New-York tribune., 1867-06-10
PIXIES PRINCIPLES.

Before the Rebellion, Mr.. Albert Pike was
chiefly known in the literary republic as the
author of certain ''lIymns to the Gods" which
were published first in BiackwOodS Magazine,
and were praised by Prof Wilson, who in his
old age. fell into the amiabe habit of prasing
everything, and of kindly picking up every
body who had been knocked down by his
Youthful ann When the secession made its
advent, Mr. Pike deserted all the gods OF
Greece, with the exception, possibly, OF
Di0ny,ius and Aphrodite, and devoted himself
mainly TO Mars and the Indians, some OF
whom he whecdlcd into a quasi support OF the
Confedclacy. He now contents himself, we
believe. with an occasional lyric calculated
To refresh the chrOnicaly unreconstructed
and dcvotcs his remaining energies TO the edl-
torial management of The Memphis Appeal
ncwspapcr i'm which hc unalteraby opposes
Manhood Suffrage He is, therefore, quite as
far behind the times now as he was when he
paid his mrtIlcal respects TO the obsolete resi-
dents of Mt Olympus, and is in frame OF
mind which it would be absurd to designate
q, heavenly Mere mOrtals argue, but Mr..
Pike nod, dogmatically like Jupiter. OF scolds
subaciduou>y like old Lady Juno in huff.
l0. Iis
icol pcoplc did when the earthly part of their
natures got the better of them. His main argu-
mcnt against negro suffrage" Is that he does
not like it. Just as the School-boy
took prejudice against DR.. Fell,
though the reason why he could not tell. He
di,lains why and wherefore. He plants hun
self upon dictum. He merely says; IL am
opposed" He then disappears in a shower of
rhetorical fireworks and leaves MS 10 the smoke
and the smell of his exhibition mprmiS, he
is opposed To ColoIcd Suffrage, because he IS
opposed To it secondly. because il isn't for the
good of the blacks; thirdly, because those who
support il are insane; f0urthly, because To con-
ccde il would bc Il "dImnable crime; also, AN
"unpardonablc sin, for which the golden gates
"of heaven should bc closed against the per
"petrator:" hfthly. because the advocates of
such measures are insane These are Mr.
Pike, no-rcaSon> in all their naked simplicity.
or r.com>c. if matters and things are to be
settled in this way. there is an end of
dispute II every mans diSnclination to he
licvc j. 10 bc taken a, Il sufficient reason lOr
his di>hclic,ing. We mc al the end 0i contIo-
N,lSv. Some people will be skcptical of the
North Pole. others will deny The Equator An
other class MAY refuse To btllcNC tlAt WHAT
ever i. is. A may differ from b. in his pri
vatc and peculiar notions oi the sum total ot
TWO and two aud 3. may assert without dread
of contradiction that the whole Is less than any
one of it's parts. \ more convenient and COM
Portable method of controversy couldn't exist.
II would bc Il little difficult, of course To base
"A government scientifically upon its results,
hut ON the other hand the general adoption of
this method in the war of politics could not
but be refreshing to whom the giving of rea-
sons is like the parting of soul and body. Its
beautiful applicability to the management OF
unreconstlucted Southern newspapers is so pal
pabc that il is needless for us To enlarge
upOn #.
If there be one thing which We want more
than another il Is fairly speciouS argument
against Manhood Suffrage and if we thought
a small reward Offered tor such argument would
evoke il. We should hasten To try that style of
stimulus. II is weary work to be always hitting
an empty bag We shall get nothing better
than assertion frosn the positive Pike; but
what has become of all the fellows who used
10 chop their logic so beautifully small ON the
same side