New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-02-14

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National Capitol. That picture cannot fade'
His own undying words have made 1t MINOR
tai. The lips of schoolboys will declaim
them when the Star Spanged Banner is
| forgotten. That speech showed the power
| of pathos. The members OF the House
were in tears during its delivery,
and the DOOrkeepers were so overcome
with emotion that several members OF the
! Lobby slipped through and on to tho floor OF
the House while they were wiping their eyes.
Still we are inclined to think that for eifec-
tiveness the speech of Monday exceeded all OF
his former efforts. When he described the
Florida electOr who, being a minister OF the
Gospel and SENATOR" had offered bT1be
"of $500 to member of the Legislature"
he fairly rose to the hight of the great occa-
sion. "And that man." said he, "a par
dOned convict, is the one man whose
" vote elects. if he is elected at all,
"Mr. Hayes to the Presidential office"
Nothing could be more thrilling than this.
These were the accents of righteous indigna-
ton Here was statesman who had thor
oughly Invested himself of craftsmanship; a
patriot who was shocked to the very center OF
his being mt the thought that State Senator
and convict-like Tweed though unlike him
i'm being "pardOned" convict and a minister
of the GOspel-after offering a bride of $500
TO n member of the Legislature should have
voice III the election of President. fthe orator
voice trembled with pathOs when he described
himself watching the flag, it now qulvered
with indignation as he depicted the villalny OF
this transaction.
No other man in the country, we venture to
say, could have done this so well. And when
he added that the decision of the Tribunal
i'm this matter is entitled to no respect" he
simply expressed concerning this Tribunal an
opinion which his own experience has deep
encd into conviction concerning all others be-
fore which he has practced. His title to
speak with authority no one can doubt. In
closing he said: "The spectacle of successful
"villainy is cOrrupting in proportion to the
extent of the theater on which it Is enacted
"and to the prize which it wins. The Presidency
" of the United States has never yet been won
"by fraud. If it is won now the example will
be more injurious to our good name and more
corrupt to our people than all the populations
"and robbercs and the frauds of all our his
"tory." Here we have the testimony of an
expert as to the effect of the spectacle OF sue
cessful villany Nothing could be more vigOr-
Gus and powerful. Possibly in the present
alarming prevalence of partisanship it may
fail to arouse the entire voting population,
but we are quite sure these noble sentiments
will waken an answering throb in the hearts
of at least two persons of distinction, both
clients of Mr.. Field-One residing at Gramercy
Park, the other stopping temporarily in Lud-
lowest.
Opinions concerning Mr.. Fields varied and
miscellaneous efforts, as before remarked, may
and do differ Some no doubt will say that
his description of the great joy that came over
him when, after sitting up all night, ne saw
the flag furled and knew the victory was won
and that the Tribunal would be established,
was the finest effort of his life. For our own
part we must consider him as at his best
when on Monday he denounced the decision
of the Tribunal as "unfounded in morals"
"unsound in law Injurious and perniclouS
Sin it's consequences" and certified to no
"respect :" and concluded with a vivid por-
trayal of the effect upon the people of the
spectacle of successful villainy" He can
hardly do better than that. He ought not to