The daily gazette., 1879-10-11
!, he RadicaI Hate Of the South.
from the N. Y. Herald.
AusG EsPIELrl


Among the most apt Of President Lin
coins many telling SMILES Is the one he
employed when, al er the issuance OF the
preliminary Emancipation Proclamation,
some weak friends undertook TO convince
him of its impolicy. After listening 70
their arguments, with his customary air
of lang uid patience, he drily replied =
"Well, it seems to me that all that pow
der was fired off before the proclama-
ton" There could not be happier IL
lustration of the futility Of repeating
spent arguments after the occasion Is
past to which they were pertinent. We
commend this admirable simile to Sena-
tor Conkling, with our respectful com
pliments, and caution him against the
mistake Of supposlng that the same burnt
powder will serve for the tehth and
twentieth discharge of the same pack OF
artillery.
We object to the everlasting repetition
of the same stale arguments. We cannot
quite decline to print the speeches Of q
statesman of the great mark OF MIR.
| Conklina but when he merely thrashes
over the old straw we must frankly say
to him that there is a conflict between
our sense of what is due to our readers.
We Willingly print great deal from Mr..
Wendell Philips because there is al
ways something fresh aud ingenious IN
the treaimen. il not in the ideas, and
Mr.. Phillips makes frequent excursions
into new fields OF thought. But Senator
Conkling's Brooklyn speech is so close .
| reproduction of what he aud others have
so often said before that readers will be
too apt to regard II as "weary, FIAT, stale
and improbable"
We object to the matter of Mr.. Conk-
ling's speech simply because II tends to
keep alive the sectional politics which he
affects to deprecate. All the arguments
he employs are dusgespiett-" played
out. " in fact. They we're arguments
which many years ago were pertinent
now they are ausgespieH.
Mr.. Conkling and his parry are wrong.
The way 10 extineui the sectional is
sue is not by harpiDg perpetually on the
old discord, but by starting new subjects
of interest to every part Of the country
We might have had accession In 1s33 II
l.. esident Jackson had not been in his
great struggle with the Bank of thu
Unit. d States which kept the public
mind so occupied that the other South
ern States DID not rally to the nullifica
lion flag borne aloft by South Carolina
An old quarrel is soonest smothered b.
) diverting attention from 1t, not by con
tinuing TO discuss it. General Grant
eviuced sagacity when, soon after thu
close of The war, he favored a march to
! Mexico by federal and Confederate sol
: diers to drive out Maximilian. Their,
y was a different way Of disposing of Maxi
milan but if war to maintain the Mon
i roe doclrin had been justi6able Gener
e al Giant judged rightly as to its paciiyin
r effect in our internal politics. That wa
the conception Of soldier at tim
when General Grant was merely sol
= der but tlained civilians like the Re
IS publican statesman should be able TO de
If wise some policy which would dwarf al
:, eclipse the sectional issue without resort
> ing to a foreign war. The country need
u new objects Of interest capable OF enlist
l. ing hs enthusiasm. 1t is not creditabl
II to Mr.. CoDkling, not creditable 10
=, statesman Of a party which has been $
long in power that they are still spinnin
le round and round in the same old circl
is instead of advancing TO some new polio
ld in tie line Of uational progress. To bo
row another Of Mr.. Lincoln's pet con
y tarsons, such statesmen are Gauge
he that won't bore, \" although in the soci
in sense of the word eve beg Mr.. CoDkling
of pardon } they do bore us more than "
=, can express.