New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-04-30

winch lie VIII DrOCccu 10 thht 10 boVh ~ ~
can get on his war paint and soak up the Con-
stitution, the threatened Senator seldom loses
any sleep on account of it, or allows his seien-
ity to be in the slightest degree disturbed.
Then very likely the Connecticut Senator MN
self forgets all about it, and while his con-
stituents are saying Now, then Stand PACK
"all The fur will soon begin to fly The ola
"man's got the light of battle in his eye I" ana
so on, lie betakes himself to securing some
places for Connecticut patriots In the Door-
keepers department, and the scalplng never
comes off.
About n fortnight ago, while Senator Dawes
of Massachusetts, was making speech In
which he upheld the doctrine that we are q
Nation. and not a Confederacy of States, Sem
ator Eaton interrupted him with the inquiry
whether Daniel Webster had not called THIS
Confederacy Of States. There was some
thing in the position and aggressive manner
of the Connecticut Senator which, perhaps, leu
Mr. Dawes to believe that he had either just
received a communication from that stateiy
shade or had it in writing under MIR. Weo-
ster's own hand, and he was consequently
wary. Like the jockey who refused 10
trot his fast horse against prihuie
OK, because he "didn't know what the
"darned critter might DO" he fought
shy. and replied that he was not aware that
Mr.. Webster had said any such thing, but ne
knew that the Constitution called 1t Nation.
This Interpolation, which showed Mr.. Eaton
with chip on his shoulder would have been
a good thing for circulation among the Con-
nectic..t Democracy, who would have greatly
- hut Rlajnp who has
a way of not being suppressed by men with
chips on their shoulders, contributed TO the
debate Immediately on the conclusion OF Mr.
Dawes's speech a number of quotations from
Mr.. Webster's speeches, in which he said that
this is not a COnfederaCy OF States, but
a Nation. In the colloquy which en-
sued between Messrs. Blaine and Eaton, the
latter did not appear so well as he dld Wheh
he was making assertions for which no one
demanded the proof. He remarked, however,
that he would see Mr.. Blaine later and produce
the evidence that Mr.. Webster did call the
Union Confederacy of States. The next
day be announced that on the following day
he would answer Mr.. Blaine in speech. That
day has not yet arrived and we believe the
Senator has since denied, to the great amuse-
lneDb OF his COutdpucS, ODuO hO SfSi h''"O "AJ
such announcement
But the impression had been made upon his
constituents, and ever since that time the
Connecticut Democracy have been waiting III
anxious expectancy to see their Senator = take
"the hair off" from Dir. Blaine. The Hartford
Times expressed the opinion that Blaine had
tempted fate, and that this would no doubt
be the last of him and a rural organ OF the
party gave expression to the belief or the
average Democrat in the comment; Ihe
" Hartford Times reports Senator Blaine as
"getting nervous over the expected speech OF
"Senator Eaton. Well he may as the next
" time Senator Eaton jumps on Blaine there
won't be much left of the big Downeaster."
SO there the Connecticut Democracy stand
waiting patiently and confidently for their SEN
ator to begin jumping" on Blaine. Time
rolls, on and he does MT jump. The day he
fixed for jumping has long passed, but he
does MT jump. Indeed, he says now that he
never threatened to jump. 1t begins to look as
though he had made a mistake either IN the
time or the occasion for Jumping, or the man
to Jump on. 1t is very gratifying, of course,
to see the confidence the Connecticut
Democrats have in their Senator. Still
it is not impossible that they may
expect too much of him. If assertion were
only proof, he could jump on almost anybody
or anything. But when 1t comes to anything
beyond assertion he is not so much of a
Jumper. He jumped on Mr.. Dawes with the
assertion that Mr. Webster had called this
Government Confederacy of States. When
Mr.. Blaine read from Webster's speeches
A. .,nkn I'll
eracy of States, the Connecticut jumper jumped
out of the debate And he has now been in
retirement for fortnight, engaged, we pre-
sumo, in a search for something to bolster up
the empty and foolish assertion with which
he blusteringly interrupted another Senator's
speech And his misguided constituents are
waiting for him to come back and jump into
and demOlish the man who showed up his
ignorance and pretension. Jumper, indeed
Grasshopper, rather.