The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-10-10

ident TILDEN cannot displaoe n single
Judge, and he cannot appoint a single
Judge without the concurrence OF the
Senate, which, like the Court itself, is
Republican, and likely to remain 80 for
four years at least. This bugaboo, then, will
have to be dismissed. 1t is too plainly
sham, and it cannot be made to frightcn
anybody.
But, I've should hear anew OF the as-
sumption of the state debts and OF the
Confederate bonds Indeed "AnewW
When did we ever hear of that beioreY
Mr. DE FOREST talks loosely, very loosely,
for man of established character. No
body from Maine to Texas nobody from
Alaska to Florida, ever proposed that the
Federal Government should assume these
debts, and it is not in the least probable
that anybody ever will. Mr.. TiLDEN will
receive great many Irish votes, and
pretty much all of the German votes, aud
we positively wonder that no lunatic has
vet arisen TO warn us against the extreme
peril we incur OF being forced TO pay
the Fenian bonds, or to assume the debt
of the German Empire. III Mr. De FOREST
had only thought of this, he might have
expanded his baseless vision into some
thing really terrible. The Fourteenth
Amendment forbids these things in plain
English, and every Democratic Conven-
ton, from ST. Louis down to that of the
last Assembly district, and every Demo-
cratic candidate in the United States. from
Mr.. TILDEN down 20 the nopinees for con-
stable, have iterated and reiterated their
approval of that amendment, and their
solemn determination to maintain II sacred
and in violate. The prohibition is imbedded
in the Fundamental law of the land. The
Democrats could not alter IL II they would,
and would not IL they could. An act OF
Congress i'm violation OF IL could not be
passed without the concurrence Of the
Republican Senate, and II passed, under
any circumstances. would be set aside by
tho Republican Supreme Court. This cry
about the rebel debt is expected TO alarm
only people who are mt once very ignorant
and very timid. II is raised by knavisll
demngogues like JIM BLAINE, and quaking
carpet-baggers like JONI PATTERSON 10
save themselves from the judgment 10
come.
Mr. DR. FOREST spares us the Gust omary
| Republican nonsense about the south de-
mnnding payment for their slaves. Hecould
not quito stoop to that; IL was too rank
| an absurdity even for place in this letter
| But he is quite certain that the election OF
the hard-money man, TILDEN, would Ger.
tainly produce "more paper money" aud
the reasoning which brings him TO that
| conclusion is worth examining. He assume:
that the restoration Of the Democratic re-
| form party TO power means the ascendan
| cy of the conquered, humiiated, and i'm
| povorished South over the victorious, rich
| and powerful North and West with theil
teeming millions. Then he argues tina
the South, being the poorest part OF thu
country, must necessarily be the most ur
| gent for imitation. 1t is hardly wortl
| while to dispute with man who con
structs his own premises i'll such magn
| fcent contempt OF fact, and then rushei
with scratch of the pen to conclusions
which he might have drawn as well from
any other premises, or no premises at all
But Mr.. DE FOREST is wholly mistaken II
| supposing that the South, although thu
poorest part of the county, was in
| fected with the greenback craze to the SAM
| extent as some more fortunate parts. TIL
States most clamorous for more pape
money" were the rich manufacturing State
of Pennsylvania aud Ohio; but we presum
these capital facts, which loom like noun
tains before all other eyes, were, like tn
Constitution and the ~. Louis platform
overlooked by this profound politician
who thinks he will vote TO turn out tn
| thieves uut1 Uthe time npprOacheS.' AM
then thinks he will vote TO keep them in.