New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-24

Of lust appreciation, and was greeted WIN
real enthusiasm. The celebration, as wnoie'
was in the highest degree successful
Cities have way Of dying In the souta
when it becomes announcement to pay tner
debts. They dissolve the civic partnership.
and begin all over again. The people OF
Memphis accomplished this by inducing the
Tennessee Legislature to repeal the Guy
charter. and established In its stead what was
called the taking district Of Memphis -; ana
the citizens of Mobile have just slgnihed
what they are ready to do about the debts OF
"the late City of Mobile" It's pity there
couldn't have been q funeral, with candld
sermon upon the moral character OF the
deceased.
The Treasury officials are learning what
ingratitude is. From the best OF motives
they have heretofore withheld from the pub
lie the fact that Senator Davis, of West Vir-
GINA, has been endeavoring for years to ex-
tort a handsome sum of money from the
Government on war claim pronounced ny
competent authority one OF the most prcpos-
ferrous ever made. Their reward is Senator
Davls's indecent attack upon the character OF
the Department. contained in his recent cam
pagn document For long time MIR. DAVIS
was supposed to be harmless maniac, whose
delusion about discrepancy In the Natlona
debt accounts was gOOd-natur' 1y laughed at
by both parties in the Senate. But when he
came to defend the results OF his lnvestlga-
ton in the Senate, the Republicans were q
little panied to find him disingenuOus, not TO
say dishonest. This impression was recorded
at the time in the Washington dispatches OF
THE TRIBUNE. Mr.. Davis's character was
working out to the surface. What that char
acter is the details OF his little claim, given
elsewhere, show very clearly.
If General Wade Hampton could have fore
seen into what excellent company his little re-
mark about voting for the principles Tor which
Lee and Jackson fought would carry him, he
might have thought twice before denying that
he had made it. If he had waited he would
have heard General Fitzhugh Lee tell the
citizens of Portsmouth. Va, that II II
was their desire that the Confederate heroes
should not have died Sin vain," they should
"yote the Democratic ticket and vindicate
-. the principles for which they sacrificed their
"livcs.' If he had waited, he might have
heard the present Attorney General OF NIr-
ginia express the amiable wish that the South
chad killed twice as many" Yankees
as they did. He might have seen the Stars
and Bars hauled up in Arkansas by mis-
stake" the bundef being carried so far that
the Arkansas editor printed the central bal
in red Lastly he might have heard Mr.
Blackburn, one of the Democratic leaders II
the House of Representatives, say, as ne did al
Batavia, Ohio, the other day The South :" Is
"sold, thank God She was solid for JEFF
"Davis in 1850, and she will be solid fol
Hancock in $780," Mr.. Blackburn is the
man who threatened in his place in Congress
to sweep every vcstige of the war legisla-
I" ton from .ae statute books" On botn
these occasions he was preaching the doc
trines of the Democratic party OF which nc
in the House, and Wade Hampton Ill the
Senate, are fair representatives. Of course, the
utterance of such sentiments is not " Sec
tional the reprobatiOn of them Is!