New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-04-27
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| the rnmor that il Is in the market and that Mr..
Starin has chance to get it for Stalwart organ.
Doubtless the Administration leaders think them
selves deporably in need Of utensil of that sort,
but they will find that ono worth the having is not
to be had for their money. Neither Of the papers
united in the present Mail and Express has had for
IN any years 1.-THE Of tho force that journal now
has; and neither IF them ever moro fully expressed
the views of its readers. The Mail and Express gives
tho Stalwarts trouble because it has its constituency
behind it. and because it honestly presents their
views with spirit and cogency. 1t is well con-
Quoted, steadily improving, and strong enough to
stand alone.
Forty years ago Mr.. Dickens's account of the
Watertoast Association aud the other glittering
specimens of American eloquence contained in
Martin Chuzzewit" caused intense irritation in
this country. He accused of going far beyond
the bounds of belief, and his explanation that in
ridiculing well-defined foibles no had only done
here what he had done at home, and that as a mat
ter of fact the most Objectionable passage in his
book was literal paraphrase of the pro-
ceedings of frothy body known as the
Brandywine Association, secuted as
very lame apology. Yet when Mr.. La Fayette
Kettle, responding for the Watertoast sympathizers
closes with the sentiments MAY the British Lion
have his talons eralicaed by the noble bill OF the
American Eagle and be taught to play upon the
Irish harp and the Scotch fiddle that music which IS
breathed in every empty shell that lies upon the
shores Of green Columbia; and when the Hon.
Elijah POgam apostrophizes the American citizen
as the true-born child Of this free hemisphere,
verdant as the mountains OF our country. bright
and flowing as our mineral lcks, unspiled by
whitening conventonalities as air our broad
and boundless perearers" with his "boastful
f,t l,o and bn TVr NJ hfc
bright home is III the settin Sum-" they merely
paraphrase the rhetorical flights of that other child
of nature the Hon. William f. Robinson, who
" found the American eagle drugged and drowsy
her blood poisoned with political pyemia, her wing
wet with the mildew of monarchy and her beak
filled with Lowell garbage" and who :" reused her
from her ignobe slumber," brushed the dew from
her magnificent pinion," "gave her voice to the
music of freedom and sent her with magnificent
wing to fan the tempest and soar to the SUM-" The
new Pogam, like his prototype is encompassed
with troop of appreciative listeners on the Demo
cratic side of the House whenever he illustrates
the eloqucntial aspect of our country by smash
ing" unfortunate England INTO kyblue fits"
There is perccptibe lull in the Democratic Presi-
Dental candidate business. Mr. Tilden is quiet,
and nobody else seems to take an interest in the
question. Perhaps one reason is the lengthening
shadow of the pententiary which is falling over the
South Carolina brethren. If ballot-box stutiing is
going to lead to the penitentiary as well as to
Democratic majOrites. the South is likely to cease
to be Democratic very soon, and without Demo-
cratic South there will be no Democratic party to
speak of.
The details of the first year Of the Jeannettes drift
in the ice published by The Herald fairly inter
esting without being especially significant. The
E - 4 rok hoar
furnished from time to time by cable, and there
cannot be anything that is particularly novel in
Lieutenant DanenhOwer's "reminiscences of voyage
which so closely resembled that of the Tegetthof
The sufferngs of the intrepid Austrians during their
imprisonment in the pack and their subsequent re-
treat over the ice, the tremendous pressures to
which their vessel was subjected and their constant
apprehension that they won Id be left without shell
ter in the polar night and their adventures in bear
hunting, have been admirably described by Lie u
tenant Payer; and the Jeannette's men, i'll sharing
their experience, have naturally less to tell That
will interest the public. Tho lines of correspond
ence between the two voyages are very close. Luck
is the point where those lines diyerge.
To lecture associations: have prepared lee
ture which will deliver next season ut prices to
suit the times. Subject: How it feels to be run
through n hreshing-Inachine being 4 passage in
the career of a Congressman. Warranted thrilling
or the money refunded Address p Belmont,
Washington. d. c.
The gayety of the Nation is ecllpsed again.
few weeks ago il was the demise of Jesse James
that cast a long black shadow over the continent.
And now Mr.. John L. Sullivan, champion pugiIst
of America is retired to the Boston House of Cor
rcction for three months for an assault on Charles
Robbins in a bar-room" The pause thus made in
tho career of Mr. Sullivan enforces its own moral
But Yesterday he was the observed of all observers
with the possible in fact the probable exception
of The Neo- York Obseruer to-day he bites the dust
in the deep secluson that penal institution grants
| His late antagonist, Mr.. Paddy RYAN, VIII read the
news of the in his fortunes with pensivc in
tcrest while the Troy Terror" whose everyday
name we cannot remember ut this writing, can be
| counted upon to buster fiercely IMAM ever.
1t will be remembered that tho Terror has expressed
tho opinion that he was enough" for Mr.. Sui
| lyan. The dispatch which conveys the news Of
| Mr. SuIlvan's swift descent from the pinnacle OF
| prosperity TO n cell in house of correction con-
cludes with the statement that Sullivan has ap-
| peaed." We earnestly hope that the appeal will
DO successful and tnatsthc court, on ca!eiuI re-
view of tine testimony, instead Of giving him three
months will give him three OF thrty-three years
1t may be monument for the Terror to wait as
long as that but ii he is public spirited citizen ne
will be willing to sacrifice his own wishes on the
altar of the public veal.
Why are the aDti-Chinese Senators so rabId as to
insist upon putting the section forbddlng Chinese
naturalization back into the bill restricting immi-
grafton 7 1t is q totally unnecessary insult to
China The number of Chinese who will ever wish
to be naturazed is nfniesmally small even with
free immigration; with restricted immigration
there will be almost none at all. Great Britain and
other nations make no such offensive distinction,
and surely we. who claim TO be the frcest people
Oh earth, have no excuse for doing so.