smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

present. The meeting was considered
necessary by the critical state of affairs
in Europe. The negotiations which
have occupied the last twelve months
are virtually ended, and war between
Russia and Turkey seems to be unavoid-
able. The London Times of Thursday
says: every resolution at time like
this is momentus, even the conclusion
that nothing IS to be done, is one which a
single minister would decline to be re-
sponsible for. The ministers meet only
to confirm by common accord the con-
clusions at which the country had ar
rived. If the result be only negative
as far as present action is concerned, it
represents the almost unanimous desire
of the nation.


There is to be no ultimatum or con-
tingent declaration of war; there will,
however, be no autumn session of Par
lament. The Cabinet did nothing which
can justify the prevailing fears of Brit
ish participation in the war at this time
OF course it will be understood that this
result does not involve positive decis-
ion respecting events which may take
place in the immediate FUTURE
Year: 1876

Resolved, That upon all questions of
national concern, we cordially endorse
and adopt the platform of principles
recited by the National Republican
Convention held at Cincinnati, and we
earnestly desire the election of the NOM
inees of that convention to the offices
of President and Vice-President of the
United States, respectively, believing
that such result would in the present
aspect of affairs be the only safe guar
anty of the permanency of the American
Union and the prosperity of every Sec
tion of our common country.


Resolred, That we favor home-rule
and government in the Territories,
and in the filling of all offices therein,
including the important Office of Dele
gate in Congress, with honest and COM
petent citizens, selected from actual and
bona .fde residents of the Territory;


RESOLVED, That the introduction of
Chinese labor into this country is
fraught with serious and dangerous
consequences to that system of free Ia
Dor to which the Republican party has
ever been committed and that we
condemn every system and policy in
the Government which deprives Ia
bor of its dignity; and that the i'm
portation of Cinnamon to this coun-
try has driven out of employment
large class of native and foreign-born
citizens; and that it retards the progress
and development of the territories; and
that we highly commend the action of
the National Republican Convention
in calling upon Congress to investigate
the effect of Chinese immigration upon
the laboring classes of this country,
and that the prompt action of Congress
in the matter meets our hearty appro-
val.


Resolved, That we utterly and un-
quali6edly condemn the whole Indian
policy of the United States-so far as
relates to the practice of making
treaties with these savage and barbarous
tribes-as inconsistent with the sover-
eighty of the government and as being
puerile in policy and a failure in results.
We therefore ask for such changes
in the policy of the government
respecting Indian affairs, as will sub
ject these savages at all times to the
efficient and absolute control Of the ma
tion, and will at the same time destroy
the Indian ring, its aiders and abet-
tors W


Resolved, That we return thanks to
President Grants administration for
the important steps taken to rid the
northern part of this Territory of our
Year: 1876

overthrow the Republican party and the
loyal intelligence which supports it.


The issue is too plain for any one to
be deceived. 1t is fight between the
forces of loyalty and intelligence on the
one hand, and disloyalty and ignorance
on the other. A solid South for Tilden
means the old rebel element united in
his support. The question now is, shall
the unity of this element with the ig-
norance of the North win at the ballot
box? Will the combination at the polls
prove stronger than on the battlefield?
For the loyal people of America we an
swer, Mol The combination will be
defeated, utterly destroyed in Novem-
Der, and the party that to-day covets
victory through this corrupt influence
will be Overwhelmingly repudiated by
the people.
Year: 1876

The authorities having declined to build a
new armory for our crack militia regiment
the Seventh, we observe that the regiment
has pluckily undertaken to build one for
itself This spirit of self-helpfulness is
commendable, and shows that our handsome
boys in gray are prepared to conquer on
every battle field. Their purpose is to erect
a suitable home for the regiment on the piece
Of ground on Sixty fourth street granted by
the city. For this o sum of three hundred
thousand dollars is needed, and the gallant
members are engaged in siege on the cita-
del Of capital, which will be carried on until
every cent of the demanded tribute is paid
Firstly, they have levied on themselves, and
will repeat the attack as often as prac-
ticable; secondly, they have been assisted
by number of gentlemen residents who
have subscribed handsomely, and, thirdly, it
is reasonably expected that the large prop
erty owners, bankers, insurance and trust
companies will come to their aid. With
good reason, indeed, should the latter classes,
those who represent property" assist
regiment like the Seventh in keeping its fine
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There are times when property" would give
millions TO have itself protected from the
ravages Of q mob, or the often unintentional
destruction which is wrought in times of
popular tumult few thousands now will
enable this fine regiment to possess o home
wherein theyoung citizen soldiery can be
trained, and whence they would issue at the
tap Of the drum to quell any such disorders
as might become dangerous TO our city by
having passed the control Of the police.
Property should think of this when it sees
the subscription list.
Year: 1876

ciary Committee to render President Grant
ineligible to another term by a constitutional
amendment, framed expressly for that pur-
pose, is courageous and patriotic, but inn
practicable, because it is too late to secure
its adoption by the States, in opposition to
his will, before the summer nomination and
the autumn election. No proposition is
practicable which does not command his
assent or else put him so clearly in the
wrong that even the office-holders will forsake
him in fear of the awakening of popular
Indignation. Our own suggestion of an
amendment which shall prolong his term for
two years, fix the limit of subsequent terms
at six years, and prohibit reflections, full
fils this requirement. We have no pride or
conceit of self which will prevent us from
advocating any other proposition which will
answer the same purpose; but none such
has been suggested from any source. From
the time of our first discovery of the object
of Presidents Grant ambition our only anx-
iety has been for the safety of the Republic.
AS we were the first to warn the people that
the Republic was in danger, so we shall ever
be the first to assent to any reasonable
scheme for its security.
Year: 1876

of doctrine and worship; but they desire a
dispensation for such of their clergymen as
are already married to continue as priests,
while celibacy is to be the rule for the un-
married, and to conduct public worship in
the vernacular, excepting the mass


All this seems very fanciful We do not
doubt that the ritualists would find more re-
ligious comfort in such an arrangement than
they do in the Established Church; but, to
say nothing of the inadmissibility of the
conditions they ask from Rome, there is an
obstacle at home which will cool the enthu-
siasm of the one hundred clergymen. The
Church established by law controls the ec-
clesiastical property, and we doubt if there
is such a spirit Of martyrdom among these
ritualists as would reconcile them to the loss
of their benefices.
Year: 1876

If General Slocum, the new President of
the Commissioners of City Works in Brook
lyn, holds out as he has begun, he will be
model for all officers in similar positions.
During the brief period he has been in Office
he has explored the past transactions of his
department and has made discoveries which
prove the need of a radical reform. He has
found by an examination of the books of
the department the remarkable phenomenon
that the streets, sewers and hydrants of
Brooklyn get into a periodically bad con-
dition once year, and that for the month
preceding an election they require great
force of laborers not needed at other times.
At any rate there are great additions to the
payrolls of the department during that ex-
ceptional month. One of the men so en-
ployed was assessed by the Democratic Gen.
eral Committee twenty-five dollars for cleo
tioneering purposes on the ground that he
was an ofice-holder. When he was dis
charged Immediately after the election he
complained of the injustice and threat
ened to bring q suit for the recovery
if it was not returned. So his name was





days at four dollars day, by which he got
his money back, although he performed no
service. General Slocum does not fancy this
way of doing business which he has exposed
in letter to Mayor Schroeder, who yester-
day communicated it to the Common Council.
81 think the time has come, says President
Slocum, ''when the city government can put
q complete and final end to compelling the
taxpayers of this city to support in idleness
the hordes of relatives and retainers of our
political managers"


We commend this praiseworthy example
to the imitation of our new Commissioner of
Public Works, hoping that he, too will see
''no reason why the business of city should
not be transacted on the same principles
that govern men in the transaction Of their
private business"
Year: 1876

In the present att tule of our government
on the much vexed Cuban question it is well
to consider how little we really know Of the
instruction in Cuba, or of the con-
dition or power of the insurgents. The
meagre reports filtered through the govern
ment journals of Havana can scarcely be re-
garded as reliable, and the underground in
formation afforded by the members of the
Cuban Junta in this city must certainly be
looked upon with equal suspicion. What
ever is to be the termination of the struggle
whether independence or enforced allegiance
to the mother country--it is narrowed down
to sentimental point of view as regards the
American citizen, so long as it neither inter
feres with his commerce or his comfort.


The Spanish government is at present
almost equally in collision with two power
full parties in the island-forcibly with one;
morally with the other Of these the strong
est party, numerically, are the insurgents
whose ranks are largely made up of the
native born Cubans, representing the well
educated, enlightened classes of the island
Most of these, reared in the schools. of the
United States, have returned to their own
country strongly imbued with the convic-
tions of their early education and with an
equally strong hatred of the institutions by
which they found it governed. This party,
in actual warfare with the government, claims
to sustain itself with courage patience, per-
feet faith and forlorn hope. The other party is
represented by the fierce body of votLntdrios
who, either born or educated in Spain, are
rabid monarchists, opposing with violence
all innovation or reform, and are apparently
as prepared to dictate their terms to the
home government as the insurgents would be
when successful These two parties, in fact
represent the American and Spanish ideas of
civilization, differing as widely as the poles
and now coming in conflict in Cuba Which
ever are the truest are sure to gain the mas
terry.


But, in the event of the insurgents gaining
their independence, another disturbing
power will come TO the surface in the negro
population, to add to the elements of discord,
which would bid fair to plunge the island in
a labyrinth of revolutions and possibly re-
uuCO ~ W pIoocAt uVPlOihDiC OOhulbiOH
of st. Domingo, with all the horrors accom-
panying its descent to that depth of ruin.
"Cuba shall be Spanish or negro, was the
ferocious apostrophe of an eminent political
leader in the Cortes at Madrid, and this fore
shadows the possibility of such disaster.


To maintain her power in the island of
Cuba Spain must establish free institutions,
abolish existing laws and admit her colonies to
equal rights with her other provinces, instead
of treating them like a conquered. country
History is full of illustrious examples of the
uselessness of armed forces against people
fighting for liberty. Meanwhile the friendly
governments who look on may, perhaps
achieve something by moral interference, but
this is all that right permits or justice can
claim
Year: 1876

There are great many points la the social
and political condition of the English peo-
pie that afford grand opportunities for the
future of the liberal party-the material for
conflicts as great and as successful as any
that distinguish its history; but it has been
the misfortune of that party to fall into the
hands of leaders who were only sentimental
ly liberal; gentlemen who came of '1iberal
families, and liked to be spoken of in the
catalogue of great liberal leaders; and these
have turned it aside from its assault on the
great abuses. Not liberals at heart, not in
spired with hatred for the iniquities of the
law, they were disposed to spare them in
that sort of spirit of picturesque politics
which regards some old wrong overgrown
with the ivy of national prejddices as not
only not an evil, but benefit In that
weakness the conservatives naturally found
their advantage and seeing the liberals
in sentimental mood in the presence Of the
beautiful old abuses they could not find it in
their hearts to assail, they led them away on
all sorts of feigned issues and tumbled them
into innumerable traps. But the note of
John Bright at Birmingham sounds like the
recurrence of the old spirit He warns his
party away from those issues where the gov
ernment ia perhaps more than half right
and might welcome inquiry; he advises not
to waste any opportunity in fight over
the vapid nonsense of the anti-slavery socie-
ties, but to turn attention to topics of more
vital interest; not to make any mistake so far
away as the Isthmus of Suez, but to give
freedom to the vast masses of English people
that are without a voice in the national poll
tics, and to remember that primogeniture is
the evident cause of some of the greatest
evils from which the nation suffers. Simple
common sense of this sort is the one great
need in the councils Of the liberals.
Year: 1876

The POPE AND ANToNELII Winter sell
dom goes by without mournfully reducing
the number of those whom old age has made
less able TO endure the changes and extremi-
ties of the season. Even in Italy, with its
mild climate, this is as true as with us for,
as the changes of temperature are the great
est sources of physical disorder, it scarcely
matters whether the changes occur on q
higher or lower scale Of the thermometer,
and they are as great in Rome as elsewhere.
Indeed, as our winter this year Is exception
ally mild, the winter in Europe has been
exceptionally severe, and it is probably true
at the Holy City that "spring has set in
with its usual severity" That the Pope and
Cardinal Antonelli should have felt the con-
sequences of this severe weather was there
fore to be expected, and it remarkably illus
trates their elasticity and tenacity that they
come out so happily That the Pope. at his
great age, should have recovered from seiz-
ure in the nature of an epileptic fit, and
that, thus weakened, he should pass through
the seventies Of the winter weather. Is very
remarkable circumstance
Year: 1876

The car companies, in foisting the salt
amendment on Mr.. Bergh's bill, show that
they will take every advantage they can of
the public, no matter at what cost of health
to the latter. The salt which dissolves snow
at street crossings produces liquid of the
temperature of zero, into which it is exces-
sively unhealthy for man or beast to tread
But this is minor evil beside the practice
of packing the cars with passengers until de-
cency and courtesy are made impossible, and
the air in the car becomes as fetid and un-
healthy as that ofthe Black Hole of Calcutta
This practice must be stopped. The inno-
cent car companies and their ingenious
mouthpieces say the public is to blame, and
that the companies are left no option but to
take all the fares they can get. This is the
cheapest kind of sophistry, and demolishes
itself No doubt the public is to blame for
allowing any abuse to grow unchecked, and
it is equally undoubted that no monopoly
ever gave the public any more for
its money than the monopoly could
help. The necessity for a cure, how
ever, is not denied, but the apologists
of the present system would have people tire
themselves out by waiting on the sidewalk
for what, with the present accommodations,
would not at certain parts of the day, ap-
pear in an hour-namely, car with vacant
seat correspondent proposes a cure
which would prove effectual-the licensing
Of each car for a certain number of passen-
gers with o penalty for overcrowding.
Some such measure is necessary, and if one
should be anxious to see who would dare to
oppose it In no country in the world
would this abuse be tolerated as it is here
The workingman on his way to toll and re-
turning from it has right to the seat he
pays for but in three cases out of four does
not get The working girl who makes two
journeys q day should not be- as she is
daily, hustled about in the passage of O car
for an hour at time, to the destruction of
health and decency. Every one who pays
fare has right to seat, and, as the omni-
bus lines and car companies of England and
the Continent provide it, it is mere i'm
pertinence TO say that our grasping monopo-
lies cannot do the same. In London, where
the population is far denser, and demands
fourfold accommodation, it is done. The
suggestions we have thrown out about
double-deckers are for the companies to con-
slider. That and all such notifications is
the companies business; ours is to insist
that a seat for q fare shall be the stringent
rule
Year: 1876

ALFoNso's GOVERNMENT have taken such
precautions in regard to the elections for the
Cortes that it is not wonderful a ministerial
majority should be chosen The report that
Senior CASTELAR, has been elected in Barcelona
will crafty the many admirers of that large
hearted Spanard.
Year: 1876

The D1sGRAcEFUL ATTEMPT at the Lyceum
Theatre last night to turn sparring exhibit
ton into a regular prize fight was very
properly stopped by the police before it had
eliminated in all the savagery which these
encounters develop Public taste has
changed, both here and in England, since
the time of Humphreys and Mendoza, who
may be seen in an English engraving of the
period setting to- on a raised platform, in
a spacious building, with the young bucks
and bloods Of that day seated on benches
arranged in amphitheatric tiers The box
ing gloves worn to disguise the real purpose
of the encounter of last night do not appear
in the old engraving but this small tribute
to advancing civilization may be taken as
the pugilistic form of Rochefoucaulds
maxim, that hypocrisy is the homage vice
pays to virtue.
Year: 1876

A Snow STORM has SO deranged the Eng
lish telegraphic system that since Saturday
the lines from London have been broken in
almost every direction. They are not used
to heavy snow storms over there.
Year: 1876

The SENATE AND ASSEMBLY met last even
ing, but the upper house was without q
quorum, and the lower house transacted
very little business. Our Legislators must
give up this mere killing of time and set to
work
Year: 1876

Inere has come into our hands copy offs
printed circular. issued from Charleston and
sent to large numbers of republicans in the
Southern States. inviting their cooperation
in holding convention of Southern repub-
licans to consult on the interests of the
party and devise measures for puttinp IL
on a better footing. The circular sets
forth that seven years ago the republicans
were in possession of every State which
had Joined the war for secession excen,
Virginia, and that at present there are onlv
two in which the party has clean
ascendancy. ten being completely and
three more virtually in the hands Of
the democrats. 1t goes on TO state that these
losses have occurred in spite of the great
advantage for the republicans that the whole
influence of the federal government has been
actively exerted on their side with the whole
office-holding element in both State and
national positions. The circular attributes
these. sweeping reverses to the bad
management of the republican party in the
South, and suggests that if the party is not
to be utterly wrecked and destroyed it must
at once put an end to the ascendancy OF
leaders whose unwise, selfish and corrupt
practices have loaded the party down with
disgrace and disasters, and threatens its eX-
tinction even in the two States of which it
still retains possession. There is moro
truth than poetry in these representations,
but we doubt whether they are calculated to
be persuasive with such body as the circu-
lar depicts
Year: 1876

THE SUCCESS OF MIIE. TIT1ENs at the
Academy Of Music last night comes with a
feeling of relief to those who had heard her
in the great operate roles years ago. There
is a sense Of doubt which takes possession
Of even the best friends Of performer in
such cases. and the proof that the old charm
remains adds k6ener zest to the enjoy
ment
Year: 1876

The FABIAN PoIcT adopted by the Bona
partists may appear very shrewd, but as it is
the only one they can adopt which can in
sure their existence as an open political
party the plan does not merit great praise
II the legitimists and Orleanists had the
courage to stand out with a defined policy it
would be found to be very similar up to The
period when MacMahon's term of power ex-
pires. Thereafter, Of course, their plans
would diverge. Meanwhile the present is
secured to the Republic, and after four years
more Of the steady exercise of political
power, the people will be less than ever
likely to listen to the siren voices Of inn
perialists or mnnarnhista
Year: 1876

MEXICAN REINFoRcEMENTs for the Rio
Grande mean. we hope, that the neighboring
Republic is awakening to the necessity Of
stopping its marauding citizens from rob-
bing our stock raisers. If it simply means
protecting them from pursuit they are help
ing those in this country who desire a war