New-York tribune., 1877-05-19

Not so. There is method il Tis Co9D'eJatoaclais
,vicpie-yyagclc lis law oi rohukinS ts own party
Is ueatrlIi,ed for the time by i.s stronger law OF
standing by its own friend Poor Ny. Iincnback
wasa way-down-iI-Loaisia1a,' and ol rour-'cnu.d
no; have q word ~ say for himself WAlio Dir !ro,l
was The Coagrcyaf5aqIs's ueiI'bor ~ Chelsea. Tie
old custom then, Of paying illegal contestants ior
seats in CONGRESS Is 20 be abolished and The topg
qGtonaiisfs new law is 10 be established: that The
illegal contestants, the unsuccessful htsant, shalt
not only have the worthration of IoSin" ms case,
but shall be Inulcted in q heavy hnc-uncss such
contestant live in Chelsea or Dc otherwise within
the dIoceso of The CoaDeg'iOeoibL In vh'ch ease
the fine Shall be ramicd. the iilosal,y shall be Iro-
nounced political trigkcry, and the wage shall he
paid in fuil, with a bonus 10 boot!
When Col. lng,rsoli went down into Mane The
Coagrydioaaist did not consider it, entire gaorance
as 10 what manner Of speaker ne any dsquaiii-
cation for judgment, but eager TO regulate Maine
politics after the methods which have made &iassa-
chusetts politics Of late effective FASTENED 10
gcst that it was "weak and i-adyi>cd for whatever
Republicans were responsible for The act TO import
such man rs Col. Robert c. IngcIsOi from tie III
terror into Maine to make campaign speech there
for reform" But Mr.. nCersoll swept through
Maine, and he swept through Illinois, and through
the tracts that lay between, and by and by Boston
awOke and rubbed its eyes and found that this man
whom Name had imported was wonderfully
gifted orator. ard made eloquent and thrilling
addresses" IN a mastery and thrilling manner
ard, strange to say, had not been put down
/ by Boston's mild disapprobaton; and then
Boston too, was snitten with the fine
| frenzy, and cutchcd at the hem OF his
| garment passing By, and could not get at him for
the press and was forced to assuago It's great dis
| appointment" by filing column after column of its
newspapers with what he would have said if he had
been there and tho thundcrs Of applause they gave
! him III Chicago, and, later STILL when the peoples
| election was over, and the electoral commissions
election was over, and there nothing in pariicu-
lar To do Mr.. IngcrsOll had time to to Boston
! and though TO his old friends it seemed as if his
/ head was shorn, and his eyes put ont, and he
was bound in fetters of brass, and did grind in the
prison house with great creakng, to make sport for
Philistinsm Boston wiSt not that the Lord was de-
parted from him, but found his " lecture filled with
material for thought, and brilliant with salies of
! wit. and his command Of the attention and sympa-
! thy of the audience almost unlimited :" and people
have not been informed whether The COngreJd6oadlSt
has vet made up its mind whether it was or was not
weak and ill-adyised TO import him into New
| England.
| When President Grant, roaming among the wooden
| putneps of Connecticut, met on the way and
Hospitality entreated by Senator Buckingham that
moderator of ecclesiastical councils, whose name
was in ali the churches The CORgegdiOnalist was
trely content with surface views, accepted the act
on the face Of it, detected no symptoms oi iaTIeach