New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-12-18
POLITICAL NOTES.

What peaceful, happy country this is without
COngross
Patterson hopes the era of brotherly love will
continue till he is embraced.
If the silver agtator dcvotes this month to solemn
retrospection his family Will be diSgraced with
suicide.
This country has never seen anything more
sublime than the rural Democratic editors wrestle
with the Mexican question.
Private Dalzen is an applicant for the Belgian
Mission. As the man who made Stanley Matthews
Senator the Private Is entitled To recognition.
Conover thought it good joke the other day,
when somebody mistook him for Patterson. And
vet there are people who would be real huy at such
n bluuder
Senator Gordon's eighty Independents in the
Georgia Legislature may be all ant-Bourbons, but
no ono would be more surprised than Mr.. Gordon if
one of them should vote for Republican candidate
for Senator. 1t Will he entirely safe to wager
large amount that he will not be thus surprised.
smalls. the convicted South Carolina Congress
man. SAYS the colored people Of his state " in their
sorrow and disappointment, their yearnmg and
hopes are looking toward Liberia" where they can
be robbed and oppressed no more" If they want
10 be sure of it they must not take Smalls with
them.
Georgia seems to have acquired more fundamental
law than she knows what to do with in her new
Constitution. Now that it has been adopted, no two
men in the State seem to be able to agree upon ITS
meaning il certain important cases. One Judge OF
local court says of the instrument that there never
was made, by any State or government, ConSttu-
ton that was 80 full of lawsuits as this one. mere Is
litigation on almost every page Of It. 1t Is fuil Oi
loose and unnecessary language. THIS IS q striking
tribute to the master genus OF the rare cOnNcht'H
General IOOmb-. The great man apparently made a
constitution in the same way as he evolved speech
The repudiators seem to be overwhelmingly in the
majority in the Virginia Legislature Their organs
claim # of the 1862 members, or 90 Conservatives
and % Independents, leaving to defend the credit OF
tho State only ~ Conservatives. The latter are
making a desperate effort to unite the Conservative
PARTY in favor of the only honest course that of full
payment of all debts, but the chances are very badly
against them. Caucuses have been held which have
done a great deal toward breaking up the party ana
nothing toward saving the credit of the State. The
wrauge is as disgTacefu as II could possibly be.
The STATE officers agree that the debt be paid,
hut the Legislator. is determined II shall not be-
Even Mr. Lamar will find it difficult to charge tins
tlagrant financial dishonesty to q lack OF recon
citation" 1t Is simply pure cdsSednesS,' ana Oh
kind which intests the entire South.
Senator Butler has been enlivening his trip to
South Carolina to save Patterson from the penteu-
tary by making speech which has demonstrated
bis unftness for the seat he has squeezed into He
saws with forcble truth, that be has been thrown
into an arena to which he is not accustomed one OF
dignity, gravity, and Of the greatest response
bil;ty. and he meets this responsibility with the
crayest apprehensions that he will not come up to
the full measure of the place His speech is excel
lent proof that his apprehcnsons are correct He
talks about desperate Radicals" about stigma
tiIirg" the President. about the brutality, cow
ar.Iire and black cuardi.m Of Republican Senators,
and sid4 with true bud0zing el0quence, that II
his SOFT of thing is repeated now that he Isl peer
with his malgncre, he will give them as good as
t,.v scud II the General wishes people TO believe
Ir = nuoccnt of the charge against HIM in connec
zion with the Hamburg massacre, he had better
sion talking This speech is precisely such one as
n uersecutor Of negroes would make.