New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-10
LITERARY sUPRRFLUITIEs.


never so fully as in reading report of the neat
prsyer offered to the House of Representatives
ON the Sd inst. by the Reverend Chaplain Mr..
Stockton, who with the pious and pleonastc
volubility of Chadband, recounted our ma
tional blessings, civil blessings social blessings,
"spiritua blessings, oil kinds of blessings, I'M
"speakably great and precious blessings, such
blessings as were never enjoyed by any other
"people since the world began" Which ia all
greatly encouraging. We suppose it would have
REQUIRED modicum of ingenuity to have made
in House of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES like opu-
lent catalogue of our national nuisances. Among
these we certainly reckon private letters from
persons in private life to other persons in pri'
vate life, giving private views OF public ahair'
confdentially communicated to be printed in the
newspapers. Melodies who were once Some
bodies, whenever politics have grown compli-
Gated emerge with their little sheets of advice,
and sweetly imagine themselves to be SOmebodeS
ngain.
What sane man under the canopy would give
ten cents for the opinion of Mr. Franklin Pierce
upon any possible cOnjuncture OF affairs Ana
yet Mr.. Franklin Pierce, being at Lowell, Mass,
on the 26th ult., instead Of walking about con.
templating the looms and the self acting mules,
must waste sheet of paper and tea-spooniul
of ink in writing private letter, to be printed
in Tie Constitution newspaper. We have read
it, and were not ut all knocked down by its
originality. We had read too many just like it
before, to be severely smitten. We can give the
e. Iv,,;o in
il is:
"Mr DEAR SIR: Apprehension crisis
and ruinappallng- stocks shsken-wse moderation
sg and spes-blood and darne's-madne'a rules tue
This formula is dgested from the ex-Presidents
episte, which ends with the prescriptiye allusion
to the "God of orr fathers" 1t proves that Mr.
Pierce has waxed in melancholy and waned in
wisdom-if that were possible-since be was sent
into the unsought shades of private life by a
party which, TO the best Of his ability, he had
served very badly, but which does not like that
its henchmen should be both weak and wicked.
This letter is a neat etter-it is unquestionably
after the regulation pattern-it has good points,
and particularly that unexpected one about the
" God of our fathers" in which Divinity many
men appear to take warmer interest than in
their own.
We begin to despair. For long time we
have besought people to understand that bowling
and tear-sheddng, and apostrOphes to the "God OF
'our fathers" will not save the Union. We
have advised the political Heraclitus, over and
over again, to wipe his weeping eyes, to put up
his everlasting pocket-handkcrchief, and not to
take it out again, except to blow his nose. The
times are troublous. That, for once and all,
may be admitted. The times are out OF joint;
but what would be thought of surgeon who
should approach a case of compound fracture
with face like Werther's, with ryulets of tears
running down his linen checks, with his shaking
head predicting decease in solemn sem-revollI-
ions, his trcmulous hands now dropping the in
struments and now lifted, with his white eyes,
Il the attitude Of prayer! Would not any pa
lent of the least spirit cOntrive to kick with his
mniured lee away from his bedside such an In
uflerable drivelerl Good Heavens! to think
| that these maudlin cheats, these ialr-wenther
| fellows, these holiday pilots, should call them
selves statesmen As if it were not the business
| of statesmen to encounter and defeat difficulties,
| and then to be camest and clearest, coolest OF
| head, stOutest of heart and steadiest OF hand,
| when the hour is the most sOmber and the ex-
| igency the most inexOrabc We can pardon the
| Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the Theo-
| logical Seminary of South Carolina for being in O
| bad state of mind for being, in fact broken
hearted when writing on the Dist of November
| to the Rev. Henry NJ. Beare of Flushing. Chap
lains to the rear with the baggage, is a standing
military regulation. But lay gentlemen, with
great passion and small aptitude for political bat
ties, should bc-sent to the rear also
| The South Carolina Professor above alluded to
is the Rev. Paul Trapier. He does the Ecce-
siastical History, and throws into the bargain
| Christian Evidences The Rev. Paul writes to
say that South Carolina will cut herself off from
| the Union, and that upon the whole, he thinks
that he shall go with her. We must give a
| specimen of. the Rev. Paus style: g verify be-
"lieve," says he, " the cause We are thus about
'tO embark our all in, is that of God against i'll
"iidelty-of Scripture against mans perverted
" wiSdom-of selfdcense against aggression
land that for us to shrink from the contest
| " would be unfathiuness to Christ, as well as
| " recreancy to our wives and children, no less
| " than treason against our country. Yours,
| " aflectiOnately, PAUL TRAPIER." Now this, in
| any less man than the Prof. Chris. xvi. in the
| S. G. TheOl. Sem, would be called By the UNI
| dignEed name of shuttle. What needlesSly
alarmed Professor of Christian Evidences Who
wants to harm Prof Trapier, or Mrs. Paul