New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-06-16
FROM BOSTON.
Rpu~ Our Own Correspondent

TIE Webster statue 10 asking the same question
which Mr.. Webster himself asked some years ago,
"Where shall gol" There is much speculation
a. to the cause Of the recent movement OF the
Cartses against placing the statue In the STATE
House yard, for believe il is no secret that the
spposiuon mainly comes from thst enterPnHng
family Ofthe fourteen votes which we're gi'en al
the Revere House meeting TO stay proceedings
four were given BY this family, counting Mr.
GreeDouph as one OF them. This last name mas
suggested the suspicion that artistic Jeal and
rivslshjp Of Mr.. Power may have had something
10 do with the matter Mr. William Hayden and
Mr. j. T. Stevenson acted with the Curtises, and
helped to make up the majority. The other side
are now raDyiDg 10 the rescue, and they will PROB
ably succeed in reversing the decision. Mr.
Eyeretts speech in defense Of the statue is printed
in some Of the newspapers, and If we could ony
be persuaded 10 use eur eyes for the purpose o
reading it, and would refrain from looking
at the work which the orator 30 shrewdly
AID vigorously defends, the statue would
carry the day against all its enemies. But,
alas! there stand the object, just within
tho door Of the Athen@um, aud it replies NEST eo-
Gueptly 10 Mr. Everett. Speech ls sllvern; silence
s (iu this csse) brazen; butslence convinces moro
than speech. However, let US be thankful To the
Curtises and be thankful that they have at last done
s,metblpg we may be thankful for. They have
Withdrawn Mr.. Everett from the contemplation OF
the bones of Washington and the grave yard al
Mount Vernon, and brought him to consider
question which is Of interest to living men, TO art
ts at least. If be will not exhibit or feei any con-
Germ for man. LET us be grateful that he can turn his
attention to statue of a man. no matter how dun
and distant the resemblance may be-. its is pr0ba-
bly, Of the same opinion "a the old lady mr. Emer-
son tells about, in his lecture on p" Works ana
Days" who, after first seeing the cataracts and
the cayerns, and afterward the railroads and the
steam mills, came to the conclusion tnat " Gods
Z" works are great but mau's works are greater.
Then the Curtlses have given us one more chance,
(slbeit small ODe) to escape the iuilctlon with
which we have been threatened ever since the Leg
ilAture agreed TO give the statue place within
the State House grounds. And, if we must have
it there there Ttan facts and opinions given
in Mr.. Everetts Speech which tend IN some small
degree to reconcile US to the infection Prof
Parsons of Cambridge College, who knew Mr.
Webster intimately thirty or forty years ago,
writes to Mr. Everett that the statue is exceed
ngly like him he wss at the age OF forty or NIFTY
Others say the same thing. Mr.. Everett himself
ssys: "When ! returned from Europe IN 1885,
"a after more than five years absence, was very
"uuch struck with the alteration which had taken
''place 10 Dir. Webster's face and figure In the
interval" Now, if we can have true repre-
sentation of Mr.. Webster in his best days, perhaps
we ought to be thankful for it. We shall
then be able to say to our friends from
abroad: This is Mr. Webster as he appeared
when he spoke for Greek Independence;
Or when on plymouth Rock he launched his thumb |
<rs sgant the savetrade, declaring that the pulpit
which did not denOunce it, was false to Its trust |
(Query would he have thought any better OF faith
less Tract Society than OF faithless pupltD; or
1. j. ID 81. Of or fha
ton Of Texas; or when he declared, as he did
many times, that he would never consent to any To-
crease of Slavery of slave representation In Con-
gress; or when he eulOgzed the ordinance OF l1c7
az being older and more sacred than even the Con-
stituton itself Perhaps it would be we'll for the
Legislature to order the pedestal OF the statue To
be ornamented with some bas-reliefs representing
the honorable periods in Mr. Webster's life. Posi-
bly this is what Curtis Il Co. are arad OF.
1 learn this morning that 46 members Of the Com
mittee of 100 have agreed to go for repealog the
vote last taken. Probably the next meeting OF
the Committee will be stormy one
The good people of Concord are about To suiier
from an invasion, compared with which that OF
April 49, I775, was but boys play. All the yolun
ter militia of the State are to be summoned there
in one grand encampment, and the parade is to last
three days. The people of the town held meeting
on Saturday, and voted to instruct the Seectilen
to grant the Governor permission to order the
soldiers there provided sufficient police force
should be established for daily and nightly patrol,
without expense to the town. One of the physc-
ians, a leading temperance man, objected to the
proposed INVASION on the ground that thousands OF
ioafers gamblers thieves prostitutes and vaga6onds
would be brought in the train of the troops But
he was replied to most effectively by lawyer, wlo
reused the patriotic pride of the citizens by remind
ing them that their f0refathers proved themselves
able to take care of the regulars III l115, and he
believed that the of 1883 could take care OF the
irreenlsrs. So putting it not on the ground OF hos
ptality, but on that of capacity to repel invasion
and repair mischief the friends OF the proposed EN-.
campment carried the day. Fortunately, Concord
has Jail and magistrate, and If the State employs
proper police force, perhaps no great mischief
will be done except TO the henroosts and the grow
ing crops.
The Legislative Committee on the Revision of the
Statutes, has nearly finished the preliminary exan
nation of the Commissioner report They will
recommend about 900 or !, 100 amendments, most
Of them verbal or those which are required by the
Legislation of last Winter, or changes In the law
which the Committee authorized TO recommend
to the Legislature. In this last class of amend
ments s q new Personal Liberty law, substantially
and l believe identlcally the same with that which
was rejected last Winter by three majority IN the
House. The sgitatlon of this subject is one which
will not down at any mans bidding. Our present
law against kidnapping is believed to be sufficient,
ii the jurors judges, aud prosecuting attorney do
their duty 10 punish the villains who were con-
cerned in carrying off the fugitive, Columbus Jones,
from Hyannis; but something more is needed for
those who come from the South armed with what
pass for legal warrants, under what processes to De
law. And now that il seems 10 be settled for the
present that Northern Courts, cOwsrdly following
disprsceful precedents will not interfere to rescue
from the clutches of United States Marshals lot o.