New-York daily tribune., 1861-10-31

forever. A mnu isn't Weeping Willow. A
mau isn't q Granite Monument So when last
the Democratic Convention said: "Upton !!
{" put up your handkerchief and come out -
be did come out; and he made speech In
our humble opinion, 1t would have been much
better for him to have staid in. For of all
singularly silly and simple speeches which, for
our sus, we have been forced TO hear or to
read, Mr.. Upton's, made to the Convention at
the CorDhill Hotel, was the moss singularly
silly and simple. 1t was. Of course, all for the
Union. Since I653 be had been trembling
for the Union. He had seen the storm gath
eripg. He had hoped for rescue by the exer-
tons Of the Democracy. He bad-this Web
ster mourner--hs had admired the Democracy.
He was in favor of the Constitution, which
appeared to him TO be an extraordinary cir.
cumstance, well worth stating. He was in
favor Of restoring the Union, and be rather
than else dwet upon that point as il ho stood
alone in his opinion. We could have peace
any day in the Union, he thougbt but he did
not venture the observation that when the sky
rains larks, We shall oil have pie made of that
particular bird. Finally, as a clencber, he said
that we could never have "peace with Seces-
90 sion, and never peace with Abolitionsm;" Z"
and, with bushes at O storm of cheers, he re-
sumed the solitude Of his chair.
The human mind shrinks back aghast and re.
solutely refuses to believe in folly like this.
For our own part, we thought, but thought,
It seems, fondly, that it had gone out of date.
1t is such ludicrous confoundiDg of cause
aud effect; it is such iack.daw repetition Of
one thin aud thread-bare formula, which never
had much meaning and has no meaning now;
it shows such blindness to fact, and such deaf.
ness to warning, and such besotted incaPaclty
TO reason, that as we read it, we ask our
selves in wonder. how it is that this lnan
of facts and figures, who in the purchase of q
ship or the terms of q charter-party, could not
be swndled by the cuDniugest competitor, to
the extent of one quarter Of one per cent,
cannot talk Of public affairs without lamentably
exposing his own incompetency, and talking
II like a smpleton. 1t is not to be carried, OF
course, to the discredit Of trade, because able
merchants, like Mr.. Hooper, the other Boston
can ddate, often have clear public views, and
write statesmanlke letters. What can have
possessed Mr. Upton aud left him to believe
that il We will only 60 back to the point az
which we commenced the war, we shall be sure
of eternal peace OF what stuf does ne
think the human mind is composed How can
he, otherwise, we believe, a sensible man,
talk of getting rid Of what he calls "Abo-
4" litionism," and not Of getting rid Of Slavery !
As if AbOlitionism were an accident OF an
accident; as if it were something which some
iIl.ntentoped fellows had stimulated for their
pront or amusement, and which we have only
TO resolve TO be rid Of, to be rid OF imme-
distely. Will Mr.. Upton, in the event of his
election, bring in bill for the repeal of tide
tables, and the reconstruction of the solar sys.
TEN He thinks in his folly that he can regu-
late the human mind, put checks and balances
upon its complicated operations, make it be-
leye this, make it disbelieve tbat be thinks tsat
that he eau lesislate outregeousy aud yet
Profitably, aud that he can buy peace OF the
Father Of Lies. lie is dreadfully mistaken.
lie doe, not know what he says when be so
fippantly couples Secession and Abolitiouism.
wtae Slavery lasts in this world there will
always be Abolionisi,. No reconstruction of
the Union, much as we may pray for it and
desire il, would bo worth having at the cost
of the hopeless and interminable ensayement
Of the African race in America.