National Republican., 1881-07-14
UncIcnn BirtIs.

Autltttu DlNNSs
There is a'large class of coarse, vulgar,
and greedy people in this country who
are looking for large dividends to them
selves from the investment made by the
murderous Guiteau. Buzzards, high in
the air follow travellers on the desert,
waiting for man or an animal to fall and
then gorge themselves upon the carcass.
The shameless wrctches alluded to, less
decent, do not wait, as the buzzards do,
until the struggle between life and death
is decided; they have already descended
upon the wounded President, and, with
their talons in his flesh, have distended
their filthy beaks in anticipa-
tion of the feast. They cannot
conceal their loathsome appetites. Gui-
teau has, they declare, delivered their
enemies into their hands. His crime has
created an universal and intense SYM
pathy with the President. The latter lies
unconscious Of what is going on in the
great world outside of his bed-chamber.
Grief and anxiety possess the minds of
all except such as hope to conjure
with his name for their own benefit.
They are too intent on what they can
profit themselves by the ball imbeddcd
in the Presidents body to be sorry
that it is there. They, and the thieves
aud plunderers with whom they
are associated, think to run riot in the
land and 10 rule by claiming to be the
Presidents friends. This description APP
r,Iiau to thpen onl, O.bn eonly 4, 1,Ietor ,,,,
their own selfish interests by the blood
OF the President of the United States
and to profane the sacred chord of hui
man sympathy BY making capital of it.
Christ drove the monev-changcrs out of
the temple at Jerusalem, which they had
made den of thieves. If the President
could hear the coarse clamor of such as we
have described, and see their anger be-
cause those they do not like are loyal to
him in his distress, would he not want to
see them driven out from the temple
whose shrine is human sympathy?
The class to which we have referred
have in the New York Tribune q faithful
organ. That infamous journal, in the
very heat of Southern Bourbon resistance
to national laws in 1872, went over to the
enemy in presidential election. The
next year, cnraged with defeat, it joined
in the clamor against many conspicuous
Republicans. II assailed General Gar
field, then q member of the House, in the
coarsest most brutal, and most unscrupu-
lous manner. 1t accused him openly of
felonious conduct in public Office. Its
present editor was then its editor. 1t has
never made any public retraction
of its infamous calumnies. The Tribune
stands to-day by its record as the
malignant calumniator and viliier of the
President II has no politics, no opin-
ions, no principles and no virtues. 1t is
the common property and the despised
wanton Of thesharks of the street.
In its issue ofyesterday it is especially
merry over the results which it says must
flow from the attempt on the Presidents
life, Had it planned the assassination,
which of course no one believes it did, it
could not speak more hopefully Of the
fruits it expects to reap. ltsays:
Some OF these results, since they concern the or.
gnnizatiOn Of both Houses of Congress and the
course Of legislation, may be proftGbly considered.
Mr. Gorham has been more coarse, brutal. and UNI
scrupulous than any other adbercnt of Mr.. Conk-
ling in assailing the President Whether the Presi.
dent lives or dies the election OF Mr.. Gorham rs
Secretary of the Senate has become impossible.
The slandercr ofa dead Republican President will
have as little chance 10 receive fcvcry Republican
vote as the slanderer Of living Republican Presi
dent, and the association Of Mr.. Gorhnm with the
star-route operators and with Mr. Conkling and his
StalwartS will make his election the one thing not
to be done, The Republicans of the Senate will
find themselves Obliged to select new candidates
ifthcy have desire to succeed. This vii involve
not only the elimination Of Mr. >G5Tham, but a re
consideration of the case oC-firgina as presented
by the nomination of NJ 'Rlddlebcrger
Mr., Gorha+H IS not the first editor in the
Unltet. States who ever made opposition
to acts of President.
AS TO the possibility of "the
election of Mr.. Gorham as secre-
tary of the Senate" had Office
been matter of as much concern
to him rs the maintenance of his indie
pendence as citizen he would never
have opposed an Administration with
only three weeks of its term drawn upon,
but w0a!d have been as obsequious as
any writer OF the Tribune.
Mr.. Gorham has nor, and never had,
any connection whatever with any mail
contract on star routes or any OTHER
routes, and is as free to censure miscOn-
duct in the POst-Oiiice Department, if any
shall be proven, as is any one connected
with the press.
If Mr.. Gorham's friendship for Mr..
Conkling and the Stalwarts is dis
qualification for office, it will never be re-
moved.
The TriJlt0e will learn as time goes on
that it is attempting to cover altogether
too much ground. Measure our readers
that no man is obliged to obey the orders
SO pompously issued by the Tribune; and,
to. borrow phrase once used by Matt
Carpenter, what the writers of the Tribune
believe to be genius in their lucubrations
is frequently "nothiLg but atmosphere"
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| The f.i,tc L.. L.. CrOunse.
The death of l.. l.. Crounse at Kingston
| N. Y, oil Sunday has caused sorrow TO II large
| C0nCourse Of his lricnds throughout the country
| For seven years Mr.. Crounse was Washington
correspondent OF the New York Times, and at an-
nin., terInl h yus niyht pditor oTthe sutna news.