New-York tribune., 1877-09-01

morals, and le1t MN inc lHcldhOHoiJ "iNNh Va
genius, who now presents himself IN Jormd
pGnitentis and pleads that If he Is so Dad IL Is
because the age and the newspapers have made
him so. Upon the whole, we hardly think the
apology sufficient.
Judge Blacks angry article in The North american
Rerie,c was really in no need of an answer, for the
man who calls names usually forgets to argue DIS
case But as an answer was thought necessary-aho
doubtless The North american hardly rellshed the
idea of staying fixed on the " fraud" side OF the
cOntroversy-it is fortunately able and conclusive
Mr. Stought0n has shown, without too mnch repeti
ton of familiar facts, and with, perhaps, no more
heat than is to be expected of man who has Judge
Black for an antagonist the impregnabiiity of Alr
Hayess title to his office. He sums up the
whole case in single sentence: The
:" Electoral Commission was powerless, under
81 the Constitution and law, to disregard the final
will of the States of louisiana Florida
" and Oregon The charge of conspiracy
of the eight distinguished members of the CommIs-
sion WAS not worthy even of Judge Black, but Mr.
Stoughton must be of a singulariy sangulne dlspO-
stion if he really expected the Democratic party 10
display any Indignation at its reckless illumination
in highly respectable periodical, or II he eXpectcu
judge Black himself to exhibit the least remorse for
q sweeping sander upon three members OF our
highest Court. The charge of fraud Mr.. Stoughton
meets with the proof that If there was fraud, the
Electoral Commission had no legal right TO take
cognlzance of it. The charge of conspiracy he meets
with the pertinent question, 'Who were the con-
"splratorsi" Why, the Democratic Senators whose
votes carried the Electoral Bill in the upper house,
and the Democratic Representatives VINO forced
II through the lower against bitter Republican
hOUx T.
seems to be at fault The signs of the times show
that the Democratic war-cry NAV not be the great
frand of 1867 The course of The New- York Vord,
the letter of Mr. Williams Democratic candidate for
Governor of Maine and the careful omission by the
Iowa Convention Of the fraud plank OF the plat
form " hich they borrowed from Ohio-all these
things indicate that large and influential section
of the party at least will oppose the plan Oh cam
paign with grievance.
Gen. Toombs has been ndulginG in what De
Quincy would call a Rhapsody OF incoherence.
He called it speech in favor of the new Georgia
Constitution. Taken by himself Toombs is scarcely
worth noticing but whom he Is introduced rs the
greatest and erandest defend = of public liberty
"on theAmerican Continent" as he was at Atlanta
the other night, when his ranting is received
with applause, and when the local press says his
speech "carries conviction AMI ensures ratlfica-
"uon.D it becomes or some moment to see what
he is talking about. 1t is Of interest to every
Northern capitalist to know, fOi example, that the
following sentiment concerning reputation was
received without dissent: "Why, these Wall-st.
"people say they will shut Georgia out of the
market. hope they WILL Curse the fellows! We
"want no credit. Those people up there have no
purpose except to rob the universe. They wonld
"sell their fathers sepulchre and their mothers
"cofins to get money L want nothing 10 90
with them" The next time the State of Georgia
wishes to place a loan, and sends her agents to New
York to do it, this paragraph Will be exceedingly
apt for quotation purposes. ToOmbs Is IN favor OF
repudiating only those debts which are held outside
of the State, apparently for he says there were IN
nocent persons entrapped, and these should be paid
81 will sell my shirt to help" roars this greatest
and grandest defender of public liberty. What is
the market value of Toombs's shirt I
A drama based on persecution by the Danites
is now on our boards; Artemus Ward was at his
best in describing the Valley of Salt Lake; every
English traveller who has aspired to write a book
Oh America has filled his notebook with the apoca-
lyptic wonders of this Yankee paradise; and Nor
monism as the strangest social and religious COM
pound now in the world has had a large place in
current literature. 1t is singular that it has sug
gested plot for only one American novel of any
merit, Theodore Winthrop's John Brent" That
remarkable sketch of Western life is slip
ping out of peoples memories now, al
though in the days which followed the
skIrmsh of Great Bethel nearly twenty editions
ran through the press. One of its most striking
scenes is the dance at Fort Bridger, where Jake
Shamberlam called out Pardners for kerorille y
and the Lancashire emigrants, whom Elder Sizzum
bo1 hoo ,ilod fha
promising them green acres earth and white
thrones In heaven ounged and bounced to the dis
cord of q creakng fiddle Jake Shamberain, with
his droll farrago is the low comedian of this Nor
mon DRAMA but Elder Szzum is a stronger figure.
With his muddy skin, his beefy jaws, his cringing
movements and his coarse anathemas. this prairie
Chadband has few of Brigham Young's redeeming
traits but he is excellent type of the scrub-sants
of the Latter-Day Church.
One swallow does not make a Summer, nor does
one new steamship make revival of American ship
building and of foreign trade in American bottoms.
And yet. when once twice year Mr. John
Roach puts fine iron steamer the water
at his yards on the Delaware, there il a cho-
rus of rejoicing in the Philadelphia news
papers over the new commercial era supposed
to be heralded by that event. Meanwhile
the starspangled banner is rs rare a lot of bunting
"a ever on steamers seen days sail from own
coast. Mr. Roaohs excellent craft serve chiefly to
supply vacancies caused by casualties ia existing
American lines. With the exception of two oI
three built for the Havana trade. they have gone
into coasting lines or to the Pacific Mail Company