The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-03

bounty TO the refners, who grow rich at the
poor mans cost Such are the local associa-
tions which cluster around the new Secretary
OF the Navy, Of whom all that can be said is
that he is jolly young lawyer, temperate,
sound in his morals. an educated and agree
able gentleman, and an Attorney General. The
eminent radicals of New Jersey, such as ex-
Senator Frelinghuysen, must be sorely tried
| by this preference to the Philadelphia suburb,
| the truth being that MIR. Robeson's appoint
nent is actually made by Mr.. Borie and the
convivial coterie of which he is the centre
Robeson is altogether Philadelphian. No
| pent-up Utica confines his powers He is of
| Camden, but above it. He practises law, so
says the radical press, in Philadelphia, and is
an active member of the Broad street League.
He is capital diner-out. OF his services
civil or military, during the Rebellion, we
have no very distinct memory, and can find
no record. Scovel, of Camden, we have
heard of, but never of Robson. 1t may be,
however, that he had some agency in the only
picturesque incident of the war with which
Camden is associated. 1t was this.
Before 1861, there was certain steam
boat plying across the Delaware, bear
ing the pestilent name of estate Rights. "
1t was owned by what is called the
monopoly" who had and have especial
reasons OF their own for cherishing the
ancient dogma. The Rebellion broke ont
Il
floating, steaming heresy irritated them, and
its suppression or modification was demanded
At last, the matter was compromised by the
prefix of the word tUnited;" so that, in vio-
lation of all grammar but in consonance with
loyalty, it has foated, and, for aught we
know, still floats, ''The United State Rights,
and Camden is at peace If this great result
the paddle-box assertion of Union principle
--be due to Robson, he deserves to be Secre-
tary of the Navy. 1t is more marine service
than ever Borie did.
But what says Pennsylvania; what say Gov
ernor Curtins friends, to this new shuttle of
the pack? In party point of view, New Jer-
sey has no claim on a radical administration,
and Pennsylvania the strongest. New Jersey
is in open, hopeless revolt, having Just
elected Democratic Senator, and rejected
the fifteenth amendment. Pennsylvania made
Grant President, and has grovelled at his feet
ever since. Governor Curtin's friends wanted
him to be Cabinet minister, for reasons of
their own, and he was contemptuously passed
by to make room for one of Grants boon
companions, a d1ettGnte, fancy partisan from
the very fringe of the commonwealth. Borie
was mere tassel on the edge of PENNSYLVANIA
radicalism, and Robson is tag of the tassel
of Borie. OF course all this was understood and
arranged before Curtin was sent into exile
and the cable will give him the news of the
insult when he puts his foot on the shores of
the North Sea- Nor will the more rugged
antagonisms of the Keystone State--the Came
ron and Geary factions-be propitiated by the
New Jersey promotion. Dark must have
been the visage of Cameron, bristling the
beard of Geary, dumb-struck the tongue of
Kelley, black the brow of Galusha, whom men
call Grow, when the news was flashed abroad
that Grant had gone to the Jerseys, and that
Robson, of Camden, was his man. Really,
the Republican party of Pennsylvania needs,
if it deserves not our sympathy; and, if there
be in that neighborhood society for the
mitigation of the sufferings of the animal
creation, we invoke its Intervention in behalf
of the great radical Issachar STOPPING now be-
tween his two score burdens.