New-York tribune., 1870-05-24
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BROOKS And cox
Those eminent legislators who decorate and
defend the Democracy of this city in Congress-
Mr.. Brooks and Mr.. Cox, who do most of the
eIoauence, inasmuch as thinking is an entirely
superfluOus function, in behalf of their sim
gular constituencies, of course could not be
expected to let slip such an occasion as the
proposition to abolish the mission at Rome
gave them for an airing of their devotion.
They are not our sole representatives, it Is
true. But the accomplished Mr. MOrrissey Is
at present in the position of the scriptural
person who had bought him a yoke OF oxen,
which we understand to be the ancient an
alogue of the modern pursuit of looking after
the Bulls of our Wall-street Bashan, and there
fore he could not come, and the sly Mr.. Fox
VIGOROUSLY goes on his way rejoicing, caring
for none of these things. II was rather un-
fortunate that neither of these persons was
able to lift up his brOgue in defense OF the
assailed Papacy, inasmuch as both have a
hereditary and sectarian, as well pOlemical,
claim to the championship of that imperiled
institution. But so it was, and upon the old
Native American, Mr.. Brooks, and the author
| of "The Buckeye Abroad" whose political
gyrations we really do not feel ourselves obliged
| TO remember or to record, devOlved the task to
prop and puff the "boor old Pope"
| 1t was the opinion of Anthony Weller, con-
cernng the hortatory elOquence Of the shep-
| herd at the tea-party of the United Grand
| Junction Ebenezer Temperance Association,
| that every well he did it, considering how
"heavy them mullins must have lied on his
| chest" We are happy to find it in our
power to pay similar compliment to Mr..
Brooks. Considering how the CHASTITY and
uncoflined shade of Archbishop Hughes must
have constantly appeared to himself to anno-
tate his remarks by waving before his inner
sight exhumed EJpresses, still more ghastly
and unsavOry than itself, in which cruel and
unusual language was applied to that lamented
prelate and all his works, Mr. Brooks dis
charged his task and his fire with uncommon
vigor and precision. OF its copiOusncss nobody
need to be told who has heretofore wandered
through the watery waste of his emissions in
The Globe, and found, in quantity if not in
quality, books in the running Brooks, N. C..
The entire enthusiasm with which Mr.. Brooks
has come to regard the faith of the foreign
portion of his constituency, whose oft-rcpeated
vctive offerings have made him what he Of
ficially is, impels us to congratulate him on
his conversion from the adherence with which
the unregenerate and editorial Brooks of 1857
regarded the scarlet female person to the
reverential tolerance, not to say the humble
alteration, by which the same object, clothed
in the purple and fine linen of political pre-
ferment, has come to be the "most venerable
"city in the world" and "the mother of art"
in the purged and unscaled eyes of the am
bilious and Congressional Brooks of 1870. After
this there did not seem to be much more in the
way of aggregation of agony left for Mr.. Cox to
do. That ingenious person, however, cOntrived
to see Mr.. BrOOkss laudatiOn, and to ego it"
considerably better Whereas to the aesthetic
Brooks Rome was only the "mOther of art"
to the deeply devOut Cox she was still more
interesting as being the birthplace of Chris
"tianity." The incOngruOus and impertinent
Judge HOar having annotated this statement
with a suggestion not wholly unconnected with
Nazareth, Mr.. Cox, with spirit for which his
constituents ought to give him credit retorted
that he meant "ancient Christianity" and not
"modern Professionalism, or modern transcenden-
"talism, or modern free-lOveism," leaving the
inevitable inference to be drawn that these
ldttcT ststcHiS NtIc OHSlOOtS OF Une NaZarene,
as religion pure and undefled of the Roman,
stem. Before such sunset glow as this
Brooks naturally paled his Intellectual fires,
and subsided into silence.
But both these eminent converts and ath-
letes of the faith really deserve so much of a
canonization as the early and numerous votes
of the faithful can confer:
These be the great twin brethren
To whom the Romans pray.
And as the twain of whom these lines were
originally written left their home by the
proud EurOtas to hasten to the rescue of
Rome in a crisis, and thus added Roman to
an Athenian homage, so ought Castor Brooks
and Pollux Cox to receive the plaudits and the
suilrages of that modern and Milesan multi
tude Which unites the titular and tho schO-
astic gories of Greece 10 the faith of Rome.