New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-09-17

of the age but his mind of secondary size, de-
uded by success and flattery into the sef-concelt
that he was of the first magnitude. lie came for
ward at very early age, with brilliant reputation
sustained by all the weight and influence OF his
uncle George Clinton, then transcendcnt in New
York: was of the council of appointment that broke
down and drove into retirement John Jay, and in
1909 was elected 10 the Senate Of the United States.
He there sat only one session, and in October 1903
resigned his office for that of Mayor of the City of
New-York then extremely lucrative, but rs far be-
meath that of Senator of the United States in dig
nity as surprising it in profit. This step of political
bathOs marked in characters indelible the measure
of De Witt Clinon's mind. From the Senator of a
sovereign State in the most select council of the
Union he shrunk into the police officer of single
city, and busted his mind with the regulation OF go
carts and the punishment of shop-lifters lie
afterward got beyond the bounds of the State of
New-York as q public man, though in 1912 he made
a desperate plunge at the Presidency of the United
States, purchasing the support of the Federal party
by a sudden and even indecent dcscrton of his own
more literally purchasing influence in various
parts of the Union by hired agents, vcnal presses
and even stipended inerant preachers to the utter
ruin. il is said of his private fortune. 'Alieni ap
pctens sui profusus.' He thus became formidable
competitor and received eighty mine electoral votes
Mr.. Madison receiving hundred and twenty-eigllt.
Mr.. Clinton has since gone through at least four
vicssitudes of political fortune in his State and
was now reduced to the last stake of declaring him
self partisan of General Jackson, to rivaze with
Mr.. Calhoun for the Vicc-Presidency. The New-YOrk
Legislative caucus, therefore, in nominating Jackson
fOrebore to make any nomination of Nice-presidcnt.
and Clinton was feeding his hopes of the China-Jor-
dan, when arrested by the tanner of all ambition and
consigned to the sepucher and the worm. hear in
his fate the voice of the same teacher BE We also
ready. Lord. teach us TO number Onr days that
we may apply our hearts unto wisdom" The cccen-
trio Vrginian hnmOrist. John Randolph, fares still
worse at the hands of the cXaspcrated President.
" / read also the speech of John Randolph on re-
trcnchmcnt and reform published by himself in
pamphlet with notes. 1t is, like all his speeches,
farrago of commonplace political defamation, min
gled up with tumble of historical illusions scraps
of Latin from the Dictionary of Quotations, and a
continual stream of personal malgnity to Others and
of inflated cgotism, mixed i'll proportions like those
of the liquor which he tipples as he speaks IN
the House. and which he calls ast-watcr-about
onc-thrd brandy and two-thirls water. This il the
speech i'm which he charges Mr.. Clay with having
condescended TO eectioneer with him: asserts there
was combination of Webster and Clay against
me, which, in note, he says defeated by causing
the votes which Mr.. Crawford got i'll the New-York
Legislature to be given to him, and thereby securing
his return to the House aud excluding thereby Mr.
CLAW This idea of my causing votes of the New
York Legislature, which | could not obtain for my
self 10 be given to Mr.. Crawford, is one OF the
most ingenious i'll the whole pamphlet and Is sam
ule of the materials of which his accusations
composed. The TancOr of this mans soul against
NE is that which sustains his life and so it is of W.
a. II ri,,ia Iba nf
their envy and hatred of me- and the hopes of effect
ing my downfall, are their chief remaininng sources
Of vitality. The issue Of the Presidential election
wilkill them byfhe qualification of their revenge
The portraiture of President Harrison presents
features which viii hardly be recognized as belong
ing 10 the hero of Tippecanoe. "Mr. Vance, mem
Der from the State of Ohio. came to recommend the
appontmcnt OF General Harrison Minister to the
Republic of Columbia. This PERSONS thirst for III
crativc office is absolutely rabid. Nice-Presldent,
Maior-G General of the Army, Minister to Colombia
for each of these places he has been this very session
as hot in pursuit as a hound on the scent OF hare
He is Bardrd of % lively and active, but shallow
mind, political adventurer, not without talents,
but sclfsuflcient, vain, and indlscrcet. lie has,
withal a faculty Of making friends, and is nccs-
sanity mpOrtuning them for their influence III his
favor If Mr.. Adams thus emits the "vcnOm OF
his spleen" against persons who were not tohs taste
he could be " sweet as Summer" to men of a con-
trary stamp and lavish of his praise to those whom
he thought deserving of his good opinion. An eX-
ample of this is afforded in his eulogium of General
Brown. DISTINGUISHED officer in the war of 1872,
though his name is well nigh forgotten by the pres
cnt generation. "1he immediate cause of his death
was lung fever taken this day week but its primary
cause was the severe wound that he had received
during the late war with Great Britain, and para
lvtic shocks which some years afterward disclosed
the extent of its magnity. His health has been de-
cnng for several years and although long sustained
by firm and bUOyant spirit, has been sinking ire
deemably the last three months. On the l4th OF
last month he came and disclosed to me, IN manner
which deeply affected me, his own state Of mind and
BODY of which he was fully conscious. i think
have not since seen him. Lieut.. NintOn said that
his last thoughts were of the public-recoecuons of
his own services and suierngs and anticipations Of
the future greatness and glory OF his country He
added that among the latest words that he spoke were
expressions of regard for me, and Of sensbity TO
the kindness l had always shown him. General
Brown was one of the eminent men OF this age and
nation. Though bred Quaker, lie was man Of
lofty and martial spirit and in the late con-
tributed perhaps than any other man TO redeem
and establish the military character of his country.
He had high sense of honor courteous and I'M
assuming department, and conduct irrcprOachable
in private life. He has been COmmander-in-Ch thief of
the army from the time of its reduction in 1921.
The splcndor of the defense of New-Orleans has
cast in the shade Browns military fame, and his
campaign on the Canadian frontier in 1914, far
more severely contested than were the achievements
of Jackson-less aided by good fortune and less IA
vored by egregious errors of the enemy"
A delightful trait III the character of Mr.. Adams
was his love of Nature, which he never ceased to
cherish amidst the excitements of the capital. With
the return of Spring he would watch the order of