Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-01-02
4 SDfCk Of War.

1hat exceedingly lively poLJlcian, w m r..
chandler, had not been heard from for month
OF more. and it was generally supposed that
he had been showed under in New Hampshire
10 account for this preternatural silence. His
organ. the Concord Monitor. on the last day OF
ISIS has, however, a column and half letter
from him. in which he discusses the southern
question and cOngTatulates the radical repub-
licans upon the fact that ''the public conscience
OF the north which under the baleful paralysis
of the Hayes surrender to political murderer5,
had seemed dead. l. alive again. In speaking
Of the determination Of the republicans to reas-
SeTt the principles Of free speech free elections
and equal Fights. he says: Ion such issues,
fought i'll the old spirit, which. till March i,
1oI1 inspired The republican army. New York,
connecticut and New Jersey viii be as surely
republican as New Hampshire, Massachusetts,
Or Kansas; and no northern state except, pos
Sibly, Indiana) win be missing from the tr-
umph3nt radical column Of November. 1882"
He then proceeds to cudgel the republican
dough face Of the north ..who seemed to 90
out Of existence when the rebel guns were fred
N sumter. but who revived in 1871 and now
lifts his head to distract counsel and paralyze
action" Proceeding in this line he says OF the
aforesaid dough face:
He Is to be found in the editorial room.
hDtlrg radicals and Sneering at sacred senti-
ment- ana at conventions. advocating the nOm-
tI hEIhtS0 III congress. counting feDtiI
generals in the Cabinet. cOnc1liating cOnfeder-
ates with petty patronage and even crouching
and canting in the White House. Although
such dough faces exist nOminally within the
party, further republican success depends upon
not needing their cOWardiCc nor being diverted
nor hindered by their treacherieS. They did
hOl, though they tried, protect nor extend sla-
very, defeat emancipation nor manhood SUI
1rage. aud they VIII not pfe.ent a republican
victory IN $50. but VIII. when it is achieved
shout the loudest, and again attempt to turn its
fruits into ashes
This bellgerent blast might be construed to
Indicate a breach OF the truce between the aG-
Ininistration and the .-staIwarts;" but it prob
ably shows nothing more than that ". f. {. re-
mains in chronic state of .'unrecOnstruclion."
The statements in the communication signed
s. outside OF Washington" in regard 10 the
views of Generals Hancock and Schofeld upon
The army bill, are from an entirely trustworthy
source, and merit careful attention.
----
Caleb Cushing, who IS reported to be dying
a. his Massachusetts home. is nearly % years
OF age. He is not stricken with any particular
disease, but there has been. apparently. gen.
eral collapse of the system. HIS life has been
n busy one, and throughout he has been the
most Industrious of men. and especially as a
deliver amongst books. He graduated at Har-
ward az the early age OF Il. and very soon took
high rank at the bar, but he continued his liter
airy studies at the same time, and was one of the
able5t OF the contributors 10 the reviews. In
ISIS he was elected 10 the legislature of MaSSa-
chuSettS, and in 1854 (after a tour of two years
In Europe and the production OF a couple of
books upon Spain and FranCe) he was elected
to Congress, and served four consecutive terms.
in 1873 he was sent TO China by President Tyler
as commissioner, and negotiated the first treaty
of the United States with that country ON
his return he was again elected to the legisla-
fure, and made himself conspicuous by adj
vOcating the Mexican war in opposition TO
the prevailing sentiment OF his State.
The legislature refused TO appropriate money to
Pluip the Massachusetts regiment OF volunteers
and Gushing contributed the money for the pur-
pose, and was appointed colonel of the regi-
ment. He soon after received the appointment
of brigadier general in General Taylor'5 army.
In 1858 he was appointed L. ). Attorney General
by President Pierce. He presided at the demo-
Cratic national convention at Charleston, s. c.,
In April, 1S6O; and at the convention OF the Sc
cederS from that body, which met in Baltimore
in the following June and nominated Brecken-
ridge for President. In lS66 he was appointed
one OF the three eminent lawyers to revise and
codify the laws OF the United States, and in 1872
he took a conspicuous part in the Geneva con-
ference as the counsel for the United States In
the settlement of the Alabama claims In 1873
he was appointed minister 10 Spain. and in 1874
was nominated 10 be Chief Justice Of the United
States, but the nomination was afterwards
Withdrawn, as IL was aSceTtained that he could
hot be confirmed.