New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-06
POLITICAL NOTES.

It was cruel in Mr.. Upper to go ava,
without inditing poem to the carpetbaggers.
Senator Patterson has fOrgiviDg disposition.
He never cherishes enmy after ceases TO be proha
There are no tears shed over the fate of the
carpetbaggers though there is good deal OF sympathy
for Gov Chamberlain
The Hon. David Dudley Field did not engen-
der the ono rarranto papers Mr. Field does not exercise
his creative energies without an invigorating fec
The immediate result of President Hayes's
pocy will be 10 eliminate from politics the negro as
ne,ro and for this contamination the negro man
should he profoundly grateful
The chief consolation of the carpet-bagger
now Is to represent everything in an utterly fororn ana
ptiabe light and to bring dreadful precedents to bear
But people obsnatey refuse to turn pale or quake IN
their boots.
Secretary Thompson spends most of his time
I'm driving oakum into the seams OF the Navy Depart
ment in order to keep the concern afoat. The JolnH
seem to have strained open during some very dirty
weather before Mr. Thompson took command.
There is something almost sublime in the
courage of Rhode Island Democrat. Tie has to face
inevitable defeat year after year and yet he comesup
smiling at the annual convention and resolves: "our
faith in Democratic institutions Is undated"
This il sly Administration. Here are those
dsgraceful bargains" which everybody knows were
made long ago with sundry cOnsprators In the SOUTH
md vet he
Why doesn't one make damaging disclosureI
Mr.. Tweed's diary, especially those portions
NJ IL which are statistical and which record the prices
current OF legislators and others would be valuable
book OF referenceno less valuable perhaps as STATES
mans manual than the historic memorandum DOCK VI
the late Hon. Oakes Aules
It ia matter of regret that so many emf
nent statesmen have determined to abandon their t
zensbp in the South at the close Of their official careers
and 70 emgrate at once higher ATTITUDES sueh gen
eral flight at such a point Of time VIII give delight 10
those seoss Who eaye or predsory purposes
The idea of Mr.. Tilden's bringing quo
oronto suit against the President is rdiculed by
mo,ority of the Democratic Journals. The Nd"r'S
Amsrican says with well pointed irony; ihe ume Ior
Mr. Tden TO have asserted his rights and shown the ds
rostion TO maintain them before the Electoral Com
,rssion WAS established The Democracy OF the country
demanded az then leader hero ana statesman anu
not a mere manager OF laWsuits
If Wade Hampton, at some ovation, shoud
recite one OF Yancoy's igneous old speeches which
had done duty in firing the Southern heart IN lsoo
would do him very little credit And the yen OF inc c'
odst brethren in Lynn, which might DC sYiea ueho
niac n twas not sanctned by the holiness of their ON
cia calling aud election can at least be characeIou "
ON ar,chronism It's rather late for the hanging to oo-
en- aud Mr. Hampton is not proper person To oesin
with. ~,
The fools are not all dead yet, it seems. Inc
this. information to that paper: "A clique oil once
bodcrs under President Grant, who did al N their power
TO secure his reconciliation at Cincinnati last June ana
who had some hopes that state Of affairs would ass
which would prolong His term Of office after The sth OF
March last have commenced organized ohor's 'or q
third term for Grant They are cautiously sounding AZ
Renub,scans who wero friendly TO Grant, and enstins
them by promises OF Office. Meanwhile, the O.neral Ia
20 abroad and they win be able TO maze an so hsn,
promises without bis being called upon 10 inGorse tnen
This NAV seem visionary, but 1t is nevertheless true
OF the two men now most prominently
before the country The Richmond WhS speaks ~ ioi'
lows: "Hayes stands out to-day as the ehief OF 'he
nation TO whom tho conservative sentiment OF All '"'
country for tho opening OF new epoch OF TIE os
un,oni,m Of tue olden time in this land. Hampton
stands ont "a the responsive representative Of frsternh
feeling again on part Of the South toward the North
as tho exponent OF that doctrine Of state san that onv
asks for sefSovoxumont at home a. eruo TYPE o. tns
ezCoufedcrate soldier who has no paaodss iok