New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-14
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f,nct cronies. The Demo- rats OF Boston, upon
the anniversary of the fight of New-Orleans, are
wont to meet around the mahogany tree OF the
Revere House, partly to pay their respects to the
shade of Gen. Jackson but chiefly to weep for the
poljt;cal contumacy of New-Epgland-to sgh with
the soup, to mediate over the meats, to groan
with their grog and to finish with doleful desert
of the dumps. II these grave feasts are continued,
NAV we not fancy Mr. Benjamin +. Hallett, sitting
or standing, solitary and alone, at once chairman
croupier, and orator, repulsing bis thick-comlng
and melancholy fancies by speeches about nothing,
address, TO nobody, and finding with phlosophIc
mind a compensation in the very solitude For
the maxim " the more tie merrier" does not apply
TO The scramble for place; and it would surely be a
soace TO " the Last Man" of the Massa-
chusetts Democracy to remember, thai Whne
many graves had been filled, many snug
situations had been left vacant. II 1t did
bappen that there was nobody to listen to Mr. Hal
ets speeches still there would be nobody to laugh,
cough. and yawn at him-nobody, as be grew earn
est to 90 to sleep under his dilatng nO'rils-noth-
ing to prevent him from talking from hour to hour
bic privilege of palaver. The gallant Lieutenant
Colonel Wright the ex-warrOr and the auctioneer,
must remind everybody that it is bis trade to talk;
Nahum Cspen, esq, who committed petty lar
ceny Of the Boston Post Office, is man OF To-
ouacty as well as of letters; there is always the
inevitable Charles Levi Woodbury., esq; and Col.
George is very apt to come down from New amp-
shire upon these occasions Under such clrcum'
stances the haranQues of Mr.. Hallett are necessa-
rily clipped, docked curtailed abbreviated; while
the interesting physical ard psychological question oil
perpetual motion as to his tongue, and OF vacuum
as to his head remains to the grief of the scientific
unsolyed and apparently insouble.
The Revere House roytterers, on Monday eve-
ming last were in unusually lugubrious luck. They
met TO make merry over one dead man, and the
good gods sent them two. John Brown, IN
certain way, shared the honors of the occasion;
and the faithful were able, when weary OF weeping
over the tomb in Tennessee, to solace themselves,
by splitting upon the tomb at Elba. Strictly speak
ING. John Brown was the hero of the occasion.
EVERYBODY had kind word to say of him. Mr.
Charles l.. Woodbury. spoke tenderly OF him as
"a cut-throat and horse-thef." Mr.. Wells
dyelt rapturously upon the old mans strangula-
ton. Col John H. George having lashed
those who "professed to preach the Gospel
while sympathizing with JOIN Brown, the
Rev. Mr.. Gaylord of the Uniyerstlist persuasion
I" expressed bis pleasure" ridicuing such small
men as Wendell Phillips and Ralph Waldo Emer'
son. Then one Welcome B. Sayles Of Providence
r. l.. who came near the loss of his valuable me-
while supporting Democracy in the peISon oil
Thomas w. Dorr, was very severe on traitors
and demagogues. But what vas singular,
although il was fully admitted that John
Brown was thoroughly hanged, nobody ap-
peared to be sure of it. He seems TO have come to
the supper unbidden and TO have spoiled the feast.
It was in vain that Mr. Charles Levi clustered and
boosted, with more energy than elegance, about
"the fat-footed, unterrifed and whole-hog De
mocrscy." John Brown was there. 1t was in
vain thatMr Halett fought over the battle of New
Orleans-tbat Mr.. Nahum Capen administered
small doses of mild Democratic philosophy TO the
company-that Patrick D0nahoe chanted 1.-The
Star.Spapgled Banner"-vain was music, vain the
rosy wine vain the decorated and blazing saloon.
Old John Brown bought no ticket-ate nothing,
drank nothing, said nOthing-but he was there. 1t
did not drive him out of the heads or the quaking
hearts of the diners and the drinkers to call him
traitor, cut-throat, and horse thief Black from
the gallows, rigid in death, wrapped in the cere-
cloth of shame as in wedding garment, he came
to drop blood into the wine of the dismal merry
makers, and to garland their brows with rue and
rosemary. Even in death he returned good for
evil Mr. Hallett and his friends wanted skeleton
for their feast, and John Brown magnanimously
supplied them.
Although, upon the whole, this dinner may be re-
garded as charmngly greyious success, it becomes
important to inquire what is to be done for the raw
material of anguish in years to come. ItwOuld
certainly be unfortunate if the future good fortune
of the country should leave these poor people bere
of sorrow and with no occasion for tears. But Mr.
Hallett, with that prudence for which he is dis
tipguished, has provided for this sadly prosperous
condition Of public affairs. Mr.. Hallett has pro-
claimed himself Nullifer. Mr.. Hallett believes in
State Sovereignty. Mr. allett declares that he is
opposed TO the coercion of State to keep it in
"thc Union" Mr. Hallett has thus provided for
many future funeral banquets. When South Caro-
lima bolts, the Boston Democracy can dine. Should
Alabama leave us, the Boston Democracy can
wine. Should Georgia 90, what chance would
there be for speeches prosy and pathetic !
If the Union half dissolved has awakened
SO much eoquence, pety, patriotism, and sef:devO-
tion, what would not the Union absolutely dissolved
do for hating orators and hali.hedged statesmen