The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-28

afray, whenEthe merest soothing word would
have made everything lovely and serene,
when a single distasteful utterance would
have plunged the whole assemblage into De-
mocratic chaos; when, in short, the conven-
tion had nothing else under the sun TO do for
the moment except to fght-at this critical
period Vaux was invited by unanimous reso-
luton, to address the convention. But vaux
did not respond, and, although he did not re-
spond, expectancy held sway until the crisis
was passed and bloodshed, with all other pos
sible attendant ills, averted
The cause of Vaux's silence on this momen-
tous occasion was a mystery at the time, the
solution of which is Just made clear. The
stupendous and sitting emotions which
welled up from his overAowing heart on the
evening of June is, when he made his famous
address to the Knights of the Temple at the
Academy of Music, were sufficiently stupen-
dous and sitting to PROSTATE any ordinary
man, and even to interfere seriously with the
digestion and ratiocination of such an extra
ordinary man rs Vaux himself. Time, how
ever, is the great cure-all, and time will usu-
ally restore to their normal action the func-
tions of an intellect so disordered, by
undue yielding to the emotional,
as to swamp the higher law in
a flood of idealistic power. Hence, although
Richard was not sufficiently himself again to
venture with safety before McMullin, Bucka-
lew, Lyster, Hughes, Galbraith, and the rest
of 1.-THE boys" at Harrisburg, the lapse of
another fortnight sufficed to do the work, and
yesterday afternoon ''the veteran" appeared
before the convention for revising the rules
OF the party, in such perfect command of all
the wondrous faculties of his being that he
was able, without the slightest degree of hest
tation, to announce to his co-laborers in the
field of party reform his humble Judgment"
on very important matter The con-
vention, Vaux declared, on accepting
the high honor of the craftsmanship,
"Has assembled here to-day to do what, in my
humble Judgment, shall enable this great party in
Philadelphia, it demands to have its nominations
and Its delegates, and its conventions, stand the
test OF severest scrutiny"
Such, in the humble Judgment" of Vaux,
was the grand object which had called the
of the Philadelphia De-
mocracy together. 1t smacks so strongly of
approaches so closely to absolute
and downright necessity, that it ismade to par
is to be no tomfoolery about the thing. The
recent nominations, and delegates, and con-
ventions of the Democracy in this city have
not been able 'to stand the test of severest
scrutiny and while Vaux is free to admit
this incontestable fact, his co-reformers are
eager to add their testimony by outbursts of
wild applause. Else why these words from
the lips of Vaux, Immediately preceding the
sentence already quoted?-
"TheTe never was time in the history of the
Philadelphia Democracy more important to its fu-
ture prosperity and success than the 9th day of
July, 1869. With the past, Cith the action Of cOnUe
ti0Hs that hare preceded u.s. ace hare nothing to do We
eere called and haze conreed for no purpose but the
tUture!'
Having thus ratified the universal condem-
nation of the Stewart t-Ahern ticket; having
thus confessed that the very weakest sort of
scrutiny unsettles the riotous assemblages at
the National Guards and Washington Halls;
and having thus laughed in the face of his
indignant followers, with the assurance that
the convention is to deal only with the future,
leaving the dead past to bury its dead, ac-
cording to the fashion of the times, Vaux
starts upon another line of thought, scents
the unsavory negro in his path, pours the
walls of his wordy wrath upon his head, and,
fearful that mere words will not win the bat
tie for a white mans government, begins to
froth and foam and talk about the neces-
sity for fight, II he is not
greatly mistaken" This little qualification
gives us great joy. 1t shows that, although
Vaux, inspired and impelled by the tumult of
applause with which almost every sentence
was received, had contrived to excite himself
so unduly as to bring on the symptoms of an
attack of white man on the brain, his "hum-
ble Judgment was still in full play, and
whispered him that he might possibly be mis-
taken, and possibly mistaken to a very con-
siderable extent. We are inclined to indorse
this view of the matter, and to express our
belief that Yaux will die as he has lived,
man OF peace, averse to musketry as well as
TO niger voting.
SILENCE THAT DREADFUL BELL
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