The New York herald., 1870-01-01

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And ye shall hailow the nfs,eth year. and pro-
CLAIM liberty throughout all the land unto all the
inhabitants thereof; 1t shall be jubilee unto you;
and ye shall return every man unto his possessl0n
and ye shall return every man unto his family
LEvITICuS xxv 10.
This Is one Of the ordinances OF Moses, the
great lawgiver and leader of the children Of
Israel from the bondage Of Egypt But how
aptly will the law recited apply to these United
States and the year just ended. 1t may be said
that 1869 was our year of jubilee-not the
great Panjandrum jubilee at Boston, for we
do not propose to consider it in that light.
The year 1869 may be considered year Of
jubilee in fairly establishing the new DISPENSE
ton Of ''liberty throughout all the land, to all
the inhabitants thereof" and civil and political
equality to all citizens of the United States, of
all races and colors, barring the women and
excepting Indians not taxed" The women's
rights women, however, are bravely agtating
their wrongs and demanding their rights, and
General Grants Quaker commissioners are
industriously preparing the Indians for univer-
sal suffrage.
The year that has just rolled away among
the things Of the past has certainly been year
of jubilee to the American people, in the
abounding blessings and prosperity recited in
the November Thanksgiving proclamation of
our exulting President and in his late Decem-
ber Message to Congress- And what change
with the first year of Grant from the last year
of Johnson! In the last regular Message Of
johnson so hopeless appeared our financial
embarrassments that he boldly proposed the
appropriation of the interest of the national
debt to pay the principal as our only way of
escape. In the first regular Message of Grant
we see that order is brought out Of chaos
that the debt is being rapidly paid of, and
bagatelle. Nay, more we find proposition
for reputation reduced to one vote, and that
qualified vote, in Congress- and all the lead
ing democrats endorsing the doctrine of
Grant-that the debt must and will be paid.
Do not these things belong to the year of
jubilee? Look, again, at the opening of the
Pacific Railroad. Seven days only, and less
from New York to San Francsco-three thou
sand miles-a journey in which the overland
pioneers to California had to fight it out on
that line all summer. Is this small matter?
And the reconstruction of Virginia, and Mis-
sissippi and Texas, and the reconstruction of
Georgia over again. Do not these measures
show that the new order of things
is fixed and that the bewildered demo-
cracy will have to go forward or clear the
+rool>S Vas in tho oppoipt-
ment to Office Of American citizens of African
descent, and of Indian descent, likewise, have
we not practical Inauguration of the year of
jubilee? James Buchanan, when our Minister
at London, it is said, at court reception,
gave it as his opinion of the towering black
Ambassador from Hayti that he would fetch
at least fifteen hundred dollars under the ham
mer in New Orleans. General Grant, in
receiving the African Ambassador from Hayti
in the White House, congratulates him on the
establishment throughout all the land" of
liberty and equality. Does not this, too,
belong to the year of jubilee?
And then look at the Johnson treaty on
those Alabama claims and at what has fol-
lowed. With Summers speech on that treaty
and with its indignant rejection by the Senate
we saw all England bristling for fight and
eager for the fray But with the arrival at
Liverpool of Grants Minister, Motley, the
lion lies down like lamb and the love of John
Bull for Brother Jonathan is declared to be
like the romantic attachment Of David and
Jonathan of old, ''surpassing the love
~ ton
John Bull who ''tried his level best" to stab
Brother Jonathan under the fifth rib in our re-
bellion of Absalom that is, jeff Davis. Was
there ever such hostility changed into such
affection as that Of England for the American
Union under General Grant? No. And yet,
again, considering his packing up and packing
off from Mexico is not the gracious regard of
the Emperor Napoleon for Mr.. Washburne, of
Illinois, another evidence that the year 1869
may truly be recorded as the year of jubilee?
We need not say much of our relations
during the year with Brazil and Paraguay and
Cuba and Spain, for they hardly belong to
jubilee. But Hayti is all right, and St. Do
mingo and Mexico and China and Japan, and
the New Dominion is beginning to ripen at
both ends and in the middle. Lastly, how
ever, the year 1869, in the November election
of New York, opened wide the gates to the
rejoicing democracy for regular democratic
jubilee in 1870 upon a basis, in city jobs and
general reforms, Of five hundred millions of
public plumber. All! ha think Of that.
AS old Field Marshal Blucher said, when
looking down upon the wealth of London from
the dome of st. Paul's, so from Tammany
Hall lookout we may say to New York =
''Mein Got, vot a city for to sack!" Verify,
to the New York democracy ''this shall be a
year Of jubilee unto you, and ye shall return
every one into his own possession lager,
free Sundays and all. Yea, truly, the day
approaches when it will no longer be necessary
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