The daily gazette., 1876-03-11
"WIIH n FULL HAND"
From the New York Tribune.

banners high all We brave winds that
wait upon him, puff for him the belly
ing sail and spnr the tagging courscrs
of the sea that draw our Robert home.
Play round his keel ye ocean sprites,
part waves before his prov, caress him
not too roughly all ye tumbling billows
of the main, but run beside his bark
with ripples of delight, and tenderly
transport him to the shore. His own
land waits for him. TWO continents
are an hungercd for him. Here con-
templative Columbia wanders on the
beach and asks the sad sea waves for
tiding of her son there the frantic con-
stable leans westward from the sea-
girt isle watching the outward-going
Abyssinias track and shaking his vain
and empty process of arrest towards the
setting sun and the home of the free;
between them, heaving gently on the
bosom OF old ocean our own Ambas =
sador "straddles the blind" and draws
thre cards to a "pair of deuces" and a
mems c0nsci0 rectj. Could there be a
more enchanting picture for the con-
temptation OF the American patroit?
Aside from the merely material con-
sideration whether or not he is "sittipg
in good luck" and "holding good
hands," the simple fact of his sitting
there in the cabin of the Abyssinia,
rocked as it were in the cradle of the
deep between two longing and eutreach
ing continents, perchance dealing him
SELF "straight flush, "or Jack high, "
''seeing the blind" or "calling" on
lone little pair" "drawing" possibly
to "bobtail flush, possibly to "three
of kind" but maintaining through
it all a serene cemposure and modesty
of demeanor worthy the author of the
game, and backing his opinions with
his pnrse like free-born American
citizen against "thrce kings" or a
"queen full"-such scene as this, we
say, is enough to inspire us all with
, emotions of gratitude and pride.
! We shall welcome him with joy. For
have not the American people been
longing for his return these many
months? How anXiously we have wal
ted this hour! How we have trembled
at times lest the minlons of despotism
should seize him from us,regardless OF
his diplomatic character and his am bas-
sadorial privileges, and immure him in
a cell or incaIcerate hlm in some com.
mon kind of penitentiary, We were
somewhat reassured when 1t was an
nounced that our noble Chief Magis-
trate had telegraphed to our Minister
at the Court of st. James that he was
not "going back on him." but our ap.
prehensions fer his safety were not
entirely quieted until we learned that
he was safe on the Abyssinia waying
his adieus TO the constable on the
shore, whom he had referred to Lord
Derby for further particulars.
And what picture that was too
1t is now a hundred years since that
proud monarchy evacuated Boston af
ter doing considerable damage in one
way and another to our forefathers
There has been lingering suspicion
until now that the Great Republic had
never been fully revenged. Other diff.
ferences had been adjusted, but we
may as well confess that till Schenck's s
Reconciliation for home we harbored
a feeling of revenge. But now old
scores are squared. We have "placed'
the Emma Mine on the British public
and taught the English people the
game of draw poker. Ours is theproud
satisfaction of having not only given to
Great Britain the original rules of this
noble game but of having added there.
to one more, and illustrated the play
that "our knave beats queen" We
entertain none but kindly feelings to
wards the constable on the shore; it il
his misfortune perhaps that he repre-
sents the paw of the British Lion, while
it is the glory of our home ward. hiein&
diplomat that he wears the pinions O.
our own noble bird, and that he coult
unfurl behind him to the wondering
gaze of the constable who had beer
referred to Lord Derby, these thrill
ling words of one of Freedom owl
poets:-
Keep your eye ever fixed on the American
Eagle,
Which we as the proud Bird of Liberty hail
For that wise fowl you can never inveigl,
BY deposting salt on his venerable tall.
And as for Mr.. McDougall, who il
the owner of the Hour newspaper an(
: the representative of the stockholders ir
the Emma Mine, we shall be sorry i
Mr.. Schenck's somewhat abrupt depar
ture shall prove to have deranged any
of his plans. Rut he should remembe
that it rarely happens in this worlt
, that any one lays his hand simultane-
ously upon the Hour and the Man
The Hour is his. The Man is on tn,
Abyssinia, and refers by permission tt
Lord Derby.
But ah, how good it was in our no
BILE President to hold on to the resigna
tion, till the boat of the returnin,
Schenck was on the sea and his bari
was on the tide. IT we may be allowed
to use figure of speech from the grea
American game, the President "raise,
everybody else out" and let Rober
"get away with the pot" So cometl
homeward Schenck. Comes probabl,
with "full hand" though that w
: shall not know till the Abyssinia i
signalled. Shall we not publicly re
ceive him? Say with the Marin
Band? Or procession: Where ar
the men who were lately telcgraphinj
congratulations to Babcock and gettin
up subscription for him? Let then
start it, And let us be sure our vel
come reaches seaward and widens til
, it takes him in its warm embrace. An
when we "call" him, though he ma