New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-11-19
THE PROPOSED .ARBITRA TON.


getting it.
THE PROPOSED ARBITRA TON.
We fear that our energetic contemporary,
The Herald, has entered upon an undertaking
To which even its acknowledged enterprise
and great resources will hardly he equal. 1t
il easy enough to address wise counsels 10 the
leaders of parties and factions, as The Herald
addressed Messrs. Tildcn and Kelly before the
late election; easy enough TO give advice
which one side or the other, or perhaps q
large number on both sides. will approve; but
when il comes 60 arranging domestic diff
entities and settling family disputes by arbi-
tration, il is quite another thing. The Herald
may be able TO find the North Pole. and
bv-and-by the South Pole, and having
foupd them, to discourse wisely on the
differences between them, saying things
that both Poles would do well to profit Ivy T;
bnt it never can bring the two together. that's
certain not even If the Tropic of Cancer and
the Tropic of Capricorn should write letters
recommending it, and the Equator should
consent to act as arbitrator. The diff
Guilty would not be in the choice of arbitra-
tor. Both Tropics and the Arctic and Antarc-
tic Circles and all the degrees of latitude and
the Equator from both Poles. and its perfect
freedom from prejudice or bias; and the
entire solar system might consent to the ref
erence; still there are reasons of most con-
elusive character for believing that our con-
temporary would fail in the enterprise OF
bringing the two Poles together, if 1t should
undertake it,
1t seems incredible, of course, that any such
scheme could he seriously thought Of But
when we see The Herald laying its hands in
such fatherly way on the heads of Samuel
j. Kelly and John Tilden-the parrot with
plucked feathers and monkey with bleeding
countenance. who have inst been having
such a sweet time of it - and saying.
"Now, my children, let us harmonlze and be
reconciled. and leave all the matters in dis
"pute to the arbitration OF Governor Sey-
mour,n we begin TO think that our cOntem-
porary's enterprise stops at nothing that 1t is
quite liable To undertake the same thing in
cosmogony that it now proposes III politics.
Anybody who knows Tilden and knows
Kelly, and knows, as The Herald does, then
relations to each other and the rest of the
world. and with this knowledge lays a hand
on the head of each and calls on them to be
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| Governor Seymour to act a. 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 ii
he should get within speaking distance OF
the two Poles to undertake TO bring them
together under the arbitration of the Equator
and with the approval of the intermediate paral-
| lels. We have not been consulted as To the pres
ent enterprise, and should not expect to be as 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 mankind
| could never stand.
We notice that Governor Seymour does not
foil in with the proposition to act as arbiter,
notwithstanding so many leading Democratic
statesmen are anxious that be should. The
Ex-Governor Is not in good health. but be
was not born yesterday, and his facul-
ties are not yet so impaired but that
he can sec through the compliment paid him
by this selection. When the two factions of
! Democracy met in Convention, one offering
"a an ultimatum the nomination of anybody
| but EODlISOn, WnDe inc uliilHdiuIu VI tbt
other was nobody but Robinson. Senator Ker-
nan thought it would be feather in his
cap to mediate between them. He medi-
ated, and it was very much like splitting Oh
a red hot stove TO put out the fire. Gov
ernor Seymour has lived long enough TO know
when not TO mediate or arbitrate. But
it is very queer how they all go for him
whenever they get in hot water and every
thing seems to be going to the dogs. As the
ebipwrecked sailor told the Lord when he
began praying. they never go to him except
ing when they are in actual distress. His door
bell, like doctors, is rung most earnestly
when his friends are either engaged
in riot or doubled up with cramp
in the stomach. We sympathize with our
contemporary in its desire for peace, as a gen.
eral rule, but we make this an exception. If
these factions should come together it would
make great deal of trouble tor honest men.
So we are contented to let them fight on.
and glad there is no chance for their
harmonizng. Honest citizens may look on
while the fight is in progress so soon as they
begin to make it up, the spectators have
nothing to do but clap their hands on their
pockets and run.