The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-08-29

learn that "in the United States at present
no more arabic land is to be had under the
Homestead law"
In view Of his prolonged residence In this
country, we find it hard to account for tho
slips OF our historian regarding public
men and events. We are slightly bewil-
dered, for example, when he talks OF
CALEB CUSHING as Attorney General of the
United States in 1873, and of FRANCIS ken
NAN as an Ex-Governor Of New York. SO,
too, when we hear that not a dollar of the
plumber secured by TWEED and his oonfcd-
crates has ever been recovered to the city.
Again, in the paragraphs dealing with the
canal frauds, most people might expect to
sec It noted that SAMUEL j. TTLpEN uu-
earthed and stamped on them; but the
friend of Mr. SoHuRz omits to chronicle
the trivial circumstance.
From these aud similar exhaustive data
the writer draws melancholy conclusions.
He has compressed them in "A single sem
tence, which we translate, and which will
compare favorably in point OF length with
the finest efforts of Mr.. EvARTs.
"a model republic" saws he, ain which after
less than a century OF existence It has already
become impossible for an honest man to obtain
office-of which one half, since and In conse-
quence OF the war prosecute ed for the best Of gov
ernunents, Ia experimenting with fearful speed
the condition OF Hayti and Mexico, while the
status OF the working classes In the other half
Is tetrugrading with n rapidity unheArd OF In
other lands, and Ia accordingly breeding a
proletariat, ready to vomit forth those hordes
OF Huns and Vandals from whom MACAuLAY an-
ticpated the subvoIsion Of existing CIVILIZATION
country where honest layor Is repudiated as
stuuidity, and baseless, rascaily speculation
forms the coveted vocation OF the smarter
classes; where the traction Of the people which
yet remains upright desuairs Of damming the
tide OF putrefaciion; where Refinement Is
sneered at ~ superluous, and insolent yul-
gartty, sparely vanished with Paris fashions,
thruats i;seif everywhere into the foreground {;
country whose lluded school system gradu-
ates maCnino-like, parrOt-tongued young men,
who seem wcll-nigh Incapable OF any genuine
process Of Thought, ana account II Stiffness to
seek other knowledge than that which may be
turned into cash In the JOBS they mean to
make the business Of their lives; country
where exists a free press which mover ventures
TO publish "A free thought aud where oOnse-
quenty intellectual growth can be gained only
by the importation OF ide - from LurOpe-suCh
country Is but Ill fitted to serve as the type
and model Of a progressive nation, and may
well tempt the historian Of civilization to ue-
cipher IN this living example the causes Of q
republics DOWNFALL
These be bitter words, Master PISTOL
We do not remember to have felt our
selves so roughly handled since the Amer
lean colony i'll Paris, largely recruited
from shoddy contractors and blockade
runners, ceased TO write letters home
in cOmmeudation of paternal Govern
ment modelled upon the utterances of tho
venerable Gen. DIX. 1t Is hard to say
whether our self-respect or our faith in
human nature is the more grievously
wounded by this thrust. Considering that
our castgator has tarried these seventeen
years within our borders, we may well ex-
claim with FANNY SQUEERs: Is this the
hend7
We would suggest TO the workingman
OF Germany. whose schemes of emigra-
ton have been somewhat dashed by this
friend of MIR. SCHURz, that the picture
may in some points be overoharged.
We may remind him that compulsory
military service has not yet been imported
here; that some of our larger Western
States, say Texas, Kansas, or Nebraska,
suffer less from plethora of population
than Westphalia or the Kingdom of Sax
ony; that the suffrage remains unloaded
by any property qualification; and that
the emigraut Is not compelled by law to
vote for the Republican candidate.