New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-04-03
AvmAssACHUsRTTs MIDNIGHT
REVIEW.

pitnesa the absolute realization of such precious
bit Of osseous romance in this practical time. and 10
n,actical Boston; and yet how shall we designate
sucb catacomb convention as that city Witnessed
a, Tbursday lasti Dead men may have personal
ard POLITICAL interests and, if they have, there is
,o,b;no in the Constitution and the Laws which
fo,biSs their meeting, speaking, resolving ana aa-
,onrp;ng Only it has been customary to reief such
os,berinss "a :. future period, when terrestrial
.omb. .s.ll bs left tessntless Still, t is quite
matter of taste; and if few nuSs.'ea ana'oniicai
preparations please to convene, to hear DIR. Geo.
T. Curtis speak, it OILY proves that curiosity may
survive ordinary vitality, and that dsath-which is
q comfortable doctrine-may even strengthen mans
power of endurance Mr.. Geo. L. Curtis address
ing Mr.. Marsha p. Wilder as Mr.. President"
takes the least imaginative of quite back to the
other side of the Middle Ages, and we Involuntary
inquire if Prof Agassiz was Chairman of the Com
mittee on Resolutions. But if We may credit tue
newspapers, all this has happened. There is to be
new party. II involves slight confusion oil the
dramatic unities, but the party that is TO be
has held State Convention. The object of the
nav party ia the cultivation of the Christian vr-
tues" and therefore-which rather complexities
the oddty-Mr. George T. Curtis is invited to make
the initial speech. And how does he do it2 Why,
how should Mr.. George T. Curtis, as hgh-minded,
an honorable and constitutional Dead Map, do it,
How have all Dead Men done it How but by
bewsilipg the folly of the times7" Aud also
GO tie corruption of the times 7" Did any one, in
all history ever know Departed Gentleman to
pst up and walk, and make speeches, without his
fling at I" the folly of the times ?" 1t is for that
purpose, and for that purpose only, that Dead Folk
perambulate, and squeak, and gobsr. SO Mr..
George I. Curtis, as awful aud as shadowy as a
Mediterranean ghost, gets up TO say that nineteen
twentieths of his late ieowcreatures are bart upon
considering "topics of dangerous tendency" and
"mere abstract questions, aud "foolish and absurd
notions of sectional honor and sectional interest"
From which we infer that guided by the light OF bis
CHASTITY and ghostly experience, Mr. George l.
Curtis has come to the conclusion that there can
be no such thing as sectional honor" That is to
cay the North, as such can have no sectional
Z" honor" and the South, as sucb can have no
sectional honor" either. This would of course
render il impossible for the North practically to
piure the South, or for the South practically to
pjure the North With all due respect for the
Rt Honorable Ghost, we beg leave to ask him
why, ,uch being his opinions in the spirit he had
such q deal to deliver in the flesh, re-
speciirg the wrongs inflicted BY New.En-
gland upon the Sou:h 2 And why, tho
w1oDgs of the South being purely ideal, they have
SO excited bis sympathes and those of bis fellow
ghosts The Hon. Ghost had but "three minutes
"to spare;" his leave of absence being thus limit
ed; and therefore, his presence was more impress
siye than ytbing he said. On the whole, his visit
was quite unsatisfactory, except as matter of GU
riosity. And we are panied to say that all the
ghosts were equally inexplcit OF what use was it
to summon such q venerable Spirit as the Hon.
Leverett Saltonstall, whose main objection to the
Republican party was that it "played upon harp
L" of single string"i Was there nothing new
about that joke In fact ard quite to the contra
~ there was about it very mouldy aroma OF
what use to call Mr.. George S. HiIlard-by his
own confession, made many years ago, the Oldest
man in Massachusetts, and q ghost of very long
stardiDg-to talk of "the arrangement Of the two
"sections of the country"l One would think to
listen to Ghost George, that the "twO sections"
went deliberately to work to get up feud for the
mere sake of having feud, or merely for "the fun
"of the thing (which does not strike us as a
statesmsnhke view, even for very old Ghost in
deed.
Ghost George thinks that because men are
"weary of agitation" he and his fellow
specters have nothing to do but to or.
ganze party, and everybody will be
glad to join it. A very odd idea has Ghost George
of ga party" "a party" without agitation--a
party fat, STILL and dead-a party which just
Whistles little, and whistles very mildly about
election time-a party that speaks never, save
with bated breath'-a party the business of
which is to ignore all controversy-that may bs
party for Ghosts but not for living men-though it
is hard to see or to say how it can be considered
party at all. We thought, before we read the re-
marks of this well-bred appartioD, that parties i'm
Piled cCmbatants, and battles and rencontres, and
sometimes pretty noisy ones But we were mis-
taken. Parties mean evening parties or morniog
meetings with maIriage-bells; ard really nice
man for quite small party Mr.. George Hillard is;
although, should he continue to walk for the next
three centuries, we despair of his finding party
small enough to suit bip, or to be suited by him.
When the small Party without Emotion is fairly
orearized, the Ghosts will have great time Ger.
tainly Until then, our advice TO spectsrs in gen.
eral is to keep shady or, if their earthly
habits are too strong for them, and they must
walk, let them do so under the wings of the De-