New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-16


than over. and we might find that the little
enhancement which our Wholesale importers
dread would amount to something serious
after ALL
= Mr.. Greeley accepts no invitations to speak
on political questions while candidate and
it will promote the general convenience
if those who might otherwise invite him
will accept this as his final determination.
He speaks this evening at Poughkeepsie to
the Colored People in fulfllment of promise
made when he did not expect to be nomi-
mated, but will discuss no political topic
The Two-Term men had happy time at
Elmira yesterday, there being no difference OF
opinion to mar the peaceful proceedings,
though the presence of colored delegate
made q small ripple of inharmoniousness. The
resolutions were of regulation pattern, and were
adopted with complete unanimity. The dele
gates did their whole duty as one man. But
it was cruel to make them travel so far from
the CustOm-hOuse to go through the Formally.
That ardent recruit to the Administration
ranks, Mr.. Daniel w. Voorhees,, has discov-
cred that he has made one speech too many,
and so proposes to remedy his error by making
another. Discovering that he has gone over
to the Administration camp so rapidly as 10
excite suspicion, he intends coming back long
enough to explain more minutely why he
went at all. Mr.. Voorhees, case is one OF
those which demands no explication.
The gentlemen of the Chamber of Commerce
Yesterday passed series of resolutions in
structing the Senate to approve the new
Article of the Alabama Treaty. This was
very natural movement, and prompted from
true and and genuine impulse, springing from
the bottom of their pockets. But it was
scarcely necessary. The Senate have their
orders from the President, and the President
has his from Lord Granville, and there Is
little reason to fear they will disobey them.
Let the Chamber of Commerce be of good
cheer. We shall lose in this affair nothing but
honor.
1t is now stated that Gen. Buell. has full
reports of the Court Inquiry held in his case,
taken by his own stenographer. This course
was generally followed by officers placed in
defensive position before similar courts, and
there is no reason why the reports should not
be considered trustworthy. Now, then, let
Congress send for Gen. Buell. and his docu-
ments print the report, and the whole can be
easily verified. The War Department has lost
its records, and the country demands that
every possible means be taken to replace
them. The only way to do this has been In
Dictated.
1t is said that the Governor has signed 726
bills; but he has not affixed his sign manual
to any providing for rapid transit in this
city. Three of these unfortunate measures,
born out of due time, await his vital touch,
and attorneys of rival schemes and protesting
parties are making arguments before him. If
these bills had been passed month ago, as
they might have been, the Legislature could
have amended them so as to meet the Gov
ernors objections, and we should not be left,
as we are, to his mercy for any relief from the
ills we suffer on account of crowded streets,
high fares, and slow transit through the city.
The reelection of Senator Ferry by union
of Liberal Republicans and Democrats in the
Connecticut Legislature is an accomplished
fact The lesson to the advocates of prOscrip-
ton is q severe one and will have its due
effect throughout the country. Senator Ferry
goes back to the Congress which he has done
so much to dignity, and Gen. Hawley is left
to deplore the lack of influence which ordered
from Washington his election and his own
weak faith in the vitality Of the Reform
movement The crushing of party lines and the
rush of popular currents which flow together,
may be compared to the breaking up of the
ice and the freshets of the Connecticut River
in Spring.
Triumph is in the air. Scarcely has the man
who preferred Grant and party to Reform and
Liberal Republicanism been defeated in Con-
necticut, till word comes from Rochester that
the Democracy of the Empire State has fairly
and enthusiastically committed itself to the
Cincinnati platform. 1t thus puts behind it
the whole record of the war, accepts the work
of the war as final Constitutional Amend
ments, Negro Suffrage. and ALL, lifts itself from
the slough of continuous and deserved defeat,
and turns hopefully toward the problems of
the Future. We reckon this one of the most
assuring tokens of victory i'll November;
but whatever may come then, it is
victory, not for party, but for the
whole Country, now. We know no spectacle
which the non-partisan patriot will more joy
ously contemplate than the absolute accept
ance by the Democracy of the benefcent
principles of the new Declaration of indie
pendence at Cincinnati.
Mr.. Kinsella received from the Convention
a double honor, significant alike of his i'm
portance in the party, and of the hearty ap-