, 1876-06-05

CHICAGO, June ALI you will allow me
wait to say to TIE TRIBUNE readers, with refer.
cncc to uur BrIstow Club meeting lust night,
that neither Kobcrt Collycr's figure Ut Bristov
as rat-tcrrler nor the Kcy. Mr.. Miller's Ego to
hell II nuevtlote is ''preci~ciy expressive Of Gen
Bristow's character" This, ut lcast, is nj
Judgment, based upon persona! and official 40
Quaintance with the Secretary OF the Treasury,
beginning soon after his acrcssion to tho Cabi-
net.
That 1t has been Gen. Bristow's lot to "nosa
out, aud grip, and break the back OF corrup
tton II as no other man In the nation has had
either tue tourage or the ability to do, was mol
With him matter Of choscc-but of duty. And
It is this loyulty to duty, To carefully weighed
and definitely settled principle wh!rh IA the
handspring Ut Of his actions, the keynote to hta
wl,clc life.
But he is neither rat-catcllcs nor tlleftak-
CT by nature; and IT is a source Of pain anu 70.
grct to those who kfo" hs1' best-aftl, so
knowing, admire anil respect hin 1nost-that I
false popular impression of him + crysta!izIna
in such expressions as - Bulldog Bcl,,"
ss Thieves Terror," etc. Ills is ii large cha:ac-
Sa sF sEs @ i sns ees eIs as..s ssFE aa e Eat e0 p
" Watchdog Of the Treasury, howsoescr wor-
thy and useful surh Cerberus functions may b..
With thu stcrner stutt Ut the Roman father
yct his heart Is rs generous ar,.i tender Us that
ii L,ncoln himself; and though he has never
lesitated to 70 where duty aud the right point
HIN, no matter what the sucFilce, he IL neither
yiuAirtiye nur brutal.
And tlis brings RIG to Mr. alillcr's lttle
story, thr substantial truth Of which, ~ defei,
history itself attcsts. but Tint Ms. Rrietow
used the langltngu therein quoted no one who
knows hin, viii for moment believe. In the
first place, Mr. RrstoW 4 1laitrf ~ the fnrthess
possible removed from the ncltIra,nat!e. "Sir,
will not sell tny country Tor silver aud gnid,"
might have fallen from the lIps--it would be
IrGltless to 70 deeper into the anatony-of
many If those OF cqI1al prominence ujhIn tho
stage OF public HE. Franz Cen Drtstow such q
po,l1ous, g5antlose speech ts Us impossible as
is tic brutality of lie other sentence, " You
tnay take your property and 70 tu heA!'
Secretary Hnstuw Is u gentleman rs we'll rs
statesman; W well tired Us lie Is honest; Us cour-
tcuus ns lie Is tntltxiblt; und his intercourse
With the member VI Congress md tite United
States scnatur nf the perhss'l,-nay, even With
one Of l.Is brother Cabinet ot!lccrs has not yet
caused him 70 at.opt thu particular variety of
nascuiinc English which these Buffalo Bills Ut
legislation and Bar.lulplls of Ministers have
| transpianted from tlr nlsltngsgatu aud the
| BowerY to the Council Halls anil Executive
| Chambers of the uatlun. an, etc.,
ps-As It Is reasonably certain that, In tho
| totlr,,aEe Of Cul. Jucsscn, Benjamin H. DrstoW
vii! be nG.!.lAtc,l either at Cinclnnat! or else
| wfIcft, TnE TRlBCHB will, uf course, aad NTH
Its usual enterprise, furnish Its ,uyrini readers
| with aTl authcIt: euIlpnfgn biography OF tho
Peoples President. Tie sooner the better. He
| rau.!ut hc too we'll known; the more thoroughly
lie Is, thu more triumphant will be our victory at
| thu polls nc1t November. K