The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-25

Editorial Opinions Of the Leading Journals
upon Current Topics-Compiled Every
Day for the Evening Telegraph.
BROOKS AND COX.

BROOkS AND COA.
From the NJ p. Tribune. s ..r
Those eminent legislators who decorate
and defend the Democracy of this city in
Congress, Mr.. Brooks and Mr.. Cox, who do
most of the eloquence, inasmuch as thinking
is an entirely superAuous function, in behalf
of their singular constituencies, of course
could not be expected to let slip such an oc-
casion as the proposition to abolish the mis-
sion at Rome gave them for an airing of
their devotion. They are not our sole repre-
sentatives, it is true. But the accomplish ed
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 analogue of the modern pursuit of
looking after the bulls of our Wall street
Bashan, and therefore he could not come,
and the SLY Mr.. Fox notoriously goes on his
way rejoicing, caring for none of these
things. II was rather unfortunate that
neither of these persons was able to lift up
his brogue in defense of the assailed Papacy
inasmuch as both have hereditary and
sectarian, as well polemical, claim to the
championship of that imperilled institution.
But SO it was, and upon the old Native Ameri-
can, Mr.. Brooks, and the author of "The
Buckeye Abroad, whose political gyrations
we really do not feel ourselves obliged to re-
member or to record, devolved the task to
1t was the opinion of Anthony Weller, con-
cerning the hortatory eloquence of the shep-
herd at the tea-party of the United Grand
Junction Ebenezer Temperance Association,
that "wery 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
uncofined shade of Archbishop Hughes must
have constantly appeared to himself to anno-
tate his remarks by waving before his inner
sight exhumed Expresses, still more CHASTITY
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 copiousness 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, M. @.
The entire enthusiasm with which Mr.. Brooks
has come to regard the faith of the foreign
portion of his constituency, whose oft-re-
peated votive offerings have made him what
he officially 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 hum
BILE alteration, by which the same object,
clothed in the purple and fine linen of
political preferment, has come to be the
''most venerable city in the world" and
''the mother of art" in the purged
and unscaled eyes of the ambitious and Con-
gressional 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.. Brooks laudation, and to ''go 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 suggestion not wholly unconnected
with Nazareth, Mr.. Cox, with spirit for
which his constituents ought to give him
credit, retorted that he meant "ancient Chris
tianity, and not ''medern Professionalism, or
modern transcendentalsm, or modern free
lovism, leaving the inevitable inference to
be drawn that these latter systems were Off
shoots of the Nazarene, as religion pure and
undefiled of the Roman, stem. Before such
a sunset glow as this Brooks naturally paled
his Intellectual fires, and subsidized into silence
But both these eminent converts and ath
letes of the faith really deserve 80 much of 9
canonization as the early and numerous votes
of the faithful can CONFER %. ..aI
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
crisis, and thus added Roman to an Athe
nian homage, so ought Castor Brooks ant
Pollux Cox to receive the plaudits and tn,
suffrages of that modern and Milesian multi
tude which unites the titular and scholasti
glories of Greece to the faith of Rome.