New-York tribune., 1868-08-14


was jealous Seymourite, and ready to rip up
every "ngger" who should presume to offer
vote.
We do not believe it probable that Reaction
and Aristocracy-the right of the cunning and
strong to do as they will with the simple and
weak-are about to triumph in this Republic
The calamity would be so profound and per-
vading that we are sure the country cannot
afford it, There is no industry, there is no
legitimate business which does not imperatively
require the election of Grant and COlfax; and
we do not apprehend National suicide.
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THE HON G. DATTS FORESEES THINGS.
We have two requests TO make OF Mr. Garret
Davis The first is that, in his admirable
speeches and epistles, he will let the ancient
Romans alone partly because we are tired of
hearing of them, but particularly because. it is
evident that Nh Garret Davis knows very
little about them For instance, he will have
il in his very last letter that Gen. Grant, II
elected. will be Caesar, Imperator CFibeuus,
we SUPPOSE and that he will have fayorlte,
Sejanus, who, as Mr.. Davis neatly puts 1t,
:" will rule IN fact" If the parallel should hold,
Gen. Grant will find it necessary at some time
during his term Of Office TO put his Sejanus 10
death What will happen then is known only
to the Lord and Mr. Garret Davis. Perhaps
in full suit of Roman amor, and with brass
band playing furiOusly before him, Gen. Grant
will come down to the Capitol aud dsperse
Congress forever and ever! We are happy to
agree with Mr. Davis in declaring that this
would be bad. Perhaps, as A desperate remedy,
it might he arranged that Mr. Davis should be
making a speech when the cOnsplrators en-
tered. OF course he would go on, regardless OF
the interruption. for we defy trumpets to stop
him, or drums to drown his voice. The soldiers
of the tyrant would naturally listen. After
listening five minutes they would naturally run
away, and thus Congress would be saved. 1t is
true that other battaliOns, under the direction OF
Ulysses, might advance with wax in their cars.
In that case Mr. Garret Davis would be justi-
fed by his fears in fleeing for his life, and very
good fun the other Senators would Lave in
marking the velocity OF his n2cr anu the vibra-
ton Of his coat-tails.--~
TIE Second irGucst which we have to make
of Mr. Garret Davis is that he will not be so
tremendously solemn and so profoundly down
in the mouth. As ne knows 50 much abont
Scianus, perhaps he has also heard of Heracli-
fus, an old gentleman who used to be always
blubberiDg in Che streets Of Ephesus. Well,
Nh Dlyi, seems to us to be a good deal like
this water cart philosopher and founder of the
venerable sect of the BOO-HOOs. 1t is right
enough to cry nov and then. at the proper hour
and in the proper place, but to be crying and
croaling all the time seems to us to be a cul-
pabe waste of water and of wind. Mr.. Davis,
tcn v,iIi ho ac
dry-eycd in six months as a widow OF five
years standing listening TO the proposal of a
new lover Hear him: "Wlen Gen. Grant is
thus elected (ugh y and inaugurated Presi-
"dent (ahD then will the revolution of our
Government (alasD be complete and perma-
"nent (cheuD and long, dismal night of des-
"potism (he Lord have mercy upon u.s. will
"brood over the country" CThree grOans, fifty
sighs, and one howl of reckless despair) We
must beg Mr.. Davis not to give way to his
emotions, which, however creditable they may
Ue to his heart might, if indulged in, result in
cerebral congestion, to the infinite damage of
bis head. Perhaps, after all, if we may judge
by the past, Congress will be able to defond
itself against Grant, the crowned, Tobed, en-
throned and sceptered tyrant, and to save us
from what Mr. Garret Davis calls, with
smack of Hibernian confusion, &" a permanent
revolution"
Yet, after Mr.. Horatio Seymour's letter. it is
probably useless to entreat Mr.. Davis to wipe
his weeping eyes. For Mr.. Seymour says that
he considers it jolly to have the President and
Congress at loggerheads These little differ
ences he regards as highly conducive to the
health of the body polite. If am elected
says Horatio, substantially, 81 expect to have
ga continual fight with Congress" and espe-
cially with the Senate. So there we are. If
Grant should be elected according to Mr..
Davis we shall have rainy season of rowe
If Seymour should be elected according IT,
Seymour himselD we shall have ditto. We
are not, rs a general thing, in favor of suicide
but. with such a complication of calamites
before him, we don't think the most rigid
moralist could blame Mr.. Davis if he should
take something and step out.