New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-10-02

strung up for treason, but prosecuted Tor
theft; and that The TRIBUNE should also be
prosecuted for receiving stolen property"
which, az one of the organs remarks, rs
terminal offense by the statutes OF every
estate in the Union" None Of the organs
which take this elevated view OF the case
discover anything in the slightest degree
questionable in the conduct of the leading
statesmen concerned in the case One OF them
SAYS the correspondence "shows nothing more
ethan the fact that the friendship of these
distinguished lawyers was bought at a large
"price.n Another finds "nOthing in the cor
"respondence which need offend the con-
"science of any but q very sensitive moral
"ist" and nothing to "justify the theft and
qualification of private papers" Another con-
strues the disclosure of the transactions of
Messrs. Butler and Carpenter-bOth OF whom
are at open issue with the Republican party
upon one of the most important questions IN
politics-that Of finance-as an attack upon
that party, and says "there is nothing out OF
(which they (the OppOsition) will not manu-
"facture political capital, and there is no
"falsehood so fmsy or barefaced that they
"will not circulate to further their own
"ends." - The I Hartford Courant (Gen.
Hawley's paper says: eff kellogg was
possessed of much pluck he would have
" the men who plundered his Office in Jail
"before night. The Providence Journal (Sen-
ator AnthOny's paper says: "The men who
"attempted to steal the Government of Lou
"isiana have descended from grand robbery
"to petty larceny" but says the only discov-
cry made among the rifed "papers is that Gov.
81, AnE,
"plOyed counsel" ,"There is nothing SO far"
it adds, "that shows wrong or improperly"
The statement Of our correspondent that 1.-TWO
"Senators are implicated" is the occasion of
a somewhat passionate Outburst from the Sen
atoral Journalist, who demands that their
names be given, and that :" the suspicion of
Z" this charge" should not be "leit on the
"whOle number" With warmth that does
not strengthen his argument, though it pos
sibly may relieve his mind, he concludes:
"The whole dispatch carries upon its face the
| "evidence of its false origin and its malig-
"nant purpose. II Is III the lying interest OF
{" the men who are striking for a new rebel
hon, and who rely for their support largely
"upon Northern sympathy created by such
dispatches as this"
The men and the organs who defended the
Credit Mobiler spectators because there was
no law against Members of Congress engaging
in private business, and VINO defended the
Back Pay Grab because there was nothing in
the Constitution to prevent it, could hardly be
expected to find anything in these transact
tons of the attorney statesmen (Which need
"Offend the conscience of any but very
"senstive mOralst," for really "there is no
claw against it," We shall not undertake to
demonstrate the illegality of their conduct.
Technically there was no crime in the Credit
Mobilier speculation or the Back Pay Grab.
But the people went beyond and below tech
nicalties to the marrow of the matter, the
question of the fidelity of their representa-
tives as well IN the spirit as in the letter, to
the trust repOsed in them, and upon that eX-
animation they said to the servants of two
masters, >"Step down." and they stepped.
To the attorney statesmen to whom the
people have committed the task of CIV
ing good government and honest elections
to the States of the South, and who claim the
privileges of their profession to receive pay
for obstructing in the courts the government
which they themselves confess is legal, and
sustaining the one which they admit to be a
usurpation, the people will be very likely to
say: upon the legitimacy of your practice
eve will not stop for argument, nor will we
"wait for the discussion of precedents. What
eve, the honest people of the whole country,
want is an end of corruption and mitrule,
"and a beginning of fair elections and honest
government. We want men in Congress who
"believe in this, and mean it, and who are
$50 much in earnest about it as to refuse fees
(which they might legitimately accept, rather
ethan assist, advise, or even consent to any
postpOnement of so necessary a cOnsumma-
I" ton. You are good attorneys; but just now
L" we want statesmen. Step down."
And 80 Gen. Hawley's paper, which few
years ago published a stolen Geographic dis
patch which was garbled and falsely con-
strued for the purpose of affecting q pending
election, thinks the rnep who upon assuming
Offices to which they had been legally elected
took the liberty of examining the official cor
respondence left behind by the elected usur-
patton, should be put in Jail before night.
And Senator Anthony sees neither wrong nor
improperly in a Senator's receiving $4,000 for
maintaining before Court the legality of
government which from his place in the Sen
ate he condemns as q ,usurpatioD. , The only
thine that shocks Senator Anthony is the
manner in which tie information was OBJ
tanned. Gentlemen Senators, Representatives,
Organists, Orators, and Mouthpieces gen.
orally of the Administration, let us
understand each other. Is this "a
party question Does the Republican
Party propose to take up and carry Messrs,
Butler and Carpenter and VIM. Z. Chandler