Show APPROVING THE ADMINISTRATION The Tribune said it would give the Administration earnest praise if it deserved de-served it Evidently it thinks the Administration Ad-ministration worthy of it for on March 25 it said The Presidents late appointments do not suit the extreme Eastern people very well The sending of helps of Vermont an almost al-most unknown man to < represent the United States in the Court of St James they look j upon as an injustice The reason is they do not vet fully comprehend that a change < in the Administration means So far as New York City and most of its newspapers are concerued they looked upon the change of Administrations as a mere choice between men aud considered the matter very little I further than how it was to affect the commercial com-mercial interests of the country They i I would not believe that any great principles were being involved in the matter Then j might here received a hint on inauguration day had they listened to the vociferous yells which yrected the coming of General Fitzburgh Lee in the procession and the frigid silence which in the same procession greeted the old Sixtyninth New York regiment which with tattered battle flags waving moved past the grand stand i In other words without any offensive announcements an-nouncements of the fact the election meant that the men who endorsed the Democratic I platform of ISOi were to take charge of the administration of affairs and that the men r who did not were to take a back seat In the exact line of that change President Cleve land nominated Jfr Phelps ta be Envoy Ec truordinarij to the Court of St James In 18W his partisan anger was so fierce that he denounced Lincoln oharced the men who were making a struggle to save their country I from destruction witii being actuated with 1 no higher motives than of makiug a war that they might despoil the South of proper i ty and obtain for their mistresses the i women who were the property of Southern men He voiced his party in 1864 Again ill Itfti he if we remember right sought to defeat the will of the people of Vermont by 1 giqiny one of the electoral rotes of that State 10 Mr Tilden on a technicality He is in the direct line of his party he is an eminent lawyer we do not see how any Republican can see any inconsistency in his appointment appoint-ment The above was due to Mr Phelps but the Tribune thought that t something more WtS due him and so gave him this earnest ear-nest praise on the same date While the 18W speeches of such men as our new Minister to England are being reported re-ported in which ho charged that the Goy eruuieut had to buy foreigners to do its fighting it may be just as well to have the facts repeated occasionally and to have the world kept in mind of the fact that 83 percent per-cent of the soldiers of the Union armies were nativeborn Americans and this was true I notwitlihtauding the tens and huudieds of thousands yes millions of just such men as Minister Phelps who were in the North who were doing everything possible except to actually take up arms in favor of the South and who were a source of i perpetual anxiety and menace to the Union I cause Looking back upon that record and upon the placing of the flags oflthe Government Govern-ment athalf mast because a traitor thief and betrayer of sacred trustsjias died the first instinct of loyal men is that by both acts the country is disgraced But there is j another view of the business The country j last November in the most potential way j through which a free people can declare their edicts contracted for just such things j When they elected Afr Cleveland they contracted I con-tracted to Jzavejmmst such anion as Mr Lamar j I in the Cabinet and it is but natural for Mr 1 j 1 Lamar to seek to honor the men who joined i the conspiracy against free government and favor of a slave empire ie It may look a little strange to a few extreme Northern Radicals to see the author of the Bigelow Papers ousted from a high office I of-fice that his place may be filled by a man I who thought that Abraham Lincoln had not a single qualification of statesmanship statesman-ship but such radicals must remember j that the people willed that this should be so j and that there is not and ought not to be any appeal from that will It might in case of another insurrection against free government govern-ment be a little hard to explain to the youth I of the country just why they should make of their breasts a living wall against their count coun-t 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 It is not always at full tiderather it ebbs and floWSand there is a comfort in the thought that notwithstanding not-withstanding the sneer of our new Embas sador to the Court of St James the Gettysburg 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 Embassador who when the weight of a nation and the hopes of the world rested on his patient but selfpoised brain aimed a poisoned arrow at his back But not only is the apjjointment of Minister Phelps a log ical sequence of the election but it is most appropriate in another sense to send such a man to England C Mr Phelps will doubtless meet many subscribers sub-scribers to the fund which bought the Eng lish 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 a great many gentlemen who witnessed the final traeedv when nt last the good Kearsarge brought the corsair l to I 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 aroundJune 19th mingle their tears that the tides of eternal justice were that day in full flow Everything is working out beautifully and so far Mr 1 Cleveland has made no serious mistake This all goes to prove that the Tribune is an independent paper and is an honest I advocate and an impartial judge of Democracy It also shows that the Tribune I bane is earnest in its praise of President Cleveland and that it has completely forgotten I for-gotten the war in which the editor did such hard fighting and wishes nothing but peace on earth and good will towards I wards man |