New-York tribune., 1874-10-29

hours of, our calamity. And further they
" AJAX YOU to vote for Tilden and cruelty
"Dix.n The blood of the Custom-house has
seldom been 80 stirred as by this appeal.
Hundreds of persons in that audience WHO
hold Office under Government and are entirely
disinterested made up their minds imme-
diately TO vote for Dix and condemn the
bastard act at Chicago" ten years ago.
And then the Judge in fine burst OF
elequence pronounced the Third Term the
"maddest delusiOn ever cOnjured by our
enemies,r 1.-THE veriest sham," and great
many such plain-spoken things, which fired the
Custom-hOuse still more strongly In its belief
that 1ilden ought to be defeated because he
cOuntenanced "the bastard act at Chicago"
Later on he just fairly withered up the soldier
who should vote for Tilden he told him not
to look into the faces of his brave comrades,
to sink away" to drop the military pre-
I" fxn to his name, to conceal his war-wOrn
"unifOrm," and to do several other exceedingly
difficult and disagreeable things. And he told
him to do it too in such a way as to leave no
doubt that it will make trOnble if he refuses
Then says the Judge. and the Custom house
force in front of him lifted up its mouth and
know very well that our oppOnents wish us
to forget the war, and Democratic Journals
make witty filings about forgotten issues OF
"an old insane conflict But no hlppant
paragraph can cover with the mantle OIL
" oblivion the record of that day. 1t was writ
" ten in innocent blood; the unutterable gr1ef
" of old men borne down with sorrow at the
" loss of beloved sons will not let 1t die-1nd
" all the tears of mourning kindred will not
" wash it out Sooner the ghosts of the dead
"will rise, and with pallid fingers point you
"to the smoke Of their torment ascending
Z" from the Hells of Andersonville and the
Libby The Judge was at his best in this,
And his tongue was not in his check. He said
all this with as much solemnity as though he
was one of the expected ghosts himself and
stood there with pallid fingers on point.
Let us see. The bastard act" was in 1854.
In July, 1856, Judge Pierrepont being men,
Der of the Democratic party and OF the Tam
many Association, made an address to the
Society in which he called Messrs. Tweed.
Sweeny, and other statesmen of that period
brethren In October, 1885, Judge Pierre
pont, being of the same political faith, made
a speech to the Democratic State Convention
in which he said in proposing the name of
John T. Hoffman for Governor: "No local
"city has any rights against the great ideas
" of the great Democratic party. Our business
"is to sacrifice anything and everything to It's
Interests" II is coincidence only that in
nominating Mr.. Hoffman the Judge Withdrew
the name of the Hon. John A. Dix So let US
see In 1874 Judge Pierrepont is urging Re-
publcans to support Gov Dix for the reason
that the party which has nominated MIR. Tilden
was guilty of "dastard act at Chicago" ten
years ago, both Judge Perrepont and Gov.
Dix having been members of the same party,
and the latter a candidate for Governor so
late as 1866, two years after the bastard
" act"
To the unregenerate mind it all seems queer;
while to the CustOm-hOuse mind it seems
solemn and earnest the man who cannot take
a Joke fails utterly to comprehend it, and the
flippant reader will probably sneer at it and
make unknd comments. But there are men,
thank Heaven, who know the Judge and who
can take a joke. This is one of the Judges
best.