Worcester daily spy., 1860-04-02
~, oon.IvR,s 1RREpREss1BLE CONFLICT.

NJ .,,r;IIs and throes of an "irrepressible
.s;otu begin to make their appearance IN
Ioeorctum of the Boston Courier. Mr.. Geo.
Limit and Mr.. George 5. Hillard, being essen
tally different in certain endOwments and ac-
complishments of human nature, do not natur.
ally move in the same political direction. Mr..
Lunt's heart is all with the democrats Mr..
Hillard shrinks from riding in that troop. Mr..
Lunt cultivates the Gushing style of manhood,
and hopes some day to equal it; Mr.. Hlllard
cannot succeed well in any attempt to make
himself independent of conscientious conyic-
tions and scruples Mr.. Lunt hates and libcls
the republican party, as if impelled to do SO
by all his hopes of this world and fears of the
next; Mr.. Hillard was led to oppose the re-
publican party, not by his convictions or nat
ural tendencies, but by the glamour of his So
cial relationships Mr.. Lunt's natural place is
with the slavery propagandists; Mr.. Hlllard
stands up in the "Union convention and
makes the significant confession that his con-
vergence was more towards the republicans
than the democrats" And, most significant
of all, while Mr.. Lunt treats William H. Sew
ard in the most approved style of the slavery
propagandists, Mr.. Hillard says IF Mr..
Seward should be chosen president, he would
govern the country with a rigorous regard for
the rights of all sections"
1t is at present impossible to predict the
consequences of this growing difference, this
'irrepressible conflict" between the editors of
the Courier but we shall not be surprised to
see Mr., Hillard become wise and resolute
enough to quit the pestiferous den Of slavery
exalting hunkerism and seek more congenial
associations. The Boston Post sees the actual
state of the case, and points out what it calls
a radical inconsistency" between Mr.. Hill.
lard's speech and Mr.. Lunt's editorials. 1t
finds, as we do, that the Courier oratorical, and
the Courier editorial, are seriously at variance,
do not mean the same thing, are not on the
same side of that great question which now
determines the form and fate of parties. And
the Boston organ of official democracy con-
siders the case very serious. Therefore it has
tens to proclaim Mr.. Hillard an enemy, who
dares to "charge the democrats with the sin
of producing the present agitation" by their
repeal of the Missouri compromise and their
extra-judicial "Dred Scott decision," and who
had the face to say in constitutional union
convention":-
$50 far as the republican party proposes to
offer legal and constitutional opposition to
the extension of slavery, l am with them.
(Applause.) So far as the republican party
maintain that Congress has power over the
subject of slavery in the territories, am with
them. (Renewed applause. The
republicans propose now no practical measure
that know of, except the keeping of slavery,
by positive legislation, out of the unoccupied
terri ories OF the United States"
Nobody who reads these expressions of Mr.
Hillard will fail to see difference between
hlm and his editorial associate, or be surprised
at the tender concern for him manifested by
the Boston Post. But Mr.. Hilard was no
alone in the convention. The delicate nerve
of the Post were shocked by expression
which fell from Mr.. Geo. T. Curtis and som
others. In fact, the whole tone of the COZ
vention, like Gov. Lincoln's speech to the Bo
ton Union meeting, and Mr.. Filmore's lette
to the New York Union savers, was felt by tn
organ of our northern slavery propagandists a
arebuke 1t gave them no praise, but, on til
contrary, was more likely to create a susp
cion that, in politics, they are rogues and sol
diers of fortune. This is not what the Pos
had expected from that quarter. Mr.. Lunt'
editorials had promised something different
and the official democracy are panied to Sc
another of their hopes break up and disappea
like dream More trouble of this kind is +
store for them, and, with foreboding of i
the Post copies from the Washington Const
tuition this solemn declaration, which Nj
Lunt and the half dozen conservatives of hi
sort should lay to heart eve have no polit
cal friends outside of the democratic party"