New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-18

| affeCtiOnate esteem which has been higher
honor to him than nypOlitical office can confer.
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Would any man Of the grateful thousands who
greeted General Grant mt Philadelphia with cheers
of welcome few months ago. have believed that
he would allow his friends to put him into
o sculle for tho Presidential nomnaton-that he
would allow earnest Republicans to be denounced
as traitors for insisting on the right to vote at Chi
cago as their cOnsccnccs should dictate and their
| constituents should desire, and that such Gisor-
ganIzing and intOlcrant action as the Cook County
bolt would be pGrpetrated in his name If General
| Grants fame suffers in this struggle for place. it
| will not be the opponents of tho third term who
work the damage. A great many people have I'M
| pleasant memories of his Administration, but they
! have studiously RETAINED from saying aught to
recall those days and doings. The advocates Of
other candidates have treated General Grant with
rare magnanimity. They are panied to SEQ him
brought down from the high level of esteem and
affection which no occupies the leader Of the
! Union Armies. Can he be so blinded by ambition
! that he cannot see how seriously his iniudiciOus
! friends are impcrilling his reputation 1t looks
| now rs if he were doomed to certain defeat and
| victory gained by the methods his friends en-
! poying. and which it must he presumed that he
! sanctions would only be less disastrous than de-
! feat If General Grant would stop moment and
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pied on his return, and would consider that as this
unsccmy struggle grows more bitter he must sink
! still lower in popular esteem his good sense would
| lead him to make the ono declaration which would
make him Americas first citizen, and assure him of
| n place in history beside Washington and Lincoln
People who do not believe In tho total dopravity
of human nature must sometimes DO sOrcly tempted
to reconsider thoir rejection Of that doctrine. On
] thn and irwin "
town of Milton Penn. was almost literally in ashes,
the inhabitants homeless and hungry, tho whole
community plunged in the greatest Distress two de-
ibcrate attempts made to rckindlc the flames.
! Some inccndiary tried to burn the only hotol re-
| manning in the town. and u railway station was also
| fired. No wonder tho people mad with rage.
| II the inccndary had been detected, Judge Lynch
| might have exercised summary jurisdiction. The
proportions of this conilagraon perhaps not ade
quatcly apprrhendcd. Six hundred buildings were
burned Those who Inst week were thought to DO
wealthy arc bcggarcd. Tho loss which is not
covered by insurance IL estimated at about 81 ,000,
600. Relief however is reaching the sufferers from
various quarters; but as the case Is of almost
| complete dcsttutiOn. some Of our own kind
hearted and sympathetic citizens may be disposed
to exercise their liberaty. special appeal is made
| in another column to Ponnsyvanians living in Now
York, but tho response ought not to DO limited by
State lines.
The recent assassination In LoghOrn Of Giovanni
G.. FercnzOna, prominent journalist, has produced
q profound impression throughout Italy and is
having considerable political effect FercnZOna
the IcghOm correspondent of tho Florence GGzEettd
| PIaIia and was much disliked by the Republicans
for his structures on the action of their party Two
pamphlets which no printed attacking Garibaldi
irritatcd the popuaco against him to such point
that his friends beloved that his life was in danger
and urged him to leave the city for time. He re-
| fused to co. and went about tho streets usual,
taking no prccautiOn save to provide himself with
n revolver. At o'clock in the evening of tho 10Th
of April as no was crossing tho Piazza CavOur m
| unknown man rushed upon him and stabbed him
three timcs in the breast with dagger before ho
| could draw his weapon. FcrenZonA was carried
to n hospital and died in n few hours. The assassin
has not been arrested. The murdered journalist is
said TO to have been man of courage. honor and
| conscientious convictions on political questions,
| though his sharp, aggressive style of writing was
| calculated less to convince than to enrage his OPP
pOncnts.
Perhaps, in the estimation of some persons Cadet
| Whitaker mado damaging admission when he
confessed to tho Court of Inquiry that "he had
written one or two love stories but he quito re-
| deemed himself when he added that " he had not
sent them to the newspapers" He confessed also
| that ho had read some sensational literature"
" But not much" ho said by way of apology. The
drift of the questions which he thus answered is APP
parent. They wcro intondedlundoubtedy to show
| that Whitaker is Of q romantic turn and might
have gathered from such reading hints for creating
| n dramatic sensation. One would like to know
what kind Of books his prosecutors were in the
habit Of pcrusng. They certainly did not get their
| IDEAS of ood-brccding and brothorly love from
! their Bibles. Whatever may DO tho ultimate find
ing it docs not seem probable that West Point
itself, in its collegiate capacity, will win much
honor.
The unit rule and the third term should be buried
together at Chicago.