New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-02-26
Nrw.yoRK DAILY TRIBUNE THURSDAY FEBRUARY g. 1880

ters Of religion and morals to be found in his paper
in The North american Reriac for June, 1873, on
50 The Sovereignty of Ethics" and to his lecture
entitled The Preacher" delivered to the divinity
students of Harvard University less than year
ago. and now printed in TIE O"tdHd"
Rerielc for January, 1880. Young Mr. Em-
erson SAYS that the friends and readers OF
his father can Judge for themselves whether these
papers confirm the truth OF the tale that Is gong
about as to his conversion TO orthodoxy" those
who find 1t impOss BILE to agree with Mr. Emerson
those who think that he has made himself
stone blind by staring at the sun OF truth' can
have no wish to misrepresent his opinions when
to such a man are the most precious of possessions
Mr., ConElme was unfortunate in his effort to
break down the proofs of Pennsylvania sentiment
since the HARRISBURG Convention, by hisreferencetO
the opposition to Mr.. Lincoln III 1854. III Is
not true that the sights we see now the
sounds hear now, were all seen anu
heard then" It is not true, that newspaper
people then took canvasses of the people, and
found that three-fourths Of them we're
opposed to Lincoln No such canvasses were
taken, and no such declarations were made.
Ben Wade and others of the stall
wart Republican leaders Of that day did
I.
body took canvasses Of the people" IN
the sense Mr.. Conklng wished to
be understood or even pretended, that fourths
of the people or a majority, or n large minor
ity, shared in this opposition. There has never
BEEN in the whole history of the Republican party,
such revelation az that Of THE TRBUNEs
Pennsylvania canvass; and there Is no
known case in which Convention so openly
incorporating its constituency, carried with 1t
moral weight enough to secure success,
Foreigners in China are sometimes no better
treated than the Chinese are by the hoodlums OF
San Francisco There IS rather agTayatng nior-
nation Of the brutal way in Which the Rev. Nathan
Sites, of The American Methodist Episcopal Mission.
has been misused by the mob OF Yenpiugfoo.
In accordance with the advice Of the
District MAGISTRATE he had closed his chapel
and reraire ed from preaching; yet while walking
quietly through he streets he was waylaid aud Sc
yerely beaten. In fact. his prosecutors were upon
the point Of drowning him. when the MAGISTRATE
arrived, and barely succeeded in saving ms HE
Whether under existing circumstances, we have any
right 10 rem0ustrate with The Chinese Government
uuou these barbarous proceedings, the remoa-
STRANGE will doubtless De made Indeed the United
States Consul has already moved in the matter II
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