New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-08-06
A LOUD CALL TO NET-JERSEY.

outline of the coast she lay like dimpled
babe, her feet dipped lazily in the wrinkled
| waters of her lOw-lying beach, the dreamy
smile of Long Branch on her lips, her eyelids
closed in the siesta of the seasons. Andrew
Jackson Smith looked upon her as she lay
| yoiceless under the sky, her farmers tainting
the air with the Odors of the infragrant pipe
as they listened to the low pulse of the rpen-
ing. her market men at open doors In shady
places watching the fading away of the
cucumber and the blushing approach OF the
beet, her burghers making no sign save as
the slow-lifted hand waved away the agrees
sive fly or fell in scarlet-robed death upon the
gorged and preOccupied mosquito. 1t was so
quiet that even the waves of the Great Scan
dial breaking against her gates Mt Jersey City
and Hoboken just rippled down the State like
the gentle overflow of horse-pOnd bearing
on its bosom the aromatic fragrance OF the
cesspoOl. Andrew Jackson Smith was dis
turbed by the Stiffness One OF the phlle-
sophie remarks of the late Lord Byron was
that "Quiet to quick bosoms is hell" How
quick the bosom of Andrew Jackson Smith is,
we have no means of knowing, but we have
reason to believe that the existing condition
of quiet in the State of New-Jersey raised
or rather produced-in fact had pretty much
the effect indicated in the talented verses of
Lord Byron.
So, looking ont upon the State, Andrew
Jackson Smith-who, by the way, we have
omitted to say is Chairman OF the New-Jersey
Estate Democratic Committee on Organiza-
" ton r-said, What no !"-for Andrew Jack
"son Smith is one of your what no " kind,
who does not hesitate to shout from Free
dom's embattled towers, Cup drawbridge
"Let the portcullis fall !" whenever the cause
is imperiled by the choice of constable or
tax-gatherer. "What no caitiifS," said Andrew
Jackson Smith. "Fill up with blood my ink
"horn. Bring hither parchment, and set me
" forth quilts from the wings of eagles. THIS
"stagnation maddens me. 1 Will take TINS
"people by the hair. 4 will pluck the state
I'M by the roots This shall no longer be u
Gland where it is always afternoon. Election
day approaches. Let us begin to climb the
climbing wave" And then with Jersey
lightnings playing round his manly brow and
whole volcano heaving his patriotic BOSOM
in graceful periods and flowing lines, with
sounding tropes and stirring metaphors, with
roll of drum and blare of bugle, and rattle and
roar of rifle and cannon, and flutter of flags,
and march ofaImies he filings into an Address
the OVERLOOKING emotions of the Democratic
State Committee. "TO the Democratic and
" Conservative Electors of NewJersey," bursts
he forth. "The time is rapidly approaching"
he SAYS, and with the statement immediately
arrests public attention for whenever Com
mittee starts ont with this unusual announce
ment it awakens curiosity and attracts universal
notice-"is rapidly approaching" he con-
tinues, "when you will again be called upon
"to exercise the right of franchise for
" the veal of our gallant old Commonwealth"
This is so much better than saying, The
"New-Jersey election takes place in Novem-
" ber,n that Immediately every head bends
forward and every ear flaps toward him to
catch whatever shall come next. His audience
thus secured, he looks New-Jerscy i'll the eye,
and upon the same high poise goes Oh with
the Address. "Your devotion to the prlncl-
pies of the party be says. "has been ex-
" cmplitied on many well contested field,
and victory over the party in power has
" been signal, and emulated by sister States"
This sentiment is so lofty and beautiful, and
so loftily and beautifully expressed, that no
right minded man would interrupt 1T by any
absurd inquiry as to what the principles of
" the party" are, or what Is meant by the
well contested fields" and the victory"
that ~ "emulated by sister States" And yet
we doubt not there are men, citizens voters,
who, looking through this Address in vain for
some indications of what "the principles of
the party are, will say the whole thing is
"a nconsequent "a the "Smithn that follows
a.,
depraved is human nature.
lie proceeds to remark that despotlsm,
GENERALIZATION of power, deliberate and glarlng
corruption hy the party now holding the relns
"of the National Government" are well
known facts. TO the NcwJersey citizen who
has seen the President on the road at Long
Branch this figure of holding the reins Is
peculiarly striking. Language could not be
better chosen. But now" says Smith, with
great sunburst of confidence, the tidal
"wave of justice and retributiOn is sweeping
"with relentless power over the land, and the
Republican party will, after the next cleo
Z" ton, be known no more save by the anathe-
" mas of an outraged people" There is so
much of historical accuracy in this statement
that we sincerely hope no skeptical New-Jer
| sey person VIII SCRATCH Ills car anu consluer
that several thousand Post-Offces. and
| Custom-houses and the like in the coun-
try hinder the grain of prophecy it contains
from being received with entire credence.
| His arraignment of the party in power is so
calm and judicial, and so free from exaggera-
ton, that we transcribe it. He says: "By
'their systematized plans of fNud and DIS
"honesty they have brought the republican
"fom of government into disgrace at home
and abroad, and burdened the country with
great and grievous taxation; have ruled one
half Of the Union by the baYOnet have nn-