New-York tribune., 1877-01-05
CROSSEY1uINED AND SERENADED.

CROSSEYduINED AND SERENADED.
It seems fit and proper that serenade to
| Grover should run on all fOurs with the cross
| examination of CrOnin. The news that the
| Tilden and Hendricks Reform Club OF wash
| ington has rendered a serenade to the Oregon
statesman will be received by the general
public with feeling of profound satisfaction
which will be kindlcd into enthusiasm by
the intelligence that the Oregon statesman
has accepted the offer and said in terms,
"Tfot out your wind instruments and your
"brass bands" We might have known
| that the man who invented Cronin and
made him an Electoral College in spite OF the
popular vote who wrote pamphlet on the
| subject and brought it under his arm all the
| way from Oregon, and who actually saved the
| country and the cause of Tilden and Reform,
| would not shrink from a serenade The hero
who has shown such readiness to confront
if need be world in arms would not be
likely to hesitate at meeting brass band III
full uniform, though every musician played
hand-organ and wore spurs. Indeed he has
already passed a similar ordeal on his jour
ney At San Francisco large and influential
body of citizens, who are animated by an
earnest desire to reform the POst-Ofice, Gus
tom-House, and Mint from the inside, marched
upon the Cosmopolitan Hotel, where he tenn
porarily resided, and made earnest and i'm
passioned remarks at him, to him, and about
him, which were intcrsperscd with martial
airs bv a brass band and responded to with
martial ardor by himself. On that occasion he
said he had a severe cold, but in response to
the complimentary remarks which had been
addressed to him he added, in somewhat cOmpli-
Gated syntax but with beautiful simplicity OF
manner: "In doing the act which | did In
"the State of Oregon, after having been so
"highly complimentcd for it by Gov. Irwin, |
"will simply say that, born and cradled in the
faith of Jacksonian and Jeffcrsonian De-
"mocracy [cheersl; that, reared in the tenets
"of that old national party, carrying the faith
"revered by my parents and associates OF
those parents in the early history of the
| Government, when the Constitution was placed
before me, when had taken an oath to sup
| "pOrt that Constitution, and when an act OF
| "my official duty was called to be enacted
''under that Constitution, it was impossible
"fcr me to go contrary to the mandates of
"the great law of the country" That is the
"faith,n "reared in the tenets." and "carry-
"ing hle faith revered" by his parcnts-he
| could n't-oh of course he could Mt" go con-
"trary to the mandates" Several other Coy
ernors did, but then they were probably not
| "born and Graded in the faith and reared in
| the tenets.
| He subsequently remarked that he did this
simple act" with the sole purpose "to con-
L" firm and maintain in the country" the
great charter of our liberties" "When called
"upon,n said he. rising with the occasion and
| fearing an interruption by the band to do an
official act of that kind, | am of that class of
"men who never count the cost" In the
haste of delivery, and possibly because the
band seemed inpatient to strike up, he neg
lccted to say whether it was the cost to him
| self or to Gov. Tilden he was so indifferent
abont, but CrOnin's crOss-examination throws
| light upon that point. For Cr0nin, it seems,
| does not belong to "that class OF men," He
| did count the cost with great precision and
| distinctncss. It was $4,000; probably in coin.
| What Gov. Grover meant to say, no doubt,
WAS that he was the kind of man who did MT
count the cost when another fellow had il to
nav or Cronin was at hand to do the
|
ernor said with an emphasis that must have
thrilled every drumsticl in the band, But,
"my friends when am certain | am right,
" the heavens may fall, but the act shall be
"done" This remark of itself, in front of n
hotel that has frequently staggered under the
recurring earthquake, and in presence of a
brass band familiar with such phenomena, was
/ an indication of uncommon courage on the
part of the orator. And then the band struck
up. These facts and these extracts are cited
here to show that the Oregon statesman is not
! afraid of brass band and cannot be, intm-
| idatcd by serenadc. He will meet the band
| face to face and will make speech. And
! though it is no business Of ours, we do make
bold to suggest that he can hardly do better
than repeat the San Francisco speech word for
word. 1t is uncommOnly good; particularly
the part which relates to his being born
and cradled and reared, and his determination
to confirm and maintain the great charter of
our liberties and not go contrary to the man
dates. The Tilden and Hendricks Reform
! Club will be perfectly carried away with that