New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-12
4 DOCTOR ON A DOCTOR.

When DR.. Grant visited Utica the other day
the Rev. DR.. Fowler of that city, for lack,
perhaps of better subject, determined to
preach sermon upon the suspicious event
OF this occasional discourse The Utica Herald
furnishes a report, from which it appears that
DR.. Fowler began rs follows, his text being
HONOR THE KING"
The visits of soyerens are ways eras in the histories
OF towns. Time IL reckOned from tlem and monuments
erected in honor OF them This not only is character
istc OF mouarches, but Is also characteristic OF all
humanity and hence exists In republics as wei as in
other forms OF government The President OF these
United States recently passed through this city,
Every townsman trust, has honored him while he was
here"
As it is not only characteristic of mon
arches but also of republics to reckon time
from and to erect monuments in honor OF
the visits of sOvereigns," we suppose that III
Utica they have already discarded their alma
macs, and now date their letters, ETC., Five
"days after the advent of DR.. Grant" Per
hans, in the excess of their admiration, they
will drop Ammo Domini altogether and substi-
tute Ammo Grantii. Nor may this mark of re-
spect be confined to "pent up Utica" and
when all the towns visited by DR.. Grant have
thus revised their chronology, there may be
such a dreadful confusion of dates that even
the wisest may not know Sunday from the
3lst of February. When the Uticans have
erected their monument in honor of the Pres
idenfs visit, its dedication will involve an in
vitation to him to be present, which will in
volve still another dedication and another
visit, so that Dr. Grant will probably employ
the remainder of his life in going to Utica,
and the Uticans the remainder of their lives
in erecting monuments. Add to this the SER
mons which DR.. Fowler will consider it proper
to preach on the OCCASION of each new visit,
and il is evident that the present generation
of Uticans will pass the rest of their existence
in building, brass-banding, and visiting DR..
Fowler's Westinghouse. We would not, for
the world, so much as intimate that after
twenty or thirty receptions they may find His
Excellency bore. Even if they should, he
too may come to consider the Rev. DIR. Fowl
er bore also; and so all things will be even.
Looking a little more into DR.. Fowlers
sermon, we find that not to respect DR.. Grant
is to be wanting in all the better instincts
/" of humanity GAS q man." we are told,
"he is plainn And also "honest." And also
| endowed with world of domestic affec-
| tom But now we come to the most
astonishing remark made by the Utica divine.
"In individual characteristics he (Dr. Grant,
franks side by side with Queen Victoria
What on earth was DR.. Fowler driving at
when he thus likened the Great RenOmi-
mated to a somewhat Elderly Female - in
fact a Grandmother What individual char
acteristics has V. X. In common with the
Republican candidatei She does MT smoke
she does mt moisten her clay; she has no par
ticular passion for horses, and none for bull
pups. The only point of resemblance which
we can think of is, that she appoints good
many of her own family to office.
But even DR.. Grant, according to Dr.
Fowler, is not perfect. His only weakness
says the sermon, "has been in the selection
of some of his associates in power" Oh
that has been his weakness, has It'll Whom
could the preacher possibly have been refer
ring tot Possibly, Col. 6. X. Leet; perhaps
honest Tom Murphy; may be Col. Howe, OF
Mr.. Jayne, or Col. Whitley, or some other
Colonel. Or the Reverend NJ. j. Cramer or some
other Reverend. Or Brother-in-Law Casey OF
some other brOther-in-aw. Or Cousin Lampei
or Brother Orvil Grant, or some Other
cousin or brother. Well might the good
preacher of Utica say Ills only weakness
"has been in the selection of some of hi'
associates in power.' The only thing we OBJ
ject to in this is the phrase "only weakness.
Well may the Doctor add: 81 am panied to
"hear the accusation of nepotism against the
President DIR. Fowler isn't alone IN thu
feeling. The whole country shares it will
him.
The Doctors discourse winds I'D with