New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-06
rHE MAN WHO KNOWs ~ ABOUT IE

THE MAN UHO hAOUo am = BVOI ~.
II was no doubt a great relief 10 mankind,
weared and exasperated by seventeen months OF
Intellectual struggles to guess the Conundrum Of the
Electoral Count when the person who knew the
answer to that riddle OF the universe sOlemnly
arose yesterday morning and proceeded to let out
the solution. The discharge began before break
fast and ran forth in such prodigious volume that
the sun was high In the heavens before we saw the
end Of Is. Never before perhaps did go huge mass
of "secret political history issue from 50 small
man. IL was so much, and so thick, that we
ceased 10 wonder at the profound stiffness
which Mr.. Marble had preserved ever since he
took il into his system. There safety for
the eontainer OF such pcriOus stuff but 10 deny hun
self the privileges Of speech and pen and lie in quiet
and darkness. Even the newspaper with which tIe
name of Mr.. MantOn Marble was for so many years
associated shrank back in dismay before the great
unburdening and declined TO receive more than
small part of the mammoth revelation. Ii is from
separately printed broadside therefore that we de-
rive our acquaintance with this production, Of
which we can only say that wcllnow not whether TO
be struck the more by ITS transparent substance
its solid chunks Of style.
Nothing less than volume in elephant folio
would hold all that Mr. Marble has 10 tell /; yet we
feel that It would be cruelty TO the public not 10
give currency TO at least few OF his startling re-
marks on the transactions of the eyentful month,
big with fate and talk. during which the ground
work and primary part Of the conspiracy was heap
ing up and cementing in debauchment and dishon-
orr and "Mr. Bigelow's tract" was circulating I'M
der the auspices of the Democratic National Com
mit.ee, 80 that. besides plan of campaign, here
were arsenals of ammunition provided. and lothal
weapons fashioned to the hand of every hater OF
fraud" A tremendous time, indeed must this have
been-a time that tried the capacity Of the AmeTi-
can people TO carry on amid public order the
ark and shechinah of their self-government." and
that put TO the test the forttude Of tho descend
ants OF ga race Of men who made their kings and
upmade them, who dethroned kings and at times
dispensed with kings, and are now wearing tho
robes and the purple Of sovereIgnty"-unless in
deed, as Mr.. Marble suggests, we are TO make the
shameful confession that we wear the robes and
purple "by proxy only" having hired them, 80 to
sneak of fancy costumer, till the first dragon
made led by 'saYior of society,"" It was a time
Of "plotsD and Of "complots" and Of "cOparce-
pies;D but the American people did, nevertheless,
continue 10 carry on the ark aud sheehnah Of their
self-government and all would have gone well
if the Democratic House of Representatives
had only taken counsel by Mr.. Tilden.
Then threats must have usked their life
in acts-and threateneTs. too. For nothing but such
rank treason and red-handed violence could have
enthroned the beneficiary OF their crime. Nor kept
him seated for single hour unless, indeed, the
Ango-saxon blood Of the founders Of this Republic
be milk in the veins Of their Sons. An InfsxibIe
House. always standing fast in the final citadel of
power the keen. bright sunlight of publicity
through the long day OF such debate, would have
sbriyelled ana consumed the conspiracy root and
branch II anythng were needed to reconcile US
TO the fact that Mr.. Tilden's oounsels were not
taken-that, on the contrary, the cool firm tenn
per which his discarded policy had inspired
and exacted was everywhere in trce
melted into sentiment under the high tenn
uerature of patriotic emotion lit would be re-
Numbering that in that case the splendid passage
above cited would never have been written.
Well there we have Mr.. Marbles disclosure 1t
is dreadful wo know. dark, and dreadful, and dree,
but the public has right 10 hear the worst. After
all wo may take comfort in rejecting that we can
stil carry on the ark and shechinah OF sefgov-
eminent, and with that wo may pull through, as we
have pulled through bad places before. II ~"