The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-11-20

shoulder straps to private life. Was that
an injury to the army2 Far from it. The
best men recognized that purgation of that
sort was in the highest degree advantageous.
There is only one first rate man in the his
tory of the war who is on record as against
special correspondence, and that is General
Sherman; but his expression was rather a
result Of personal irritation in peculiar cir
cumstances than the utterance of calmly
formed judgment. We doubt, as the Times
does. if the new rules will ever be enforced,
and if they are they will reduce army COR
respondence to very low level or result
in the corruption of a part of the army staff.
squint-Eyed Views OF Our Straight
1t is impossible for squint-eyed people to
see straight Witness how the squint-eyed
politicians of every variety are taking
oblique views of the HERALD's straightfor-
ward endeavor to induce harmony in the
distracted democratic party of New York.
them directness of vision. Everything is
crooked in their eyes. Accordingly Mr..
Tilden's personal followers tell the HERALD
to mind its own business, and Mr.. Tilden's
personal adversaries say the same. Tam
many-modest Tammany-''never heard Of
such impudence" as the HERALD's inter
meddling with the domestic broils of demo-
Gratis, and i-Tammany-modest anti
Tammany-subscr to the same senti-
ment. They all suspect something
crooked. The anti-Tammany folks sus-
pect that reconciliation is a trick of
the political assassins of Governor Robin
son to escape punishment. The Tammany
folks suspect that reconciliation is ruse
by which Mr.. Tilden designs to humbug
them into reinstating him in his forfeited
control of the party.
Some very crooked and curious views are
also taken of the subject by neighboring
journals. The World, for instance, having
manifestly in mind our recent expressions
of disgust with hanging as mode of CAPT
tai punishment, declares that the HERALD
is striving to chloroform the democratic
party. The Tribune, which has reasons of
its own for wanting to keep democratic
quarrels lively, wittily regards the HERALD's
as a piece Of stupendous
geological enterprise, an attempt to soothe
'the parrot with plucked feathers and the
monkey with bleeding countenanoe" by taffy
while the venerable Ex-Governor Seymour
wrings their respective necks. Then,
switching off from zoology to geography. it
remarks that anybody who knows the two
chiefs in the democratic broil, ''as tho
HERALD does" and their relations to each
other, and with this knowledge lays hand
on the head of each and calls on them
to be reconciled, and telegraphs to Gov
ernor Seymour to act as umpire between
them, and invites the opinions Of Judge
Church and William Purcell and Amasa j.
Parker upon the subject of arbitration and
reconciliation, would not hesitate if he
should get within speaking distance of the
two poles to undertake to bring them to-
gether under the arbitration of the Equator
and with the approval of the intermediate
parallels;'' and it adds:-"We havenot been
consulted as to the present enterprise, and
should not expect to be rs to the second;
but we protest equally against both, that
though success might reflect great credit
upon our contemporary, at which we should
rejoice, either one Of them involves q
squeeze on the human family which man
kind could never stand" A squeeze on the
republican party democratic reconcilia-
ton involves, no doubt. As to the rest of
the human family we question our sportive
republican contemporaries authority to
speak for it in this connection.
Well, we must leave all these squint-eyed
people to take crooked views of the
HERALD's straight line at their pleasure.
The operation of strabotomy on their dis
torted vision would be even a more stupen-
dous undertaking than harmonizing the
parrot with the monkey or squeezing the
poles into contact. The simple truth of
the matter is that the HERALD magnani-
mously undertook to bring the democratic
factions into relations which they were
incapable of reaching otherwise. It deemed
this important for the public welfare
which is always the first considera-
ton with the HERALD-to check the
overweening republican confidence that
was growing out Of the New York
election and to restrain the republi-
can party from unwholesome extravagances.
Instead of prosecuting the enterprise by
crooked methods it aimed straight at the
mark, and it has hit it, The democratic
voters generally, and most of tho demo-
cratic leaders, have been brought to see
that without q speedy reconciliation in
their party there is no salvation for it.
1t will not do, however, to postpone CO.
menting harmony until the spring by re-
ferring the subject TO 'the next State Con-
vention," as some of the leaders whose