Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-28

wise will insist upon having it.
Notwithstanding the antiquities
and pallations which Geographic re-
ports throw around the attempted as
sassination of Kalloch at San Fran
cisco, and the murder of Dixon at
Yazoo, and although there is neither
time nor space at present for consid-
Grafton and removal of them, We can
not help reverting 20 these crimes, as
we 90 to press, in order to extract
the moral which they sevcra!ly and
collectively point. There is a lesson
in them, which society around US
will do well to heed. The fact that
there was al eX-Democrat connected
with the n and an ex-RepubEcan
With the other, and tnat both were
victims, makes that lesson all the
more impressive. 1t is not alone
in the far west that there are Youngs
and Kallochs, nor Ill the south Banks
daics and Dixons, that SOW 10 the
wind and reap the whirlwind. There
are at other places also those that
are doing their utmost to excite the
lowest instincts and intlame the worst
passions of populations. To what
other causes can labor-Ieagues and
strikes, at this time, be attributed :
Why, when labor is better employed
and more suitably rewarded than it
has been for years, is it necessary to
resort to force in large cities to curb
riotous workmen from interfering
with other operations end hold them
back from the destruction of proper
ty ? Is it not due to the communistic
doctrines which have been spread
broadcast by the kearneys and Mays
and those that pattern from their vile
examples? Can there be anything
more mischievOus than uphOlding
them, or more devlish than the per-
sisteut efforts Of INSCRIPTIONS speak
ers and writer's to PIT labor against
capital and render harmony between
employer and employed impossible :
Shall we then not extract from the
sad events referred to timely warning
to withhold assistance from those
who, though they may at present be
more reputable than the southern and
western agitatorS alluded to, must in
time descend to their level and in the
end prove equally mischievous and
odious, politically and socially, If
they go en- unthoughtful or uncheck-
ed to the full fruition oftheir policies.
The reiterated attacks of the Green
hackers on Hon. A. II. Buckner
will damage either that gentle
man or the Democracy in the eyes of
reasonable men. The relations which
the two latter sustain to each other
are too well known for that. When
the convention met 1t re-affirmed the
Jefferson City platform, and with a
candor and m%anliness that is unusual,
Judge Buckner declined accepting
nomination until his personal
views were explained, and the con-
vention understood the diversion OF
sentiment existing between the party
and himself. After that, it was and
still is absurd and nonsensIcai in the
extreme, to hold Judge Buckner re-
sponsible for the platform because he
accepted the nomination ; and it is
equally childish and futile to attempt
to hold the Democracy responsible for
the peculiar and personal views of the
Judge. No one but a village politician
would risk reputation by making OF
continuing assaults from such stand
points. While his aspersers
have never accomplished any.
thing, neve having been able to
induce the community to repose the
slightest confidence in them, mucl
less commit any political trust tc
them, the character of Judge Bucknel
is national. AS chairman of a most i'm
portant committee he has occupied a
most responsible position, and at ths
same time has been of eminent ser.
vice to the country. 1t is due almos'
wholly to his sagacity and that OIL
those more Immediately connected
with him, that many of the stings o
resumption were extracted. To hin
as much as to any other individual
is the debt of gratitude due, from