, 1860-06-08
OUR BOSTON LETTER.

tCos:espondence Of lhe I'n4s and 1r;bune]
Dosros, June 18th. lesot
We hare just got through the week OF anni-
yersaries, which attracts most Of the ministers,
doctors, abolitionists, ard strong. minded no
men ot New England, to Boston in the last days
Of May.
The Garrisonian Abolitionists held their
usual two days meeting, in which the usual set
Of resolutions, denouncing Slavery, the Church
and the Union. we're illustrated with speeches,
aud passed. a good looking young man OF
color, who called himself Ford Douglas, of Chi.
cag7, made stashing speech Of considerable
ability, in which be cut right aud left at every
boly and everything, evidently understanding
the kind Of goods in demand for the market.
Hine followed Wendell Phillips, whom it is the
fashion here to call the golden. moutbed orator,
though il were called upon TO ssiect metal
lie type for tie mouth out Of which come such
bitter and cankered words. it would be some
,hius different from gold. His scale Of CON.
pari-on in describing all men, is bid, morse,
1rorft, and it is 10 be observed, that Abraham
lincoln is now raised 10 that bad em:nence,
vice Wm. Il. Seward, who nov takes 1Le sec
ond pfuce. Daniel Webster, who was formerly
the lureet for all these shafts of inyectiye, ID
now suffered to rest in pence. and bis memory
derives a sort Of borrow. d light rom the black.
ness Of Abraham Lincoln. "Why. Sir. Chair-
nln," sud Phillips, "where this county court
lawyer has struck one blow for freedom, the
martyr Of Marshtie!d has struck hundred"
The moral of which piece Of rituperation take
to be this, thst Wendell Phillips, like everybody
else. sees that Lincoln Is bound to be elected
President.
The Woman's Rights Convention was presi.
del over BY Mrs. Severance, and addressed br
Mrs. Dali, with m ability On the part Of both
ladies which showed that they were in those
branches Of business the equals of most men,
These relo1 mers now seem 10 be devot,ng them
selves to the point, that women ought to have
a larger range Of employ ment, and this seems
to be more useful and practical AN to attempt
to prore the right Of suffrage for the sex.
4 hard looking old colored woman, Mrs
Moses, in :. coarte Plantation dress, real
daughter Of the hoe, was Introduced to The
meeting rs one who had gone eight times into
the slave States ind bIough away from the
housa Of bondage some for1y chattets personal,
aud that in the most fe1onlpus manner. This
shameless statement was received with an I'D.
pIause which which wound have sent II pape 10
the patriotic souls 0! u Cass or Buchanan
and when Mother Moses caine to describe the
Tay In whit b she led the stormiug pa1tr. or the
Rescue O: fugitive lately in Troy, the audience,
trampiipg on the Union, actually gave the old
woman tn, ee cheers.
Dunpg this week arrived the tidings OF The
death OF Theodore Parker, in Florence, and elo-
quent II butes were puid at there meetings 10
the memory Of "The New England Prorhet,"
On Friday evening The old gentlemen Of
Boston held their meeting 10 ratify the nominu-
tiuu Of Bell aud Everett. Mr. Elliot was ex-
Aumed 10 preside. and the sbadowv forms Of
S eseuson aud ui'lard were seeu ts OCCUPY the
platform. Mr. Ererett's letter Of hesitation"
~hs read. Col Henry, Of Tennessee, assured
the reverend eignors that the only way to saye
the Cnlon was 10 elect Bell and Everett, aud in
the GROWING Of the cock ut midnight this ghos.ly
meeting dispersed. "Byles," The witty cor
respondent Of the n. i. Tribune, meeting q
boston delegate returning from the Conventio1,
said, "Wlsv aidn't you nominal Hu4us Cboate?''
"Choate:" said the otter, abe is deed." "1;ut
be hasn't been dead more than year." was tue
reply.
Or. WcrdeIl Holmes delivered an address last
week before the Mass. Medical Society which
astonishcd those venerable gentlemen not q
little. lie said that the people arc druggcd too
much, and that if all the drugs 10 the Materia
Meiica we're thrown into the ocean it would be
better Tor the world. So that the Professor,
who has abused Homeopathy good deal in
his d2y, has learned soraething from it ut last.
SANGtSASLF.