New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-01
CURTIS on THR TmImBLRRsG.

spirit to elucdhte the history oil tnat tcVereu ooo
ument "Curtis on the Constitution" 10 declared
BY those who have read II to be fascinating trea'
ise; and it il also regarded By those who nave nos
read il with feelings Of reverence naturally elected
by conjunction of Curtis aud law-calf. La the
Curtis family, as we have been informed-of course,
we are too humble to have had opportunities Of
personal obiervation-t production Is an object
of pride. and is stately read aloud when the morn
ing muffin appears, ard when the evening cup does
not in ebrinte. The general opinion of those who
tbirk the Federal Union to be in special need
of salvation is, that Mr.. Curtis is the man
for the crisis, and should be engaged
by contract to give his talents aud time
solely to the work; in which opinion Mr.. Curtis,
not cheerfuy. for Of late years he has never been
cheerful, but solemnly-and his solemnty is tire.
mends us-concurs. Mr. Curtis was q personal
admi err of the late DIR. Webster although the late
Mr.. Webster was not su aduirer Of the present
Mr.. Curtis; and did upon more than one occasion
If we may credit Mr.. Peter Harvey-apply to
Mr. Curtis epithets mildly suggestive of mental
imbecity. Mr.. Curtis has always said that no
had the honor of assisting at the death-bed of Mr..
Webster; Mr. Harvey has always said that upon
the momentuus occasion "Mr Curtis was in the
"kitcben, with the other servants;D nor is it for
us to undertake to settle these gigantic disputes.
Mr.. Curtis is brother of Mr.. Justice Curtis, and,
of course. participates in the family dignity. At
long intervals, when everything in the political
world is going wrong, Mr. Curtis appears and, BY
a wfll-considersd letter to the newspapers-some-
times by speech, when be succeeds in capturing
an audier ce-he sets everything right again. If
he has never sought Office, Of which we are not
sure. Office has rever sought hiW, of which We
are sure. lie is Commissioner of the United
States Courts end Justice Of the Peace, sharing
the last dignity with about fifteen hundred of his
Massachusetts, fellow creatures. As may be sup
posed, he is very respectable man, and favors
the election Of Bell and Everett.
Mr. Everett is also very respectable man.
We do not remember when he was otherwise. 1t
was respectable to be Pastor of the Bratle-street
(Boston) Meeting House, and there to make =" the
"6nest prayers ever offered to q Boston audience
1t was respectable to be Professor Of Greek Mem
of State, President of the University The Mount
Vernon Papers are respectable papers indeed. 1t
will be q respectable thing to be President Of
the United States, should Mr. Everett attain
that proud position, always provided he shall have
attained it by respectable means. Much rs he
with lovers srdor and constancy, we do not
believe that he will care to crawl upon all ours up
to and into it. He might be willing to higgle
little; to be now garrulous and now reticent;I to
exhibit himself at the right moment and to be
clustered up at the right moment He might be
no nipeard of promises; he might show himse not
at all stiff in opinion; be might cheerfally write
resms of letters or make century of speeches;
he might defy his doctor, and att, nd mass meetings
at the risk Of . salvation; but that he would
care to be President without the popular sanction
the accident of an accident and only Jack-st-a
pinch, We cannot believe. The Presidency may be
the Objtc ct of reasonable ambition to those who
have taste for it; but to be fairly held, it must
be fairly won.
Now let us see the highly honorable way in
which Mr.. George f. Curtis proposes to make his
friend Mr. Edward Everett, the President of the
United States. He developed his scheme at Rox-
bury, Massachusetts,, where he captured few
hearers few nights since. He supposes-his yir-
tuous calculations are all based upon suggestions
none OF them the sancst-but he supposes that
Mr.. John Bell being candidate in the House, and
the House being unable to elect, the Senate will
say: Choose Bell, you Representatives. down
there, or we will make Mr.. Everett Vice-Presi-
:" dent, and really President" This is the way in
which Mr. George L. Curtis has made up bis slate.
This is the way in which he proposes to put his
friend Mr.. Everett into the White House. II is
to this feast of faction, this hurly-burly of con-
tending parties in the Congress of the country,
this riot in her councils threatening revolution,
and it is to such an Inauguration, I'M
der the auspices Of anarchy, that he invites
his friend. And such friend A man timid
almost as a girl; man as ill-ftted for political
storms az lack of frmness or of courage can make
bim man who would be found weeping when he
should be found actiDgi man who was never
visited by the slightest breeze of adversely without
Winciag and shiveriDg; man who would be killed
or crazed by the tumuit which bis own elevation
had provoked 1t were sheer murder TO carry
Mr.. Curtis's pot into execution. The elegant, but
feeble mind, might escape with is sanity; but has
Mr.. Curtis thought of the corporeal petils There
have been deaths enough in the White House
already. That Mr.. Everett would make good
end, we DO not doubt; but he might just as well
stay in Boston and be dOctored, and live his life
out, as go to Washington to be doctored and cut
off in the flower of bis senity Mr.. Curtis's plan