The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-01-25
like Gambetta, whose egotlsm destroys within
them the natural promptings of common sense
justice and humanity.
Tho st. Domingo Ark.

every creeping thing and to pitch 1t within
and without" President Grant seems to have
taken Noah for his model for the habitation of
his ST. Domingo ark. There Is scarcely q
species of creeping thing of which Captain
Temple of the Tennessee, has not taken on
board specimen; and we fancy that the ark
has been by this time pitched within and with
out sufficiently to satisfy the most fastdious
stomach.
In new country like ours, where the
archaeological mind yearns in vain after the
relics of remote eras, it is not little refresh
ing to find Uncle Sam suddenly swept
back to the deluge and a cosey
ark lying off the Battery to gather up
all sorts and manner OF specimens of created
things and deposit them on distant island
The political animal, being the most important
of created beings in our day, Grant ordered
Wade to become the chief helmsman of the
ark. In old Noahs time thousands of speci-
mems would have been required to constitute
the diversified elements of political humanity
which, owing to the progress made since the
departure Of Noah and the advent of Grant,
are now represented by one single atom, and
that atom Ben Wade in the aggregate. Wade
is the East and the West and Washington and
abolition and Lincolnism, and Senate and
House, and old wing and young republican, oil
rolled into ones and equally the good plain
people of Ashtabula, as we'll as the dignitaries
who regard an ex-Vice President with mys-
terious sense Of awe, are all represented in
this patriarch of the ark. Like Lincoln, Wade
is a man Of the people, for the people and with
the people; and as representative man he
bears upon his broad shoulders all the people
into the st. Domingo ark
President White, Of Cornell University, is
another felcitous representative man in this
motley cargo. A Harvard or Yale profess
sor might have been regarded as too fastidious;
but Mr.. White was an Albany politician before
Mr.. Cornell made him president of his univer-
sity. He gravitates by virtue of his academi-
cal position just sufficiently towards the realms
Of culture to become the aggregate representa-
tive of the non-partisan portion of the people,
and yet his political antecedents at Albany
offer guarantee against any discord between
him and Ben Wade and the correspondent.
DR.. Howe, the next Of the CARGO is not only
a philosophical and spirited leader of the ultra
radical and rd-Sumner Club at Boston and a
champion of all struggling nationalities,
whether In Cuba or in Crete, but he is also
the husband of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, and to
that extent represents the female as well as
the male species. Above all, he is nom
conductor for Sumner, and, like Ben Wade, is
mixed representative specimen, whose mys-
teal mission is to soothe Summers wrath in
addition to the peculiar generic functions he
holds in common with the other specimens in
the ark.
Next comes the German-American element,
which, especially since the stupendous rise of
German power and the accession Of Carl
Schurz to the Senate, has become formid-
able republican engine Of strength down in
Missouri and Illinois as well as Washington
and New York, All these elements are repre-
sented in the ark by General Frenz sigel, who
is, besides, to aS in the same mystical
capacity toward tie irrepressible ScLurz as
Dr. Howe TO the irrepressible Sumner.
Noah could not hold candle to General
Grant. His selections were predcated wholly
on physiological and geological considerations,
while PresideV Grant pays tribute to
modern civilization by adding to these ele-
ments the ingredients of statecraft and a
well-balanced partisan discrimination. Noah's
ark was more crowded than its st. Domingo
brother, because the venerable navigator was
novice in the art of concentration and judi
cious manipulation. Then Noah put all man
ner of quadrupeds, birds and geological speci-
mems in his ark, which Grant has omitted,
BECAUSE however interesting In their way,
they are useless in apolitical point of view.
If zoology has no place in the ark, unless the
creeping correspondent Of the Trombone be its
allegorical representative, the other sciences
are less allegorically represented. The agri-
culturist department is in high clover, and will
no doubt sow many seeds which will hereafter
terminate in luscious crops of new appropria-
tons. Botany flourishes on the ark, and geo.
logists and mineralogists may be seen waiting
with eager eyes to see if anything will turn
up. The African-American politician is rep
resented by Fred Douglass, pere and ills. BY
this General Grant must intend special COM
pliment to their st. Domingo brethren. While
offering but one sample Of each specimen Of
the Caucasian race, he puts two generations
of the Ethiopian type. How, either, could
Congress resist Ben Wade, fortified by
Fred Douglass in propria person@ and his
black brethren of the ark's little island,
looming in the distance?
John Bull ArOused-He Is Jealous Of the
Annexation of st. Domingo.
BY special telegram to the HERALD from
Jamaica our correspondent at Kingston sends
us the important Information that the island is
L. 49, II T., Il. r If.