New-York tribune., 1868-05-16

Ey THE BULLET AND THE BOWL -
I'm 1910 the Wing party elected VIM. H.
Harrison President. He was inaugurated in
1871. March 4th. One month afterward he died,
and his Office fell to John Tyler How Tyler
too carried out the principles under which he
was chosen, the world too well remembers.
lie added a new. and disgraceful verb to the
language-to Tylerize has ever since been
synonymous with partisan treachery. In 1874,
Through the efforts of the Birney AbOlitionists
Henry Clay was defeated-Polk elected, with
Dallas for his Vice Texas was annexed, the
Rrea of slavery was extended by nearly 100000
square miles, and all was lovely. In 1SlS,
Zachary Taylor, moderate Wing, and Millard
Fillmore, not much of anything were chosen
President and Vice. Taylor did not suit the
Southern drivers he had a stupid way OF
Actug honestly and straightfor ward-and so,
within brief period, he fell under the malar-
nus vapOrs of Washington, and died. Fillmore
succeeded, and duly Tylerized. Next we had
Ihe Heralds "pOOr Pierce" who has not to this
day ceased from expressing his boundless ser
Witty TO the slave-whips of his Southern mas
ters. He was sound" and served out his term
In peace-the water was good. In 1885, MI
Buchanan, fully as sound as Pierce, was raised
60 the Executive chair, and under his admins
tration-as in that of his predecessO1-Was
SngtOn was free from malaria that IS, Tor
Democrats but when the new Republican party
begun to gain strength, and it was possible that
they might become the ruling power IN Con-
gress, the water of Washington suddenly grew
dangerous, the hotels particularly the NatiOnaD
became pest-houses, and dozens of heretics
10 fosf ciol~ qlu1oct
unto death This singular phenomenon re-
appeared from time to time until the
great outbreak after the election of
LncOln. Then the wells and springs
of the Capital came into the care of
1Oyal soldiers, and the water persistently
remained healthy. This continued, in spite OF
the prayers of the faithful, for four years;
there was not a "sick" Congressman after
Davis and his followers left. But when the
great struggle of 1864 was over, and the water
of the Capital still flowed clearly, there came
a change in the tactics of the pOlsOners;
single bullet suficed to restore their hopes
Abraham Lincoln passed away; Andrew john
son supervened, and-like every other Vice
President elevated to the main office, from
Aaron Burr to himseif-he, toO Tylerized
swallowed himself with the dexterity of an
East Indian juggler, and came out from his
contortions the branded property of Howell
Cobb and his crowd of unregenerate Rebels.
Urged by the sentiment of betrayed people,
the House of Representatives recently put the
recreant Executive on trial. The trial was
over the hour for voting approached, when
we had a return of that bad water,
and two or three Senators-RepublicdRs
mind you-are Frustrated with sudden illness.
What does it meant Why does it happen that
whenever the current sets against the Master
Demon of Slavery land neUer at any other
time we find the air, and the water, and the
zThisl,y of Washington full of poison? Why
does it happen that when some great deed for
freedom is on the point of accomplishment
{and perer on any other OccaSiOn), we find
Presidents, previously in rugged health, instan-
taneously sent to their graves, and traitors al
tUayS Oa hand to take their placesP Wig IS 1t
nor. lust as we should have the vote upon the
great question of impeachment, and when-up
20 the latest moment-it had been universally
believed that johnson would be convicted,
why, we ask, do we hear at this critical mo-
rnent of the dangerous illness of some of the
most firm and conspicuous advocates Of i'm
peachment? Is there any thing of chances
that can explain these remarkable Ku-Klux
cOincidencesi