New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-17
j. THOMAS STEVENSON.


ell.Everett Convention, Of the State description
held in Worcester, Massachusetts,, on Wednesday
last, the prio1e purpose Of which appears to have
been the conversion, BY judicous severity, of the
whole country to pety and patriotism. The
weather was nasty; but when such good men are
bent upon working the salvation OF Their errlne
brethren, by the wholesome chastisement Of e1com
municston, you nay open az the windows Of
heaven, but you cannot thus exbnguish the mingled
fires Of wrath and pity. For work OF wide and
wholesale virtue, there were the chosen iaborers-
these men who, according to the Hon. Tbomss
Colt of Pittsfield, were respectable" and sen
" thusiastic," without caring for |" Office" or
"distinctiOn" men who, if we may credit
the Hon. Osmyn Baker of Northampton, I" stand
"on the firm ground Of settled principles Upon
this momeptous occasion, ticket was nominated
which few people will vote fer; an address voted
which few people will read; and the Hon. John
II. Clifford teegrsphed in great trepidason, to
entreat the Convention not to nominate him for
Governor, which it kindly refrained from doing,
Mr.. Amos A. Lawrence being subsequently cap
tured and compelled to stand. SO much for the
work of the Convention. Its diversion was to- lis
ten to a speech by the gentlemen whose nome
adorDs the beginning of this article. Mr.
j. Thomas Stevenson, in eulogi5ing the party
to which he happens at present to belong,
felt obliged to say several Of his sharPest
things of that party to which we have
the misery TO be attached And here, int the agony
of our chastisement, may we be permitted, byway
of modest extenuaton, to suggest that t is not our
fault if the rett-Bellmen have made lucky hit
in the market and have bought up all the integrity
The supply Of virtue in this world is limited; and
in order that J. Thomas Stevenson, esq, may be
the perfect character that he Is, at least FIVE hum
bred Republicans must consent to be considered
totally depraved. With or without that consent,
MIR. j. Tom Stevenson has no better opinion OF
them, but regards them as " senseless wrangers
" over pure abstrac liOns'-as steering by
" weatherccck, not by the fixed stars'-as wan
" tonly inficting wounds which are TO tester into
"hate"-as 'mad cap extremists -asmeremovers
of "ciyl discord." Mr.. Charles Sumner, in the
opinion of j. Tom, is /" a giddy Senator Mr.
John A. Andrew will not administer the govern
ment according to "the laws" The Republicans
are rascals; j. Tom is not. That is the net pur-
port of j. Toms speech. Mr.. Summers Senatorial
chair "would be more useful, as well as eloquent,
{" if empty," and John A. Andrew, when swearing
to support the Constitution, will do 80 with men
tai reservation. Having thus ioished Messrs. Sum
ner and Andrew, those disreputable and degraded
characters, Mr.. j. Thomas Stevenson anUihilated
the Massachusetts, Legislature at blow or by
breath. He plainly said that there were too
many I" tme-serve there, that the Legislature
was deficient in lawyers, doctors, and Minister'S"
and that in consequence of this, the statutes are
mot based on investigation and reflection" In
truth, no unlettered, unreasoning, and half-crazy
man-owner of South Carolina, ready in his cups
to slay any infdel denying the Almighty to be a
Pro-Slavery Deity; hating the Bay State, her
churches, her schools, her commerce, as good men
hate irregion, ignorance, and insolvency, could
speak of her half 80 bitterly as does this her rec
reant son, to whom she has extended opportunities
which, Judging by his head and his heart he has
utterly neglected. There is something painful in
the pertinacity with which few men in Massa-
chusetts, whenever any contest may arise to which
she is party, instantly take the side of her oppo-
nent, and deal blows which would be parridical if
they were but effective, at the bosom which nur-
tured them. Such men as this Stevenson, in
their bigotry, or their wounded self-love, do not
see into what dangerous demmas their crudely-
conceived and carelessly- uttered diatribes lead
them. They arraign the intelligence and the
morality of Massachusetts before the world. Mr..
j. Thomas Stevenson says substantially in this
very speech: "Our religion is failure. Our
" School-system is failure. We breed in this
:" State only knaves and fools. We are in
capable of maintaining a respectable State
&C Government. We are incapable of yot-
/" ing mtelligbly and honestly for President.
"We are incapable of electDg Senator fit to
show himself in his seat. TwOthirds Of the
"peOple of Massachusetts are insane or dishonest.
$50 much for Massachusetts ~ Mr.. Stevenson
might just as well have said all this in so many
words; and, if he had done so, nobody would have
doubted his sincerity. He is a disingenuOus bird,
after all. If instinct drives him to foul his own
nest, he should frankly own his infirmity and con-
sent, for the public good aud comfort, at once to
emigrate.
But without the grace to do this, what does he
do? Massachusetts and South Carolina have their
differences; and in the adustmentor attempted ad-
justment of these, this Mr. Stevenson, wthineable
generosity lends his valuable support to South Caro-
lima. He forgets all insults. He forgves all in
juries. He merely rolls his eyes meekIy upward,
smiles sadly but sweetly and softly whispers, as
he turns the other cheek: Hit me again One