New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-04

not beneath the best we are the last Norman conquest
we are the Normans. not in derivation but IN feeling
Our fathers conquered, cOnqueIng yet the ch-
est patrimony left scant to us by God Individual
wealth is the decay but the substanaton OF our nj
ness and the making Of opportunity Seize It, Oyc
who are bold and strong, and give us habations ana
presence worthy OF our brthIight nothing medi@VL
nothing dervative. but all Occidental ana sinpe
as our Benamnshipl
Have You ever noticed the Tweed Court House IN me
Park where Eidz, the Oriental architect beng caleu
upon to add piece that iexecued classical Dulu-
ing clapped a dem-G ohc on the former tchpIc'
as il TO say: 81 had not Tweed for my employer III
military he should have been court rllaIlcu'
But his addition resembles the rebellion our i"rea'hers
made to England and the SaXons to thcir Roman ueS
rots The rebellion must 20 till arc curc here cT-
presses the origin and character OF ourselves arce
which appealed to independence and humanity over
both European and Asatic subscriptions. and sun was
not ely defiant nizing our compoNitcSp Dnt
clearly apprchcndins our primacy too
Ex-Governor Tom Young of Ohio. is one of those
Vicc-PcSdcntS of Governors who succeed intended ana
chosen men easily n soldier in the regular army,
he was ready the next and from having been
schoolcacher rose to he Governor attaching himself
strictly TO the sherman cohort and demonstrating sue
ccssvey against Hayes, Garfield or Foster as they nap
pened to interfere with things cut and dried inc ac
eXicau
Jared with the same stick rush ato the Stawart camp
s in more surcrttiols days culpr1t doing anything
punishable rushed into ASata Hollywood and waited
there till the thing blew over Said Governor Foster III
response TO iccring dispatch from MI Young ait'r
Ohio was lost last fall decline TO accept you rs the
voice OF the people Of Ohio"
Mr. William r. Moore. the member Of Congress
from Memphis. sensitive to the shame brought on
Tennessee by her populations. Il the author OF pro
pOsed amendment to the Constitution resembling At'Ic
XI. and compelling the enforcement Of contracts en-
tered into by any state The words are; Congress
sha have power TO provide y appropriate legislation
for the legal enforcement Of the obligations OF contracts
entered into by any Of the States Of this Union
have met Mr. Moore; lie is rather iaunty business
man who has entered his biography in the Congress
sonal Directory without single explanation except that
he beat Casey Young by about 900 votes
Tnnc,c ha, bred set of scamp IN lis Legislature.
some of whom have personally known who have re-
pctcdy made efforts 10 compel the hondholdciS 'i the
state to pay them personally for Reporting the proper
legislation TO pay the bondh'dcFo their dues Ten
ucce ha, been called she mother oi southwestern States
and ever, one of the has been ruda'or 20 Ger
tain degree Mississippi i especially the child OF Ten
nrs,cc and the Mol,ch 81 Republication. During washing
TONS administration the eminent man In Tennessee
Bount WI, expelled from the senate for ir"a-"uhh.c
scheme 10 sell the southwest 10 Great Erita II. from
which country We had recently our independence.
Elout j. defended in all the "pariotc book ~ 'hc
southwest. including the latcst-Mr. Claboruc's.
Tho political father OF rcpudiation DO lc-. tuan
than Tnoua> jefferson himself bankrupt Who repeat
cdly rc.ortcd semi ,crupulous means {" Keep his
credit as heh "a, mi, pIctcu-ons rl1uuori,l bot
ne made ont hardly better than his political parent jean
Jacoucs Rousseau 10 whom Mr. Van Buren, traced w.
J,ncr.ous political opinions directly. ~ can d" ~rc
frou the prrsor Nolurc Van Buren, published 81 LAT
vrr, meant 10 contain all his political writing II"
say, that Rousseau tie author OF the HcN" that
the governed are the sovereign ana the COS cuns po"r
j. the servant Rousseau rcpudIicd his own oh~prn- 81,
ne relates puttu1 them III the founding box one after
the other. Jefferson wrote Ia his son in.lIw. Ipfr'.
who was bankrupt TOO: ~No generation can contract
debts greater than may De- paid dunc re period % Ia
own existence; therefore, neither tie representatives 81
nation. nor the whole nation it4cf assembled can
yaidy engage debts beyond what they may pay Ia their
own time hat is to say, within thlITy -our Nrnr-.
jefferson Davis. in mississippi and his fellow patriots
there rcpudatc only three years after the faith of thc
state had bren pledged There two deeply ncuiftcd
Southern principles upon which 10 section nor Conuu-
fly bor prospcr-rurder and reputation
tothogNisc theft, and they commonly together.
Applying the foregoing matter 10 The two principal
Democratic heroes Jefferson and jackson, We observe
strange condition OF financial incompetence associated
with very dubious met hod- OF" raj ing the wind JET
I
White House and kept poor house for all the first
"Chiyarc" families al Monticello, entertaining as Nr
Parton admits nfty guests at a time. and keeping one
family Of ten persons six months. first had SUBJ -rrut
Congress buy his library for $4,000 nd then applied o
the Virginia Legislature for lottery 10 raise money on
his land in order discharge an ndOrs'I; and
the North sent him the money, Philip Hone oi New
York Ia-ing 900 Philadelphia Jcficr-onians 5000,
and BatimoIcau-. $4,000. all Of which he took with the
pleasant remark Not a of this il wTng from the
taxpayer; il the pure unsolicited Offering of love"
bcggar might Say the who wa too proud 20 70 10
the poor-hoEsc.
His negroes had all he sold; and, after Jcfrrsou'
death when his daughter Martha had no home 10000
were voted 10 her by the Legislatures south CroLa
and Louisiana. General Jackson, Of the now IcWdit-
ing state OF Tennessee though De lad been merchant,
planter, etc, had borrowed in 1872 ffcm Blair and
Riye whom he had up in business at the expense Of
the Government, the sum OF $4,000 that lac never
meant 10 return. and Congress voted him ;c fine d." nd
paid at Ncw-Orcau with interest amounting - S2.1OO
lust twenty year after he had incurred H. Monroe
buried by charity in New-YoIk. aud dunned hy tho
con,tales OF at least State, down 10 - death al
though he had received $4,000 Of the public money n
salary and fees 50 that nobody quote him "a a
whose sufcrings came from his excessive honesty
rather his excessive want Of business sense. and
that onc-nrd the VI State rcpudaion. The Other
twO third, being cus-edness and personal dishonesty
observe that the scheme OF reciprocity treaty with
Mexico, which General Grant is iathcrDg has drawn
number OF speculative and business men TO Washington
10 be In the forefront Of pecunary benefits which
may occur such the extension Of the coffee, and
tobacco plantations into that Republic. Under similar
system Of recnrocty the Sandwich Islands have be
come rich with sugar plantations. and this sugar finding
its sale all through the United States is greatly ppcN
Ing the rcncs In the Eastern St1tes who had not
calculated such extensive and rapid results on open
ing commercial relations with apparently small and
isolated group Of islands
may observe That territorial expansion Is not the