, 1876-09-23
Arrest OF Boss Tweed.

Ai't lF44iS 'l thH -oNN AIihG eiONlN, out
they grind ,z-ecdiug fine" The old saying
mus, cumo home 10 Tweed as be faces the
city be has robbed with a comfortable pros
pct Of spending 'he remainder of his days
~ confinement. There is. 1t seems, no place
on earth where he could rest For a year
or more H. has gone where be pleased, chang
ing his place Of -gjogra where he deemed
himself must safe, Yet he finds at last that
there Is safety noaLere. The whole machin-
cry Of government was set in melton to Sc
cnre his apprehension. His movements were
reported ~ spies, and ministers Ia foreign
lands made him the subject Of especial in
structi0uS 10 local officials in places where no
WAS likely 10 visit. The world, Us 1t were.
cowhinod against this ous Old man, and con-
qutgy2, as The world usually does conquer
individuals who Outrage It's laws William
II. Tweed is not proLably me wors, man
that ever lived, u,Irbcr Was he tho WORT
man q HE generation. He is rcpu,ed TO pos
sess some amlable traits Of character and to
have been true 10 LIS friends. But Tweed
made himself the representative Of a class of
poll iyians whom the nation has learned at
Jas, 10 hold as more deadly enemies than
murderrrs. forLtrs AMI thieves tie is be-
trayer Of trusts. Nv York placed her tres-
,u,y IN his hands for saie-keeping and he
ole from 1t While pretending to bg It's pro-
tec.or. Tor this he j. hun,cd now, as no or
a,uary iaica is hunted with deathless pur-
P Sc that ~lll cease Only at the grave. Yet
Tweed is not worse than others. Hundred.
in New York shared his iIl-go,,en gains, aud
thousands throughout the country have
done IN q small way what Tweed did en- a
gigantic scale Tweed may almost be said
20 have founded u school in politics from
which many public men have graduated
with more hcnors than will couduce to their
future well-baiug. If he did not establish.
ha gave popularity TO the tetesh.ble doctrine
tina, the peoples money was fair booty for
any one TO apfropriatr Nho could. His po-
li,lcal lie, his well known practices, the
vrv aula,s,y rih which he referred TO his
,ousss oi stealing irom The people, or himself
q" embracing hls opportunity tended to de-
baueh pablis morals, and his punishment
will 10 m1re than a hundred ordinary execu-
1as 20 restore public sentiment to its former
pariy-
When Tweed wss in San Francisco some
years ago, with the indictments on which he
WAS afterwarl convicted hanging over bin.
he gave bimsalf no uueaziuess about his
future. IL wouil not give one hundred
lollTs. he then slii. 20 hav, he whole batch
4 Indictments dismissed. His experience
iii not iuoiale an instance where law and
Justice bad triumphei over money. He had
owned courts in his day. and had dictated
judicial u'eGcr-. H had said TO one Judge,
Punish this prrs,n; to another, "Let
this man 20 free" The cJurts had been
mlchiues by which be had punished his enc
mies and rewarded his friends He did not
fear This machinery which he had 50 often
controlled vhcu II should b. turned against
himself Ii experience had taught him
that al men had their price, if not in vulgar
coin, IL hon9rs. IN p.rfsrment, in the possas-
sion ut power, aud thess be was prepared 10
give in 'h- c9grs- Of time men crossed his
path who could no, b. bought, and poor
Tweed, dszrl at hi- new experience, held
the ms-h-- Of ths law close arouni him. No
.goF!. Of fiction ever pointed a moral so sharp
iy as The fate Of thi- man. Money, position,
ioRer, iri-nd- he had almost without limit,
Oa, be of-adrl the fundamental principles
on which society rests, and must pay the
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