New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-26
symuathy which caused his lady friend to give him such

Women are seldom good political advisers. because
they reason from their sympathes instead OF their
caution. Marie AntOinettc never gave the ras good
advice 10 her husband who something or the stamp
Of man that President Arthur is-a genial amateur VINO
liked his fishing rod and his carpenters plane ana nah
many OF the pretty sentiments OF the popular SIDE AZ
that time His wife thought she the better man OF
the two and kept telling him not 10 concede but 10 an
tagonize more and more, and she ruined not only
hc self and him but the whole order Of the nobility and
her little who at least had done nothing 10 court dis
aster, starved to death 10y brutal shoemaker and
remains the only object TO be thoroughly ptied In the
whole transaction
The President can have Just many friends to
he had four years ago, before he was even
mooted for YcePresdent, II he win respect men who
do not throw themselves into the hopeful vein hut take
that broad view OF events which he should all
Others He has not prosecuted anybody, and therefore
has only TO open his nature recocc that he Is human
AMI invite unpleasant well a. beautiful truths. In
particular he afford to take advice from persons who
would not have any Office in his gift His original mis-
take listening the voice Of faery, which told him
almost as soon as he mounted chair that he
would be his There circumstances
under which he can succeed himself His fame IL
bound up I'm the remainder Of this his only term IL he
feels inadequate TO deal with the questions that arc now
throngng upon him. he should procure men OF affairs
who, without paying the least attention TO the next
Presidential election, will study these affairs with intel
lgent reference to industry, progress and public
opinion He has Cabinet which Is not 1T to give advice
Of a dsnterested character to blind man about finding
his way across the street.
Not one woman in ten thousand will tell the Pres
dent anything his dispaagement because he has
such handsome eyes His danger Is that as his Admin
stration grows weaker and weaker he will not be able
to draw into IT, after while, any men Of strength III
he had kept just the Cabinet Garfield left him he would
have been nconceivaby better of than at this moment
The most agreeable part OF his whole Administration,
when it be concluded, will probably turn out TO
be that hour when Garheds Cabinet, with grace and
respect equal 10 the reception OF any prince by his
fathers councillors, took Mr. Arthur by the hand felt
fer him, and without the leaTt reservation resigned tn
give him open He then POSTPONED action III
the last moment and gathered together representatives
Of fifteen years ago. instead OF men born for this tne
The Adams family OF Massachusetts, has three or fonr
representatives in the fourth generation who chirrup
every now and then as II they were go % give Ms
something epic and fine like the three previous Adamse
but they seem have little continuity sacrifice.
Jack" Adams, the standing candidate for Governor
some years ago. seems to want to be Democratic bus
hardly knows how to begin Charles babe fair to become
quite an authority railroad and corporation law but
when they gave him place on tho Pacific Railroad d.
rectory he kept 1t only little while and said IL took too
much attention Another brother has written the life
-
using as pcturesquey he might have done the
materials stored mp by Garland and later biographers
The life OF Galatin good contribution by this
family.
Mlborne and I1islcr were inferred under the OLD
Dutch Church, late the Post Office, after their party
came in power again. Perhaps the old slab has been
found during the present excavations, and II so tsa
great relic. They were hanged near the present or
Mullet Post Office a Saturday in carly May. With them
int tho onlnI nd
of New York aud their revolt rather rising, an
event only matched in the colonies by the shorter civil
war of Bacon in Virginia N few years earlier They
called the first conference Congress Of the colonies 10
unite in revenge the massacre Of Science
tady by the French and it is SAID to have met NJ tavern
on the NewEn gland road, near the present ST. Marks
Church. which then the nucleus Of woods hamlet
or crossroads near Governor stuyvesants Bowery,-
which word means BOlfn's bower Franklin, siXty-four
years later obtained Congress OF seven colonies To
IA Albany, and there was dreamed OF a coming
greater Congress continental" In its Representations
which should take in hand the destines Of America in
twenty years it did meet and OF the three long
Parliaments OF the world, moulding Nation like the
Long Parliament, sO-calod OF the Puritans, and tho
| French National Assembly.
have faint memory that on some past occasion Of
altering the Dutch Church the LeslerMilborne stone
was taken away for preservation The recent histories
of NcwYOr1 City affecting to pass Judgment on tho
revolution OF these thin and feminine. IL fS
represented that Milbone was gloomy fanatic and
Leiser his tool The spark OF representative institu-
tiDns which half inelligby sh0ne Il ere was OF NIL
bornes making. He was first independent thinker
North of the Hudson after Anne Hutchinson Like her,
he and his father and brotlcr,-who were Cavinstio
Baptsts of the Roger Williams sort, using the British
Governments influence To compel Boston 10 be tolerant,
had the Puritan republican instinct He found tho
Dutch burgher class toades TO England In Holland amt
he assist tO Tamps
this private province said James through ycoroys
like Audross Dougan and Co. At the moment tho
world fearing for its liberty, had united against the
two prime roges in IT, Louis XIV. and James H., even
the Pope aud Spain joining the Protestant leagues.
Expelled from England, it surmised that James.
with IA French expedition provided by Louis, would
make for NewYork. The train bands marched on tho
Fort and gave eisler command and while he wait
ing in brave thickheaded way, wondering what TO do,
Milborne arrived from England where he had been
lobbying against AndrOss, and took intellectual charge
OF the events. Before Milborne's brother. Bsptiss
preacher OF Boston, sitting the other Puritan
diyines Andros was brought for hearing The Battery
Is the visible monument Of that little revolution. as IL
WAS then thrown up to strengthen the castle, aud being
leyelled became the battery walk.
Themes Ike the above If the readers could only think
So are better worth lingering than to days epheme-
raities We might ask the question: What was the po-
tcal weight OF the Dutch founders Of New YOrk-with
vie to grasp the measure Of their descendants who
probably number half million OF Americans should
say million. Their wealth u this State gives them an
importance above their enterprise. They got their
wealth as frog gets his fat hind legs, by sitting wisely
and ereenly goggy where they BORN The New
England Puritan element overlooking 10 New-lork, was
politically deferred 10 by the plain Dutch class, thu
English official element became the idols Of their rich
Hence they played the least possible part in popular
movements and their liberty like their wealth was
created for by other The men who meanly
pursued the German Leisler and the Engishman NIL
borne to gallows Bayard. Livingston and Co.
Dutchmen who hardly had resented their conquest wbo
the that marched to the defence of this city az