New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-21

pluminE themselves on their fOrbearance 1Or
RETAINING from plunging the country into civil
warf 1t grows tiresOme.
There are cOnspiracies, to be sure, great and
small In these twenty-five years there have
been three which are pretty certain to take
place in history. One was the conspiracy to
| force slavery into free territory; another was
the gigantic conspiracy to destroy the Govern
ment; and the third was the Cipher Conspiracy
of 1876 We commend the study OF these
| events to all Democratic orators who may be
led in the hux of their bOuntiful discourse to
indulge in denunciation Of cOnspiracies OF any
| sort, gigantic or otherwise.
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A public meeting in tho interest of Sabbath OBJ
servance was held in Washington last Sunday even
! ing II is worth special mention that it was pre-
| sided over by Justice Strong of the Supreme Court,
! and that tho President of the United States, with
| many Senators and Representatives, was present.
There is nothing. perhaps i'll the whole history Of
| days and seasons, moro remarkable than the hXed-
| ness with which the Sabbath maintains itself. 1t
| lives by its own necessity. Mankind hears n hun
! drcd arguments against its religious observance
with absolute Indifference. Acute disquistiOns
against its divine origin are held to be hardly worth
| Trfuting This man proves, or thinks no docs that
! there is no logical connection between tho Hebrew
| Sabbath and the Christian Sunday. Another de-
monstratas or thinks he does. that laws enforcing
! Sunday Observance arc tyrannical or bgOted
! Yet there is no change. The laws remain upon the
statute book. The day is still Tcverenced and re-
gardcd The reason Of this apart from religious
| considerations, is that really attached to 1t;
| that we love its associations; that place great
value upon the hours OF rest which it secures. The
| law which recognizes the right Of those who desire
to enjoy the Sabbath without annoyance or inter
/ III tt,.Yr ptnrif
does not say that every man shall 20 to church. but
that every man who desires to go shall have an
opportunity of doing so in peace and quetness.
Those who fppantly or violently oppose Sunday
laws rs relics of bgOtry and dcspotic in their
| nature, mistake the whole question Sunday is not
SO much n matter of religion of irrcligiOn, of
mans consciousness of his own failings and of his
honest desire to be rid Of them Such is the day. re-
| uarled not merely from u religious but q rational
point of view We not surprised therefore, to find
the most distinguished public men of the Republic
recognizing the common sense rs well the ncccs
sty of the Sabbath. which perhaps never more
entirely implanted in the heart of society than it
now is.
The operation of Bisnarcks tyrannicaI press laws
IS freshly illustrated by the experience of Herr
Fusangcl Editor of the Neue Bdy0'sche POtksbldH,
who has just suffered two months imprisonment in
fortress for printing article ccnsuring the Gov
crnmcnt in moderate terms, and who is publish
ing series Of articles his life in Jail lie was
first confined in cell without ventilation, dinly
lighted by heavily grated window. His bed was |
a sraw-sack covered with two wOOllcn blankets. |
Neither sheets nor pillows were furnished HIM. |
There was n stOvo In the cell which was heated now
and then for the purpose Of suilocating him, hc |
thought Much of the time he had no fire, and |
then he nearly froze to death. His food was soup
and chunks of meat which no had to eat without !
knife or fork. Books and writing materials were |
denied him. After time the Jail doctor saw that |
tho poor journalist was likely to die under this |
treatment, and had him removed 10 the hospital |
where his food was better and he allowed to |
read and wrto. There he was told by the authori-
ties that If his paper published anything objection
able to the Government during his imprisonment |
ho would be sent back to his old quarters. Unfor-
tunatcy for him. in spite of the orders no had given
his assistants, article did appear which aroused
official anger and he was returned to tho cell. his
books and writing materials were taken from him, |
and also his clean linen and his toilet articles.
IIorr Fusangcl protests against this treatment in
the name OF humanity, and says that when he was |
sentcnccd to two months Imprisonment ho was not |
sentenced to DO tortured by cold and coal-smoke,
and by a wretched bed and unfit nourishmcnt nor
TO be prosecuted intellectually by being deprived of
the means for employing his time in reading and |
writing
No doubt the prejudice of the white against the
cOorcd race in the United States has been of pain
fully gigantic proportions. The Pail Mall Gazette in |
commenting upon the Whitaker case, says: "But |
West Point, in its feeling toward the cOlored race is
as Harvard, and Harvard is as that more con-
siderable institutiOp-the American public" This is
exceedingly unfair, both to Harvard and to the
American public 1t has been stated and it has not
been denied that the colOrcd student has no special
-, ola ot
has indeed been made strong point against the Mill
tary Academy. 1t has been argued that if the young
gentlemen of Cambridge could endure sable fellow
student there was no reason why the cadets should
be any more particular. Moreover, so fur as the
American people are concerned, everybody who has
carefully watched the matter knows that the general
feeling, 30 long as it was supposed that Whitaker
had been grossly outraged, was one Of profound in
dignation. The majority said that if such o crime
could not be prevented it would DO better that the
institution should be abolished altogether In fact,
there was degree of disgust at the cruelty with
which the cOlOrcd cadet was supposed TO have been
treated which is now, in view of the latest devcl-
Opmcnts, rather embarrassing. If it should DO do
mOnstrated clearly that Whitaker was the cunn-
ing contriyer of the outrage" it will not in tho
least alter the general conviction that he was not
originally we'll treated, and that tho Ostracism to
which black cadets have been subjected Mt West
Point must cease That is the conclusion ut which
the great body OF the American people have arrived
and nothing be encouraging than the Judi
cial and equitable discrimination with which the
citizens of this country have at last to regard
the whole affair.
The gifted Hoadley is still booming for Tidon.
liz nopes to zoo this old combination Of rlldcn and
hendricks Put in the iio,d again. but would b. con
telt with the nomination Of either Thurman F,old