New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-08
FROM BOSTON.
Correspondence Of The n. I. Tribune


YFseye 81 rectl resei. DECIDE pe'1f'S'
are tho, k,orvest not how to live rightly, give
place to those who do" says Horace, and in Pursu-
snce of the came amieal suggestion, he aods
Fnop,b did hou suse hyse enough hast eaten drunken
T te or thee to vanish lest the younger age oeoe taee
With marvellous good fortune did we light upon
,ba texts for this 5h of March the first dark day OF
no.binpness 20 James Buchanan. Yesterday must
have been consumed in his journey. To-day he is
alone with his nisdeedsat Wheatland and strictly may
the heavenly Justice of conscience reckon with MN.
Why do we weakly invoke personal misfortunes upon
the wicked Out Of that slender thread OF bad ia1h
and i'll intention, divine providence can bind and
weave such complexty Of moral anguish doubt, and
terror that IL were mercifu il death could cut the
Gordian knot forever. Where ampuation and cautery
can avail the supreme power tries them. Whoever Is
willing 10 lose the right eye the right hand can have
the peraton performed for him, with the best chances
for speedy recovery. But moral incurables are left
TO the progress OF the disease the hardest thing that
can befa them Judas gets bis business done, and his
nav comfortably in bis pocket. This being accom-
pHshed he looks out for the first tree and hangs him
self upon it. The good God allowed him to perform
this one act Of bloody expiation, to vindicsie the
moral law by this supreme agony. An if all traitors
shame would cucumber the stately live oaks and pal
mettoes of the South Even Pennsylvania avenue
would have its row of dangling 6gures-we can easily
count the survivors, who would be justified in living
Let Us mention among them Sumner, Wilson, and
Wade in the Senate, and ia the House, among many
others Conway, the young representative of young
Kansas his bill for his term Of representation unpaid,
on whom a friendly member, with that bill in his
H. I'm, ia
should take me up into mountain, said Conway,
"and offer me all the Kingdoms Of the earth 10 vote for
your COMPROMISE, would not do it." He has lost,
very kely his IS O0O but what he has won Is written
down after the celestial mode of computation. The
TRlsusr, too, shall put noble deed to bis credit
thought strikes me-let make Of our paper living
Pantheon, in which every noble American shall have
his niche. Let place in Tx n. Y. TRIBUNE, living,
be equal 10 place in Westminster Abbey, dead. Alb
but you remind me that we must have Plory, well
as Pantheon, on exhibition, that rascals shall dread,
as well as true men cOvetwel, then the one must be
the complement Of the other.
Blu. we were thinking Of James Buchanan, the man
who has done the service play out the game Of his
party, and 10 show us what he and they have been at
these many years. They have burrowed in the EARTH
like moes-clever, clever miners have they been The
" your feet-the powder is there the slow-match wait
" ing" Now, the explosion has come-they have
shivered the marble fortress we would have died to
spare but at least they stand in day light now and We
without pa;ricidsl guilt, can hunt them from s ruins
He of Wheatland can devote himself henceforth to the
study Of rups Rome herself can show nothing like
his work. What are the Coliseum, the Forum Of
Trajan, the crumbling fanes Of Jove compared to q
l.h "A iuoAe Grad
ury, ruined government What lords of barbarians
and what slow scores of centuries brough. the Roman
ruins 70 their present status But Buchanan and bis
young barbarans have made theirs in four years An
edfce nobler than circus or temple has been over
thrown, a greater than Jove has been outraged We
are still waiting for the thunderbo that should punish
this We thought il should arrive by last nights post
bur it did not. Good Abraham Lincoln, you have got
10 launch tina. thunderbot-not IN vengeance but in
honest decentralization Take moment 70 LOOK about
you-poise your weapon, measure you distance, but
for Code justice, let it comet
It's no: that we are to be vengefl and exschngi 1t
not that we do not with 10 see the edihce rebuilt
But the agencies that led to its destruction must hrst be
dispoaessed and restrained; the same causes will a.
ways lead to the same results- We must build on hrm
ground this time else it were useless TO build at all
Society here is much occupied with the Prssdents
Inaugural, which is generally approved, though HE
other scriptures it Ia subject 10 varieties of intrpreta
ton corresponding the personal wishes Of those who
pronounce upon it. Some rejoice IN Ito conservative
tone others consider its meaning deeply democratic
and popular. Some applaud its Difference 70 Southern
constitutional claims; others view is recognition Of
existing obnoxious laws simply literal and technical,
and arguing special zeal in their application We
ourselves scne to zee Portis in this leaden caske
and We believe that while the Southern Shylock is
promised bis pound Of hesb he viii find it hard to get
since be shall not take more less, spill drop
of Christian blood on peril of bis life. The Message
and the comments to which gives RISE lead 10 pom
der little upon the nature of law the abstract idea Of
which is 30 invoked and enforced upon our attention
and reverence Is law intended 10 represent the high
est or the lowest moral average that be obtained in
the classification Of any community Ii it, further
tissue Of eypedieDces, compromise Of contend
ing interests is the divine idea Of justice inherent in
its na;arel II be, then that idea becomes clearer
and more comprehensive laws must be modified TO
como nearer 10 it, and 10 keep pace with the moral
snd mental progress OF mankind. When law be-
CONES shameful 10 the conseisnees Of men, and abb
borent TO their sympahies, then its enforcement is
tyranny, and obedience to it is treason Let it mol
der on the ststute-book, and become dead letter.
to be hooked at by future generations with a
shndder Of Amusement. Better ye, if some bold brave
hand should be found TO tear Il from the record and
sever ts deformty from the sacred beauty of justice
Thus the Christ did not hesitate TO abrogae the cruel
Mosaic law Of divorce. " For tho hardness Of your
hearts, said he, Moses gave you this precept, but
unto yOG," etc etc In the case too of the