Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-11-07

[Frsm the Philadelphia North Americana
TLe Lamentations of the Croalscrs.
There seems TO be class of persons in
Philadelphia, somewhat peculiar to the place,
to whom everything like Improvement wears
the aspect of vandalism, robbery, fraud,
outrage, jobbing, etc. That men should
differ respecting the propriely Of particular
movements or works is natural enough, and
no reasonable man ought to complain OF
| those who cannot always see the propriety
of projects muoted in the name of progress.
But ii is very difficult for upright citizens.
who haye in view no personal or interested
motives and who labor solely for what they
| consider the public good, to hear themselves
accused OF participation in robbery and the
| like, because they ere in favor OF enterprise
which to them appear to be wholly for pub
| lie benefit. The eminently good character
of such citizens, their lifelong devotion to
the cause of public improvements, their en-
tire freedom from selfish motives, never
have feathers weight with any Of the
tribe we refer to. Indeed, their good
name appears rather to be one OF the numer-
Gus objections to them, and hence we can
no more argue with such persons than we
could with Il milestone.
| The aliectation of superior integrity is The
invariable dodge of all who are opposed 10
any measures of the nature OF public I'M
provcment. Let project bs as desirable as
possible for the benefit Of the community, ii
is so easy for those opposed to it TO call II u
job, a robbery, Il fraud, Nh outrage, that ior
the last ten years We have never been with
out great wrong Of this kind in PAiladel-
phin. And when We look around us we are
sometimes astonished at the results of these
contests. We enter horse cars, where We
see men quietly and comfortably enjoying:
q ride who waged the most intense and
bitter war in print against all horse rail
ways, against each separate nili successive
line, and against all the leading Men who
were concerned in them. What surprises
us more than anything else is that some
of those very persons ride on dead head
tickets, and have never owned up for
moment that they haved erred in their
course We go into the magnificent market
houses, erected by private capitalists, and
we see the wives of the same men marketing
there in the same establishments which their
husbands opposed from the very beginning.
We go into public places, and see the men
who have made all these improvements, and
who have been slandercd and vltupeiated
day after day with Il malignity Sufficient to
have appalled, iimid men, yet whose char
actcrs have risen higher and higher steadily
until they rank with the lest men IN the
city.
What, then, is The value Of tliis incessant
, dennnciation, this never ending sandcr, ,'ils
holy afieeiaiion Of u hypocritieal virtue
which people pass by with contempt ii 1t
has never yet had sufficient influence 10 ar
rest a single public Improvement against
which it has been directed, why should II
be esteemed Of any importance now III
ihp consolidation Of the city is standing
morumcnt 10 its small potato meanness
and impotency, why should the forward
movement Of Philadelphia be retarded for
a moment by such prophets of woes
-a..---z.zs--
--i,anch thinks that water bols sooner in an
old saucepan than new one because the Old
pans used to it,
The New York Egeaiag Mil snccringly re-
marks :" General Sheridan exhibits in Concord,
to-day The people seem more Interested in
these exhibitions than in some Mr.. Sweetser re-
Gently made Of himself. The -kaa is aem paper
but it is not aeutral one, sweet-sir.
, The New York Mail raises growl because
the ladies of that city have taking 70 iondlng and
kissing puppies. Unless they dislike being thas
treated ts Innovation need not ub,e some of the
editors Of that "sparkling" sheet
The whipping-post harvest is ripening in ON
little Recommendation State. When other people
tic up their flowers we tic mp men; and general >
speaking seem to be pleased with the substitution
G q! Christianity, where is thy blush.
= The New York Eceaiag Gazstte at a loss for Q
subject it seems, pitches into the peculiar dress
and speech of the Society Of Friends. We can
conceive OF their peculiarites being legitimate
subject for discussion inside the Society, but dc
: not see how they concern the G6sffe'
"A Conservative paper says "thc visitors u
t, the White House have scnslhy decreased, iron
q which we gather that 1t is proof OF good sens'
y not to call on Mr.. Johnson. This from his OWL
1t friends is new, and candid.