New-York daily tribune., 1861-11-06

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could he, though he had the cunning Of the
Old Serpent, offer to the rcvdted States with
the minutest chance of acceptance The guar.
rel. who doubts! would prove to be too deadly
for the shrewdncss which successfully can.
vasses a Ward or alllys the perturbatioas Of
Primary Meeting. 1t certainly seems to US to
be extremely absurd for Mpzaft Hall to put us
off with hints: TO shake it's head and look wise
and say nothing; to declare that it has the
Magic Pill, and refuse to tell us what it is
made of. IL it has the secret Of our political
salvation, why not declare it : Why are not
all these Aulic Counselors as frank as Mr..
Levi S. Chatfeld lie says the only way for
us to get out Of this hobble, is to lay down
our arms, and sing small 7 Is that Fernan-
dos way of doing it We should like to
know.
must be made for men who must say some
tbiog, and who have nothing to say. The
facilities for competing strictly party tickets
aud for the conference of strictly party organi.
cations are becoming day by day more and
more limited; and the utter insignifcance of
any mere man. however bustlipg and obtrusige
his position has heretofore been, is becoming
more and more apparent. One who thinks
that elections are now to be canvassed upon
the differences of the past, will talk the out
worn jargon of the past, as our Mayor did.
We cannot expect any selfish schemer who
looks upon all government as instituted for bis
personal aggraudzement, to rise to the hight
of the new duties which these new occasions
create. But it is relief to know that, as
time passes and public emergencies press, this
stale prattle Of the platforms will become
less welcome to the least intelligent
audience, and may even grow to be
uDfa.hionabIe in Mozart Hall. IDsolent gener-
alizatons and uucbartable imputatlons, sug-
gestions of the false and impressions OF the
true, loose Phrase. and charges thousand
times uttered, and not only thousand times
specially refuted, but refuted too BY the whole
tenor Of history, may answer the purposes oi
party SPECTATORS well enough, in ordinary
times: but when the Northern intellect has
been sharpened by the presence OF actual
danger, and all are compelled to reason
who can reason, the truth will speedily
force itself upon the public mind. The num-
Der of those who now appreciatively understand
the character of Slavery, compared wth
those who comprehended it year ago.
is as thousand to one. IL Is
astonishing how much stock rubbish has, within
a few months, gone under ground, leaving only
,ncb noisome traces as are to be found ia
Mozart Hall. The Scripture argument, the
chronological argument, the Constitutional argu-
ment, in favor of Slavery; the Disuuion appeal,
the Brotberly-LOve appeal, the Raw. Head and
Bloody Bones appeal, how they have all died
away, leaving only their faint echoes in Mozart
Hall, responsive to the nightingale notes of
Mayor Wood And the nation will not go
backward. Not one District Election or one
Municipal Election, whatever the result, will
change the current Of Northern thought, or
stay the irresistible conclusions Of the Northern
mind.
Unless, iudeed-and 10 this limitation Of
our assertions we desire to call especial notice
unless Mr.. Woods extraordinarily large grain
of Mozart mustard. seed shall become the great
tree which he anticipates, with ample roosting
room for Levi S. Chatfeld, jimmy Lynch, and
himself. Then, indeed, all will be serene-f
we may take his word for il. All we need is
more Mozart Democracy. And does mt Mr..
Wood, who is one of the furthest-sighted OF
prophets--does MT he say that We are TO have
Mozart Democracy, more and stronger--not
confined to one lone hall, but spread all over
the land, healing, binding, stanching blood,
cementing gaps. and setting the National
boncs' Does mt he say that Mozart Democ-
racy is utterly to drive out, exterminate and
demolish the other kind-ths venerable Tam
many VARIETY This, we confess, is cheerful
way of looking at the matter. 1t is pleasanter
than victories, and more palatabe than defeats.
If Mr.. Wood will but undertake to restore
the Union by contract-and who understands
contracts better than he does we shall be IN
favor of paying him well for the work, with
the proviso strictly enforced, that he is not to
be paid in advance.