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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-26
A PIUCKED JACKDAW,

eff you wear stolen Clothes" says an Anda-
lusian proverb, "you may be stripped in the
"street.r This is about what has happened to
Mr.. Richard Henry Dana, the younger, since
he draped himself in the garb of an original
Abolitionist of the old rock, and proceeded in
that costume to tell the cOlOred people that be
was their brother and Sumner would bear
watching. On Saturday The World had most
pertinent letter showing that in the days
GLORIOUS though dark and trying" wherein
Mr.. Dana now pretends he stood by
the negroes from pure love OF them
and freedom, he was exceedingly well
paid for doing it. When Quincy and
Loring and Jackson were speaking and acting
in that sacred cause for nothing, Mr. Dana
demanded and received from the Abolitionists
the sum of $1,000 for his services as attorney
in behalf of the hunted fugitiyes from slavery.
To-day we print another letter, stripping
another great handful of borrowed feathers
from this same forgetful patriot, which shows
that in 1863 he was heartily opposed to the
radical Anti-Slavey party, and especially
severe upon those who insisted upon emanci-
patton as a condition of reconstruction.
Mr.. Dana hardly deserves so much notice as
we have given hin, but it is perhaps worth
while to pin him up for moment against the
wall, as specimen of those reformers who
serve the righteous cause so much better when
they are handsomely paid for it, and of those
lawyers who are greatly assisted in their judg-
ment of constitutional questions by knowing
beforehand what opinions will be popular.
AS to Mr.. Dana himself, he ought not to ex-
pect to eat his oak, and have it. He got his
fee for his work years ago and has no right
now to file claim for glory also. And if he
was conscientio usk conservative and consd-
tutional in 1868, WHY, unless he is in the peace
full pursuit of amther fee, should he tell
bouncers about it t,-dayq
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-26

turbid mono!ogue, in which Mr.. Clews plays
Prospero lin 6be enchantment scene), and Mr.
Stewart may have resembled Miranda at least
in going to sleep. The truth is, we cannot
find out during this conjunction of Messrs'
Stewart and Clews that the gentleman whose
remarks would have been of soiae consequence
really said anything. Here is a specimen OF
the lively dialogue in Tenth-st:
John Tbomas-what reply did Mr.. stewart make 70
this explanations
Mr.. Cews-I said 10 Mr.. Se'cart, &C., &C.
Again we have this
John Thomas-what did Mr.. Stewart say to thati
Mr.. Cews-I said TO him that proposed
Indeed, as we have said before, we cannot
find in this report evidence of anything, ex-
cept the remarkable garrulity of Mr.. Henry
Clews and the wise taciturnity of Mr.. Stew
art. We do not propose to repeat what Mr..
Clews probably calls his opinions, inasmuch as
we do not consider them to be of the slightest
consequence A man who thinks Mr.. Thomas
Murphy "the best Collector we have had for
"the past twelve years is hardly entitled to
our reverence man who could MT see that
Mr.. Stewart, during the meeting which is
described, was greatly bored and equally de-
termined not to be pumped, had better keep
out of politics. And man who could deduce
from Mr. Stewards remarks ('yOu may say to
"Gen. Grant, / am not against him, and have
mot been,'D that Mr.. Stewart means to sup
port Grant for the Presidency must have
power of drawing differences equal to that oil
twenty jackasses of the largest kind.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-26

We are afraid we shall have to give up the
old maxim in vino reritaS. The Hon. Zachariah
Chandler made speech at Orange on Satur-
day night, and came no nearer to the truth
than this Lyman Trumbull has been bar
nacle and sOrehead ever since 1860; Horace
Greeley is a Democrat and SecessiOnist, and
pledged to pay the Rebel debti;ithere are only
three Republicans in Detroit who will vote for
Greeley, and very few Democrats. These are
fair specimens of the honorable gentleman's
assertions and really, considering the weather
and his time of life, his tempting the fate of
Ananias in this manner is not without courage.
But there is positive sublimity in his denial of
Mr.. Summers charge, that Grant is quarrel
some. This, coming from Mr.. Chandler, shows
magnanimity as well as obliviOusness. He is
right in not bearing malice for an ancient
chastisement, but he would do better not to
remind people Of it by insisting too much on
the lamb-like nature of his old enemy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-26
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE, MONDAY. AUGUST &c. 1872

{" the true and everything God, and on the sacred
"Scriptures, His Holy Word" that he would
MAYER F." vote for, appoint, OF elect any person OF
g foreign birth. or Roman Catholic, to any Office
" in tho local or general administration OF the
American Government; and Inc dldJ turther
declare and swear that The would use all
/" the means in [his] power to counteract ana
destroy the influence OF foreigners ana no
man Catholics in the administration OF the
" Government of the United States, and in any
{" and all parts thereof, both local and gene
4" ralp And TO confirm this stringent and bind
ING oath he invoked the sanction and AID OF
the Supreme Being.
This oath is still obligatory upon Mr.. Will
son. He has made no solemn aud public re-
cantation of it. The pledge which he took be-
fore conclave of his fellow citizens is not to
be shaken off by a simple change of resolution
in his own mind and conscience. He cannot be
purged of this responsibility except by con-
fession and recantatiOn as formal as the org
inal profession. If be had done this promptly
he might have lost some votes by 1t, but ne
would have saved his personal dignity to some
extent in the eyes of thoughtful men. lie has
chosen the other course; he has hummed ana
bawed and extenuated and limited and sug-
gested; he has done everything short Oh aoso-
lutte denial of his Know NOthingism ana tne
consequence is that Mr.. F. w. Bird ana MI
Pike have put him in disagreeaby ugnt
Mace. See how hard these extracts are W
harmonic
From Cen Wu.on' Letter The From M Hon y 1 Sa. LEI
STATE Journal Madison Wts Ter 70 ~ ~. uson vvas
All my life / have cher In 1894, Npn. condidate
ished as bright hope, ana the hepuDIV Msssachn.
held and avOwed as living lot GOfOi ocenting that
faith the doctrine that ali setts 1toi f 81 thst
on, "iu ace or nation tme Us 1t afterward turned
Ally should have com out, member 1rdeT be at
pIete nooi'' " tended the KnOw-NOthing
GUAR tt,soB,s Tuperdao State Convention, joined IN
f S Os Yrs Oct 25 1877 nominating Henry j. Gard
He Gen WILSON, alluded ner as candidate for Cover
| co the great amount of nor and himself voted ana
| dynLing done by our privately urged his friends
foreignbOr citizens, es- not members OF the OIuer
nacev the Irish and Ger TO vote for Gardner against
nans-he first class drink the candidate OF the hSPuO
ing the vest whisky and llcan party, himself being
| the latter using lager-beer, that candidate.
which made them stupid
| race. -,
Tbore vou have it! There you have the
gentleman who all his life has been III favor
of "exact equality" and that, too, without
/" distinction of race or nationality" politely
waving all his claims upon the gubernatorlal
chair of Massachusetts, in favor OF Henry D.
Gardner. his fellow Know-Nothing and one OF
the most rampant and bgoted of the political
nroscribers of the German and Irish Ameri-
cans. If he wishes to save any shreds OF a
once valuable character he must not delay his
public act of penitence much longer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-26


nothing will be easier than to make terms
with the poor wretches who are pining for lib
erty and ready to buy it at the cheap price
of silence, and the secret of the past dies
forever. What may come to pass with Diff
ferent result and the election of a stern, just
man who has no reason or disposition to
traffic with convicts, and no secrets in common
with the Penltentiary, we forbear even to
conjecture. 1t may be that the guilty COM
panionship of that dismal institution will be
enlarged il to Charles r. Buckalew be intrusted
the high function of executing the law OF
Pennsylvania. Hence it is that the contest is
q desperate one. It can end in but one way.
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MORE FORGERY AND Law BREAkING.
Here we have another batch OF Mr. Post
master Edmunds's illegally franked circulars,
hearing the names of James Harlan ana j. IL.
Plat, in totally different handwriting from
that in which the same signatures appeared
ON the last bundle of documents which reached
our hands. Mr.. c. Foster, Member of Con-
gress from FOstoria, Ohio, is likewise made TO
do duty as postage neutrality-suspicious. with
or without his own consent we should very
much like to know. We again invite the at
tention of the constituted authorities to sec.
IN of the revised Post Office law, which makes
the counterfeiting of a frank a misdemeanor,
punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both /;
and beg leave to remind the aforesaid author
tiles that this offense is daily committed in the
Capitol at Washington by procurement OF Mr.
J. NJ. Edmunds, Secretary of the Grant Cen
trail Committee, and Postmaster of the City OF
Washington. 1t may not be amiss to add that
when Mr. Edmunds went into Office he took
solemn oath to faithfully perform all the du-
ties required of him, and to "abstain from
everything forbidden by the laws in relation
" TO the establishment of post-offices and post
roads within the United States"
The documents sent out this time by Mr..
Edmunds under the forged franks are again
circulars in behalf of the BlantOn Duncan
Convention. They are accompanied by form
of a constitution for Straight-out Bourbon
Democratic Clubs and considering that the
professed object of Mr.. Blanton Duncan is to
secure the election of broad-fOoted Democrat
in place of either Grant or Greeley, this may
seem n rather singular thing for the Grant
Committee to circulate. We once more remind
the authorities at Washington that the frank
ING privilege does not cover Mr.. Blanton Dun
cans rubbish, and that Messrs. Harlan, Platt
| g. Co. are entitled to send nothing free except
their correspondence documents published by
order of Congress, and the speeches, debates,
and proceedings in either of the two houses.
| And since it has been shown that Postmaster
Edmunds habituany violates the law, commits
or incites a penal offense, and breaks his Off
cial oath, would it not be a good plan for the
President to put in operation that promise OF
reform in the civil service which says that
" honesty and efficiency, not political activity,
"shall determine the tenure of Office /"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-26

we print this morning. Everything Mr.. Trum-
bull says is well worth anybodys careful read
ing and in this discourse he treats with his
nsnal force and thoroughness all the questions
of consequence not at issue. Reform, retrench-
ment. the Civil Service, financial matters, all
receive proper attention, but the most signif-
cant sentiment, and the one which excited the
heartiest applause, was this: that as the word
slave had disappeared from our language
and our life, it was time that the word "rebeP'
should fall into disuse likewise.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-26

The Scandinavians of Chicago have been
persistently claimed as a unit for the Grant
party. They seem to have grown tired of this
unfounded imputatiOn, and on Saturday night
met in an enthusiastic mass convention, in
which some of their leading orators addressed
them in favor of the Liberal ticket.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-26

Mr. Stanley Matthews has an indiscreet friend In
Cincinnati fooling with types, whose anxiety TO
keep the attorney Of the War Department before
the public as a Reformer impels us TO restate bis
case Mr.. Stanley Matthews was an original adyo-
cate of the doctrine, Anybody to beat Grant, He
sought Mr.. Greeley in person, months before the
meeting of the Cincinnati Convention, to say
III vote for yOa rather than Grant, in spite of your
Protection" He wrote letter to Mr. Geo. Olmstoad
on the 10th Of March, 1872 giving formal pledge Of
the same purpose. Said he: Il would heartily sup
port Horace Greeley if he should be considered tho
strongest man for the race" He accepted the tenn
pOrary Presidency Of the Cincinnati Convention,
and in his speech declared that " in every depart
ment of the Government the slow poison Of corrup-
ton seems TO have pervaded the whole civil and
political administration of the country from head
to foot.D He was straghtway asked, on behalf Of
the Secretary Of War, for whose Department he was
then engaged in legal business, whether he meant
that the legal business Of that Department per-
vaded from head TO foot by the slow poison Of
coruptioni He fastened TO explain his high appro-
citation Of the Department which hired hm-he did
not mean it, by any manner Of means Then he got
another fee and juicy one-a five thousand dollar
retainer in the Plank Road dstillery in Hami1-
ton County. And then he came out for Grant. That
is Judge Stanley Matthew's case, and the whole OF
it. We shall be glad to publish it, so long as his
foolish defender in Cincinnati may think it need
f,I
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-26

We print this morning the views of some
of our leading ship-owners in regard to the
merits of our new Shipping law, which has
been in active operation for about three weeks.
The verdict of most of the firms visited by
our reporters was favorable to the law, though
some objections were made to matters of de-
tail, and especially to the apparently exorbi-
tant system of fees by which it is attended.
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coarse for feminine origin. It must be our
own J. T. who has for this occasion only be-
come q member of that charming circle at
Boston, draping bis plush-covered legs in
Dolly Warden
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-26
3Tetu-21ork Daily Gribmate.
MONDAY, AUGUST 90. 1872.


1t reported that the riot at Belfast was renewed on
Saturday. Fears entertained in Spain OF
another instruction. The Federal Republicans have
issued manifesto. 80 The American naval squadron
has arrived In the Baltic.
Senator Trumbull and Cen FarnswOrth are speaking
in Maine === destructive lire occurred in Cham
psign, III. So Six men were injured by mine exPlO-
sion in Pennsylvania.
Dr. Brown denies the charges made against him by
Gov Hoffman in regard to obstructng the passage Of
Iunacy acts. = Charles +. LOews friends are advo-
eating his claims for the Mayoralty. 60 Gold, 1884,
llS, llS2. Thermometer, 100, SO, 75o.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-26

1t appears we are not to have our postal
cards this season. The process by which the
Post-Oflice Department was preparing to launch
them was as usual, tainted by a real or an APP
parent fraud. Business jealousies and rivalries
succeeded in preventing the consummatiOn of
the plan, and at the last moment the Attor-
ney-General decided that the action of Mr..
Creswell was unauthorized. These things are
growing an old story.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-26

The Spanish elections have resulted in a
complete vindicatlon of the present Cabinet,
and confirmation of the statements of those
who have asserted that the party of progress
was in the ascendant. The Conservatives
seem to have been routed almost everywhere,
the Radicals having gained majority in the
Cortes, and the Republicans having elected
formidable minority. This justification of the
late action of the King, in calling the Radicals
into his Cabinet, is a happy omen for the
present and the future. The cause of liberty
will suffer nothing in the hands Of Ruiz zOr-
rilla and Martos, and in the meanwhile Cas-
telar, Figueras, and their associates can con-
tinue the propaganda OF pure republican prin-
ciples without endangering public order For
the present the Radical coalition of Progress-
tas and Democrats will give Spain as good a
government as is compatible with the mon
arcby.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-26

Gov. Andrew G.. Curtin, who has represented
our Government for three and half years at
st. Petersburg with the same ability that gave
him so enviable fame among our War Gov
ernors, reached home again, yesterday after
noon, in somewhat impaired health. The dec
larations in the Administration papers that ne
returns to take the stump for the reelection Oh
President Grant are entirely without warrant
He has been beset on all hands to this end, but 10
none of the ENJOYS, not even to the Warwick
who went from Paris to London to entreat
him, did he give any authority whatever TO
speak for him. When he has recovered little
from the fatigues of the voyage, and from his
present indispositon, he will be found album
dainty able to speak for himself; and it IS
not likely that his hosts of friends in Penn
sylyania will see any reason for disappoint-
ment in what he says.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-26

Mr.. William Lloyd Garrison has written
another letter. much like those which have
gone before it, devoted to proving the total
depravity of the Southern people, and the ne
cessity of still further Furnishing them before
we can properly consider the war ended and
its fruits gathered in. He fills his letter with
quotations from Rebel newspapers of dozen
years ago, which are about as rank in rhet-
oric and as weak and virulent in temper as
Mr. Garrison's recent publications. No one
but Mr.. Garrison could ever have furnished
his well-wOn fame. But he is DONG it as
rapidly as possible by these inexplicable ebul-
litiOns of malignity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-26

The Grant papers very unhappy because Mr..
Doolittle has made no to the attacks Of Tho
Ne,c- York Times That paper, with its usual disre-
gard for even the appearance of truth, says THE
TRIBUNE is trying to shield him. The TRIBUNE
shields nobody who does wrong, but it has no hes
itation in saying that a charge made by The Inns
Injuries no one unless substantiated by other eyi-
dence. Mr. Doottle is not candidate for any Of
fee, 80 far as we know, and his character is not q
matter at present in ISSUE But The Chicago Tribune,
paper of the highest standing and influence. pub
lished some three weeks ago a charge of gross i'm
propriety, if it nothing on the part Of
President Grant, in connection with an irregular
land transaction in which he was engaged with j.
Russell Jones of Chicago. The affair directly in
wolves his official and personal honor. 1t has not
been referred to by him or his organ. The country.
which has small concern at this moment with Mr..
Doolttle, has a right to know whether Gen. Grant
is guilty in this Swedish Colony matter. We have
said once before, what we now repeat. that we hope
it can be explained. 1t ought not to be left in tho
dark. No such charge has ever yet been made
against President For his own sake, and the sake
of the country, it ought to be answered.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-26

The friends of the extraordinary candidate
seized upon by the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS at Utica
last week softly answer the suggestion about
their having abandoned their robbery OF the
cradle for candidates and turned robbers OF
the grave, by saying that Gen. Dix Is only "a
years old. The recognized biographies OF the
General state that he served as an ensign,
adintant of the regiment, and officer on the
staff of the General Commanding during the
war of 1912. If the story which Gen. Dix and
his friends give of his age be correct, be must
have begun this promising military career at
the age of 10 and closed it at the age OF IT,
We beg to suggest that the matter OF chro-
nology might as well be revised. The oandi-
date of the Renominationists for the Cover
norship is either over 80 years of age or his
protested share in the war of 1912 is mythical
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-26

1t is a grateful relief from the watery mass
of mere talk which foods the mails during
every campaign, to meet with a speech so clear
and candid and thoroughly sensible as that Of
Senator Trumbull at Biddeford, Maine, which
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-26

The West Virginia election, according to
the Associated Press dispatches from Wheel
ing, promises to give a majority of about 5000
for the reelection of the Independent Demo-
cratic ticket. AS the contest was between
gentlemen who were both Democrats,
and both supporters of the Cincinnati
and Baltimore ticket, it has no political sig
nifcance save in one respect. Party ties are
noticeably looser. and intelligent men are
making up their minds to vote their honest
convictions, when such a demonstration OF
Republican leaders can be made against the
regular Republican ticket as that Judge
Selden lately headed at Rochester, and
when Democrats decide to reflect an officer
with whom they are satisfied, as in West
Virginia, in spite of the use of the party
machinery to put up another candidate against
him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-26

The vast majority of the carpet-bag party in
South Carolina, and the consequent sense of
impuDity felt by its leaders, have brought
about spirit Of insolent lawlessness which
may be strong enough to wreck the organiza-
ton. The candidate for State Treasurer on
Saturday spoke with great candor of the thefts
Of his friends and rivals, and certainly
made damaging statements. The Boilers Con-
vention, under Gov. Orr, was rather better
composed than the regular one; but as they
have not sufficient pluck to defy and repudiate
the great central source of corruption, they
will accomplish nothing of importance. If
anything is done for the suffering State, it
must be through the Liberal and Democratic
coalition.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-26

good thing in the way Of exposing private let
ters is the following epistle TO candidate for tho
Presidency, which are permitted to print rrbdm.
Though it reads like production of the late Arte-
mus Ward of wax figger celebrity, we assured
it is genuine and earnest:
Webster aug 10 n
Hon Horace Greedy
DEAR SIR You will remembr that met you soma
two years since at the House Rochester N Y
at that time showed you patent rat trap and you SAID
you wanted one proposed If you would write me an
order for of my traps would give you ono thas
have in my possession and prize It very nigh
ly have very recently had parties OF the Grant faction
call on me 70 get the order they want to publish and
make capital of it Will send it to you il you will give
me C0O) Three Hunded Dolls aud promise to make mo
collector Of the port Of Genesee after you are elected
president am bound to leave my farm this fall ana
stump it for you am not bought of by the Grants
can obtain a thousand voters by my influence for you
and do not want to work against you
VIII wait two weeks for an answer
Yours Truly
Adde'S Goo. w. Kints
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