New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-07

The faciiOnists who have fought General Garfield
since his entrance upon the Presidency without
appearing to recognize the fact that the pcople
against them, continue the same stolid exhibi-
ton of themselves even in tins time of public sor-
row. Mr. COnE ling is of course in tie lead as of
DID, in attribu;ng all sorts of monstroSitcs to his
opponents. He accuses the whole Republican press
TOR they have all been against hnn IN the Albany
conflict OF atrOcious and ferocious cainmnv" HIS
cNaml is followed, regret to state, by General
Grant, of whom we viii only say that his best
friends profoundly regret his inconsiacrate Ian
gua-c. They either never read Republican paper
they say what they know to be untrue when
they accuse the Republican press of eliminating
the Nice-lrcsdent. In of General Arthnr's in
juhcions conduct mt Albany the Republican news
papers have been remarkably lenicnt and tender
toward him. and since the disaster of last Saturday
the respect due 10 who may be our President has
been mingled with the natural desire to be fair and
honest. After President G;.rcl,l's his life is the
most precious now in the land, and his reputa-
ton is not less carefully to be guarded and priced
Even the fury of Mr.. Conkling and his lackcvs in
the press who too few in number and too insir-
nfcant III influence to regard, will not prevent the
Republican newspapers of the country from treating
the Nice-presdent with courtesy and fairness dur
ing these trying hours, when his situation compels
the sympathy of all patriotic hearts; nor will il
keep them, i'll the event of fatal termination of the
Presidents injuries, from giving to his Admnstra-
ton firm and friendly support, it, rs the country
hopes, he will turn his back upon the past and rise
to the level of his high responsibilities But il is
proper at this time, and at all times say that the
Republican party of the State and Of the Nation
have no further use for Mr. Roscoe Conkling and if
his sense of propricty bore any proportion to his
sefconceit he would recognize this fact and cease
his clamorous calls upon public which is tired of
"A lrtp
creatures hold deadlocked in q shameful and weari-
some contest. To como forward at a time like
this and acclse the people who have been defending
the President against him as criminal lihellers is an
exhibition of folly and insolence remarkable even
in him.
In his last volume, Figs and ThistIes, Judge
Tourgee has put into the form of attractive
fiction something of the lives and loves of President
GARFIELD and his wife, In the passages relating the
grlet oil the wife over the reported death of her
husband and the subsequent devotion and care with
which she nurscd her wounded hero back TO life he
uses language which describes with marvellous
accuracy the actual conduct of Mrs. Garfield in the
trying scenes which she has been called upon TO
undergo. The incident of the bringing home of the
wounded hero of the book is parallelcd by the cir
cunstances of Mrs. Garield's hasty trim 70
Washington TO the bedside of her husband When
told OF her husbands death on the battlefield the
heroine of the story did not weep, nor cry out
nor faint, as these tidings of general grief struck
her with the horror of personal woe. To
their comforting words she made no reply. Her
agony was too sharp to be put III words. y
There could have been no more accurate description
of the real woman's brave conduct when the ter
riblc news was broken TO her on Saturday last of
the general bereavement which was so sorely per-
sonal to her. The meeting of the two at the bedside
IN the White House has al almost exact parallel in
tho story. "One by ono the gentlemen stepped
from the carriage. leaving Lizzie alone. clasping TO
her bosom her dead that was alive again. gazing