New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-06-13

Dir. Sumner - no worse than the Senators who made
speeches against tho Administration Of Adams.
Jackson, Van Buren,, and Tyler. The only differ
ence is that Mr. Sumner has dono the thing uncom-
monty we'll 1t is easy to talk Of personal oppOsi
ton but all political opposition has q personal
character, ard viii continue TO have
long as political affairs arc administered
! by moro men. When we elect angels
| to Office, perhaps tho case viii be different.
But rich as tho English language is in the adjectiyes
to which we have alluded the supply promises, m
less il is more economically improved, soon to DO
exhausted. One newspaper tells us that the speech
was =" mean. yndictive, and personal to the last do
grce' According TO other journals, it is reckless
foolish intemperate" outrageous I'M
Christian" maleyolentp Again, it is extraya
CANT in abuse invectiye epithet misrepresentation
SANDER and falsehoOd." Likewise it il full OF
"untutored egotism." Another writer finds in it
only Islander. defamation, and foul aspcr-
son% another, ga bitterness and venom
which have never been surpassed" an
another, gross caricatures and splenetic hbcls;.
another, silly lies and stale slanders:'
another, only "ohagrn and disappointment,'
together with oyerweening ambition" And
so on. and so on. If all wero in Mr.
Summers speech which these gentlemen profess to
find in it, it is evident that they willing enough
to DO his imitators. 1t would appear that they
do Mt so much object to " scolding" as to way OF
scolding not easily answered. In short they are
themselves hardly so sweet tempered, courteous
nice in language and refined in phrase that they
afford to others for illnature bad manners
and coarseness of speech; and, if they and theh
idol wero not hit hard, why all this howlingi
We learn that Mr. Joseph Jefferson, who was en-
gagged to appear this week in Philadelphia has been
obliged to decline on account Of threatened blind
ness. The loss of sight in one eye If not IN both, 70
threatened but the oculists under whose caree has
placed himself have well-founded hopes OF his re-
covery. Mr.. JefIersOn's hosts of warm personal
friends Will wait the result Of the operation to-day
with anxiety, though, however it may end, he will
stll be left to Them But if 1t fails, the country
will have lost Rip" and who can afford TO spare
hint Rip, with his rags and his rare bumor. bis
joty and his infinite pathos. has become one of the
few great creations Of nature and Of art that seem to
belong to all humanity as sort OF birthnght. Ne
preacher now living has the power to move Us
with lesson of higher meaning, or to wiring our
hearts with deeper sense Of human brotherhood
and charity than the drunken, tempted Dutchman.
Mr. Jefferson has, in fact, done more probably, than
any other in day to lift the stage from its
undescrved oblOQuy. aud to restore it to its proper
place. of the most powerful and eleyating In
uences of civilization, not only by tho rare gcnius
purpose which has always marked him a true artist
but by simply showing by his quiet, Christian life
how an actor can /" bear without abuse the grand
old name of gentleman" We will not say goodbye
to him or to Rip. We will believe that he has only
gone away again for nights sleep with Hem
dirk and his men, and will come back to find tho
whole country ready to greet him, unlike the tardy
village of Falling Waters. He shall not find one
friend gone OF forgetful or miss the welcoming
bark of a single dog Schneider.
1t is complained, honestly enough on the part Of
some, that a year or two ago The TRIBUNE
favored the Ku-Klux legislation, which it
now opposes. This is true. When THE
TRIBUNE favored such legislation there were
gross Ku-Klux outrages; there was great
aorm concerning the condition Of the South;
there was in many sections, as has been since
abundantly established through Congress inves-
tigation, decisions of the Courts. and other
wise, an absolute reign of terror. Under
these circumstances TIE TRIBUNE was willing,
whether wisely or unwisely we do not now argue to
favor strong for the sake of securing peace
and putting an end to the prolongatiOn Of the war;
which the Klu-Klux Outrages meant. 1t is opposed
to Ku-Hux legislation on the distinct ground
that there is earthly occasion for it, The South
is absolutely at peace nothing is likely to disturb
that peace unless il be just such legislation this
We DO not now canvass tho grounds for fayoring or
opposing the old legislation. What we do say now
is that there is at present not the slightest reason
for renewing it that on the contrary there Is every
reason for opposing It's renewal.
great scandal in Worcester Mass, is exposed in
The Spy of that city, VIII it be believed that
etcry there known as the Pine Meadow has been
surrendered to children for a playground, TO goats
for pasture to hogs for pen. and to chickens for
yard That the doors of the tombs swing to and
fro with the wind, so that fowls enter at will and go
to rOost upon the dilapidated collins That In ono
tomb the remains of thirteen children may DO seen
heaped higgledy-piggledy on the foorf That in an
other tomb are eight OF nine collins every one OF
which has been broken into with stones, and all OK
which are exposed to the gaze of passersbyf That
young men and boys have used the monuments and
headstones for targets, 50 that many of them have
been mutilated past all Identification That the
people of the vicinity have taken the yard for
baseball grOundf We never before heard of such
piece of vandalism in a civilized, or, for that matter.
in an unoivllized land, beforehand yet this was)in
Worcester, a city honorably famous for antiquarian
research!
Here IL the most narrow escape which we ever
read of or heard Of There is a in the st. Louis
Medical Socety-no very uncommon thing III such
societies. to be sure-and charges have been
brought by DIR. LangfOrd against a gentleman with
the striking name of DR.. Hammer. What the
charges were we neither know nor care. We only
wish to state that when the vote was taken it re-
suited as follows: Whole number Of votes CO;
necessary to expulsion, 51s; Yeas 81; Nays, IS. SO
the fortunate Hammer escaped ignomny and social
destruction by the nero fraction of vote Upon
what principle they vote in the st. Louis Medical