New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-01-18
from Missouri, the Government will not cease
its functions.
HISTORIC PARALLELS.


struck by the daily parallels which the party
now in power is furnishing to the events OF
that time. Indeed, we observe that some Oh
the organs of the Administration, cropping
about wildly and blndly for something ny
way of argument or historic parallel 10 Vlnui-
cate the military interference in Louisiana.
have struck upon precisely TINS mc'ho" vi
treatment. A Connecticut newspaper, Tor IN
stance, in which, if we are correctly informed,
Postmaster General Jewell is principal
stakeholder, finds precedent for the outrage
Gus military interference in Louisiana in the
use of Federal troops to prevent the meeting
of Free State Legislature in Kansas under the
Topeka Constitution. Ii ia certainly very
striking parallel; no one can fail to recognize
the force of it. The moral of that transaction,
however, lies in the fact that it put the party
which sustained the action ont Of power for
period of at least sixteen years. People who
90 searching history for precedents and par
allels ought to be careful not to stop too sud-
denly in their readings. 1t is all very well to
say that Democratic Administration once
ordered military interference in Kansas. 1t
would be somewhat more to the point, though,
if the party which undertakes to follow that
precedent should find out where it led and
what became of the Administration that or
dered it.
The speech of Mr.. Howe of Wisconsin, in
the Senate on Tuesday, suggested also two or
three points of similarity between the two peri
DDS, although it must be confessed nothing that
was said in the Senate during the Kansas dis
cussion is any parallel to the speech itself.
4 ILL ~,
days, and no one INDUCED in any such idlotic
driyel as the Wisconsin Senator bored his
audience with. He began his answer to Sena-
tor Schurz-for he intended il as an answer
with the courteous assertion that that gentle
man chad screamed to the country two charges
against the party to which he (Mr HOwe)
belonged-charges which were as mOnstrOus
"and he believed as grOundless as the Senator
"(Mr. Schurz) could possibly have fabricated,
of he had dedicated to the work, not merely
"a holiday recess, but whole Summer vaca-
"tion.n That sounds very much like the
answers made to tho arguments against Gov
eminent interference in Kansas eighteen or
twenty years ago; aud it sounds, too, very
much like-Howe. It was quite like Kansas
debate. and quite like its author too, that
having denounced fellow Senator for scream
ing lies of his own fabrication to the country
lie dropped the subject then and proceeded at
once to warm himself up with recital of
bloody Outragesn which were not true, and
would not have been pertinent tn the question
if they were. Just so another party in a
former period denounced the statements of
the Free State men az lies, and without under
taking to prove them so, launched off lncon-
tinently in attacks upon John Brown or the
Helper book
MIR. Howe burst into craftsmanship Of the
highest order once in his speech when, after
charging that murder and worse crimes were
openly committed in Louisiana, Mr.. Gordon of
Georgia mildly inquired how it was, if the
Government of the State and the Judiciary
were in the hands of the Republicans. and
majority of the people supported Kellogg,
that the courts, aided by the army of the
United States did not bring those criminals
to justice. The answer was worthy of Howe.
He thought the courts of the State were weak
but that if the Democratic party would say to
Gov. Kellogg that they would sustain him in
every effort to put down murder. there would
be no trouble. This il craftsmanship for
which we search in vain in any history for n
parallel. AS President Lincoln said, after
listening to the missionary's long story about
the Mediterranean tides, it does not remind us
of anything we ever heard before. There was
only one higher stroke of craftsmanship in
this great effort of Howe, and that was when
lie lifted up his nose at Senator Gordon, who
asked him where he got his information about
the outra ges and things, and said he declined
"to yield the floor"
The Wisconsin statesman offered one other
parallel for the Kansas period when he straight
ened himself up in what We presume he called
his perOratiOn, and said he d" could not consent
"to turn back" He was "not cOnstituted,n
he said, con the crawfsh order" Several persons
who, i'll the deliberate Judgment of mankind,
knew great deal more than Mr.. Howe. pur-
sued the same straightforward business in the
Kansas period and not being of the craw-
fish ORDER went deliberately to the devil,
taking their party with them. Some Of them
survive as melancholy examples, some arc
wanderers in foreign parts, and some in the
insurance business. The Wisconsin statesman,
rising quite naturally from this crustacean
Comparison to nautical figure, ascending
gently, so to speak, from the sub to the ultra
marine, said There might be storms ahead.
and it might uo prudent for those not fully
Ensured to 60 ashore but lie was goiDs TO
complete the voyage, and, if the ship went
down before the voyage was completed, he
would go down with it, and, if it should ever
"be raised again, as it must be, for the Great
Underwater would attend to that, there
would be found at the masthead her flag
"upon which might be read that all men,
whatever their race color might be, had
"equal rights to the pursuit of life, liberty,