New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-23
,rxr vopr n.uv TnnuNr THURSDAY SEPTEMBER % 1851

entity misrepresented NJ the trial and execution OF
Andre. All sorts OF floating falsehoods have been
told by British writer's. until the refntaton OF them
has become q WEAKNESS; while Andres acknowl
edgment Of the kindness and consideration with
which he was treated has been persistenty ignores
Every American is and should be Jealous OF the
great and good name and fame OF Washington. IL
is pleasant to-day to remember that through all TINS
difficult business he exhibited nothing but his CHAR
acterstIc magnanimity and bencvolence. lie ala
nothing which he not obliged to do; aud moth
ing which any British commander would not have
done under the same circumstances. Andre was not
less a spy because he young, handsome, accom-
plished and amiable; because he was beloved by bis
commander and respected by his brother officers;
because his zeal for the of his King be-
trayed him into an employment usually reserved
for men of meaner position; because Sir Henry
Clinton wished to reduce the Iniamy OF Benedict
Arnold to a "certainty.D As Mr.. Bancroft observes,
Andre took his life IN his hand when he prepared
to carry out his orders" Notwithstanding lfis ig-
nominious fate he occupies position IN history
which Is neither low nor n mean one. The wretch
with whom he was sent 10 transact this disrepu-
table and dangerous business Is to-day execrated
both in the land Of bis birth AMI the land to which
h. fed from the penalties of his crime while Andre
is still "pied by geUtle minds" and has no STAN
upon his memory, save that which Americans are
Hing to forget unless gatuitous SANDER of one
who is yet first in the hearts OF his countrymen"
cOmpels them TO remember Il.
Whatever could be said has been said in extenua-
ton of the crime of Arnold. bat NJ ingenuity can
exticate him from the mlre of infamg into which
he has fallen There is a feeling which nothing has
vet mitigated that the character OF the man
sentIay false and selfish. There was a touch OF
hypocrisy in his nature which finds sufficient ex-
preston in the letter which, after nls flight he adj
dressed to Washington. 1.-THE beart." be said,
(which is conscious of its own rcctitude cannot at
tempt to palliate step which the world may CEN
sure as wrong" The traitor lived long enough to
find out that fine phrases could not save him from
contempt; and there IS grim satisfaction in re-
Wondering that he died degraded, impoverished
and despoed.
Was the Union cause lost" alsof The South
says it was.
For twenty years the Democratic party has been
Genouncing loyalty as sectionasm," and for
twenty years there have been dougllface who have
believed " harmony and good feeling" to be OF
more importance than loyalty.
Is there q Union soldier who can read Lincoln's
immortal address at Gettysburg and vote for Han
cock and the Solid South II he can ne must b.
convinced that his comrades who fell in battle
" died III VAIN"
Hancock is quiet now. That "gIorious" dispatch
to Plaisted has cost him thousands Of votes.
There have been a few faint denials that Plastods
election was n Greenback victory. The men who
elected him ought to know, and they" fused
on a resolution at their uesday convention we
have in that truthful expression Of their opinion.
They say; The election of General Plasted to
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presentation in Congress UNREASONABLE in
dorsemens of our principles by the State of Maine"
Everybody knows who comprise " our representa-
ton in CONGRESS 1.-TWO men, both rampant mia
tionIsts Ladd and Murch. The latter was pro-
lesslona striker before he went to Congress, and.
like the former, il an ignorant and totally unit
man for the position. - Our principles" therefore,
are Greenback principles pure aud simple. Han
COCK says TIER success - - glorious"
What ls the Democratic record appropria-
tons An increase of S41 100000 in five years.
On resumptioni Solid opposition and attack for
live years. 'Rah for change
Hancockian definition of glorous": Unlimited
silver. unlimited paper. down with the National
banks ruin 10 the Doudholders.
Mr. Jackson, the st. LOUIS Greenback orator, says
again that there is not the slightest doubt that
Hancock consented III letter to BantOn Duncan
to accept n Greenback nomination for President on
a ticket with General Butler. What has Hancock
to say TO this7 What has the hOnest-m0ney man,
the business man. the capitalist To say TO itf
In 1860 William H. English. speaking for North
ern Democrats and doughtaces declared the Repub-
can party to be the sectional party and called TO.
its annIhlaion the only to secure " har-
mony and good feeling between the two sections
In 1880 the same William II. English makes a
similar dec aratOn. Now, AS then the Solid South
and the Democrats of the North cry Amen Now,
~ then. the way TO harmony ana good feeling"
is TO let the South have its own way Now az then,
the voice Of the dOlghtace Is heard decrying
" section asm and begging To have the politics OF
the day lifted TO a higher plane, and the honorable
gentlemen of the South treated with more con-
sideratIOn.
If to oppose the principles OF Lee and Jackson 6e
sectionasm" then it is patriotic duty for every
Northern man to be sectlonalIsL"
There is one way, and only one wav, to end Sec
tona STRIFE and that is to have the South recognize
what Horace White and his Independent Republi-
can associates happily call the fact that the
ended in conquest, not in compromise" 1t can
not be ended Oh Wade ii ,mptons basis that the
sectional controversy began IN 1887. and ended,
for the time being, at Appom Ittox" unless the
North Is prepared to admit that the donghfaces have
been right ali the time
HalfcOck Hancock declines TO put himself on
record against the payment of Southern claims.
That is why the South halls his election as the
good tine coming
When Plaisted was nominated by the Green
hackers for Governor of Maine. he said: Il accept
this nomination because be ieve stand in full
accord with the Greenback party. | am utterly
opposed to the system which wonid trm tho our
rency of the country to a specie basis" Hancock
says the triumph Of these ideas ~ glorious" Re-
sumption would stand for very snort timo with
that principle on top IN the Government.