New-York tribune., 1874-10-16

unnecessary: but, lest some should deem
" them unwarranted here state that they
" are suggestions only, and that they are sub
mitted with great difidence, but with tho
sincere hope that they may, to some extent.
4" aid in securing careful preparation for the
work Of the Convention, and full attend
" ance upon its sittings." Observe tho ao-
curacy with which he defines the gathering.
Sincere and thoughtful statesmen" Could
anything be more graphici He knew-hs
must have known--that Spencer and Patterson
and Pinchback and Brooks and Nc
Clure of Arkansas and Charles Hays and
Clayton and-well, he must have fOreseen
that all the sincere and thoughtful statesmen
of the South were to be there. Who could
be sncerer than Hays, or, so to speak.
thoughtfuler than Pattersonf And as for
statesmanship, where else could you gather 50
much and of such quality and at so short no
tce7 These are the men on whose fOreheads
generous Nature has inscribed quotation
from the records of public institution upon
an island adjacent to this metropolis: "Occu-
"patiOn, statesman. Religion, nOne." Tho
difident suggestion of the Postmaster OF
Washington will not go unheeded in such .
body as this The call for Outrages OF all
classes will be filed. Indeed it has been
already. Almost every delegate offers in his
own person at least one outrage upon the
Southern people. 1t will go hard it the sin
cere and thoughtful statesmen do not re-
spond to the demand for Outrages OF oil
classesI in a way that will make the hair
of this whole people stand on end. Let US
hope they will not glut the market.
May we be permitted to inquire in passing
why Mr.. Parsons of Alabama, in bis speech
upon taking the chair, put forward the asser-
ton that after the Republicans had planted
"and watered" "the Tree of Liberty" " they
had right to suppose that 1t would be-
"come beacon to light the world 7" We do
not understand why they should plant and
water tree in the expectation Of its being
beacon and lighting the world. Mr.. Parsons
is sincere and thoughtful statesman, and
his Oratory is very fine, but we do wish ha
would not be so confusing. May we ask fur
ther if in Outrages Of all classes those on
the mother tongue are includedf 1t looks as
though we might have generous supply OF
them before the sincere and thoughtful get
through. Outrages of all classes Get ready
for them. A committee OF the sincere and
thoughtful are at work carefully reporting
them, with instructions to curdle the blood
of the country with them as early as the 1st
of December next. 1t is to be hoped that the
suggestion of Mr.. Jefferson Long of Georgia
will be followed and list of "the widows
" of those who have died at the ballot-box
"with Republican tickets in their hands be
published for the cOnsiderate Judgment of the
American people. And lest the list may be
doubted, we hope the committee will be able
to show the ballot-box itself, and if possible
the Republican ticket they had in their hands
when they died. For this is an uncOmmonly
unbelieving generation. Mr.. Jefferson Longs
proposal to "plant the Convention on the
mountains of Tennessee" until tho report
" of the bloody Outrages" was brought out.
was one of great merit too. 1t seems pity
it was not acted upon. For who knows but
that if planted" and, in the words OF
Parsons, "watered," it might become "bea-
"con to all the world" 1t was an experiment.
worth trying, at any rate.