New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-02-06

ing responsibility upon the slippery spot, while
with one caressing hand behind him he points
the finger of condemnation mt the boy whom
he suspects of having organized the catas-
trophe with a surreptitious bucket Oh
water. we should have something lihe
the expression of the Democracy since
it got hold of Littleicld, Pickett ana
Maddox. The Democratic leaders suspect
fraud. SO much is, we think, quite clear The
American people ought to DC shocked at the
existence of such a suspicion; but the Demo
cratic leaders have been so struck aghast ny
it, and have taken so many attitudes OF amaze
ment and horror, and made it all so dramatic
and spectacular, that the general pubic mas
had no chance to exhibit any emotion. fuuiic
attention has been entirely engroSSed 10y inc
manner in which the moral sense OF the DEM
ocratic party has been shocked
When the party, whose last days OF power III
the nation were signalzcd by those rcmarkaolc
efforts for the advancement of reform ana the
ratification of politics which make the carry
pages of the history of Kansas so instructive
and edifyinc. rises up in Indignation ut the
resistance i'm Louisiana of the same politicai
methods adopted twenty years ago Ill Kansas
bv the same party and for the same pur-
nose. what can the country do but contem-
plate the spectacle with admiration Wheh
the statesmen of the South who sixteen years
ago undertook to dsSeyer the Union come
back into Congress and dcclalm against INC
subyersiOn of the Constitution, because inc
bulldozers of Louisiana are no more sue
ceSsful than were the Border HUMANS OF
Kansas. what can we do but listen and won
dcr7 When Mr.. Fernando Wood, who in 1861
believed the defeat of his party JUSTIFIED
tbe secession of the Southern States, and
the erection of the City OF New OK INTO
an independent State, and WHO forwarded the
arms purchased at the North for the purpose
of making war upon the Government, rises III
his Mace in Congress and sOlemnly proposes
TO mpeach the President for using the army
of the United States for preserving peace ana
order and preventing the violence by when
the Democratic party hoped to secure power
what is there for us but to just
drop everything and consider him ana
his career with pride? What can we
do but weep with them when we see
the Democratic leaders who in 1868 nobly ana
unselishly counted in John ]. Holman as
Governor, and the Seymour electoral ticker,
against an adverse majority OF thousands,
now wringing their hands over the dis
grace to free institutions occaSioned by
the action OF the Louisiana Returning
Board Can we DO anything but sympathIze
with Mr.. Samuel j. Tildon, who was
chairman of the State Committee that made
the arrangements for counting the votes In
1858, when we hear him lamcnting the deca-
dence of public morals as shown iii the Louisl-
ana elections Or do less than applaud when
that eminent relormcr, Mr.. John McTlsSey,
illustrates his zeal for tie public welfare by
engaging in discussion Of the situation on
the Lords Day, rcmarking, as he lays aside
his Sunday school book, that lie would
as soon buy up Returning Board as
he would so many pigs? And then, when Mr.
David Dudley Field, flying FROM the defense
of statesman Tweed to that of statesman lii
den, sits up all night TO watch tie nag upon
The Capitol, and afterward affects the Electoral
Commission to tears with his eloquent remarks
concerning " ancient fiauds"-what Is there,
we ask, for the rest of us to dol What can
we, more than COrdclia, listening to the pio-
tcstaions of her sisters" love and be sient'
The spectacle must content us. There has
been nothing unique III political history.
Indeed we recall in the whole range of fiction
but one analogy for if, ana that an imperfect
one In Schchcrazadcs charming story Of Tie
Forty Thieves it is related that Ali Baba's
servant went late at night into the yard where
the captain Of the band had sccrctcd his men in
the oil jars to procure oil to rcplensh her lamp.
Doubtless the soul of each thicl of the seven
and thirty lcapcd within him with indignation
at the thought that the servant was taking
what did not belong to her. Had each thief
risen up in his jar and denounced the tiansac-
ton as immoral, we should have had some
thing like counterpart Of tic present spec
taclc. They failed to do it, and were cOnse-
quently scalded to death with boiling oil.
And yet there are those who say the Demo
cratic party learns nothing nom experience.
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