New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-26
FROM BOSTON.
Etom Or Own Cons,pondenL

| From OE Own Correspondents
| BosToN, Feb. 81, 1861.
| Mr.. Sumner deserves and receives the thanks
of the mass Of our people for his remarks IN the
soo.ts on the occasion Of the presentation o.
| the bogus Crittcnden petitions IRON this state.
| Ii the 20 600 petitioners were insulted by his
speech, all the rest Of the voters would have
been inaulted il he had kept silence. Mr.. Crit
tenden stated that the signatures were obtained
in four day. and that in some instances the petition
remained only ~ hours in the town from which il
was sent. / suppose the names were obtained by
! the machinery Of 5altonstall aud Daniel Warrens
Bclleyerett State Committee. They came from
| Ie2 cities and towns and this, if / remember
rightly, is about tho number in which the Bell
everetts were strong enough TO have an organza.
| ton during the late campaign. OF the 2,3l3
aigners, 10000 are unquc,tioDably doughfaccs Of
| the strictest sect and when they say that they
believe I" that their sentiments toward the Union
a. and toward their common country have been
minepresented aud misunderstood" they under
rate the intelligence of the people very much. Mr.
| Sumner deals too tendery with them when he init
mates that they signed through ignorance. / dare
say il is true that tenths of them are ignorant
OF the terms Of Crittendens plan, but they would
sanction H. were II ten times more offensive than It
is. They are the same fellows who pretended TO be
for the Union, the Constitution aud the Enforce
- ment Of the Laws" The people understOod them,
and their false pretenseS, and knew they were cheat
ing. aud this is the reason they gave them no more
votes.
There is 10 demand here for compromise, except
from tue brnten compromise parties last Fan, and
their desire 10 eugrnit their Slavery notions upon
the Constitution, is not TO be wondered at. or
course there is "A good deal of activity among the
IIuhkers, more than among the Republicans. The
latter supposed the victory won when they elected
Mr. Lincoln 10 the Presidency and they took on their
aunor accordingly. They had right TO suppose
that their representatives NO Washington had seen
enough Of slayehoding panics TO be able to stand
firm aud resist them whenever they should arise
Many OF them look with shame and indignation
upon the signs Of weakness OF which they get
notice by telegraph every few days; but only
a few of them believe there ia any real dan
ger. The little attempts Mt compromise with
which the names Of Mr.. Seward md Dir. Adams
are connected are not of magnitude sufficient to
alarm tbcm while they have the utmost confidence
that the more dangerous propositions oi Crttenden
and Guthrie stand no sortOf q chance, The almost
ubounded confidence which the Anti-Slsyery peo-
pie of this State have had and still have in Mr..
Seward and Mr.. Adams induces them to suppose
that their course has been governed by straegetical
motives, rather than by any inclination to lower the
Republican standard; and So men who dislike these
plans OF adjustment are disposed TO keep quiet.
What little apparent sympathy there ia with these
plans comes from political leaders who wish TO raise
an opposition in the Republican ranks to Gov.
Andrew Administration, and hope to play of Mr..
Adams against Mr.. Sumner, when the latter's Sena-
toria term expires. The same men who made Mr..
Banks Governor aud in three years broke him down
by their friendship completely that it scarcely
known when he left the State for Illinois, now hope
to make Mr.. Adams their hero in the same way.
But an confident he knowsa great deal too much
for them.
The inactivity of the Anti-Slavery men, founded
on their confidence that the victory was won,
WAS 20 great here at home that it was
long time before they could be aroused
10 tho danger which existed Of the re-
peal of our Personal Liberty laws Judge
Curtis aud his tbirtysiye mOldy associates issued
their manifesto, and an organization was formed TO
procure sgners to petitions for repeal. Judge Joel
Parker, and Judge Thomas and Prof. Theophilua
Parsons, and George Ashmun, and The Springfield
ReppJHcdn and The Boston Journal, and The BOs-
ton Airertiser came out almost simultaneously for
repeal evidently expecting to override all opposi-
.ion Gov Ranks iufarected a message for tho