New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-03-21


ity. temperance, and all the major ana minor
yirtues OF course some people went 10 near
conventional religion spoken ct Sharply, ana ~
enioy Mr. Parkers free method OF handling thc
Bible and the creeds; others were tneIe on. H.. ~
curiosity but whether You were at one WIN the
sneaker or not so far as more than molety OF tpe
assembage was concerned, you felt tnat you
were breathing an atmosphere or sincerity an
| may say, of particular consclentloushess. ~.
Parker was not an orator He was no pulplt
cnltvator of the graces. He had not been
peted and handled into popularity. Ills rue
had always been TO speak the Things Whirh
were true rather than the things when were
agreeable. His sermons were prepared upon pom
no venerable model and no more reminded you
of Blair than of Jonathan Edwards; but they
were so replete with thought and COURAGE. so
STRENGTHENED 10y unusual learning. SO massive
in their simplicity, direct in then point ana
so recommended 10y eXcee"lng noIes,i;.i ' .ho
however much one might disagree with me
teacher it was impossible not to respect NM lie
had not a single dramatic accessory. lie Ead no
pulpit, and not even church. HIS manner Was
quiet he used few gestures the voice anu tIc
noble Socratic face supplied more than the
whole armOry of the deftest elocutonlst; ne
preached about everything and that Is why ne
is IN the present company, fOH OF COURSE ne
preached about politics. He plainly and plulnply
advised his people to disObey the Fugitive Slave
law. not theoretically but practically. lie was
very little of q nOn-resistant, ana dount IL
even his ffiend Garrison, that good man OF per,
feet peace, except peace OF the TONGUE couu
have held him back from shooting, When the;;e
was n reasonable prospect that shooting Wouii
be efficient. AS for the poor hunted runaway
right TO resort to knives and pistols, to Keep
his new ard bardly-wOn liberty why suspect
that not even Mr. Garrison had much uouoS
about that. Somehow, the pacllc theories u u
not seem so important when IT came TO the
question of personal liberty or the death Oh tie
kidnapper. Whatever his errors haye reason TO
remember Mr.. Parker only with gratitude lau
Dot atnHlI Is
not long been an editor Ill Boston, before us
covered that for various reasons, hau en-
tered upon a rather difficult business. III was
not even then easy to speak words OF uuth anu
of humanity i'll opposition TO What NtIe tneu
regarded as the material interests OF the Guy
Commerce and capital and manufactures were
upon the other side, and even those VINO lhcaht
TO do right were occasionally tnlq. 20 one
dav when Mr.. Parker. with whom had thth
no personal acquaintance whatever "aikeu NY
nv little room, and having lntrCduc9d hlInSelt
with a free natural courtesy, uttered WORDS OF
appreciation and encouragement, rel, tHat hls
SINGLE approval was worth all the pauditS Oh
ali the LAWYERS offices, and warehouses ana
counting-rOOms put together. W men tnahhCu
him, meant what SAID, 10i l hau 'lleii Ill"nt
hest. While they were hanging John brown
IN Virginia. Mr. Parker with his dying mana
was writing from Italy: There Is GLORIOUS
future for America,-but the other sac OF lhe
| Red Sea- He too was OF the prophets
| In a small sort of way. In 1855, it nominated
| that respectable man. julius Rockwell, for Gov
ernor. and managed TO give hlm niue over
| thiry-six thousand votes. was rather Il
Boston A Hds. which had taken its lie III It's
| hand and gone into the contest for freedom ana
| for the delivery OF the State from the thIaIdom
of the absurd and unwholesome American
party. That party had done as 1t pleased, ana
| had done very badly. The year before IT mad
possessed the entire Legislature, ana had
| afforded valuable example OF the danger OF
unlimited political power we had 10 pear;
| while this transition was gong on the 1eeis anu
scoffs of our prosperous contemporaries, VINO
| still found profit In clinglng to the name OF
! Wing and who scOded us most unclvlliy ne
| cause we would say that the Wing party was
dead. 1t was amusing to observe how sure they
were that it was still living, and would plOO-
ably elect the next PIesGeht ne a"oo va" &c %
| traitor and deserved only the treatment OF
traitor | am mortified 10 admit that those
! Boston journalists who now inquire as ortnouoA
Republicans, got altogether the hest hes OF us
| For wears ours had been the leading Wing news
| raner of New England. The property had been
REGARDED as valuable 1t had always paid good
| dividends Gradually and simply because we
| insisted that the Wing party had hlied Tue
measure of its usefulness because we aHe,it "a
| that it could be of no benefit to the country 10
| STRUGGLE against hope to MAINTAIN II because
we persistently proclaimed that new occasions
| had brought new duties ID short, because we
were not deaf and bind ana stupiu'r IMAM
| stnn,d we lost our advertising, we lost our CIR
| culation we lost the prestige which we had so
| long euioyed Soon after | LETT 1t, the STOCK,
holders of The Atlas were glad to sell out ahG
! TO be absorbed i'll Mr.. Samuel B0wless gI5hu
| scheme for establishing great metropolitan
journal in Boston-that enterprise which, start
INC with such prodigiOus ectdt speedily came
TO grief of all kinds, and ended with the return
| of MIR. Bowles to his old sphere In Springfield
| No more TO try experiments In rel0lnlng the
| j. oLro AZ -0efuOct
i'm making for the City OF Boston, better one
than il really wanted. ! have seen all that
hoped for accomplished; and may even turn
with pardOnable complacency 10 the luIiHiheh'
of nrophecleS which made years ago, III com
mon with some other men, and made only
10 be laughed at and sncered at. upon Ihe
Boston A Has had my last experience Ill man
aging newspaper and never desire anOller
one. One may lie a pretty good writer ana yet Il
bad manager; and the pdngs OF responsibility
in nv opinion are much greater than Its plea
sures Ii is one thing to risk your own money
Or reputation 1t is quite another 10 put lIc
clpital stock of other people In JcOpaTtH' lnty
will he sure to come and advise you. heavens !.
how tIcy used to come and advise me, ana MI
my inmOst soul with pins and needles some
times | wrote too much about slavery ana was
risking the patronage OF the great mousse on
Long Wharf, which had delicate c0mmciclal
relations with New Orleans or Savannah.
Sometimes | did not write enough about
Slavery, and seemed really 20 be helping inc
doughfaces. Sometimes the Rev: Mr. Cahohi-
cH H%' d. D., had expressed a decided disapmo-
baton of enc of my articles sometimes, an
mcfflby great lawyer in Conrt-stp had
done me the honor TO disagree with me. One
could not turn without treadlng on the c0rh3
of somebody Did | not think that had
gone little too far i'll my article on Wcdnes-
dayq And couldn't take if all back, without
seeming to take it back on Pndday Z Ho%
about putting it III this way How about
putting it in that way7 We must be wise we
must be prudent; We must be cautious; we
must not brighten the dear public, though |
could not see why not, as the dear public was
so frightening us. We were beaten badly IN
the Fremont campaign, through bad manage
ment on our part, and good financial man