New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-08

1t was into such gathering as TINS thae
the Hon. Mr.. Hill dropped last Friday like
| falling star or, to use more seasonaDle ~
| ure like the last part of spent rocket. AI inc
moment of his arrival Mr.. William DOrsheimer
was touching all hearts with the story OF the de-
| struclion of /" the arts and literature, the III
dustries and cities of Rome" by the ig-
ignorance of the East,n and pointing out the
danger of a similar catastrophe to tins coun-
try from the class of men who dIstrust the
people; and was doing it so powerfully
that many went out and drowned their emo
nons at neighboring bars, or wherever they
could find barkeeper who didn't" distrust.' AT
the close however, he O. raised the RepuDnc
"to unconceived heights of greatness and
"glory :" and then the band played linen
Mr.. Benjamin Hill was called out. Nhen nc
arose the whole audience stood up, ana cheered
and hoWled most vociferOusly. There is no
day in the year on which Tammany VIII not
stand on its head at the sight OF man VINO
has owned q "nigger." On the Fourth oil
July, when the Wiskinskies are In UNIFORM
and the ranks in every respect full. 1t more
than rouses them. They cheered Mr.. I'LL more
| loudly than they would Thomas Jefferson, or any
| other man, unless 1t might be Jefferson Da'ls'
| As soon as quiet was restored Mr.. I'LL began
| to address them on the subject when he
| knew lay nearest their hearts, to Wit: Inc
"StruggIe for Human Liberty" Tammany
| Hall always did prick up its ears when any
| thing was said about the struggle. The late
| Mr.. Tweed used to sit up nights conducting
! the struggle. Probably no one organization
| in the country has cast so many votes, III pro-
| norton to the number of its voters, III
support of the struggle, as Iammany
Hall. Just to think of the way In
which that Society has struggled Tor
| human liberty for the past twenty-five
| wears, starts the perspiratiOn at every pore.
| Hundreds Of patriots connected with that DOdy
| have stopped rinsing tumblers and drawing
| beer and gone right into the Board OF Alder
| men, the Legislature, or any other place where
| there's salary, just to take hand IN the
| struggle. So when Mr.. Hill struck out on the
| struggle for human liberty he was talking TO
men who had been up to their armpIts III 1t
| from time immemorial, and were ready to stay
in il so long as there's a cent i'll the treasury.
Mr.. Hill said there had been two great
| epochs in the struggle for human liberty.
He disappointed his hearers by naming as the
| FIST that which eliminated in the Declara-
50 ton of Independence" They rather ex-
pected him to say it was the attempt to
| establish a COnfederacy with Slavery as the
cornerstone. But he rose quite up to their
| expectations in naming the second great
| epoch. "In my opinion" said he, " the see
"ond greatest epoch in the history of the
struggles for human liberty will be adjudged
"by the future of this country to have occurred
during the session of Congress just closed"
Then they applauded. He was not quite sure
that the second was not equally great with
the first : and they appauded again. Now, i'll
Tammany Hall, of course 1t has been under
| stood all along that the session just closed
was q struggle for human liberty; though
| there are thousands of people outside that
| ancient society who did not view it all III
| that light; and even in the society itself
there were, aside from Mr.. Augustus Schell
and Mr. Samuel Cox, very few who recognized
il as an epoch Of the first or second magnitude.
TO many IN the audience, therefore, this
| announcement came with the sudden
| thrill of a great discovery. There are, no
doubt, some Democratic Members Of Congress
who went through the entire session without
realizing that they were iii the midst Of the
second greatest epoch in the struggles for
human liberty. If they had, they would not
have backed down upon every issue they
raised with the Executive; and they certainly
would not have gone of and left their
party without quorum. But Mr.. Hill
knows an epoch when he sees one
and if he says this was the second greatest in
the history of the struggles for human liberty,
it will have to be set down So This epoch,
| Il, u (, Ill
by the fact that the Republican party aflirms
" that the people of this country are not ca
"pable of sef-eovernment," and the Demo-
cratic party has joined issue with it on that
question: If that is true, then it is an epoch,
SIRE enough. A great many people had not
heard OF it.
Well, let us be very grateful TO Mr. Hill for
the earnest patriotism, and the true mission
ary spirit, with which he has come North to
tell us about this great epoch in the struggles
for human liberty. Many of us would have
never discovered it without him. Then, be-
sides describing the epoch, he talked in the
most lovely manner about what we must do
TO preserve our liberties. /" If You continue
lin power in times of peace" he SAYS a
"party which owes its success to war, yOu
"wrcck your liberties.n How unfortunate
that we were not informed of this earlier.
We might have turned everything over to the
Democracy in 1865, and had the Confederate
Congress adjourned from Richmond to Wash
ingtOn without breaking up. Then our liberties
would not have been wrecked. But how good
it is in Mr.. Hill, even at this late day. to come
ND here and tell us how to conduct the Gov
eminent and save our liberties And how
unselfsh and dsinterested! A conspiracy to
destroy the Government having been put down,
the thing to do is to turn ont of power the