New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-07-23

Address and forgetting everything else In thu
fascinating interest of Its pages
1t is q document not for q day but for all
time People will be found reading this Adj
dress when the solitary New-Iealander sits on
the crumbling foundations Of the last River
Bridge-and perhaps not till then. 1t does Mr.
John A. Logan and his thirty-eight fellow
contributors great credit. the manner
in which the whole thirty nine vault lightly
If we may be allowed the expression-upon
the bannisters of Time at about the period oil
Ptolemy l. and slide gracefully down to the
Heptarchy and the Conquest, and then to the
Administration of Mr.. Buchanan, is worthy OF
all praise. We hope we do not Overestlmate
its effect when we venture the prediction that
no citizen of the United States after reading 1t
will ever again vote for James Buchanan. 1t
is most earnestly to be hoped that for this
reason the Address will have a wide circula-
ton in the interior of Pennsylvania, where 1t Is
understood Mr.. Buchanan Is constantly run
ming for something. There may be some doubt
about its effect in other respects. but no can
did person can read the portions relating to
| Mr. Buchanan's AdministratOn-and any one
of moderate attainments can accomplish 1t by
giving two or three hours day to
it for the rest of tho Summcr-without
being impressed with the conviction that
it is fatal to Mr.. Buchanan'S prospects as
politician. 1t may perhaps be objected
by captious persons that Mr. Buchanan Is
dead. But so is Slavery. And just for that
reason shall these thirty mine statesmen SHRINK
| from discussing iti In the name of the Post
Office and Custom House, then, what shall they
| discuss Is there not ut every election I'M
minent peril of the revival of Slavery Ana
are not Mr. Logan and the thirty eight lead
ing statesmen, including George E. Spencer
negecting their other business and staying IN
Congress to prevent i'll Is it not well under
stood that when these gentlemen get OH the
| gravest0ne of that institution 1t VIII rise
| right ND and oyersiadow tho landF And IL
| Slavery why not Mr.. Buchanan Let us adj
nit frankly then the Importance OF that large
norton of the Address which has Tor its OBJ
ect the defeat of Mr. Buchanan, and let us
| read it carefully, even it, in the words OF the
| Great Silent Man, sit takes all Summer"
The history of our internal Improvements,
and especially of the Louisville Canal which
makes another considerable portion OF
The ncfarious transactions of the Democratic
party in connection with the Louisville Cana!
and other improvements, are described in a
fine vein of satire, but with such minuteness
and particularly as cannot fail to harrow up
the soul of the most casual reader. There Is
something in the style of this narrative which
would lead us to attribute 1t to Alr. John a.
Logan who was prominent and active mem
Der of the Democratic party during all the
period it covers and yet 1t shows such intl-
mate acquaintance with all the details Of the
wickedness it describes that we should not be
surprised if it should turn out to be Simon
Cameron, another Democrat of that period,
who has turned States evidence. However
that may be, the country is rejolced to have
the facts from those who not only knew
all about the great deception and cheat, but
assisted in carrying it on. 1t is valuable
though unexpected addition to political history,
and cannot be read too thoughtfully by the adj
mirers of those sincere patriots, John A. Logan,
BENJAMIN T. Butler, Matt Carpenter, and
Simon Cameron, who supported and held
Office under that base, bad party when it was
in power and are now emitting themselves to
popular favor by denouncing its corruption.
1t Is quite the fashion now to answer charge
of lying by proving some OF your family I'M
chastc.
The proposition of the Union Republican
Congressional Committee" to take issue with
the opposition on the subject of the Louisville
Canal, is one that will awaken the admiration
and arouse the enthusiasm of every Post
master in the land. Since the Credit Mobilier
investigations, the Salary Grab movement and
retreat, the CustOm-house inquiry, and the
District of Columbia exposures, there has
been a profound conviction in the minds of
our leading Administration statesmen that the
next Congressional elections, and possibly the
Presidential campaign of 1876, ought to
be fought on some question of absorbing
National importance like this, for instance,
of the Louisville Canal. That eminent
political economist, Mr.. John A. Logan. has
been heavily burdencd with this view of the
situation ever since the veto Of the Currency
bill. He knows that the Democratic party
was guilty of great wickedness in connection,
with the Louisville Canal and that the Re-
publican party having been occupied with
other things for the past eight years, as for
instance giving the South honest government
and restoring specie payments, has had no
| time to correct it. He believes that five or six
years more of Post-O Offices and Customhouses
will give the party chance to put things
right in the matter Of the Canal He is very
sagacious statesman. And 80 are the Other
thirty-eight. Including George Z. Spencer. q.
| There are other things i'm the Address. No