The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-04-28
the season Its Duties, Opportunities
and Lessons-Our Lesson for the

and forbidding, to sleep in the 10y chambers
which enfold his ancestors. Farewell, fare
well and yet not without sorrow, for there
are gracious and noble traits in Old Winter in
his severest moods, if we properly note
them This winter has had its own expert
ences. We remember the season of chaos
which came with Christmas, when our whole
social and political system seemed to tumble
and whirl, with traditions, customs, organiza-
tons, rings, railways, all carried away as it
were in a consuming lava flood of ashes and
fire, like what we see sweeping down from
Vesuvian SUBMITS. The winter just left us
will long be remembered Tammany was
overturned, the masters of New York fed like
thieves in the night; poor Fisk went out like
pistol flash, and of all his gaudy ambitions
and Dreams his bonds and stocks and railways,
and opera houses and dancing women and
singing birds, only memory and fading
memory, to be torn and stamped and dark
ened by quarrelling lawyers before an intelli-
gent jury. And with the young Prince the
kingdom has vanished and the new masters of
Erie are really gentlemen and men of honor
Only think of that, and bless the dear old Win
ter in whose reign it came to pass
Somehow on the Sabbath, which is the day
of thought as we'll as Of rest, the mind be-
comes retrospective and we draw what COM
fort we may from the philosophy Of the hour.
We are not optimists. We believe in the
principle that sees good in everything, sun
shine behind the darkest cloud. Is there not
something in this idea of Thackeray?-'I
see my lord riding in his chariot, and see
poor Jack in the cart on the way to Tyburn
tree know in my heart that am as good
as my lord and feel that am as bad as poor
Jack" We should not lose much respect
for the world if it stood still, if there were no
more progress. We can no more check the spirit
of progress than arrest the planets in their
courses. The world is better to-day than yes
terday-better, let us think, because of yester-
day. The triumphs and achievements of this
generation will be the experiences of the next
generation. When chaos reigns we know that
order will soon have q wider dominion. We
shall have better sense of public duty and
virtue of what is right and wrong, because of
what was done last winter And when we
extend our vision and see what we see all over
the world we feel that the oscillation of
dynasties and thrones will lead to the worlds
advancement. There is our old friend, the
Pope, for instance. Well, the gallant King
Victor has been hustling him and disturbing
his reign over his little dominions, and we
fear the successor of ST. Peter has had many
sad, weary moments. But he might be worse
off, if he only looked carefully at the
matter Popes have been exiled, imprisoned,
martyred; even this Ninth Plus has known
Punishment, and in his own life he has seen
Father Of the Church under the charge Of
French jailer. We fear, as things 60 in this
distracting time he will not have much COM
fort in the Holy City. Matters have been going
badly for the temporal power ever since the
French revolution, and it will require more
thunderbots than the Vatican can forge to
drive King Victor from his throne Let the
Holy Father know this rs oil the world knows
it, and, instead of craving a temporal power
which was really subordination to France,
abandon Rome and come to America. We I'M
derstand he has expressed desire to do this
and it would be well. Pope, prophet bishop,
elder, patriarch-we shall welcome and protect
them all if they pay taxes and obey the laws.
New York would honor Plus as becomes his
virtues and his station. Already we are build
ing cathedral that will be glorious monu-
ment, and we could add palace or two that
would surpass the Vatican. On the banks of
the Hudson, for instance, near Fort Washing
ton or Spuyten Duyvil, palace might be built
ha r,,1ot ho Cot
as ever Pope was in Rome and no guard but
squad of mounted policemen Let Plus come
to New York, the only city in the world where
he could be really free, and bring his cardinals
with him, and so end forever the Roman ques-
ton.
If things 60 badly with the Queen, as the
signs threaten we extend the same welcome
We have our share of oppressed and down.
trodden Fenian patriots longing for the hour
when they may strike the hated Saxon. But
| it is the hated Saxon over the seas, who in
spires his vengeance. Patrick gets along well
enough here and have peace and harmony,
and never word of anger beyond little
trouble now and then at Tammany Hall. A
discrowned Queen with on interesting family
of children and grandchildren would be quite
an addition to our society, and would add to
the operas and balls. We could give them
season box at the Academy and sing God
Save the Queen every night she chose to at
tend And with Victoria let us have the
retnue Of unemployed monarchs who are now
wandering over Europe without any visible
means Of support. What with the Commune
and Dixie, and the mad doings Of the Interna-
tional Europe must certainly be an uneasy
place. Let Napoleon come, with his brave,
bold patient Spanish wife. He knows New
York, or rather did thirty years ago, and we
can promise him something better than the
small Hoboken tavern where he drank
his claret and dreamed Of empire as he