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Year: 1874

so to me, and more also, if aught but death
part thee and me-" There can be no honest
political discussion that ignores this fact
There can be no reform in republicanism that
begins by an attempt to separate Grant
from the party as 50 reformatory process
Great as the party is and has been, clever as
these leaders have shown themselves during
twenty years of power, the President is the
greatest Of them all. He has impressed the
party as strongly as jefferson did the early re-
pubicans or jackson the later democrats. The
party bears his impress as the republican and
democratic parties bore the impress of the
great men who founded them. What we see,
therefore, in republicanism is drilled regu-
lar army of ofice-holders, ruled by West
Point manual and commanded by man who
is regarded by his enemies as the great soldier
Of the age, and who in peace and war has
never known defeat. Therefore there can be
no dishonesty more fagrant than that which
proposes to compass reform by ON Oriental
obeisance to Grant as q sacred, supreme in
fuence unhappily tainted with Butlerism,
and then to destroy his friends as an act
OF kindness to his administration.


We cannot postpone this discussion much
longer-not even our Blaines or Mortons or
other timid protesting souls, who shave no
views to express on subject which is prema-
ture." It's certainly not too soon to think Of
storm when the clouds come rolling up black
and ominous and tinged with lightning flashes.
In the East we see the professors in revolt,
with capacity for effective speech if for moth
ing else. In New York many honest mer-
chants and great many whose honesty would
command o high underwriters premium, are
scowling over Sanborn and Jayne transactions
and reminding us Of the money they paid for
'the cause and of their rough treatment by the
Custom House. In the South there are graver
symptoms. The gallant spirit OF Chancellors-
vile and Fredericksburg now and then breaks
out, showing that the volcanic flames still burn
under the earthquake ruins of war. All that
we see Of the South in Congress is o
phantom like Stephens vainly endea voring to
recall the House that once oDeyed him, an un-
easy, squeaking, gibberng ghost OF the
Southern Confederacy, who speaks to silent
benches. New men have come who know
him not, new men in the seats OF Carolina
and Alabama and Tennessee, representing
the crimes of the conqueror and not the mis-
fortunes of the conquered In the West the
spirit of sectionalism proposes to dominate
the country in the interest of repudiation and
bankruptcy, as the South once sought to dom
mate in the interest of slavery. Amid all
these phenomena, with cares, strifes, mad
ness, despair seeking an uneasy mastery,
Grant and his party stand unmoyed, undis-
mayed-strong in their discipline and their
power. Will they rule the storm or be
destroyed by it? The answer to that question
is the one political Easter problem.
Year: 1874

The Commissioners of Charities and Cor
rection are at loggerheads, as will be seen
by our report to-day, about Tweed. Mr..
Laimbeer processes to have discovered o
manifestation of too much kindness to the
prisoner at Blackwell's Island and the possible
danger of Tweed's escape. No one will blame
this Commissioner for being vigilant in his
duty, in seeing justice properly executed and
in carefully avoiding any censure to himself
in the event Of Tweed's escape But the
other two Commissioners, Bowen and Stern,
do not think Tweed is too kindly treated or
that there is any ground to apprehend that he
might escape. Looking at the piebald char
acter of this ommission-Laimbeer being
radical republican, Bowen an old
democrat and Stern reformer, of q
mixed political stripe-we are not surprised
at their quarrel over the Gagged tiger, or that
one of them should feel nervous about the
bars Then there is q bill pending in the
Legislature to legislate these Commissioners
out of Office, and that would be sufficient to
call forth unusual zeal in political partisan
Of the same character as the majority of the
Legislature. He might save himself in that
way, though the Commission were to be
changed. However, the law should be exc
cuted in the case of Tweed as we'll as in that
of any other criminal, and Mr.. Laimbeer
may be right But let us have all
the facts. Mr.. Stern has spoken and
assumes all the responsibility for the treat
ment and safe keeping of Tweed. Now let
MIR. Bowen speak. Let us have the truth.
Year: 1874

A LIBRARY IN THE ToMBs. Miss Linda
Gilbert has, in spirit of true philanthropye
provided library of one thousand volumes
for the use of the prisoners in the Tombs.
She sends them letter written in excellent
|spirit and couched in beautiful language
which will be found elsewhere. Donations of


this character can have no other than the best
possible effect, provided the class of reading
furnished is neither too heavy, on the one
|hand, nor too sensational on the other.
Year: 1874

A STORM broke over the country yesterday,
rendering Easter poor day for the display OF
spring fashions. In the city it was cold, with
a biting wind in the morning, and the even-
ing brought us sleet and rain. Canada, and
even Chicago. were visited by snow.
Year: 1874

IF KING KoFFEE had listened to the SUM-
mons of Sir Garnet Wolseley and had returned
to his palace instead of quitting Coomassie in
fright the prize auction sale of his valuable
effects which we publish elsewhere, might
not have taken place.
Year: 1874

claims to renown may indulge when called
upon to exercise the functions of an office in
France perhaps the most important in the
State. N. Beule was only one of type.
He was classical scholar of more than ordi-
nary culture. He was an academician who
won that high distinction by his archaeology
cal attainments, having assisted to clear up
mysteries concerning the site of Carthage.
Yet with these qualities and accomplishments
no man was ever worse failure as an execu-
tive officer of the French people. Of Olivier
we might say the same. IT. then, we
can draw any lesson from his life and from
the lives of the class of men to which he be-
longed, it is this-that practical craftsmanship
was never born Of the French Academy. Lit
erary qualifications and political dexterity
rarely coalesce in France. We might examine
the record CT any French publicist of this Gen.
tury and we would find that. when elevation
to high post has been a compensation for
the remuneration of the professed principles of
his life, he has generally preferred post to prin-
ciple. The usefulness OF French publicist's
life is hardly to be measured, therefore, by his
devotion to any fixed principle of political
conviction-rather by the skill with which he
serves the cause Of which he is an ephemeral
exponent; but, judging M. Beule by either
standard, his record is not worthy of an
academician.
Year: 1874

mother singing to her babes and the babes
responding to the mothers love.


The sermon of Mr.. rockingham will be
There is cold and classic beauty about the
eloquence of this clergyman which contrasts
strongly with the exuberant and luxuriant
genius of Mr. Beecher. One reminds us of o
snow-clad peak in the cold winter sunlight;
the other of the rush of Niagara's waters or
the eternal roar of the SEQ. Like MIR. Beecher,
Mr. rockingham described resurrection as
process rather than an event. Spring does
not come in day, neither does resurrection,
but it does come. An eloquent Swedenbor-
gan writer had described resurrection as
o process of excremation Mr. rockingham
criticised the Gospel stories Of the resurrec-
ton as confused and doubtful AT the same
time he saw Christ as St. Paul describes him
a sinless man, and the sinless man is lmmor-
ta The true doctrine Of resurrection was
O doctrine OF spiritual and mental growth,
and the time was coming when the power OF
the will over the body would be properly re-
pnrded There were tremendous issues in
yolved in the reatment VI tne pouJ' anu
modern education was teaching US how
TO dress and eat and sleep. This
was the physical resurrection. But there
came also the social resurrection, the cre-
alton. for instance, Of man like Theodore
Parker, the piece of New England granite; Of
John Brown, who was bit of Mount Sinai:
his father the Adirondacks, his mother the
old Bible. In these men there had been q
resurrection just as we see it in the efforts to
educate this generation-the imperative de-
mand for honor and honesty and truth 10 our
public servants-the call for nobler public SER
vice. The reverend gentleman carried this
thought through his sermon, which, apart
from its peculiar religious views was OF un-
usual depth and power, and will be studied
with profit and pleasure.
Year: 1874

IT Runs LIKE PRAIRIE FIRE DIR,
WALKERS VINEGAR BTTTERs runs like a
prairie fire. The fame of the Temperance
Tonic is, however, but poorly exemplifed
by this figure of speech; for prairie fire
runs only in one direction, whereas the
reputation of the Bitters spreads toward
all points of the compass There is not a
square mile of inhabited territory in the
United States where this meritorious
preparation is not appreciated. If any
theoretical gentleman thinks he is prepar,
ed to show that there is nothing in it. y
we advise him to go to the Prairie States,
in the Mississippi Valley, to the deltas of
the Southern rivers. to New England, in
fact anywhere within the limits of Uncle
Sans real estate, and ventilate his views
By so doing he can raise a heartier ano
more general laugh than has ever ye
shaken the sides of an intelligent people
Persons who have been cured cant hell
laughing at other people who tell then
that the medicine which saved their live
| is a failure.
Year: 1874

ON tho other hand, while many OF them arc
Monarcbists at heart are as much disincined
to fraternize with the violent Legitimlsts as
with the radical Republicans. They suifer all
the embarrassment of q position which they
are not prepared to define and detend. vi all
the solutions of the crisis which have Deen
proposed the weakest and most impracticable
appears to be the one to which NJ. Goulards
efforts were at first directed, and which was
supposed to have the sanction and approval
of the President; to form Government from
this faction of the Right Center, itself mi
nority of the Chamber, and the most colorless
and nerveIess Of all the fractions OF the AS
semby. Such a Government would court
defeat. and doubtless achieve it on the iirst
occasion.


IL has, we think, been too much taken Tor
granted that coalition between the Leglt-
mists and the Republicans to effect dissolution
of the Assembly was impossible. Such vote
might be cast with no inconsistency upon
either side. The Left has demanded dissolu-
ton as crying necessity for two years past.
The Legitimists hold their seats In the Assem-
bly, not as mere politicians or ofhce-hoiders,
but, to use the language OF one OF them, as
men of conscience, of honor, and OF PATRIOTISM,





for the good of France and the restoration
of the King, objects which they consider
synonymous AS long as an alliance between
them and the other factions of the Right
served to prevent the establishment of the
Republic, and to keep the door open for
the return of the Comte dc Chambord, they
were willing to vote with the Government
which they understood to be cooperating with
these ends. But there is no longer any GER
tainty that the existing Government ID Oh any
service to them. NJ, do Broglie proposes TO
organize the Septennate without any regard to
the illustrious exile Of FrohsdorR The Le-
gitimists might therefore vote, with entlre
consistency, to dissolve an Assembly wnich
appears useless to the monarchy, and if they
are defeated at their homes, to retire with
dignity from the political field. Their chance
in new elections would be at least as good as
that of their bashful allies, and the Republic
of NJ. Gambetta would be little more oblec-
tionablo to them than that of NJ. dc Broglie.
Year: 1874

Yesterdays prices show United States five
per cent bonds of the new loan to be worth
over two per cent above par in gold in New
York. after deducting the interest accrued
since the maturity of the last coupon, on the
1st of May. In london the same bonds are
worth between one and two per cent above
par in gold, tho accrued interest being
deducted Now is our opportunity to
reduce the interest on the S93O,0OO,OOo
of five-twenty six per cent bonds which
were still outstanding at the date of the last
Debt Statement. 1t is probable that every
dollar of that debt can be called in for pay
ment, and replaced with five per cent bonds
within the next eighteen months We wish
here to invite attention to certain reasons
wby we think it likely that this can be done
now better than two or three years hence,
and to urge on Congress and tho President
the importance of having it done.


After great prOstration or the speculative
spirit. like that of last Fall, people who have
money to invest are shy of all new undertake
ings aud doubtful securities, but solid invest
ments. like Government bonds, are in great
demand. This feature of the financial situa-
ton is now manifest in the prices of our Gov
ernment bonds. They are at the highest level
attained since the war, but it would be cx-
tremely rash to suppose that tho rise
is to continue indefinitely. When the present
feeling of distrust subsidies and the specu-
lative spirit again takes hold OF the world,
United States bonds will be sold out and the
money invested in undertakings which promise
higher interest. Prices will then have down.
ward turn until another reaction takes place,
with its inevitable accompaniment OF caution
and distrust.


TO some persons all this may seem theoret-
ical. and for their benefit we give few facts
which they will find it hard to explain on
other grounds than those we have stated. The
following table, from an official document pub
lished by the Government OF Great Brltaln'
shows the average price OF English consols for
Year: 1874

Beyond the statement of those facts, tho table
needs no explanation other than that we have
given above 1t is clear that the same phe-
nomenon is now repeating itself, both here and
in England, where the collapse of specula-
ton and speculative prices is quite as
marked as it is here. We would suggest to
President Grant the propriety of placing at
the head of the Treasury some financier
capable of performing the simple operation
of paying off the fve-twenties at par and
selling five per cent bonds at as much more
than par as can be had for them. The idea
of selling four and half per cent bonds at
par in this or any other market, might as
well be abandoned for the present. Legisla-
ton should be asked for from Congress
authorizing the replacement of the entire mass
of outstanding ive-twenties with five per
cents, by which nearly ten millions can be
saved in our yearly payments for interest.
Year: 1874

Some of the Administration organs at the
West feel outraged by the treatment which
those leading statesmen, Messrs. Morton, Lo-
gan, Ferry, and Carpenter, have received at
the hands Of an Eastern caricaturist whose
pencil they supposed belonged as much to
them as to President Giant. Some of his re-
cent caricatures having represented the West
ern statesmen as attempting to bully and
browbeat the President into the support of
their imitation schemes, and the President as
holding them at bay in lOrdly and majestic
fashion, the organs friendly to the statesmen
have denounced the pictures as brutal and
beastly, the artist as man without decency,
and the publishers as ignorant, reckless, and
unprincipled. To illustrate the ignorance as
well as the Inconsistency of the publishers,
one of these journals has published a letter
which they sent to President Grant on the 21st
of September, 1873, at the beginning of the
panic, urging him to lend twenty millions in
greenbacks to the New York City banks. as
the only way to avoid financial deadlock.
In retaliation for their misrepresentation of the
views of the Western statesmen and the dis
graceful caricatures which they have published,
it has been urged by some of the organs of
luf1atlOn UndC tHe bCUOOl-DOOhS puDlbUeu Dy
the offending firm be banished from every
school-house in the West.


Granting that the friends of the w estern
statesmen have real grievance against the
publishers referred to, the retaliatory methods
recommended by the angry journals do not
strike us as being entirely wise. Indeed, the
manifestation of temper at all under the cir
cumstances does not seem discreet. Other
persons in official position as prominent as
these latest victims of the caricaturist's pencil
-may we not say, too, equally honest, able,
and sincere f-have had worse treatment at the
same hands and borne it in silence. Do we
err in saying that those carcatures, simply
and absolutely brutal as they were, with
hardly redeeming flash of wit, and certainly
none OF the genial quality of humor. were
more warmly applauded by these complain
ing statesmen and their friends than by any
other men or class of men in the countryf 1t
was the sort OF thing that commended its elf
to their tastes and judgments as better than
argument. The qualities Of mind and heart
that find occupation and use in convincing the
people that to issue promise to pay dollar
is increasing the wealth of the country to the
amount of dollar, find also legitimate em-
Year: 1874

SAILLES


The sorrows Of q hypOchOndriac. which his
friends impatiently call imaginary, are never
theless as genuine and as painful as any real
Affections could be and the political crisis
through which France is now passing Is none
the less serious because foreign observers can
see very little sense in it. TO our eyes it
would seem that the only expedient and hon
est thing to do, would be for the Assembly,
recognizing the fact that parliamentary gov
ernment has become impossible by the revolt
of the Extreme Right from the majority with
which it has hitherto acted, to put an end to
its own useless existence, and allow an appeal
to the country, which may result in the
return of an Assembly with convic-
tions and purposes in harmony with
those of the great mass Of voters.
Yet a dispatch received here yesterday states
that it was rumored in Paris that the two ex-
tremes of the Chamber had united in de-
mand to this effect, and that upon this rumOr
the Bourse was hattened. 1t is hard to con-
ceive of q more perfect illustration of Mr..
Grant Whites definition of Conservative
zone who stays in the hot water for fear he
"should be scalded." The country is agltated





the body polite. There is proposition made
to take the only measure which can possibly
give permanent relief, and capital, the most
conservative thing in existence, is alarmed at
the prospect. 1t is true that this measure is
proposed by the two extreme parties, and
possibly the mercantile mind believes that no
good can come from those quarters.


Another refuge for the harassed MacMahon
Government is to compose Cabinet from the
two Centers which shall shift the majority ID
the direction of the Republic. 1t is by no
means certain that this can be accomplished
and it is perfectly well known that such
step would be extremely distasteful to Marshal
MacMahon and his immediate surroundings
The Right Center has always evinced especial
repugnance to the idea of being absorbed by
the Left and the members Of the Left Center
will not be likely to agree to any coalition
which should omit sincere and decisive
affirmation of the Republic. The latter have
infinitely the stronger position. They are
openly and avowedly devoted to the estab-
lishment of q reasonable and orderly republi-
can government, and while they did not vote
for the MacMahon Government, nor for the
Scptennate bill by which the tenure of the
power of the Duke of Magenta is affirmed
for seven years, they have never made any
factiOus attack upon his administration, nor
have they intimated any intention to interfere
with the tenure Of his Presidency established
by Law. The members Of tho Right Center,
Year: 1874

The House of Representatives did well in
rejecting by such a decisive vote Judge Po-
lands resolution for a committee of inquiry
into the character of the government of Ar
kansas There is no excuse for the interfer-
ence of Congress in this case. The quarrel
between the rival claimants for the governor
ship has been decided by the proper authority
and it is the business of the executive now
to restore order.


That clause of the Constitution which pro.
vides that the United States shall guarantee
to every State in this Union a republican
form of government" has been tortured and
twisted in many ways of late years. and we
observe with concern a disposition on the part
Of great many respectable politicians
to put it to most unwarrantable uses.
Il is pretended that under this clause
Congress may inquire not merely whether o
State is governed by republican forms, but
whether its laws are honestly administered:
that it may revise the returns OF the canvass
ers of election, test the titles of claimants TO
office, examine the constitutionality of legis-
latiye enactments, constitute itself in short q
general guardian and protector, and meddler
with the local concerns of the State and Of
every community embraced in 1t. Nothing
can be more clear than that the new theories
of Federal interference were not in the con-
templaton of the trainers OF the Constitution.
Every State has its own tribunals for decid-
ing contests for office, correcting election
frauds, and revising its legislation and 1t
has never been assumed until lately that Con-
gress can make itself great Court OF APP
meals to review the decisions of the State
authorities.


If the language of the clause were not too
clear to be misunderstood, an Interpretation
might easily be found in the pages of "The
"Federalist.n That work correctly explains the
provision as safeguard against the elntroduction
into the federal coalition of aristOcratic ana
monarchical Innovations" The moro IN
innate the nature of such union may oe'
"the greater interest have the members IN the
"political institutions of each other, and the
"greater right to insist that the forms OF goy'
"ernment under which the compact was
"entered into should be substantially main
stained" And Story says. in reply to the
objection that the clause might become pre-
text for alterations in the State Governments
without the concurrence OF the States them
selves: "The authority extends 10 further
ethan to guaranty of republican form OF
government, which suppOses a precxisting
government of the form which is to be
guaranteed. AS long, therefore, as the ex-
listing republican forms are continued by the
Estates, they are guaranteed by the Federal
"Constituton. Whenever the States may
"choose to substitute other republican forms.
"they have right to do so, and to claim the
"Federal guaranty for the latter. The only
"restriction imposed on them is that they
"shall not exchange republican for anti-re-
publican constitutions" That is the whole
scope of this much-abused provision.
Year: 1874

ssading the public Of their innocence Of
the charges we have proved; and eentrv
of this sort VIC always fight through
all the Courts and to the bitter end. Not opo
of them has made penny from us in the last
six years-tbough they have spent great many
thousands of dollars in the efort-and there
will be long judicial road to travel before
any of them does
Year: 1874

out Of employment from earning the money
which they arc themselves unwilling to take.
Il does not seem probable. however. that they
can do more than cause temporary annoyance.
The wages offered are believed to be equal to
or above the average now paid in the city,
and largely above most other prices since the
poni.