New-York tribune., 1874-10-26

Mr. Jackson >. ScnultZ, Ill u Ncty
and efficient way, led the struggle last Winter,
against the Jayne and Sanborn iniquity. We have
understood that he closed his Winters work by
warmly recommending for an important U. S.
Judgeship, the patron of Jayne and Sanborn, tie
disgraced Secretary of the Treasury without whose
connivance they would have been powerless
His heart had merely run away with
his head With the highest regard for Mr.. Schultzs
good intentions nOw we cannot accept his certih-
Gates as to what his bosom friend. Mr.. Isaac Ii.
Bailey the bosom friend also of the Moiety and Gus
tom-house set, would do If he got into Congress.
TIE TRIBUNE has said that =" Mr.. Bailey
would go as the direct representative OF all
that is vicious in the Custom-house influence
in our politics, as the champion OF the system when
produced Jayne and SanbOrn, and as the devoted
follower and admirer of Gen. Butler" This is what
we thought, and still think, Mr. Bailey Uoud do
Judging from his past course and associations What
he had done we said nothing about. But Mr.
Schultz informs us that Mr.. Bailey was sound
on the mOety extortion last Winter, and
did good service. We had something to do
with that struggle ourselves; and we do not
remember hearing of Mr. Bailey in it at the time !;
but we gladly give him the benefit of his friends
assurance 1t does not affect the essential point of
the objection to him representative of the solid
men of Murray Hill He has been the nOisiest,
windiest defender of CustOmhouse politics and gen.
eral practice; has been the confidential friend and
spokesman of the Murphys, Blisses, Frank Howes
Davenports and the rest of the Butler crowd in this
city; has been the devoted friend and admirer of
Gen. Butler himself; has been. we said, the cham
pion of the system which Butler invented and Grant
adopted, which produces Jaynes and Sanborns; and,
in word is believer in that style of politics which
has come to be known as Butlerism. Naturally he
sustains the Administration through thick and thin,
considers the Third Term question of sort of con-
sequence and if Gen. Grant should be a candidate,
might fairly be expected to be of his most obse
quious supporters The voters of the XIth District
may want such a man to represent them; but those
who do not, will not support Mr. Bailey
The late NJ. Guizot left in dyinga witness of his
steadlast Christian faith which will probably be
quoted more than any other passage his untiring
pen has ever traced. He begins his testament with
a comprehensive and unhinchng statement of his
faith not only in God the Creator but in Christ the
Redeemer, and in the revelations of the Bible. But
more striking still than this confession of faith, is
the confession Of the dying sage of the limitations
of knowledge and dogma. He says: Il bow before
the mysteries of the Bible and the Gospel and hold
aloof from scientific discussion and solutions by
which men have attempted to explain them. | trust
that God permits me to call myself a Christian and
am convinced that in the light which l am about
to enter we shall fully discern the purely human
origin and vanity of most Of our dissensions here
below on divine things" These are weighty
words, coming from man who has through
out his long lire been fierce IN cOntro-
versy, and so unyielding in points Of doctrine as
to gain himself the sobriquet of the Protestant
PopeD His bitterness in matters of Church dsc-
plne was 80 much stronger than his righteous dees-
tation of the Empire that he did not scrupe to call
upon Napoleon LII. to take official action against
certain clergymen with whom he was in dispute.
But with the clearer light of eternity coming in
upon him, he sees how futile are these controversies
among believers. and records his new convictions OF
charity in a paper which will be read throughout
Christendom. We may, without lmpertinence ven
ture to hope that the testament of NJ Guizot may be
read and pondered in New-York this week.
We are not generally speaking sentimental peo-
pie, and those of our countrymen who have devoted
themselves to art have reason perhaps to complain
of our lack of those demonstrations Of feeling which
successful artists receive in other countries. and
which add so much to the compensations of their
haustng labor. But sooner or later even American
reticence gives way in face of long continued and
meritorOus achievement, and then the artist has no
cause to reproach us with reserve. The reception
which Mr. Bayard Taylor recently met with at the
hands of his neghbors showed how their pride and
love of him had accumulated through long years OF
silence, and before Miss Charlotte Cushman leaves
NewYork for the season she will ascertain in what
honor she is held by its apprecatve people. One of
the clubs of he city, well known for its attentions to
art and artists is to be the spokesman fo- the rest
of us. There is talk of addresses and floral tributes
and general season Of expansion on the night
when the great artist closes her present triumphant
engagement at Booths IL is fortunate that this is
one of the in which there can be no exaggera-
ton, whatever warmth Of eApresson tho dnmonstra-
ton may take.