The sun., 1873-04-17

fl1ncc HsMARCK; and they are perhaps
informed respecting the only matter on
which we in this country remain i'm unccr-
tainty Did Mr.. BANCROFT act upon his
own deliberate impulse when he invited
Herr LAskER to dinner? or was il in com
pliance with Instructions from President
GRANT and Don IIAuiIroN FISH? And do
the President and Secretary ~ state ex-
pcct the foreign ministers in Washington
to reciprocate the courtesy Ivy particular
attentions to those who have exposed
official malversations here and borne their
part in the desperate aud dang crous war
with American coriup,iouy
The German Minister in Washington H.
Baron kURD voV ScruGzrR. gentleman
who in learning high charactcr and fine
appreciation Of the proprieties of his place
would lose nothing 10y comparison with Mr..
BANCROFT. suppose hc were 90 give Il few
splendid spreads in houorof thcu,w move
meut for official purity and dccorum in the
tn,ed States; what would President
GRANT think Of ~ And what would
Don HAMILTON FrsH say? Suppose Baron
NoN SCHLdZER were to entertain first
of all the members of the Joint
committee of the Massachusetts Lcgis-
laturr. who proved Mr.. J. g. B. DA-
WIS. now Assistant Secretary of state. tn
have taken q bribc of 100000 in the affair
of the Boston, Hartford aud Erie Railroad.
suppose he were then to invite the editor
OF THE srN 10 10 sumptuous feast for
dragging into light the stealing of the
obese and jolly Secretary OF the Navy, So
cor RoBEsoN, who plundercd the Treasury
of s03000. and handed II over TO confcdcr-
atcS of his to whom nm express law sppci-
ically forbade him To pay II cent. Then
the German Minister might perhaps give
another banquet still more sumptuous, 10
the same editor for lifting the veil from
the Credit Mobilicr, and showing TO the
world the true character of matchlc,s
array Of official hypocrites standing at the
head of great party and dcfrauding the
country rs the eXponents and advocates
of great moral ideas. After that he might
continue with n succession of dinners. in
viting first Mr.. n. G. LEA, who has exposed
some of the villainies Of the Philadelphia
Ring; then senator SCHURz, who opened
up the French arms TRANSACTIONS: then
senator SUMNER, who demonstrated the
Presidents uepotism; then the committee
who reported on Brother-in-law CAsEY's
knnvcrics at New Orleans: then Scnntor
MORTON, who drove CALDWELL out of the
Senate; and 80 on. II he were to invite all
who deserve such honor for such reasons,
the number Of his bauquets would be great,
and every one of them would bc just A.
appropriate Us that of Mr.. BANCROFT In
compliment to Herr LAsI.ER and his ri.'i-
road revelations.
What an interesting combination of
gournnndism and politics, OF noble feast
ing and reform. would be iuaugurnted bv
such concatenntion OF dinners COM
mcncod by Mr. BANCROFT in the Old World
with the venerable Emperor and Prince
BISMARCK a> spectators. and continued i'm
tine New 10y the German Ambassador amid
the lively admiration If President GRANT
and Don HtNrLToN FISH! OF course thcs.
two celebrated statesmen would bc pre-
vented hy etiquette from Attending OFF
'idliy; but at the two banquet tu tIer'-
itor of ruG SIS they could -hp an private
lA 90 drink q hunporof VIA, and ,uolcu
ci-ar or two at the close.
Considerable fu-s las l,,u m.l, about
the abolition by the spanish republican Goy-
tlNll'l' 'l slavery l'i i'H rnIf fN Porto Il.rU.
SNmpUhIfcts with spain aud her Institutions,
among whom n-urc prominently the member,
Of our Republican Cabinet at Washington. would
fain convince unhcucy r, that this voluntary
abolition ~ slavery IN Porto Rico "a Int an
earnest u what the rruubl.c when moro firmly
established, VIII 90 for slavery Ia Cuba. The
truth is that tAe Law under which every former
slave is immediately set at liberty ma, been pro-
claimed In Porto Rico. and slavery no longer
exists there \ yagabnud law Ia, likewise been
enacted which ordains that for period of i've
years every former slave must contract To serve
some master at his the slaves option that is
he or she must have Ni-ihle method II living
At the end of the stimulated five years all the
freedmen are to enjoy fun rights Of citizenship.
All this reads well, and has but one drawback
for use by those who from 1t would deduce a
proof Of the dawn Of liberal ideas among the
republicans Of Spain. The new law will benefit
none hut old folks, already incapacitatcd for
labor by age, and children whose services are
not vet available.
Every able-boded Porto llican slave has been
transhipUci to cuba and sold there. No less
than nine thousand have been 30 transferred
within the past six months.
IL is generally known that resolutions
Cpusuriug Senator SIfNNTu for bis i,tttc 40,