New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-08


that we did wrong. but because Mr.. Evevet&
thinks that we did wrong; and we are to prom
Use never to do so again, until we are permitted
by Mr.. Everett to do go, with his full and com
Portable assurance that we can do 30 without
danger to the country lie sees no safety now
save in "a generous sacrifice of all party views"
This, upon the face Of it, appears richly Roman.
but when you como to look at it q little moro
closely, the maguanmty dminishes, for ws aud
that after ali, we, the Republicans, are to have
monopoly Of the renouncing and rePudising
and repenting. A
The Democracy are not to shed tear.
The state of the Belleyeretts is to be Mr..
John Tyler's state Of the status quo." r.
eyes are to be wet, we are to wet them, il
confessions are to be- made, we are 10 mako
them; We are to have all the grief and tho
other side all the glory. Human nature, the
samo in al ages, has not objected to reason
able ration Of humble piei but human uatare in
this age and country at least will revolt at tho
enormous quantity Of that Wand with which Mr.
Everett proposes to garnish the msrrage-tablo
of his new union. And yet it is upon this
Mr.. Everctts warmest coadjutOrs, thinks that We
can keep up The national flesh, and so preserve
the old national proportions. John Thomas Ia de-
cidedly Of tho Opini0n--haying taken lesson or
two, We suppose, from Rabbi Raphal-tLat
burnt offering" viii help US through The crisis,
He said: g 1 say here in Foneuil Han--Whigs.
% Democrats, Republicans -nll-briDg all Jour
"party banners, all your party watchwOrds, all
90 the poor stuff that your party platforms are
"made Of, all your party animosities and your
"party predilectons--bring them all and lay
90 them as o BURNT OFFERING on the altar OF
your country, in the great temple OF patriotism"
These are good words, very good words iDdeedi
but when you examine them carefully, what
pray, do they amount to Before We kindle
this patriotic bonfire, it becomes o matter
of considerable moment, at least to US, to
know who ia to furnish the fuell Wings, Demo-
crats Republicans! It's pretty colocatiou, bat
may We most respectfully be allowed to AK.
what particular be goats and rams, if We may
say so, the Wing party is TO supply' The plat
form OF that select company, By Dir. Ste7ensoh's
own confession is made Of "pOOr stuff Seas
nc LnllkE, Uuu VIC dklcC ~ tht PiSt1Oihs
of tho Democracy. But it does not by any means
follow because we dislike the fashion of Mr..
Steyensons nose, that we must cut off our own.
The only difference between Mr. Stevenson
and ourselves in this matter is, that
he thinks tho Chicago platform "pOOr
stuff" and We who have written, aud spoken.
and fought, and prevailed under il, are not ready
TO stultify ourselves, to eat our own words, 70
admit our own folly or fraud, to confess 10
gigantic cheat, and 10 acknowledge that politica
are only great puppet show; that in public af'
fairs there is no such thing as right, aud that
man may change his politics az he changes. his
shit, without being, after all, worse patriot.
This would be so to degrade ourselves from ali
msnhood-this would be so TO abandon all pre-
tensions TO sincerity that all mankind would
Laugh at us whatever policy we might project OF
oppose.
We do not believe that gentlemen Of the
neuter gender can be OF much service TO tho
country in the least turbulent times; we are sure
that they are good for nothing but to point
mora! in These distracted days. Dir. Stevenson
proposes, so far as he proposes anything TO carry
on the Government without recourse to such in.
convenient allies as principles. He thinks that
our salvation is to be found in pretty phrases.
He has great faith in q Fancuil Hail speech,
sounding and tinkling He suppOses that ten
neat resolutions will avert civil war. His own
party ties bind him so loosely that he fancies all
other men IN a ike licensed ard chartered con.
diGon. ready to ilit ike butterflies from one po-
iticsI houar fo another and TO find honey In
the towers of Mr. SteYenson's somewhat faded
| rhetoric. II the men of the Republican
| party have not been the emptest Of bah.
| blers. and the most meaningless Of mani.
acs then the gentleman's proposition Is
,tudied and mortal insult TO their intelligence,
and, if they have not been utter lstitudinarians
| then his bandishments are but covert contempt
for their morality. Presidential elections have
usually been supposed to settle something; under
Mr.. SteyensOn's system they ago to be the mere
| mad mummcry of q carnival One man viii
| answer for q candidate as well as another The
| triumph of one party win be of no more conse'
ouenee than that of another. Sincerity and con.
sistency will 90 altogether out of fashion; free
TRADERS in January viii turn tariG-men ia March:
the successful organization will temper tho
austerit.ss Of their antagonists defeat By
adopting their antagonists policy; aud whse
a citizen may be tolersby sure for whom be 70
voting no man under any circumstances aud Oy
the shrsNdest guessing viii DO able to tell for WHAT
he is voting Before dominant party can enter
upon the government, il must make solemn ne
nunciation of all the opinions by virtue of which IL