New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-07-10
wg. CURTIS AND CCNsFYvATEsd.

wg. CURTIS AND GGNrf Wv AFlSh'
/ 4 telegram from Boston TO Tie newspapers
anpourcs- that upon the Fourth OF July last
psst Mr. George 4. Curtis delivered cery
log and guite a conservative grafton, in tue
I Academy OF Music" In this delicate way The
magnetic operator iDtiInates thai what pnrticu-
larry stuck him, in lheseedry gdays was
tie Uncommon long-windedRess Of the Grafton;
and this, too, must be one apology for any de-
/ iay IN noticing the production. Whether Mr.
/ Curtis will feel cou pimertel by the assurance
given 70 an anxiou. nation that he wGs upon
this rpomenious occasion "quite' conservative,
may be questioned by those who are acquainted
with that moo. modest of gentlemen. Nobody
ever speaks Of Nr. Webster or having been
"quiie" an 0rator. Nobody ever speaks of *
Bondin az being quite &. nome upon tie
tight rope; nor Of Mr.. Morphy - "quite 4
chess player; nor OF NJ Rarey as quite
borse-tamcr. Now, Mr. Curtis is 10 the Con
sttution Of tie United States - ". Biondln is
to tight ropes, or as Mr.. Morphy is to tie
metaphysics Of She great game, or as Nj.
Earcy Is 10 Wild hor3es; and, moreover, IN all
his constructions OF tie venerable instrument,
Mr.. Curtis is the most Conservative OF men.
Quite conservative, quOth he Why, Mr.
Curtis is con.e., ati,e in Bis head, and body,
and lQs. and arms; in his bra.ns arteries,
stomach aud bone; IN his writing and hs
speaking; in his rsinRs, walkiigs, sttings, and
we had Amos. -aid in his Iunnings-but Mf.
G. is by lar too dignifed = maa 20 run
quite" conscrys i've, indeed, Really, this Is
most ungenerois imputation, which ~. Cur
rs muss permit ~, bis steady and admising
friends, warmly 10 resent
While indefatigsbly forcing orr way through
this GRAFTON, We lounl our somewhat fagg.ng
attention arrested by tie following query;
What has been going on here IN th, North
Juriog the last twenty or twen,! ffo ysars -
nd by the following answer open cad undis-
guscd war upon the Constitution, IL en,lorl-y,
9. las. and the ministers Of lie laN. This Is
,ho charge which Nr Curtis makes upon the
Fourth OF July, in the presence Of III NUn.ci-
pal authorities Oi Boston, against th+t NortA
Of which he IL himself . native a'i citizen.
He is LAWYER. SIC beleye-why udAt nc
give u. q bill of par.icriiars without wien
some people may th.uh hla accusation s,lnds-
lousI, loore and hboilous A few neG At tlc
North have, indeed during the period ct time
specified, made var upon the Constitution;
but Mr. George = Curtis knows, 81 well ~
We do, that the men who have beea So en-
gagged small in Numbers however earnest in
purpose, are not politicians, have absia.ued
iroQ, all acton IL public affairs, All wared
not upon the Constitution, but oEy the Pro-
slavery portions ot t. They have lad their
theory, and they have been content with hold.
ing, and by speech and writing uphOldins IT,
bat they have Gyow,dly kept away from the
blllot-box, and from legislative assemblies. Mr.
Curtis knows, as veil a. We 10 that there
has been 10 war upon the Constitution Il, The
North which has been sustained By any p0it.-
cal party. We d.slihed the Fugitive Slave law
but was 10 not enforced We disaked tho
bred Scott dccisiOn--but SO did Mr.. Curtis.
own brother; and be expressed h!f dislike upon
the bench OF the Supreme Cont. We dlshAed
the Kansas b--dh Mr.. George ]. Curtis ap
~. and 20 did Daniel Wcbstcr, the deni-goi Of
Mr.. Curtis's political idolatry Might We not
hold opinions which Mr. Webster. IN bic great
Seventh of March speech, ayOwed ard defended
in the Senate The SIMPLE truth is that ,he
! Republican party holds no political opuaoi
which Mr. Curtis himself las no'. st one pe'.od
or another If biz life. entertained and nycycd.
We commend him 20 a study Of bis own gor-
soma history aud we tel him plainly that Il
he had been elected President ot the United
states, instead OF Mr. lincoln, and had, n his
Inaugural Address, uttered opinions which he
has been heard e. u,tor IN Faneuil Hall, within
his chosen period or twenty-five years, tho Sc
redng states would have lad q'iito Hs good
grounds ior secession as they now have. We
charge him with q williul Justification Of ls-
tory for the poor purpose Of sustaining his own
feeble croshets. We charge him with putting
q wrong construction upon public action against
which he not merely did not protest, but in
which he distinctly acgu.esced. We charge
him directly with asserting 10 more treason in
Fanenil Hall, upon the question Of the adms.
sion Of Texas into the Uaior-treason Ia
which, il wa are no. mistaken, he gave hi,
Official attestation az an officer OF the meeting
!, than ever came from tho mouths OF all the
members OF the Republican party during all
the yeers OF its existence. We charge him
:! with having assen.ed to the proposition that
, the said admission of Texas was a virtual dis.
solution # the Union. We charge him with
| having, 10 n member of the Wing party, SUD.