New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-11
"LAJEETEH.o

LAUGHTER"
The reporters, To whom We are so much in
debtcd for " securing to use the neat language
of the cheap photographers" the shadow ere
- the substance fades" have materially enhanced
the weight of our obligations by letting III know
lust when the recent Faneuil Hall Compromise
meeting was funny and when it was funeral.
There was nothing monotonOus about that day
Of alternate gloom and gIggle. Smiles followed
signs 10 which succeeded smiles again, so that
the oratory Of the occasion was perfect mosaic
of merrlment aud melancholy. Some Of the speak
ers were grim enough, and nobly sustained them
selves q, the heavy fathers of the occasion
Among these We must certainly reckon Mr. Il. Il.
Curtis. Nobody, while he was speaking,
"nauphed." and We are glad 10 find that il was
50; for the idea OF laughing at anything from
the mouth OF Justice Curtis strikes one as pro-
fame aud sacrlegious to a degree. So when
this excellent gentleman said: "The right Of
revolution il conceded under certain crcum.
stances" everybody in the Hall looked grave
and wise, aud inwardly exclaimed, Certainly "
Although Justice Curtis did not dilate upon this
iuceudiary axiom, We think that We understand
him. The Charleston fanatic, laborug, to say
the best OF it, and by Mr.. Justce's acknowledg.
ment. under n drusion which little common
sense aud calm observation would dissipate, may
commit high treason ard grand larceny,
unless he can be- softly persuaded from
these crimes; while other maniacs, "a
this sound lawyer esteems them, who venture to
speak the truth, or what they think the truth,
in Boston, are n be- indicted arrested, srralgned,
aud are OILY 10 be- saved from conviction aud
sentence aud Imprisonment by a faw in one of
Mr. Benjamin +. Halets laundering indictments!
Nobody laughed OF course at Judge Curtis, but
if they had, would anybody have blamed them.
Neither did anybody laugh when Mr. Stevenson
said: :" He is the most Inconsistent Of all men
who does not change his sentiments as the
" the circumstances change under which he is to
" act'-as If any wise man acted upon his SEN
hmsHis, as distinguished from his opinions, at all
Neither did anybody laugh when Mr.. Everett
declared BY letter to the Convention that human
mature ia the same in all ages" IL was not
until on. Col. Preston, opening the budget of
fun, exclaimed: " New-YOrk is talking of becom-
ing free city," that the laughter" derisiye
daughter" says the report, began. joke,
extremely ancient and never very good, at the
vs, small expense of The TRIBUNE, and aired
by this same aughablo Colonel, produced laugh
ter, and applause" When Mr.. Henry +. Durant
arose, We will do him the justice to say that he was
n solemn as possible. bot the comic element in the
assembage was too strong for that clever law
yers ugubriosty, and when he asked question
meant to be inexpressiby pathetic and i'm
pressTe, a graceess scamp in the gallery gig
gled OUT "No, Stree" and did not
appear to have the slightest sense of the import
ance Of the occasion.
Then came certain Mr.. Charles a. Welch,
whose remarkable eloquence elected the drollest
rcpartee of the evening. "What shall We do to
" save the Union7" asked this gentleman. A
grave question, then and there, always and every
where A question 80 grave that in that respect
able, sad anxious, refined Boston meeting, We
might have supposed that it would have been re-
cciyed with respect. What was the answer from
the mob The answer was, leave off the long
"heelers" with a following of great laughter"
in which we suppose Messrs. Curtis and Steven
son were observed to relax for an instant their
systematically long yisages.
Thus it appears that the remedy for all
our Ills which has received the sanction Of the
Boston Compromises in Faneuil Hall assembled,
is--to "lrave off the long heeers." Gentlemen
UniOnists oil give it also your respectful and
leisure consideration! Various plans for presery-
ing the Union have been propounded. One Of
then is to exclalm, night, noon, and morning,
The Union--it must be preserved" Another
is to cry, ut uncertain intervals, ID the
" Abolitionists Another is to attend public
meetings-public in one sense, but, in relation to
those who hold them as private as n tea-party
in u back paror-and there to tiss, howl,
stamp, and yell, and genera! behave
like beast and blachgia... Boston