New-York tribune., 1872-07-03
THE ppOFOUND PARTY.

THE PROFOUND PARTY.
We are indebted to The Anglo-Americdn
Times for the information that there ls
" rising party in the United States-a party OIL
" earnest reformers, powerful in intellect IL
" not in numbers, and exercising through that
" no small measure of influence" 1t must DO
that this information is obtained
from weekly newspaper in this city when Is
the organ of the Profound Party, anu thaI
tho English commentator has been good
natured enough to take these extraordinary
gentlemen at their own estimate. The Amerl-
m pnbic. which has had several brief though
bll-marked experiences of these small out
sheriiDe parties, will not be much agi-
ta,d by tho advent OF another,
with appears to be the weakest Of
The hole series, and altogether "too bright
" ant good for human natures daily food"
We not find ourselves in the least disposed
for arhrgument, when these admirable crea-
lures IL us that they alOno have heads, while
the mas of men have only hearts; that they
have maory while others are forgetfui, and
iudgmenwhile everybody else is foolish. we
grant it II. We acknowledge their superb
Ority, we dmit their purity, we question not
their sagaity, we own that they are learned;
and if the desire to consider themselves the
salt of the arth, Heaven forbid that we should
depreciate heir SAVIOR! If they are hap
piest in teir Libraries, let them stay
there and welcome; if they find a pc
culiIr sati5fstion in writing and printing
essays, let tam write and print; and II they
believe that the country can be saved by
nom mating f. the PRESIDENCY man who
cannot, by an. possible combination OF CIR
cumstances, Il an electoral vote, let them
nominate to thr hearts cOntcntl 1t is all OF
less than Tootan no consequence, if we con-
sidcr it with reard to the safety of the Re-
public. while, a>thc ornaments of our politics,
these rare birdslre not to be despsed. 1t is
true that they dspise everybody outside their
select circle butthen we must remember how
wise ana great thy are. If the Government
has been so arlnged that the fools and
the ignOramuses must always be in the ma
jority, We have oily to thank the Providence
VIII ca has providd these seers to tell us what
jackassos we are, md how, by every rule OF
political philosophy we ought to be going to
pCrditiOn, when, inpoint of fact. we are lndls-
putably proceedingthe other way!
The solemn pronmciamento Of Mr.. Edward
Atkinson, which wereprinted from The BoS-
ton AdueriiScr the otrr day. is perhaps as good an
illustration as we ould have of the square,
toed and superciliOE notions OF the Profound
Party. That Mr. .tkinsOn should think 1t
necessary to issue aIroclamatiOn at all Is one
of the droIlest feaures of the affair. What
would have been the difference in the result OF
the coming election / Mr. Edward Atkinson had
not emitted this curious cardf Not one
voter in one hundrcl thousand will be IN the
least infu, need by t and yet Mr.. Atkinson
writes as if he expected to create sensation.
His production Will 70 immensely admired by
his own little cirCh; but then it must be
allowed that its enoticns, whether OF grief
or g.adness, have no marked political bearing.
What the gentleman seems to be proudest
Of is that his party is so prodiglously small.
The way in which nc marches towards the
catastrophe of the Fifth Avenue Conference
reminds one of the mock herOics OF dramatic
buresque. "The purpose of the Conference was
gone" he says with a sort of stately grief-"lt
" dissOlved.n 1t most certainly did. There Is
no doubt of it. When Bombastes Furioso
dismissed his great amy of three or four it
was with the injunction not to "kick up a
crow" Mr.. Atkinson. on the contrary, inti-
mates that there will be a terrible row kicked
up by-and- -by-in the Congress Districts! Ills
the way of the Profound Party. The country
never is astonishod, but then it may always
expect to be.
Still, we will do Mr.. Atkinson the justice to
admit that he does not withhold hint of the
method by which he hopes to astonish us.
He means to issue another declaration,
which will "appear officially" when 1T can
be determined by the names appended to 1t
"whether or not it will have any weight
"either in the Presidential contest OF, what is
"now of far more importance, in the Congress
"dstricts.n Was there ever such faulty
The whole country agitated by Presidential
elcction-mass meetings held in all quarters
the minds Of men absorbed by the contest
the cannon exploding and the flags flying
and at this bosterous moment, Mr. Edward
Atkinson thinks 1t will only be necessary tC
issue another little document with "name'
"appended to it."
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