The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-07-23

Episcopal churches. there was but little sym
patty for moral reforms. Edward Everett
Rufus Choate and Robert @. Winthrop were
next to Daniel Webster. the first orators
Choate. G. b. Loring. and b r. Curtis were th'
leaders OF the bar. Lemuel Shaw porsorfet
Justice In the Supreme Court Of the State Th'
representative newspaper was tho Daily Adj
pertise,' long directed By Nathan Hale. As one
turns its files. one can see ut glance how re-
puCnsnt to Its management were all novelties
looking to moral and political regeneration
There was but one society In Boston at that
period to which admission was sought. and
every one in II knew every one else who was In
It. 1t was close and hard. consolidated. with q
uniform stamp on everybody. and with opinions
running In grooves In politics It was Wing;
in religion Unitarian and Eplscopalian. Its
members were closely connected by intermar-
rage and a personal difficulty with one was
quickly taken up by the related families. so
that. through connections by kin or friend
ship. nearly all the society was likely eventu-
ally to take part. For instance. the Ticknors.
| Eliots. Dwights. Guilds. and Nortons were con-
nected by marriage: and Mr.. Elliot was near
kinsman OF tho Curtis family. Similar ties OF
blood or marriage united the Sears. Mason,
waring. Parker and Amory families. and also
the Shaw. Sturgis. Parkman and Per-
kins families. Another group was COM
posed Of the Sturgis. Perkins. Cabot. Forbes
Cary. Gardner and:Cushing families. Even be-
fore his contest with Winthrop. sumner had
been for . time shut out from one house on
Beacon street merely for complimenting In
lawyers once the editor OF magazine who
had reviewed domestic controversy already
before the public In judicial proceedings. The
head Of the family. learning OF the circum-
stance from a relative. who. unobserved, had
been within hearing. shortly after returned q
subscription paper which Sumner had sent to
him with tho reply that no papers would DO
received from one who had approved an at
tack on his family. The Intervention OF
Prescott was necessary to restore the
good relations which had been broken
in consequence Of an offhand and overheard
remark. Bancroft. the historian. escaped from
q community where Democrat was regarded
as little better than Jacobn. and years after
his removal assured q friend that 1t was
comfort to live In Now York rather than Bos-
ton. X. II. Dana. Jr, wrote to Sumner in 1851.
Boston oligarchy Is confined to the pave
ments and Nahant" In the Same year Presc OFT
recalled to Sumner former period in Salem
when similar narrowness had prevailed.
Judge Story. he said. In his carly days was
exposed to much obloauy from the bitterness
anu party leelluR WHICH UoCOuob
tensfied in proportion to tho smalness OF the
sphere where 1t is displayed. Boston was worse
than New York In this respect
Jti. ve, known that durIno ,ortv v.ara nre.
c.dinu RI. cvi, war tho "a nitalista ~ Roston
ware dsenlv interested in n protective tariff.
and its m maintenance vas the chief end of their
politics. Two Of them. Nathan Appleton and
Abbott Lawrence. had represented the city In
Conpreas and were not only saeaoious pro-
iectors OF manufacturing schemes. but COM
nst.nt To defend in argument the proteo.
tive system. 1t was Of supreme i'm nc rtanco to
THAR interests to keen tho Whie party North
and South united in support of a high tariff.
and It was of equal moment. with reference to
a market. to keen on good terms with the
Soutbern people. Accordingly a southern
s,ayo owner or his son at Harvard WA NOR.
we,come in Boston socistv than any
guest. except n foreiensr. In thu
,yarm waotber Southern n,.nters vonld
tarrv for wseks Mt tho Tremont House. which
at tho period under review. WAS the fayorite
hostelrv of the town. From YEAR To VAR ono
would fnd rspistered among its puests tho
we'll. known names Of the AlIstons. Hupers.
lizards. and Rh.tt,. It ia hard for us TO un.
d.rstand the Difference thon maid to Southern
planters. now that the marvellous exhaustion OF
tho West has caused that section to take the
nlacs Of tho Soutb ma thu orincinal consumsr
of Nav England nroducts and tho smn,ovar
Of New ENGLAND canital. ns we'll a. the domi.
nant powar in American noIitics. Social nress.
urs was freelv hroupht to hear TO enforce
conformitv IN nolitics and orrest tendencias RI
radicaIism or RI oniniona or conduct contrary
to the conventional standard.. Men of cour.
aga who nushed moral nrincipas into noli.
itics we're stipmatizad n. fanatics and dana.
oognas Franohman Waiting Boston in 1881
found that the mention NJ Sumn.r,a mama
made certain people SILVER. because he was
Free Soil.r and susnactad of aboIttionIsm
though otherwise nothing i'll was said of him.
A nassape in n lettsr from Ticknor to HilIard
shovs how the former iustified sooial excu.
sion as n penalty for holding unsound opinions
and as a means of enforcino conformitv. ~
am sorry IA Won are" writes Tfcknor. for
the effect these discussions produce upon 80.
cietv in Roston. bpt the nrincinIea of that
society ara ripht. and fra sevsritv toward dis
oreanizers and social democracy in all its
forms Ia inst and wise. II keens our standard