New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-10-01
MAYOR GUNTHE u.

"See, my son" said a wise man, how littlo
brains it takes TO govern country" Whoever
wishcs may read an illustration Of that unques-
t;onablc truth By turning TO Mayor Gunthcr's
Veto Message in the official proceedings oil the
Common Council in another column. Both
Boards of the City Government have passed
resolution 70 illuminate the public buildings as
token Of public rejoicing at the recent Veto
mes gained over the public cneRy. His Honor
the Mayor refuses bis concurrence, and gives
what we are constrained in courtesy 10 accept
So "reasons" for bis dissent.
No human creature should be held responsible
Cor want Of brains; IL ia bis great misfortune
rather than his fault. Said Queen Elizabeth once
to another Mayor who, on some civic OCCASION
mounted an official tripod and esaayed Al Al
dressi
-You gres. fool
Get of that stool r
Tho -epiy was more pertinent than courteous
but was q form Of speech that may sometimes
still be- adopted on occasion With most slgnih'
cant propriety.
We do not propose 20 waste argument on
MAYOR Gunther's "rea5oDs," s3 reasons pro-
suppose ratiociuation, a quality Of the mind
which, probably, His Honor cannot define and
certainly does not possess. His suppoHtion that
= poverty Of tallow necessarily leads TO tho i'm
putation Of disloyalty, is az ssgacious IS Tho
assertion that 20 people ever rejoieed over VIC
tories in civil war is learned. The statement
that "those in authority" do not claim tho re-
cent successes as "Union victories" but " as
the result Of the Emancipation Proclamation,
is as true and as wise as 10 assert that TO defeat
the cuemy a. all points ia not ga herbinger OF
peace" What cen be said to man
WHO has persuaded himself, mud hopes to
persuade Others, that We arc 50 Tor gone
in the madness Of fauaticism that we are bent
upon fighting even when there is nobody LETT 10
fight with; and that Sherman and taraglt
and Sloridan are instigated by no other motive.
IN te destruction of fleets aud armies AID the
taking Of cities, than IN insane love OF black
pooplei 1t would be simply cruel 70 put such
a man to the pain Of rehection-suPPosing
that were possible whose tender bosom is
.,ready rent with so dark and departing be-
lief in the lost condition Of his iello~-crcatures.
But, if His Honor may no, he blamed for not
being wi.e we do find with fault with him for
not being honest. Something. perhaps, may
be pardonel TO q man whose mind he's been 30
much exercised Of late with the question Of tat
boiling nuisances, and who lacks facilc resdi'
ness Of turning from one subject 10 another
tLat be should believe patriotism sad tie price
Of tallow candles 20 have the most intimate rela-
tons. But even he might have found in bis
most inward CONSEQUENCES, II be bad taken the
trouble to look for IL. conviction that bis
officially was not 30 much the prco
Of pouny-jp, as IN h. own pow
erty 81 patriotism. lie ought 70 have
FAMILY sad: !, Mayor Gun,hor. an y
father in the Democratic par'yi it Il my hand
that must uphold The AK OF this Covenants
nv brothers called me. because Of my personal,
AZ well A. Official altitude 10 preside over the
Great Meeting Of tho Faithful on the pa ulio,
when we ratified the nomination Of two other
great men to Office; you, my people, must not
rejoice over the tuccc,s OF our real enemies 0id
tho defeat Of our real friends. We love these
Rebels, as theyero called. o. my brethren.
Their cause is our cause II they do more
than We do /. Is not because they
have more love for It, bat only more courage.
Yet have you not burned down 0phsn Asy.
lums, hanged many negroes, cad raced their
houses to the ground, oil Tor that good cause ?
Aud you, who thus proved your patriotism, have
since made me your Mayor. Listen, then, 20
my voice, and burn no tallow, cheap or dear, 70
celebrate the defeat Of our prosecuted brethren.
By tho blessing Of God aid the help Of the
Democratic party. they shall Jet triumph, aud
the bodies Of tLeir and our enemies shall be
delivered over into tho hands aud ysts OF The
| ht-boies.-It is this, or something Ike this,
that Mr.. Mayor ought to have said, in his own
lelicitous way, for this is what he meant
But said. or unsaid, II is 80 he viii be undo.
stood. The Chairman Of tho Mcclellan Ratf-
cation Meeting in Union Square, leader BY
postion and influence in tho Democratic party,
tho man chosen to DO Mayor, year ego by
the 7ame votes ths. will, next month, be given
to the Chicago candidates, spesls with authority.
He iorbids that the taking OF the Rebel stronghold
in Georgia ;hs, The occupation Of Mobile Fay.
that tho rapid cleaIing-out Of the sheusudosh
VALLEY and the disporsion Of the Rebel horles,
,hst threatened again TO spread destruction snd
dismay and ruin through Maryland and Penn
evlyauia, shall be s.gnalizcd bv one token OF