National Republican., 1881-08-11
DIR. Woolsey, tho "Tribune," Reform,
and Assassination.

Dr. Woolsey, that eminent reservoir of
all knowledge, except such us is pos
sessed by Thurlow Weed, that other emf
nent reservoir of the remainder, has been
pouring out through New York Tribune
syphon Il mass of prophecy which, as
even the unlearned may know, is not
knowledge. The inflated blowhards of
the brassy Tribune are full of conceits,
and they have knack of using them for
the padding ont of very commonplace
interviews. Any old gentleman who has
an itching for being heard from at inter-
walls is, in the hands of Tribune inter-
viewer, like a willing witness in the
hands of knavish lawyer, unchecked
by the court when asking leading ques-
tions. The testimony will derive its tone
much more from the questions than from
the answers. 1t is in the Tribune's edi-
torial on the interview that the old and
depraved political habits Of ..t :s :, s. go
6iidi jj05Iifnhl1stfG" bawd are exhibited. 1t
is easy enough to reconcile good motives
with DR.. Woolsey's prediction that
President Garfield is destined to lead a
new party, composed of the best ele-
ments in the Republican party and
all other. parties, which will divide
the South and bring its best peo-
pie Ito the support of right meas
ures, such as civil-service reform and
the education of the ignorant elements of
Southern society" Butwhen such words
are echoed by the Tribune we all know
by its antecedents that it regards cOrrup-
tonists like Sessions, Woodin 4 Co. and
monopolists like Gould and Vanderbilt
rs the leaders of the "bcst elements in
the Republican party" and that in its es-
timation the "best people" in 1.-THE
South" are those who felt the strong
hand of GRANT in 1875, when they were
engaged in resistance to the State author
tiles of Louisiana. 1t was on the 9th
of January of that year that the New
York Trib,mepublished, over the signature
of"J IL. H." an intlammatory appeal fol
the assassination of General Grant, who
was then President. Abiding to Gen.
eral Sheridan's prompt repression of riot
and disorder in the State-House at New
Orleans, and President Grants approva
of the same, the ink-shedding Marat o
the Tribune said, concerning the Presi
dent: "IF HE INSISTS on FIGHTING 1T oU1
on THIS LINE SOME ONE WILL PLAY BRUTUS
TO HIS CESAR WITHOUT FAIL, WHICH, b
THE WAY, WOULD DE a GREAT BLESSING T,
THE CoUYTRYW
Remember that the newspaper whicl
published these words was the New Iorl
Tribune of January9 o, 1875. The writer eX
pressed the wish that President Gran
should be assassinated, and the TriJm
gave him the use of its columns in whicl
to utter his fiendish eXhortation, If tn
writer of the diabolical letter, or tn
Tribune editor who gave it to the worl
in print, has any moral advantage owe
Guiteau, we should like for some learne
man like DIR. Woolsey TO point 1t out
When ga new party" is to be formed
"composed of the best elements in tn
Republican party and all other parties,
IL is to be hoped that the winnowin
process will not be confided to the Ne
York Tribune, which in 1881 defende
bribery at Albany, in 1875 advertise
gratis foran assassin of President Gran
and in 1873 FIRST charged our present Pres
dent with felony and then charged hil
with perjury for denying it, The politics
air is putrid with the breath Of the Ne
York tribune.