New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-09-22
MORAL MISUNDERSTANDING.


There are a few men, we hope very few, in the
new and nameless party who are so reckless ofconse-
quences and so governed by self-nerest that full
demonstration of the damage which they are doing
would be quite thrown away upon them. Tell these
adventures that they giving treason new lease
Of life that they are terminating pernicious passions
and dishonest hopes, that they supplying men of
violence with fresh stock of subterfuges and they
swer you, as women usually answer an argument
with string Of commonplace Of which some are
pretty and others full Of mounting patriotism, while
all of them are equally "stale fiat and Improbable"
These we do not expect to convert, for the sim
Pile reason'that they do not themselves believe what
they say. They know where the kitchen is; they
feel that they are hungry; and they will keep up
Gathering at the door, accepting eeemOsynary bread
and butter with rapture, and being not without GER
tain gratitude for thrice-picked bones. They mean
busness-they spsonIatins the orfsfs-they eN-
pect get rich out of the agony OF the land and all
we have to say of them further is to express the fer
vent hope that they may grow poorer and poorer
uutiI 4 IvsIuUIOo puuo ..~s-. t-:- constitution
and moderation into their minds But there must be
great many we-meaning persons in danger OF being
sold by these brokers' like sheep to the Administration,
without even the poor satisfaction Of pocketng their
own purchase-money. A. b.. for Instance, Wants
a post.offce. VIII they ask him in Washington
whether he is fit for the place Not at all, and he
knows it. They will ask him only how many votes
he can controll Enough to send of john
sonan proclivtes to theLegslature Enough tosettle
delicately- balanced Congressional District in favor
of the whats-iti If So he shall have his commission
instanter. That is the way they do business in the
Washington shop The English language is not
| for
brokers and this brokerage.
We can, however warn those who are in mortal
peril of vctimzaton, and we intend to do ito do it
plainly and persstently With commercial specula-
tons of most kinds it is of business to inter-
fere; but the market in Washington has novel in
terest and we should be sorry to find, now that the
sayesellers have been driven from their barracoons
that a shop has been opened in the White House for
buying and selling men. Moreover, we want voters
to understand what the moral effect is of permitting
themselves be made merchandise. 1t is wonderful
to notice how everywhere (and especially just now
in Texas) treason lately so deep in the dolefu dumps
is growing ferociOusy risky. We published letter
the other day which lets US into secrets than are
soothing. In Texas, matters are going from bad to
worse" Crimes Of violence against freedmen are
rghtfully on the increase The loyal element, White
and Black is overwhelmed with gloom. The Union
officers are in Texas ION suiTcrance." Indications
show that revolution is imminent Says the letter
writer automatically;
rhs movement toward rerolnioa has ripeued hero
taste, han tandsd and beyond The cornOe' those pho
in.e9 IT, she'll be surprised 10 learn. any tcy afer
the middle Of August r appearances must be kept an the
Philadelphia Convention Of August Ii is over That Trds -
agaia f Grrd rsbcii0HOrera win the prse Of
aiung President Indeed, everybody is looking for the
trouble aheac and every loyal man that eau is leaving Tue
| country"
Here is one result of the Philadelphia doctors To-
mentations-a result secured by the very smell OF
them some time before they were thoroughly mixed,
warmed and applied. DR., Raymond had little need
TO tell his patients sick OF too much re-eatng, that
it would be only natural and venial it, under the in
fammation of Northern loyalty, they should reck-
lessly rush into another Rebellion. The coming
event east its shadow before-a very black one-and
under It's baleul influence the bandtti OF Texas re-
sumed with alacrity the recreation of throatcutting.
And this will not be the last of it. Let the rebeous
element only once understand that it has party at
the North. with President in the White House, and
a sprinkng of supporters in Congress- ana there will
be such Sitting of loyal weasands such an access
Of bloodshed and of massacre, of cold murder and
of hot mansaughter, as the President VIII De puzzled
to appease 1t is much easier to raise the devil than
to persuade him to 60 back TO MS naive re ana Drm
stone-a truth which the Philadelphia Conventionists
will discover IL some most improbable freak Of fortune
should bestoy upon them the Government. We make
the prediction that just in proportion to the rise Of the
new party will be Southern restlessness patrarchal
impudence and the audaoious ambition Of reyiving
oligaroby. When, therefore, a loyal citizen, either
through caprice or carelessness or love of novelty or
erook;pg qense of sef-nerest is in danger OF being
swallowed up, body and soul, by these wholesale
traders in votes, ask him to pause before ne lends
his influence to promote, in an unguarded moment
the murder of freedmen, and the burning Of their
schoolhouses, the exile of oyasts and the destruc
ton of their estates the substitution of mOb-yioence
for legal ORDER and the confirmation of Mr.. johnson
in those fatal errors which have already borne such
bitter and blood-sained fruit.
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Mr.. Vallandigham having been disturbed in re-