New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-11-30
sermons are full of sincere and useful thought
and should command serious attention.


TIE DEMOCRATIC CONSf1hACl.
We are not disposed to put full faith in the
reported schemes of Mr.. Tilden's friends for a
new demonstration by the Claimant as soon as
Democrats get possession of the Scnate-lt
they ever do. The plan attributed to them Is
so desperate, the impossibility of accomplish
ing any practical result by it is so manifest,
that we must suppose Mr.. IIlden perei'
of his ordinary common sense before he
cOuld assent to it. declaration ny
the two Houses of Congress that MI
Tilden was fairly elected President IasV
November could have no effect except 10
bring the Nation into discredit in the eyes oil
the rest of the world, to inflame partisan pas
sions. and to embarrass the relations between
two coordinate branches of the Government.
The title of Mr. Hayes has been affirmed by
the highest authority that ever passed upon
such a question under our Constitution. He
has been recognized as President by all the
deparfments of the Government, by both
Houses of Congress, by both political parties
in Congress, and by the voice Of the whole
people. Nothing can now inyalidate his cleo
ton. Nothing can unseat him except inn
peachmcnt or armed revolution. And if he
could be unseated there is no process under
our laws by which Mr. Tilden could be put IN
his place.
And vet it would not he safe TO assume that
because the scheme is ridiculous on its face there
are not Democrats Of influence who entertain
il. A long and varied experience ought to
have convinced us of the boundless capacity
of the Democracy for fOolishness Even Mr.
Tilden has hardly been himself since he be-
came the Democratic candidate for the Presi-
dency, and or more than one occasion lately
he has shown that NE labors under a singular
delusion with regard to the place which his
grievance holds in the thoughts of the human
race. TO mankind in general, the issues
Of last November are closed as finally
and thoroughly as the great dispute
over the United States Bank; and what
ever NAV be the differences Of opinion
about the merits of the controversy
as an historical problem, Democrats and Rcpub-
licans are satisfied, for the most part, that 1t
is folly to wake the ghosts OF dead disputes
when we have so many more 1--we ones than
we find it convenient to deal with. But Mir.
Tilden for some months past has been moving
about in the midst of the active throng, pull
Ing men by the sleeve, and bidding them stop
work TO drop a tear with him over the Great
Fraud, wondering how they can 90 Oh buying,
selling, pleading preaching, voting, spccuat-
ing, eating and drinking, dancing and making
merry, marrying and dying, while his wrongs
are still unredressed and the Usurper
sits in the White House. He told
mob of serenaders that no duty so
pressed upon the American people-not
even the duty of compelling Frenchmen to eat
coin-as the sacred obligation of insisting that
Fraud Shall Not BE COndOned. In the midst of
every discussiOn,-abO the din Of riots, the
roaring of Incendiary mobs, the rattle of mus
kerry in the streets, the ranting of financial
Quacks In Congress- while the honor OF the
Nation is mt stake. the security of property
menaccd, the savings Of the industrious threat
ened with seizure and destruction, the world
waiting to know whether the United States Is
honest OF dishonest, Mr.. Iiden, with table
of figures and cipher dispatches in his hand,
and Little Dictionary in his pocket, is heard
pcrpetually piping " Fraud. FraudW lie can
not see how the procession of the equinOxes
can continue If that fraud is to be c0ndoned.
Perhaps he can fnd politicians enough in his
party to aid him in a campaign Of disturbance
The readiness OF Democratic politicians to 20
al
last hours of the XLIYth Congress with up
roar in shameful attempt to overturn the de-
cision of arbltrators of their own choice and
throw the country into a revolutionary crisis
by preventing the Inauguration OF the Presi-
dent. They starved our soldiers and sailors.
They tried to disorGanze our little army.
They are now destroying our credit, debaSing
our currency, repudiating just debts, tearing
away the foundations of public faith and private
integrity. They have not undertaken a single
useful measure, they have not proposed any sort
OF political policy, since they obtained Il ma
jOrty in the HOIse of Representatives. They
have endcavored only to destroy. to demOralize,
to dishOnor. If there is now an apprehension in
Washington that they may attempt TO unsottle
the Government, it is not because the schemes
attributed to them look plausible, but because
their party seems to have been directed of
late by political incendiares. Nothing is too
desperate for some of these men. We should
like to know whether Mr.. Tilden, in fit of
disappointment, has really thrown himself into
their hands.
SENATOR EATON on THE CONSTITUTIONS
The country may always feel assured of
something picturesque and dramatic when the
Senator from Connecticut takes the floor. BY
the Senator we mean, of course, the senior
Senator, whom the Connecticut newspapers.
with sarcastic rreverenoe. call the venerable
d" Mr.. Eaton and not by any means Mr.. Bar
mum, who, so far as we know, has never, in
the whole course of his ten years service in the
House and Senate. taken the floor upon any
occasion whatever, even to explain his habit