The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-04-08

to twenty-four nays.
| To every man in the nation or out of it
who knows what this fact means the bare
statement of it is more moving than any
words of ours about it could be. It means
that the Senators have deliberately dishon-
ored the name of the nation which they rep
resented in what were once its chief places
of dignity. They have told their country
men and all the world that the paper promises
of the United States to pay the creditors of
the United States will remain forever, so far
as any act of theirs goes, unfulflled paper
promises to pay Nay, more; they say by
their votes that they will not m6fsly refuse
their help to redeem the promises already
made, but that they will put afoat forty-four
millions more of paper promises to pay gold
dollars, trusting that the public faith they
have broken will be accepted again by the
public creditors in the hope that future Sena-
tors will be wiser and honester than them
selves.
We say they have done this thing deliber-
ately. In the months Of debate since this
swindler's trick was first proposed in the
Senate from the floor of the Senate itself, from
the best informed among the newspapers,
from the farthest sighted among bankers and
men of business, has come the warming and
the proof that imitation meant reputation and
ruin, and that every step taken by the present
Congress towards imitation or the making of
made more toilsome and more remote the steps
of any future Congress towards resumption or
the keeping of the promises already made.
To say that Morton and Merrimon and the
rest did not know this is to charge them not
merely with intellectual unftness to be Sena-
tors, but with intellectual unftness to be at
large. We know not whether to be glad or
sorry that Schurz and Thurman and the rest
were in the Senate to confute what in an lnd-
ana groggery before the crusade of the women
might have been considered to be sophis-
try, but what by even such brains as are to be
found in an Indiana groggery in On unmud-
died state, would be perceived to be sheer and
palpable nonsense. One thing those con-
futations made certain-that the Sena-
tors who yesterday dishonored the ma
ton dishonored it deliberately. They were
sinners against light" It was shown them
over and over, SO plainly that he must have
been transcendent fool who failed to see it,
and transcendently impudent demagogue who
pretended that he failed to see it, that every
step towards initiation was a step towards re-
pudiation and the abyss of national dishonor-
very literally a step leading down into hell"
1t was shown them over and over again that
the project which entailed or went towards en-
failing these consequences, which to every
Thoughtful and patriotic American are, in
strictness of speech, awful conse-
quences, had absolutely no compen-
sating advantages to honest men. 1t
was shown that by q process as sure as
the result of gravitation the new issue they
have authorized of inconvertible, and for
aught this Congress or men like its members
will ever do towards redeeming them of ire
deemable, promises to pay will find their way
whittier preceding issues have found theirs
and become the counters of gamblers game
In the grim satire which was the last of Mr..
Schurz's many protests, vigorous and vain,
against the dishonor which Mr.. Schurz might
have been pardoned for not feeling SO keenly
as native born American, the futility of
this measure for its ostensible purpose was
as plainly set forth as the terrible effective
ness of it for ends which no man can say that
he regards as desirable ends without proclaim
ing himself traitor and scoundrel. 1t is
an insult to the intelligence of the Senators
| who voted for the measure to say that they
did not know the futility of it for those pur-
poses. They were simply overborne by the
loud, ignorant clamor OF their constituents at
their DOORS and they gave up the honor of the
nation, SO far as it was in their keeping, and
the interests of every American man engaged
in an honest industry, in Difference to that
clamor. We care not whether these cowardly
demagogues were democrats or republicans. If
the democratic party cannot survive without
the sacrifice of all the principles and all the
sentiments which it exists to embody and
contend for, the democratic party had better
die. 1t will never do the work it was founded
and ordained to do until it is purged of the
faint brought upon it by the votes yester-
day of the six recreants-Bogy, Goldthwaite,
Johnston, McCreery, Merrimon and Norwood
who put themselves and who tried to put it
upon the record in favor of national dishonor.
This is no time to pick phrases The argu-
ments are all in and the verdict is given. The
only thing left is to make up the record
| Time, and that o short time, will show, so
that no Morton nor Merrimon can gainsay it.
what the result Of the vote in the Senate u.s.
When that time comes we do not mean to be
found with those guides of the people whom
the very men who now bless them will be
cursing. And he who is not with us on this
transcendent issue must be against u.s.
TIE FAMINE IN INDIA.-In q recent meet
ing of Parliament Lord George Hamilton