New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-04-05
FROM BOSTON.
From Our Own Correspondent.


net in this city on Thursday is said to have been
quite large gathering The Committee on Creden-
tias reported t5st 22 cities and towns were repre-
sspted by s44 deleea But it had no particular
political significance 1t was apparently made up 10
about equal proportions of disappointed Wings and
| dssrsctd KoOw. NotbiDgs. The Convention was
Organized AID the speeches were made by the hrst
| named cla.s while it was evident that the other
| ret bad mere TO do with getting up the meeting
ard will have the largest share in controlling the
party. They are represented very largely upon the
| STATE Committee the Chairman and several of the
| members of which were members of the Hiss Leg
| islature. This fact must be savory and refresh
| inc one to the fastdious Mr.. George s. Hillard
| who has joined, though with some reluctance, the
new organization.
| The President of the Convention was Mr.. Ma
| thanel Silsbee of Salem 1t was at frst currently
reported that this gentleman was the veritabe per-
| ION who was for so many years colleague OF MIR.
| Webster as q member of the United States Senate
| from this Commonwealth. The fact that this gen.
| teman died some years ago seemed no contradiction
TO this suggestion, for it recOlected that the
! bones of ex- Governor Lincoln had been wired to-
geiher and brought down to preside over the last
meeting OF these Political grumblers, soon after the
| John Brown invasion. 1t turned out, however,
that this Mr.. Silsbee was son OF the old Senator
| And Mir. Leverett Satonstall, who made the silest
speech at the mee0g, is supposed 10 be son OF the
gentleman of c same name, who used 10 De dis.
| tingushed and hOnored member OF the old Federal
| and Wing parties and who helped John Quincy
| Adams uphold the honor Of the State, and the
ri. ht of free discussion, twenty years ago in Con-
| gess.
The resolutions declare that "the time has come"
| for conservative and patriotic men to unite The
same men have declared the same thing three or
four times year every year since 1850 The people
agree that "tbe time has come" and they have
proceeded as well as they can to unite But the
closer their union becomes, in the Republican organ.
zation, which is the only possible one at present,
The more do these sticklers for union grumble and
protest and throw obstacles in the way They
succeeded in eecting Mr.. Buchanan in 1856. Now
they admit that Mr.. Buchanan has cot given peace
| TO the country. Mr. Hjllsrd is very emphatic in
| condemnation of his Administration. He says he
never can and never will be Democrat. Why,
| then, is he lot something else 2 Why does he not
admit bis error, and Tetrace his sepsl He says in
| so many words that he does not believe the Repub
lican party has any idea of interfering at all with
| Slavery where it exists; and he adds that if Mr.
| Seward should be chosen President, sit would be-
" his aim and purpose to govern the country with
"reOrOus regard TO the rights of every part OF it,"
| Instead however, of joining the Republican party,
he urges his friends to do as they did IN 1856; and
il the result not the same as in that year, 1t viii
be because the people know enough not to follow his
advice.
The object of the desired Union, according to
the resolutions of the Convention, ia " to put an
lend 10 useless and worse than useless agitation"
very good object; the only questions are what ia
useless agitation, and how is agitation, useless or
useful sone to be stopped In 1856, all the voters
el cept SS5, GOO voted for President with express
reference to this "agitatiOn." In 1860, still
larger proportion of the voters will do the sane
thing. Nobody suppOses they are going to be de.
tered by Mr.. Silsbee's or Mr.. Hillard's opinion,
that the agitation is useless. They happen TO hold
diff, rent opinion of thsir own and will act in
conformity TO it. Iftbis new party should succeed
| in getting majority, it would make no progress to-
ward suppression of agitation for the same ire
| preside conflict would continue in its own ranks
Indeed, snail as their party now is it is not agreed
upon The true policy to be pursued. Its organ The
Boston Courier, tells Tie Post that il Will be the
most efficient and useful ally Of the Democratic
party as it was in 1856, but this idea is repudiatcd
with apparen disgust by Mr.. Hillard. The Post
is naturally disquieted. 1t would be well enough
satisfied if it believed that SS5 GOO voters could be
drawn Off as in 1856, but it has no hopes of this,
aid it desires that the smaller number should unite
boldly and openly with the Democrats, saving the
expense and trouble of two organizations having
the same general purpose, and more efectualy car
rying out that purpose.
But il is useless TO try to discuss with the man.
ayers of this party the avOwed purposes of its or
ganizatiOn. For these not their real purposes.
l though il has nominal connection with the Ma
tiOna organization of which Mr.. Crittenden is the
head, it is rather local than a national Organza-
ton II consists, az j said, of Wings who have
been thrown out ofpOwer and position by their own
inability TO discern the signs Of the times, and of
Know -Nothings of the baser sort who have been
disappointed in their political aspirations for SINH
lar reasons. The Wings are cyclists, who imagine
themselves the only persons fit to hold Office in the
Commonwealth, and who attribute all the evils of
recent legislation which they are disposed greatly
TO exaggeIate, 10 a series of accidents by which
they have been deprived of office and leadership.
When they speak of the better days of the Com
monweallh, they mean the days when the people
were wise enough to vote for them. When they
speak of the purer legislation of former times they
mean the legislation they had hand in shaping
This is all. The KnOw-Nothings who are with
them, the other hand, set Of dirty scrubs,
who started in their political career with the fun
damena idea that all success in politics is won by
chicancry and cheating and that not to be knaye
is not to be politician. Instead of attributing
their failure to the honesty and discernment Of the
people, they are inclined to think that they have |
been out-maneuyered by greater rascals than them
selves They go in for revenge, for local successes,
ard for any cold victuals they can pick up I'm
fortunately, there 10 considerable discomfort with
the State Government, as have had occasion here
totore TO remark, and this is taken advantage of BY
these people. Burnham's transactions, the pay |
ment to Hanscom, the claim of Weston, even the |
defalcation of Isaac +. Shepard, and the attempt
Ia bride George A. Shaw, are seized upon as evil
dences Of Republican incompetency or knavery. / |
believe nobody here has followed the ex- |
snYle of The ". y. Herald, and tried to
make capital against the Republicans out of
the fall of the PembertOn Mills but this |
frLaaranca ia prohably dina lo the Of tha