord ng to the
o.peIty of the times, to some lamented Bosto-
pian; ard, as in the case Of Benjamin Franklin,
they are especially lachrymose when the subject OF
their sorrow absccnded from the scenes OF his ns-
tiyi,y in hi, ronsge, aud did not once thiDk, even
in bis dotsss of returning
How many oratons sbout Bepjamin Franklin
have been emitted upon the Triple Mountains we
do not exactly remember. Bat there has been stu
another. Franklin was bonn upon the 18th Of
January, ard therefore upon the 18th of the
present January there was an Grafton by the Hon.
Edwt I'd Everett, delivered where all oratlons are
delivered, in the Music Hall, which is probably the
most capacious, elegant and fairly proper toned
room in the known world, and, wita the single
exception Of the sistine Ch,pel the best fitted for
uu.ic-erpecialy since the bras, Beethoven WAS
put INFO it. All tie gentlemen who, when boys,
had won Franklin medss By keeping tbeir faces
clean for three months, and by going through
"pennG-a pen; rnne-of pen," without
laundering, attended in a body vita their argent
trophies displayed upon their wastcoats Mr.
Everett does not allow his orations to be reported
if be can hep it, but furnishes to the newspapers
aeerayatiog ,ketctes, which, so far from pre-
senting to US the Iyola honey Of his ducet rhetoric
are rather dryer than any remainder biscuit which
ever came into port. 4 careful examination of
the skeleton furnished to The Daily Advertiser
does not lead us to hope that Mr.. Everett. threw
sDy new hight upon the character of BepJamin
Franklin. The address was eminently proper,
eminently accurate, aud eminently commonplace.
Mr.. Everett spoke of Franklin very much ss a
pous Crecian would have spoken OF Jupiter Am
mon. That was all
Now, if any man ever set good example, and
chartered all future commentator, eulogists and
biosrsphers, to speak of him as be was, it was
Benjamin Franklin. In that charming fragment OF
autobiography which be lett behind hlm, there are
no concea ments no sUbteruges, no extenaations
and no CLOSES. What be has done we'd, he writes
of with honest compacency-w he has done ill.,
l.. i. fo Hs cnD Df,ssa
which the strictest will regard az yenal, but he
also confesses OfIensss which the aIest Will not
pretend to ex:use He covers up nothing; he
even plainly and explicitly avows his alterations
from confluence. He was will ng to be fary
weighed, snd he had no occasion to shrink from
the trial: but he asked for no false weights for no
trck. for no vulgar commercial deceptlons. Il
wrong to him, it II wrong to history, 1t Is a
wrong to philosophy it is wrong to human n''
ture, to speak of him as all good, always wise and
ever prudent If we know anything of the bluff
and muscular ve racity Of bis nature, he would have
been the nrst to protest against beng vanished,
for he deemed the example Of his errors OF value
hardly less to mankind than the example Of his vir-
tues. Had it not been so, he would scarcely have
placed them carefully upon the historic record.
But if be is miserably mi,represented by bis 'ulo-
sst., be is not alone in his misfortune 1t is only
within few years that the people of this country
have found out that George Washington, when he
lost his he frequently lost his temper
was in the habit of using prOfane language. The
discovery which nearly killed Mr. Jared Sparks
filed the rest of mankind with immeasursole ave
and wonder Will somebody gse US a New Pan.
theon of Revolutionary herOes-no! msre anial,
not for the Qualification Of prurient curiosity not
to abate one ot of due reverence for yaor and for
wi.dom-but that we may look at our fathers face
to face, ard see them as those with whom they
walked acted and suffered, saw them