The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-06-19


Cincinnati Rhetoric.
Tom Moore, who knew, in his day. what
relation the outward appearance of things
festive bore to inward Utilization, wrote, as
emblematic of profound melancholy
feel like one who treads alone some banquet hall DC
serted;
Whose lights are fed, whose garand's dead
This does not by any means reach the
depths of desolation, but it fits very well into
the groove of thought from which we pom
der over the vast emptiness through which
resounded some days ago the doughty say
ings of the batch of nominators at Cincin-
natl. The cold corpse of q stump speech
that has died of chills is not more unat-
tractive than the shrivelled giories of one
that has died in fever. Yet the Gin
cinnati speeches deserve attention,
for the country is like to hear them
banged and twanged and dinned
into it's ears with damnable iteration for
four months to come. To the mass of our
citizens they are caviare just now. but the
budding campaign orators are clipping them
and swapping them and Disgusting them for
use in the near hereafter, when they will be
flung at the heads of devoted republicans
like hot shot For two days the Convention
talked, but with one or two exceptions, it
was only Refreshing tho old bleeding
niger campaign straw over again.
We have looked almost in vain for first
class stump material. Logan's call for every
republican Ito buckle on his armor and be
ready for the fray is tame and trite for
bounding buncombado like the Illinois
soldier and Senator. Even when he warmed
to his work, let the eagle scream and shook
the last reef out Of the Star-Spangled Ban
ner, he reached no higher pinnacle than that
from which to say, Americans, the dagger
of destruction is to be drawn and plunged
firm amid the storms that relied against
libertypand freedom in this land" This
is sad fustian, and we do not believe
word of it. 1t is prairie English
for the democratic Investigations Gen
eral Hawley spoke too calmly for stump
purposes. You cannot run On exciting cam
paign on a speech based on an IF" There
is too much conundrum in it. The colored
brethren on the first day talked the old
fashioned shareholders pistol and shotgun,
and it is somewhat surprising to note that
Fred Douglass speech mainly revived the
long exploded 'forty acres and mule" idea
of early reconstruction times. That smart
trick of the Jews who borrowed the Egyptian
brooches and spoons when they were about
to make for the Red Sea and freedom was an
unhappy Renaissance of the use to which
the Northern carpet bag was put at the close
of the war; It will not be used in the cam
paign. We do not think General Hawley
improved on the clear phrase, when in the
course of human events" by opening
the platform preamble with ''when in the
economy of Providence. It is q rho
torical wooden nutmeg. In the nominating
speeches there was, of course, great deal of
stump ammunition thrown away, as it was a
fight of men, not measures. Colonel Inger-
soil said some fine, sounding, hyperbolic
things about Blaine, but as they were not
true of him they are in most respects less
applicable to Hayes. The latter has not
storm from the throat of treason the tongue
of SANDER, and he can scarcely be called
sthe grandest combination of heart, con-
science and brains beneath the flag" Col
onel Ingersoll had evidently been drinking
as he says. ''from the fountain of enthu-
siasm," which we thought was exclusively
democratic drink Less applicable to Hayes
canvass will be the description of the repub-
lican party by the colored brother, Mr..
Demosthenes Turner, Of Georgia, who
pictured Blaine bending over it like the
good Samaritan as it lay 'all over this land
thunderstruck, paralyzed, dead and bleed
ing" Neither can the Indiana delegates
phrase in nominating Morton, 1T don't
need legs to make President" be applied
to the 'Warhorse of Ohio" who is expected
to prnnce for the next sixteen weeks on at
least two lower limbs. Mr.. Woodford's
nomination of Conkling was chiefly remark
able for its warning against emotional
insanity, which no friend of campaign gush
would like to see needed. Perhaps the
humblest. the truest but not the most en-
thusiastic encomium on any of the candi-
dates was that bestowed on Hartranft-"He
knows enough to know that he don't know
everything" That might suit Hayes.
The Sioux Expedition.