New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-27
cratic machine . to Gramercy Park would be-
come decidedly open to suspicion.

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The attempt Of the Abanians 70 withhold the
ceded territory from Montenegro, is one Oh the
first matters Of foreign policy with which the
new British Government will have to deai' In
this instance it will only need to insist on the Iu
filment of the Treaty of Berlin, but it may snow
its sympathy with Montenegro, and marx us
dislike for Tory methods by making Its deter
mination felt promptly at COnstantinopie. Inc
report that Sir Austen Layard and Sir Henry
Elliot have sent in their reslgnatOns as am6as-
sailors at Constantinople and Vienna, reSpec-
lively, will warn the Porte that the diplomatic
system by which it's lettering power was upheld
fell with the fall of BeacOnsfeld.
The severity of Kemble's sentence, together
with that Of his colleagues, Will go Tar toward
creating sentiment in their favor which they
do not deserve. No reasonable objection can
be made to the length of the term or the weight
of the fine. The thief who steals jewel from
a shop window would fare worse in the length
of his Imprisonment, and the crime OF these men
is greater than that of many thefts. But the
additional and terrible penalty of separate and
solitary confinement may we'll cause astonish-
ment ifby this is meant that total isolation which
has been described as the dread of prisoners.
It had been supposed that the cruelty of such
confinement had been fully demonstrated, and
q good many worthy people will be surprised to
learn that the system still exists in Pennsyl-
vania in spite of all that has been written and
said upon the subject
The wisdom of Senator Tellers proposition to
empower, or rather require, the President to ap-
point two eOlored cadets-at-large to West Point
each year, is doubtful. But the suggestion will
serve an excellent purpose if it impresses upon
the minds of the West Point cadets and their
instructors the fact that the public opinion OF
the country Is at white heat in this matter.
Whitaker, it may be said, has ceased to be q
question. The country is contemplating the
fact that in an institution supported by the
people for the education of its future army
officers persecution because Of color is not only
possible but actual and universal, that men who
are in training for what is popularity regarded
as the highest type of gentleman can be towards
and blackguards, that the Northern dough
@face has reappeared in our nursery of soldiers
of all places. Every inmate of that institution
can do his part toward retrieving its mistakes,
and will find it wise to do so.
Contrary to some expectations which have
been entertained, the President will, it is now
said, sign the Army Appropriation bill in spite
of its rider. He will do this on the ground that
he does not accept the construction placed upon
the rider by some of the Democrats, and there
fore will not find himself so restricted by it as
the Democrats had hoped. In the case of the
Immediate Deficiency bill, on the other hand,
the Democrats raised again precisely the issue
of the Extra Session, and the President must
meet it as he met it then. The attempt to ham,
string the Election law will be resisted quite as
vigorously as before. 1t Is announced in our
Washington dispatches that the Democrats talk
of Furnishing veto in this case by enacting an
other bill which shall not contain the apprOpria-
ton for United States Marshals, and to keep
thrustng this at the President until he surrenders
at their own terms 1t is difficult to believe that
the Democratic party will renew this foolish
warfare, in which they have been once so
worsted, on the very eve Of the Presidential
campaign. But to them. nothing is impOs-
sible-save wisdom.