New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-02-12
SHEPHERDS TRIUMPH.
HIS EVENING PARTY-PREsIDEYT GRANT AND SIR
EDWARD THORNTON PREsENT-A LESSON TO TIE

HIS EVENING PARrY-PREsIDENr GRANT AND SIR
EDWARD THORNTON PREsEST-A LESSON TO TIE
YOUTH OF AMERICA.
TO the Edttor or The Tribune.
SIR: Last Monday night Washington wit
messed social event Of more than usual significance.
Ordinarily fashionable party, with the customary sup
py Of worths costumes, diamonds, champt gne, aud
salads can hardly be called a significant event Six or
eight hundred well dressed and smiling ladies All gem
tcnen crowded 20 closely in drawinrOom and pIrlors
rs 10 be danger OF suOca;Oa than conversation,
Ia a spectacle make the immortal gods indulge In in
exngushabe laughter" perhaps bur Is subject for
good naturrd ridcule merely. But the event Of last
Monday was more than this il the triumph OF ways
that are dark" honesty aud virtue. When Mr.
shcr herd issued invitations for his evening party an
opportunity was offered good and true 10 show
by refusal their dissemination to share in any degree,
however small, the spells which every honest man IN
the District OF Columbia believes he has wring from The
rich ami poor shnson By the most dishonest prac-
tces L. that there els no virtue eXtan or that sue
cess blinds the ewes Of saint AMI sinner alike, a the In
ytations universally accepiedf
The President there, comforting honor by virtue OF
the office he holds, II not otherwise. Sir Edward Thorn
ton the representative Of Respectable England, was
there conservative Aristocracy paying respect to sue
cess which, considering how won, should for de-
cencys strive Keep forever in friendly obscurity
The supreme of the United States was
and those who received invitations counted themselves
lucky, and those VINO did not grew more or less green
with envy Many probable Presidential candidates aud
possible future Presidents there; men who aspire
10 the h gh st public Office EARTH paying court to
plumber and gasntter who, by his trde-or otherwise
has made 81 100000 six years His parors were light
and warm Emusic arose with its youptnous SWELL" and
nil was like bit fairy land. bright and fragrant and
enchanting Why should one refuse to enter this and OF
faaryf An "if 'twere done when tits done" But let
one read lesson which this gay festival teaches to the
American youth. II is summed up in the Mephisto-
phelan proverb-"get money honestly If you can, but
get money" In what respect the honest podder IN the
old WAYS of virtue better than the swinderi He works
lifetime defraudng man OF dollar anc nj the end
OF 40 years is respected and perhaps rich But our
modern WAYS lead the end by shorter path. Cheat
your neghbor swnde the Government bciry the trust
committed you, and the respect is as sure and the
wealth more certain. Rich and poor, great and small
shall pay you honor though your record were spot
less and you hands white. Is this the lesson
which we wish 70 teach our s0nsi
Americans had one comfort when that cloaca maSima
OF American corruption. the Credit MOber was opened
and exposed. Before the hot Indignation of the people
every one who had touched the foul thing syeed and
disappeared in oblivion death completely char
I'm the heated furnace One this aud felt that tho
mass of the people were honest corruption had not
sappcd their virtue robbed them of their sturdy man
hood But though smaller scale yet with equal SIX
nhcance the OF last Monday points IN exactly tho
opposite direction From the President down, hundreds
were eager honor the of success, not caring by
what means that success achieved. Nay morally
certain rs of them that their host Lad walked
through crooked ways reach hs prncely wealth, they
vet crowded his parors and delighted 10 do him honor
n the robbers OF the Northampton Bank can properly Sc
cure their SNdg may soon show our Iosit' o' sue
ces,fui ENTERPRISE in another direction 10y cfONdhg lhel
evening receptions, and lose ourselves ~ admiration or
lnxnruus furniture aud gems of art although II VIII
be rude and oldfasoncd 10 inquire TOO clOsI! by WHAT
| ,no,LnI ~, mon ~ y,l. obtained. L. J.
Washington, Feb. =, 1876.