New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-30


casual but they have been friendly 20 far rs they have
exsted at al. have no cause, therefore, for speak
ing bitterly against him but the wor in when ne 70
engaged demands thas l SPEAK P.any' Anu ,hsn
In anaahema, il 10 because the former 10 more CONGO
nsnt TO nv feelings than the latter, concerning this
particular topic. ...
mon The repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the
new causes of action upon which 30 many Pon,icai
n en- then entered, Gov. Hunt has, IKE wilkins
Micawber, been waiting for something 70 turn up
CaI pet bag in hand he, at that crisis 5000 Of the oe
rot Of current events saw the train move on leaving
him behind and has yet to aze what everybody else
has discovered that he now lsgs 5uperfiuous on tne
stage or lot to put too fine point upon IT, Is player
out" ILsughierJ
to learn IT, that he has had his day. This is especially
true of men who By rare good luck have been exalted
above their equals, and advanced Beyond their mers
They are slow to surpect that they were indebted 70
the whirg of fortune for their advancement, rather
than any intrinsic merit Of their own. Long after
they have ceased to be valuable to anybody and have
become positive damage TO their party they persist
in their "cIaims" to further promotion; and II un-
heeded they grow sour in spirit ana spend Or Sre IN
avengiIg fancied WI ,ngs. How many illustrations OF
this truth occur TO you, felowcitizens, as call your
attention TO this general statement
Beyord most public men within the range of my OBJ.
seryatiop Governor Hunt has been lucky politician.
With edum talents, voluble utterance, commend,
able industry and he was elevated
over the heads of scores OF men In the wing party,
who were bis superiors in intellectual capacity, sod
tatesmsnship and the sagaey TO comprehend ana the
vigor to master the exigences, the intricate and mo-
mebtous exgepces of the times For several years he
was a sort of pet of the Wing party OF New.York.
Three times sent him to Congress- it made him
Controller; twice 1t strived 70 elevate him to the Cub
ernatoral chairsuocedDg in one OF he.e attempts by
handful of votes but failing in the other partly be-
GAUGE the very men whom he s trying to sell to
nouO ola fheua ont
body who knew Governor Hunt thoroughly, but had
not fully scanned the peculiar mode by which,
time out of mind great men have been manufactured
by the various regences and Jun'as that have success
svely borne rule at Albany, wondered why 30 medi-
OGRE person was 20 rapidly advanced from station TO
station, until he came TO be talked of for the most ex-
alt.d positions in the Union But all who had closely
examined the machinery by which such wonders were
wrought by the magcians at the State Capital, were
not surprised. For they saw in the specious talents
the plant WILL the facile address, and the boundless
ambition easily fed by promises and grathed by Hat
teries, Of washington Hunt, the very material which
longer head and stronger arm could bend TO its pur-
poses, and harder nature use to promote its ends
until it became convenient TO throw him aside
before him bad been thrown aside, 10 make room for
fresher iD struments But, Governor Hunt, slow to
discover the true secret of his greatness if indeed he
has yet found it out took oense at something-some
neglect, some dght, some something not material to
my present purpose-and when the great body of his
old friends moved onward in l845 and organized the
Republican party he staid behind. From that day to
this be has been q croaker, most somber croaker
whose apt prototypes are the Dismal Jenny Of Dick
ems and the moping owl of Gray, which, from its ivy
msDtled tower, did " TO the moon complain" Ap
plause.
Fellow citizens, I have looked over all the BET
speeches which the ex Governor has made-six or
eight in numbersnce he played the Union saving role
at the Academy Of Music, in New York, last Decem-
ber down to his recent Jeremy bidder performance
before the Soft Democracy at Albany. They are all
set to tune they all played on one string; and
nartic ula onr
successfully compete with the great Italian fiddler him
sef-plsyDg dolefu dirges on single string. These
speeches are the common patitudes about sectional
ism" "the peril Of the Union, and such tbread-bare
themes-mere mellifuous twaddle, down which, from
the exordium to the peroraton the hand Of criticism
can slide without feeling single point. As one reads
them in these stirring times. he feels that he listening
"could talk an infinite deal of nothing" The whole
mass may be summed up in about these terms: Dear
brethren! glorious country this Glorious fathers,
ours Glorious Constitution. Glorious Union. Clio.
rious South. Glorious fellows down there. If they
denounce u.s. don't reply. For Gods sake, let us have
peace" Laughter Sir, in the midst of the crisis
which the Slavery propsgandists have preeipitated
mulgated by the Calhoun school of poticaus-in the
face of the attempt of the Breckenridge branch of the
Democracy to install Negro Slavery the ruling ele
ment Of the country and Of the Douglas branch to tie
ment while the diabolical work is being done, this
stereoyped rigmaroe of Gov. Hunt is inopportune,
as impotent as trivial as contemplate as would have
been cavalry charge with wooden swords at Water
loo or battery Of pep-guns at Sebastopol. ZAP
plause.
In these harangues, Gov. Hunt also introduces my
self to the auditory as one who, Like Sir William
Temple, so happily sketched By Macaulay, contem-
plates from his rural retreat, with the eye of calm
philosopher and feeling not far removed from pity,
the struggles of the common herd Of politicians around
him. Having thus commended himself to the good
graces of all who don't know him. he proceeds to spin
ditty bis single string Though he wraps himself
in the folds Of most verbose eocuton, he is easily
through by those who suspect how much dupcity
and cunning and intrigue, are concealed under this
at Lockport little while since and published in full
also in hs speech the other night at Albany the
Governor depecates sectional feeling sectional issues,
and Slavery agitation generally, in touching tones.
Now. against all this declamatory depreciation of
Washington Hunt the retired philosopher put the
words and the deeds Of Washington Hunt the six
years member of Congress, and Washington Hunt,
the two-year's Governor of New-York. While he
was in Congress, the country was convulsed with |
Slavery agitation, the Wimot Proviso being then the
ascendant star in the Northern sky During ali this Pc
riod he acted and voted with Giddngs and the other
men in Congress- and always chased
with u e ultra free-so members Of the House. While
he sat in the Gubernatorial chair Of this State hap
pened to be member Of the Senate. In the legislative
sson of 1851 at the close Of the struggle the
measures of 1850, and which those with
whom Gov Hunt now acts, proclaimed to be a final
90 settlement of the whole question of Slavery" re-
spectng which all agitation cease and terminate,
he in his annual ssage to me and my colleagues re-
ferrDg to these measuree, sadI quote from memory,
but believe correctly" Our people be left free
to examine their provisions and practical operation;
their vital and fundamental right to discuss the merits
Of these any other laws passed by their representa-
ives constitutes the very basis of Republican sys-
|en, and can never be surrendered. Any attempt to
restrain it would prove far more dangerous than its
freest exercise" [Applause,1 Good for Gov Hunt