, 1873-11-24

----------~-%~- ~--~------.-.e.z..s.
rest Of tho country fa ~ foolish al IL roprosont,
Now YORK City Oh tho Cuba question. il i,sa
aa,omfstlng a,, to loa:n Tho fact is that outside of
oe we nny sa9 9D4y tsyt Gqt IT. wost s o.eed
lho country hnrdly know yot what the ft,ry of
head-nos moa'i. Tho "foatning at lilo s p,o',ti IL
business is confined to few spocuiativa
oditors.-Ddyton {O.) journal: o'"''''
lilo most righteous 4nd importnnt vardto+
ovor gvoi by ali American Jury wns reniercI
yesterday morning In tho Court Of Over 10y
Iorrnlncr lin tho Tweed easel Noyor lis tho
Jury aystom beon exposed to 10 sovoro tost.
ono which viii Borvc for years to comn e''s az -
powerful argument In favor Of its rotcutiou.
-. Contrasting tllo New York OF today
Wild tl1at OF tour years ago, We may rigltfully
congratulate ourselves upon tho ollango Even
for somothin,g, and that dishonesty ia IN the
or condones it-Ne.o York Tribune.
TO Twood and to the mon who worked will,
not seem like the robbery Of IN individual Tho, .1
committed tho one offenao without Hcruplo, bui
We linvo no roason to suppose that they could
Aavo boon induced to commit tho other Illoy
were beyond tho reach Of tho penaltioa Of thaf
educated social opinion by which tic two Of:
fennoa aro acon to 10 the aaino. The ponaltie,
OF courts Of tustice ovon would have Ind no tor
rore 1or them il thoso ponalties had stoppod ut
,,,tns amerce'nonte What was neodod to break in
npuod n0m 'nc1r hp hapsty vas precisely what has hap
op;s 70 SEQ that peeulatig from city was tho same
=, 70 supplied with an unmiatakablo intliction for
~ .aeir " cEmea o. punishment which was naHociat-
They considered iufamouH. Ia thiR vfow NJ
Iwoed's caso tho part Of llis Punishment whiei,
cannot be spared Is tho part for which alone ho
~ wla 4 receive sympathy; It is indispensable tint
or tho thought OF William N. Tweed in a co,l.
Victa dress will do moro to enlighton tlo men
who most need tho enlightenment upon tho oa.
aential nature Of political corruption than nil
Tue speeches, that could DO made and all tie
now tlll doomsday ay.-Ncso York World,
-,Nothing could have been more nocossary,an
nothing could be moro opportuno, than The con.
xictlon Of Tweed In tho first place, 1t proves
fnt faran trls ~ Jury lbs not got become ridiculous
strange trials TINT public confidence In the iury
system has ooen considerably Bhaken. Wo nov
geo That When NO get fair jury and an honest
22ndge; it worka vol enough. In the no1t place,
ding and lying aro not tho qualities which lead
to permanent SUCCESS In thfs life. and tint ia a
losBon elementary aa 1t may soem) by no means
unnecessary in tue prosont ago. We 300 public
men dna .n every day deliberately
winked-that honesty In politics doea not nav
aud that tho duty Of every official il to fes thor liz
o~h nest. Well-Twoed featlored bis noat, aud
tho poorest man In tho City of New York would
not dosiro to ohange his lodging tor it,-Ne,o
Yorl: Times.
The verdict Of yesterday ia a blow tint in
tho case Of Tweed, aud in all otho1s li1se him,
skaters the picture Of deified dishonesty which
ing shroo short years ago. So high had be en-
throuod himself in tho affections Of 'tle hun.
gerers after sudden wealth that hiB statue In
imperial bronze at ono time soomed about to
dispute tho open spncea y, Of tho city with Wush-
subscribed by his henchmen and admirers, and
it aeoms like horrid droam NOW that ein11nes
Of distrust IN Tweed himsolt alone eavod tho
city from the bitter irony Of aoeiug hle bronze
shgd ehgg in dsnn pn5S 12sss fasS u Wh M Tha asms
emigrant from Europe that tho original was
:" serving his time " with other robbors in tho
Penitentiary In striped suit instead Of 4 Roman
toga. that this was tho sort Of man Americn
we'll as roguo -Ne'o York Herald.
Popular enthuBiasn, ia generally moro noble
Than wise. An incident connected with tho re-
sent meeting in stenway Hall docs NIT reflect
1rcdit on it its woll-moaning but impetuoua mau-
letter to be wrltton BY him aud read to tho meet
Ing. He wrote Quo; he wrots it with care ho
wrote it out Of the fullnoBs Of knowledge; he
wrote 1t in temperate thoughtfulncas butit was
considered to be too conservative for tie angry
temper Of the excited hour, and was Suppressed.
Ihis suppression was nnmanly. The letter
should haTo bosn read. Tho man who wrote it
is the ono man who, aboyo all others In America,
is the best 7ersed in our foreign
relations 10 was entitled to bo hoard,
,ven though other mon had kept silens.
And no hope, now that Congress- is near its a..
'embling, TINT he will DO listened to with careful
aeed, BY his peera in that body, and by tho poo
ole: To this eud We cordially second tie I1Ib-
4ne's suggestion that mr. Sumner DO immedi-
.tely restored to his old place at tho hoad Of the
Committee on Foreign Relations. Tho Cuban
l'lostion is question requiring al tho resources
Il statesmanship. and no statesman In America
90 likely to handle it with Justice to ali parties.
nd to put 1t into its proper framework Of inter-
ationat law as tho man to whom tho Stcinway
| all meeting denied tho right Of free speech.
70 would bo willing to 500 tho whole Cuban
uestion romittod to Charles Summon and EmeIio
'astelar, feeling sure that by These two states-
Aqe