New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-08-29

| "past party association, to cooperate with us
| in sxpelling them from power and In secur-
ing such an administration of public affairs
Gas characterized the purer and better days OF
"the Republic" She is a vigorous old debater'
this Columbus fishwoman and what winning
ways she has for putting off putrid fish as a
| dsinfectant for the concern over the way.
They opened market on Thursday ut
Pittsburgh, Penn. And they were very much
in earnest about it. The spirit of that
venerable clam peddler who handed his
apprentice the emblem of his profession with
the Injunction, Blow your horn, Sammy, If
"you don't sell d clam" seemed hover
ing over the Pittsburgh market. And the first
thing the fshwoman IN charge did, after taking
q short black pipe out of her mouth and rest
ing her elbows on her hips was to free her
mind as to the party across the way. which,
she said, rapidly and loudly, had "vio-
"lated the Federal Constitution, degraded the
Judiciary, Frustrated industry, plundered the
people, usurped power, loaned its credit to
corporations without constitutional sanction,
fostcred corporations to the detrment OF
Z" the agricultural interests of the country,
introduced frauds and corruption into the
Departments of the Government and among
81 its Oflice-hOlders, and failed to dismiss
them when exposed aud convicted; APP
"pointed spies and informers to depress the
"busness interests of the country, increased
taxation till labor can hardly live business
"prOsper, trade and commerce earn their fair
rewards, or manufacturers continue their
Operations; Overawed and ignored the civil
"power and set up the army as the exponent
"of the law; invaded and subverted the
Sovereign rights of the States; revived the
"SedtiOn laws and by Federal legislation
"attempted to destroy the liberty OF the
"press; dominated the white by the negro
Grace in some States, and by its proposed
civil Rights bill made war of races immi-
"nentn-hcre she stopped moment to catch
breath-then, contemplating the fish for sale
on her own counter, added in the most insin-
uating way: Changing these Oifenses to the
Republican party, we call on all honest and
Outright citizens to redress them by so voting
Gin November as to produce a change and
"expel their authors and abettOrs from all
"paces of public trust and confidence" That
is to say, EBAY your fish at. this stall If You
"don MT want to get cheated"
They opened market at Trenton, New
Jersey, the same day. This was the party
over the way. Being in successful business
and with good prospects, the fishwoman IN
charge was more jolly in her manner and less
vinegary in her language and pepDery In her
STYLE than the Columbus and Pittsburgh fe-
males. This old woman merely folded back
her mob cap and said that the rival establish
ment had removed all the Office holders In
ew-IIampshire because they were Repub-
leans. and filed their places with Democrats
that their last act when in power was to seize
forts and arsenals, and that gigantic frauds
had been perpetrated by their leaders in
New York City. Concerning her own wares,
she modestly remarked that she was Offering
the same kind of fish that had been sold over
that counter for fourteen years, the results OF
which werc-and here she puckered and
minced" the preservation OF the Union the
"extinction of Slavery; the reorganization OF
"all the States securing equal political rights
TO all citizens the maintenance OF the Ma
"tional credit the diminution OF the public
"debt the reduction of taxes the honorable
adjustment of foreign complications the ad-
yancement of the nation in power and dig
" nifty abroad and prosperity at home anu
courageous efforts to expose official dein-
"quencies and promote integrity in public
trusts" Pleasing old woman this of Trenton,
though not so voluble as the others. But
wait till she loses her front teeth, and her fish
begin to get stale and business falls off-ah,
that q what lOosens the reins OF their fancy
and drops the brides of their tongues.
There are other markets: these are but
three illustrations. Doubtless in all of them
the fshwOmen tell much truth about each
other. Unfortunately, foul language does not
improve bad smell, and the only purpose
served in this exercise of the fishwoman's gifts
is the furnishing of doubtful entertainment
for the weak minded. Perhaps some impair
tial stranger wandering by and listening to
this high debate might inquire the subject
of the same; might wonder whether it was
politics, morals, or religion, philosophy, SCI
ence, or political economy. Not any of them,
good Stranger. They are merely selling fish
that is al-and it is not unlikely that you can
shut up any one of them by calling her
"ParallelOgram."