New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-23

mads h,msef strong partisan throughout the whole
bus;ness and. in his Inauguration Address, az well
as n, his reply 10 the congratulatory speech oil the
G.verpor and bic remarks ut the dinner be exhio-
tied fretful, pugnacious and petuentspirt wn'cn,
however dssgreeable, was not unexpected oy 'nose
who know his character. After ventilating some.
what at length, his determination to put down ai
onpo,tion. some Of his hearers at the dinner table
got little tired, and began 10 hiss. The new Pres
oent stopped, and pointing to the graduating class
from whom these expressions Of disappfobatlon had
come said. Il care az little for those Kisses as for
the serpents who utter them" This was evlaentiy
impromptu, for must do President FELTON, the
Justice to say, that if be had expected 70 DO
called upon to notice any manifestations OF dlscon-
t,nt he would probably have got Greek quotation
ready. At least he would have avoided such very
ancient retort as calling his opponents serpents.
The old Joke about Rome being saved by geese,
would have been better.
Mr.. FELTON, entered small protest against the
Introduction into academic lie of the questions
(which aetate the age" He will not probably be
able TO keep them out. When such pans are
taken to entertain aid eulogize public men-SenatOr
Douglas, Senator Sumner, Senator Wilson, Cover.
nor Banks. Vice-Presidential candidate Eyerett-it
is idle TO expect that young and ambitious stndents
will not take part in politics. And the example OF
the Greek Professor Tor the last ten years has not
certainly led the student. TO suppose that he was
ayerse to the discussion OF agltanng questohs;
You probably remember how jealousy ne entered
into The controversy between Mr.. webster anu
Horace Mann. His abusive language toward Judge
Edwards, the Rev. Allen Putnam, and others,
during the discussions on Spritdalism, are still
borne in mind. And he has mingled more or less
in politics, though not Extensively, believe. HIS
continual and discOrdant harping upon matters
connected with the recent difficulty, was certainly
not q good example with which ~ follow his pre-
C, pts 1t is certainly very much to DC desired that
the students viii exercise great forbearance toward
the President, whose lnhrmltles OF temper
have been made so manifest the present week.
Senator Douglas has made bis visit to Massachu-
setts and gone away again. The political results
will not be appreciably great. There was an OPP
p0rtunty for Oliver Stevens and Charles thompson,
and few others, to make themselves conspicuous
before crowd in BowdOin Square, and tor Mayor
Dana Of CharlestOwn to exhibit his remarkable ora
torica powers on Bunker Hill. The Senator was
well treated at Cambridge on commencement day,
and behaved himself well, but created no remarka-
BILE sensation He improved one or two occasions
to inioIm the people OF Massachusetts that the
American Revolution, which was commenced by
their ancestors at Concord and Bunker Hill, estab-
lished the right of the people to vote whether they
would have Slavery or not. donot think he made
many people believe it, We have had written
Constitution for eighty years, drawn up, chiefly,
government" which were the basis OF the Rey0-
luton are supposed to be laid down with toerable
clearness We have had o learned Supreme Court,
and hundreds of able jurists and pubhclsts, who
have interpreted this document, and we think we
understand it, We read there that,
"Au men are born free aud equal, and have certain
natural essential ard unalieDaber gh 8; among winch
nav be reokon.d the right Of enjoying ADD defending
Il cir lives and liberes that of acquiring, possessing
al proec ing property in hne, that OF seeking aud
obtaining their ssf.ty aud happiness.
9Th. Ieope Of this commonE wealth have the cole
AZ exclusive right of governing thea selves s froe
and sovereign SLate and do, aud forever
hei eater shall exercise and enjoy every power lnris
dcion and night which is not, or may not hereafter De
b, them del. gated TO the United States of America in
Com ress assembled"
We think the right of self-goyernment is fully
established by these articles in Declaration of
Rights. We do not understand that the right of the
people to govern themselves, includes the right OF
any portion of them, however large to vote that
they Will hold another portion in slavery. we DO
not understand that the natural essential and
unaEenable right" of acquiring, possessing, and
protecting property" means that any one man, or
set of men, may make property OF another man, or
set of men. We do MOI understand that The people
of Massachusetts can rghtiuIly, even by changing
their Constitution proceed to hold slaves; but that
if they do 3d. they cease to be the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, and become a barbarian or half
force and is liable to be overturned and revolution
lied AT any momept Ii may be that John Adams,
and the public men Of Massachusetts,, who, for
eighty years have interpreted his constitution, are
wrong and that this great Illinois Jurist Is right,
but we cont believe it yet, and we think his exc.
pcsis of the revolutionary doctrine IL about az sound
rs that of tie late Ichabod Lindsey, Bunker
Hill Democrat Of modern times, who held that rum
was the moving principle of the Reyoluton and
that The greatest OF its results was the unlimited
reht TO sell that article to whoever wanted to buy.
| II Mr. Douglas made any converts, they were
among the Irish population, whose Ideas vi denoc.
racy and equal rights are generally not very lucid
DISCIPLES of the exiled patriot, who would signal
ize his devotion to the principles of liberty by own
! ing a few Alabama nageis, but who, II the
| tables were TUNED (as they were upon Mr. b.
Sawin by the daIkies whom he captured, and who
aittaward captured HIM, and ' held him 70 service
six months in getting III corn and "curllng taters)
| would come to a realizing sense, perhaps, vi the
! fallaces of Mr. Douglass doctrine, and would begin
TO think John Adamss the safest In the long run,
| The men If Yankee birth who accept this squatter
sovereignty doctrine, as well the more offensive,
| but ess absurd doctrine Of the Brecknrdgers are
| Democrats gone To seed;" ederalized-DemO-
Gratis, like MIR. Buchanan; lazy fellows, who think
it is great thing to have somebody work for them,
| and who, because the laws will not recognize CON-
pulsory labor, are compelled, in order to carry out
| Their PRINCIPLES, 10 cheat theI "oihien VI thei
wages, by some false pretense or other, or reduce
then, to starvation prices. We shall take good care
that these classes even if they combine, do not get
| the pper hand in Massachusetts.
| Mr. Douglas and Mr. Everett sat upon the same
platform at Cambridge but there no apparent
| determination between them. Mr. Everett, you
know, leaves the details of politics to his State
Committee, and is supposed not to know what is
going on in New-York, Ohio, Illinois, and other
| States. But think The TRIBUNE errs if it sup.
| noses that the movements for q combination with