New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-28
the scoundrel knew could lift my pistol arm he

the scoundrel knew could lift my pistol arm he
fled the country"
am not under the shelter Of parliamentary law
and frankly admit that am q coward. 1 am
therefore, the furthest in the world from insnuat-
ing that The Nation has been subsidized by the in
surance companies. Don't you believe me p roared
the Munchausen narrator to his apparently incredu
lous listener Seeing am ten miles from viii
iage" was the reply, "and riding in your chaise, 1
do, but if was the sidewalk in front of my own
house in Salem, dashed if | would believe word
You say"
No. do not charge or insinuate that The Nation
has been subsidized by tine insurance companies
but do both nsnuate and charge that thereis just
as much reason for insnuating and charging that
The Nation has been subsidized as there is for in
sinuating that Prof Seelye's moral guilt is such
to unfit HIM for college presidency, and for charg
ing that he has gone to regulators and
swinders. Not a man connected, directly, or indi-
recty, with The Nation newspaper has a more STAIN
less, or more brilliant, or more solid reputation
than Prof Seelye and there is just much intrinsic
probability that The Nation is bought, as there is
that men like Prof. Seelye and Mr.. Frye pals"
In one of the grossest and most shameless perver-
sions of a trust committed by Chris
tian nation" There is question of ethics
or science, or finance. There is no ques-
ton under Heaven among men on which the views
of Prof Seelye not just likely to be sound, cor
rect conclusive, those of The Ne,o- York Nation
What special sanctlty attaches to The Nation or
what divine revelation has it received that it may
frantcally fling about its charges of fraud and
ruption among who, by every standard known
to society, its peers in knowledge and virtue but
need only wrap itself in unansweIing dignity when
its own honor is impugnedf
The integrity of lhe Nation only be vindcated
at the expense of its intelligence If it is not cor
rupton it is nindedness that flies into fury
when arguments fail, and locks one man into the
State Prison and locks another man out of college
grounds because they do not adopt its own views
upon large and intricate public questions 1t is not
culture it is ignorance; it is reform it is brutal
ity which answers the reasoning of Christian gen.
tleman and scholar by yell of Stop thiefp
Even tho political warehouses are wiser in their
generation. When Prof. Seelye divided from his
party the Louisiana question, they disapproved
his action but did no dshonor to his motives. Yet
the temptation was as strong in the Geneva
award. The moral quality was as closely concerned.
The Geneva award touches only money; the Louis
lana case touches life. But in the whole chorus of
dissent was a single voice lifted to accuse Prof.
Seeye of fraud or corruption, perverson of trust,
or any form of falsiness, or anything worse than
crotchetinessf Prof. Seelye man is liable to
mistake: as a minister and college professor is
peculiarly liable to be deceived III men and Ill
women But it will take great deal more money
than England has paid to the United States for the
Alabama claims to make any considerable number
of his cllowcitzens believe that Prof Seelye lends
disgrace TO the nation at whose councils he assists,
or pervcrts the moral sense of the college over which
he preSidcs GAIL HAMILTON.
April To- 1877.