New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-11-03

turns and nothing long. I began life in q small,
low way, but honOrs and dignities climbed
onto my brow, and filled first one Office and then
another until bad sat in the gubernaOnal cheer and
at length became totrarch, which fills the cup of my
ambition and leaves setiated with glory. 1t makes
me mad to hear demOralized aud subsidized mob q
hollerin ont wherever l 60: How about them
babies How about them babiesw Let me tell you
that them lnnOcents you call EN- poor, feeble,
insignificant, contemplate band of fanatics who was
engaged in gigantic scheme to rend my Hierarchy in
pieces and blot out the stars from the imperial banner
They was utterly powerless band Of nfuriatcd mad
men, and the fact that they was only two years
old and under, made their crime more henous and
abomnablo. 1t was well known that had forbid
playing in the market place. and yet these innocents
came into the market place with penny whistles and
flags flying and with such defyin airs that it could
not be Stood and their mothers actually had the brass
to laugh at em and cheer 'em Who my friends
has suffered more from these babes than hayef L
have sounded ell the depths of honor, have set In
the CUB
At this moment continues the manuscript, scene
of terrible confusion occurred. The people refused to
bear the tetrarOh any more and began to curse him
up and down without ceremony to Jcerh hun and insult
him in every way. The air was daIkened with
shower of sticks and stones eggs OF every degree OF
salen(s added their perfume To the violet of his inn
peral robes while the dead bodies of the smaller ami
mails and yermin Of the district were hurled without
cessation, and with the most unerring AIM at hisyene
rable head. One young jew hurled dead duck at
him. another made q missile Of concy, q creature
which, though it is expressly stated in the Bible to be-
long TO feeble folk proved on this occasion unpea
sanity strong 1t not recorded that aetach was ever
so abused before Herod to have been utterly un
able to defend himself against the storm, and at last
gave il up, retreatng from the platform amid whir
wind Of jeerS threats dersye cries and voices that re-
pcated increasingly " How about the babies" until
the wretched terarch was nearly mad with rage aud
terror. Not long after his return to Jerusalem
and his friends hustled him back to the
Capitol without ceremony - he was so weighed
upon with remorse and modification that he is actu'
ally said to have held his tongue for smonth, whereas
he had ALWAYS been remarkable for the profuseness OF
bis speech and bad never been known to go more
than q hours without talking about himself. But
the sequel vas that the lnnOcents were well avenged
This awful massacre which as much his crime as
if he had personally assisted at IT. pursued him Ike
ali ayenging and relentless fury He could not excuse
himself 10 himself any more than he could TO the
people and history records that to bis dying day he
heard the scream OF these innocent martyrs to his
selfish and internal policy, ringing IN bus ears whether
he walked or slept When he would drink wine, he
turned from it with loathng for II crawled IN the cup
like corrupted blood when be would eat meat, the
body of stark and bloody infant lay in the dish. lie
could no more wash the guilt of that wholesale muir
der from bis soul than Charles the Ninth could the
scenes of ST. Bartholomew, or than IN his secret
chamber Andrew johnson can the massacre OF New
Orleans which, he first encouraged and then appauded
and excused.