New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-25
KRITT AZ CAssANDRA.

On the 4th of March next, the Hon. Laurence
NJ Keitt of South Carolina takes leave of Congress
and his party bids adieu to power, which involves,
in the view of l.. NJ Keitt aforesaid, the dissolu.
ton of the Union, and going to the dogs of things
in general. 1t is the old case of the astronomer
with Fly in his telescope, which he mistakes for a
gigantic, hideous monster in the :" blue inane."
Mr. Keitt has just rewritten his notions on public
affairs to certain fellow citizens and they are duly
paraded in the columns of sympathizing journals
We are tempted tocopy them, for Keitt is vvacieus
and amusDg but then he is long. winded, and
repeats bis breezy menaces from speech to speech
and letter to letter. until he renders himself some
thing of bore. Nevertheless, We must extract q
few pums from this last pudding of his concoction
Mr.. Keitt puts good deal of black in the fore
ground of his picture, viz:
81" difficult grope way along the entar clements
and complications which thken around and at best
often appeal conjecture No the precise
which future developments viii take any tell
to what probable party combinations viii be affected by
the loose political material drifting about Ths Wing party
Is dead the American party dying and in what condition
the Democratic party The lusy and vigorous energy which
hitherto sgnszed is fast fading away but is renewing
itself beginning appreciate the living real and substantial
TO meet them"
THAT is bad outlook, certainly; but is it not,
after all, hopeful one The first effect is to be-
as Mr. Keitt and all of US see-the election of
Lincoln; but then the Democracy sis renewing
Itself" &C., or casting out Douglas and Squatter
Sovereignty, and may thus be soon stronger than
ever; while Black Republcanisrn, resting on gno-
anH faloahnnd md nuohI,
stepped in corruption and peculatioD, will steal
and bride and squander so that the country must
become intensely nsuseated with it's first four years
of rule. Would it not be wise to exercise little
patience and let it expose itself to universal loath
ing and execration7
Prudence and Policy might thus counsel; not so
Chivalry Mr.. Keitt alphabetically AYERS that Anti
Slavery sis founded in the speculations of fancfal
theorists" addresses itself to the yanities and
Pharisaical assumptions of men who only rise
Z" ON the dust of traffic to mouth insipid and in
" sspe sentimentalites; and "inhames diseased
conscience with lust spoils and lust of power"
Retrograde progress" philosophers Rett, SIS
far more exciting than real progress, can
I" error which has been convicted as brutality"
witness the Brooks outrage on Sumner), "can
never hope to recover its ground as philosO-
phyn-whence we infer that Slavery must b. in
rather bad way, at least "as philosophy"
Mr.. Keitt proceeds to inform us that Abolition
/" ism has been convicted of brutality and barba-
" rism in the richest islands Of the world, and OF
50 throwing them into jungles and dePoPulatlon,
and now seeks to wreak its asonement tor mer-
" cenary sordidness upon the glittering genera'l-
&" ties Of universal equality" We are not well
versed in the nicer intricaces Of the Carolina
tongue, but "wreak its atonement" has no syno-
nym in the English language, or We should present
il in translation. The upshot Of the matter is,
however, according to Keitt, that "the irrepres'
{. sibs conflict though artificial, unjust, aud in