New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-03

scoltling profession and railing science
none ever attempted to make fog perma-
nence i'm political economy, or hatred ana NAL
ice IA principles of administration immortal.
Il goes then without saying that his on
sloucbt upon the Administration was vigorous
and incisiye that his satire was keen, MS
irony bitter and merciless, his denunciauons
hot and sweeping. He had prepared IL WIN
an eve to the picturesque and dra1natic. Ills
use of Turner's picture and the red drop wiiicn
gave il effect his comparison OF the President
with the artist, the Cabinet with the can
vas. and Judge Devens with the drop that
gave character to the group and lighted
nm the whole all this was managed
with exceeding clevemess as pure
stroke of art. At any time 1t would
have been very striking treatment; at the
existing iuncture, when the new Admins
tration seemed almost to have disarmed crit
csm and the country was nearly unanimous
in approya of the Cabinet selections, this Sill
very dissonance was quite startling. The way
in which Mr. Phillips said it attracted atten-
ton to the strangeness of what he said. 1T
was not difficult to see that the kernel of it
all was dcep-rOOted and undying hate. 1t
was the expression of irrecOncllable nos
tility to the South, and to all who
favor policy of Cancellation, peace, and
good will. The carefully studied eplgrams
with which he undertook to set OF each mem
Der of the Administration were merely per-
sonal and incidental. The thing he drove at
the main objective point of his attack, was
the policy forcsladowed by the Cabinet ap-
pointmcnts-the new policy of confidence ana
kindness as the basis of unity and peace
This it was that evoked the splendid 0utDurst
of his venom. The response from the people
is hiss of disapproval more positive and I'M
mlstakabe if possible, certainly more unanl-
nous, than even Mr.. Phillips has hitherto heard.
The people everywhere are tired OF the prln-
chile of hatred and the policy of subjugation.
They have welcomed the indications OF a
change with enthusiasm. The smoldering en-
bcrs of the passions kindlcd by the war needed
only this sign of the actual adoption OF the
policy of kindness and forbcarancc to be ex-
tinc,lished forever. The mission of Mr..
Phillips as the apostle OF uni0rgivihS
aud relentless hate was ended long ago.
lie has no following for his ideas, ana
even the splcndor of his rhetoric and
the fire and freedom of his audacous discourse
have ceased to challenge admiration for his
art. He lags not merely superlluous, but ex-
aspelatingly super1uous. Doubtless he did
have his place in the universal scheme, and
filed it : but he stood still while all the world
revoved, and now havoc having ceased, and
Justice, order, and peace being estab-
lshed, he fits nowhere, and answers no
purpose. He has been in his time
a vigorous virago, and while he stood
at the tail of the cart and harangued the
crowd, other men have proited by the per
Torrance and sold their fish. OF late years he
has used his gifts to festoon falsehood with
fog and propagate the doctrine OF remorseless
hate as a patriotic duty. And even the music
or his periods and the melody of his voice are
not sufficient TO stay the popular disgust for
his unworthy enterprises.