Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-07-30

except to actually take up arms, in favor
of the South, and who were source of
perpetual anxiety and menace to the Union
cause. Looking back upon that record, and
upon the placing of the flags of the Govern
ment at half mast because traitor, thief
and betrayer of sacred trusts has died, the
/ first instinct of loyal men is that, by both
acts, the country is disgraced. But there is
another view of the business. The country,
last November, in the most potential way
1 through which a free people can declare
their edicts, contracted for just such things.
When they elected Mr.. Cleveland they con-
tTdcted to hdUe gust such a man as Mr.. Lamar
/ an the Cabinet, and it is bit natural for Mr.
! Lamar to seek to honor the men 1ChO Joined
the conspiracy against free government and
an fdrOr Of q Stare empire. =
1t may look a little strange to few extreme
Northern Radicals, to see the author of
| the BigelOw Papers ouSted from high of
fee, that his place may be filled by a man
who thought that Abraham Lincoln had
mot a single qualification of statesman
ship" but such radicals must remember
that the people willed that this should be So,
and that there IS not, and ought not to be,
any appeal from that will. 1t might, in case
Of another insufTectiOn against free gouef7,-
me1t, be q little hard TO explain to the aIOttth
Of the country Just 1chy they should make of
their breasts tiuing aCdll against their cOuil-
tTy's enemies; but after all, it is the peoples
will, and there is no occasion to find fault.
And then, the course of eternal Justice is
! like the tides in the ocean. 1t is not ALWAYS
at full tide-rather, it ebbs and fows-and
there is comfort IN the thought that, not
wlthstanding the sneer of our new Embas-
sador to the Court of st. James, the Gettys-
burg speech of that man who was Imposed
upon the people," is liable, as those tides
ebb and flow, to live longer in the thoughts
of men than that other speech of the new
ambassador, who, when the weight of a
nation and the hopes of the world rested
on his patient but self-poised brain, aimed
poisoned arrow at his back. But not only
IS the appointment of Minister Phelps q log
icdt sequence Of the election, but 1T is most
appropriate i'l another sense, to send such
q man to England. y
Mr.. Phelps will doubtless meet many sub
scribers to the fund which bought the Eng
llsh ship Alabama; which armed it with
English guns and manned it with English
seamen, to help sweep American ships of
commerce from the sea. Mr.. Phelps can
doubtless find great many gentlemen who
witnessed the final tragedy, when at last the
good "Kearsarge'' brought the corsair to
bay, and, IN a fair fight, swept the pirate
from the sea. With those gentlemen Mr..
Phelps can exchange condolences, and they
can, when the anniversary of the destruc-
tion of the freebooter of the sea comes
around-June 19th-mingle their tears, that
the tides of eternal justice were that day
III full flow. EUerything is aOorki,,q
ont beautifully, and, so far M, Cleveland
has made no serious mistake.
This all goes to prove that the Tribune
is an independent paper and is an honest
advocate and an impartial judge OF
Democracy. 1t also shows that the Tri-
bune is earnest in its praise of President
Cleveland, and that it has completely for
gotten the war, in which the editor did
such hard fighting, and wishes nothing
but "peace on earth and good will to-
wards man"