New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-06

President of these States. If Age has no
respect for Age, what respect for age
will the young people entertain? Yet
Patrick Henry grandson charged the o. p. +.
with wasting the couDtrys cash, with neglecting
TO clear out the western waters, aud with shame
fu pattentioD TO the erection of lew light houses
This msy be considered kind OF indication of the
public policy which will be pursued by President
Bel SDags viii suffer, sawyers VIII yahls', ana
lighthouses be multiplied. Should there, II we
may without violence suppose such contingency,
be no President Bell, snags viii stand, swyerS
will remain, aud the erection of new light houses
be indefinitely postponed particularly upon dark
and dangerous shores" Does not this suggest
new name or two to party which invariably
wears out IFS old one in twelyemoDth The
Anti-S,sg and Sawyer Party. The Light House
Party. Either of these would be pretty, powerful,
pertinent. There is great deal in a name, d
TOO much caution cannot be shown in selecting one
for resuTrectiobizcd party particularly when the
existence of the Government depends upon the
triumph Of the party in question. Grandson Henry
puts il very cogenty, something after this fashion:
- NE DtlitCidiiC pHiNs oh'S''"'' '''NN WV"
" We 90 10 the dogs. The Republican party sue
ceeds. What then We go to the dogs. The
"Pre-Adomite party succeeds. What then y
Really. We do not know what answer to make, I'M
less we say, "TheD the dogs come to US"
The speeches of Grandson Henry, of the Hon.
Samuel A. Eliot, who is also supposed to be the
grandson OF somebody, of j. Thomas Stevenson,
who unquestioDaby had grandmother, OF the
Hon. George S. Hillard who was never charged
with being deficient in ancestors-all these
speeches, differing as one star difereth from an
other in glory had points of resemblance. Zach
orator seemed TO be aborng to see how many
times lie could, without lapsiDg into sheer gbber-
ish. repeat the words " Constitution and 'UnioD"
They are very good words They are very pretty
words. There are 10 neater words in the language
The only question is whether when the skies are
dark. when the winds are wailing, when the bill
lows are tossing, when the course is lost, when the
captain is at his wits end when the first mate is
bothered. when the crew are half frightened and
bali mutinous, when the rocks are Ill sight Ia
felonious copartnership with the breakers, when
the rudder has deserted, when the pumps have
sucked, when BOwditch is no longer blessing
and the sextaut is only metallic mockery-the
only question is whether you can save the ship of
State by jumping upon the poop, and bawling
through your best speaking trumpet, " Union
"Consttution !" Grandson Henry thinks that
YOU can. So thinks George Ilillard. So thinks
Thomas Stevenson. They are very old, and salt,
ard eminent nsvigatOrs, but We cannot agree with
them. Still less can we agree with them in their
notion that we shall be rid OF all our troubles II
we resolutely determine to say nothing about Them
son DO, Wen never mention it, #" may be very
good determination in minor matters which cannot
be cured, and must therefore be endured; but
you cam OF arrest the multiplying evils of Slavery
by keeping silence in respect of them, any more
than you can arrest the yellow fever by voting
never to name that unpleasant affection to your
dearest friend.
We can imagine Constitutional Union Meet
ing, held upon rock, on the second or third day
of the Deuge, with Responsibility itself in the
chair, with forty Vice-Presidents shiveriDg under
as many umbrellas, and with all the Secretaries
the place VIII accommodate We can imagine the
speeches; we can conceive of the Kisses with
which all illusions TO Noah are greeted; and we
can conjecture the general DRIFT of the resolutions:
ResOiced, That the rain is very reprehensible.
RtsOlrcd That the conduct of the clouds merits
our just contempt. Rcsoired, That we must put
stop to this moist sort of things. Resoired-
Here we can suppose the meeting to be dis
solved by "natural causes" The BeLand Eve
rett of the period goes under. The Hilard of the
ccasion disappears with q neat gurgle. The
dying struggles of the rapidly submerged Steven
son are noticed, not without merriment, by the
Noah family; and all is over. The Constitutional
Union Party of the Deluge sinks, not to rise again.
until it shall rise in Boston, A. ID. 1850.