Show I MORE SUPPORT 1 One of the most satisfactory and fitting nominations that President Cleveland has j I made was that of Mr Phelps oft Ver j mont to ba Iinisterifo the Courtof St 1 I fumes Such being l ihe case it was but II I I natural and to be expected that the journal jour-nal which hold the foremost place among newspapers for a thousand miles in either direction should give the Administration Ad-ministration earnest praise for making such a nomination It did and liere is what it had to say What we did say was that it might look strange Northern radicals to see the author of the Bigeloiv Papers ousted from office to give place to a man like Phelps And we gave our reasons It was because late in the war of the Rebellion in the autumn of 18C4 this man had not only abused Mr Lincoln but had insulted the region which he himself him-self was born and the soldiers who had died and were dying for the Union by declaring that nativeborn men could not be obtained to fight and that the object of the war was only on the part of the North to steal the slaves of the South and make the female slaves mistresses We have not said it before but we will now that the appointment of such a man to any office in the gift of the United States is a direct insult to every soldier who fought in the cause of the Union and to every man and woman who sympathized with those who fought This writer objects to what we said last summer about Mr Cleveland and talks about our I shameful attacks not only on President Clevelands intellect but as to his moral character and wants to know if the Tribune I ever offered an apology Hardly We gave our ideas of his intellect fairly according to data supplied Wo made no attack upon I his moral character but simply published what was charged what Mr Cleveland never denied what his nearest friends admitted ad-mitted to be true The writer ts impressed with the New Jersey speech of Mr Cleveland That is all right we do not object but we should be sorry to think that there is any I town of twenty thousand people in the United States that does not contain a man who can equal it for there is not a sentence in it above mediocrity But this was not all it had to Bay in commendation of Mr Phelps On the 4th oi March it paid him this distinguished distin-guished compliment All the evidence goes to show that the services ser-vices of Phelps to either party or country have been evil He is one of those polished intellectual men who has not been in heart down among the masses of his party or country for years and the reason which has come for his appointment is that he did not ask for the place I No graver charge could be brought against a man than this for what in a republican form of government can be mOie destructive of freedom and the rights of man an American man than that a Minister to one of the first Courts should be a polished intellectual man What true Americans desire is to see a man of the General Choke typenom inated to such places for such a man has sterling worth and it is his pride that he has neither intellect nor polish Such a man could enter the Queens drawing room and in a I few moments mo-ments destroy all the furniture and carpets car-pets lit expectorating tobacco juice and show the t Queen and the Ambassadors of emperors and kings that he was a free I horn nnintellectual unpolished American Ameri-can in fact the very antipodes of what I Mr Phelps is Now every true Ameri I can hangs his head in shame when he thinks that such a man as Mr Phelps I I represents the country at the Court of St 1 James when there are so many men who 1 in heart are right down among the i masses of the people and are without j employment and are without those ter riblo stains upon their character intel J lect and polish General Logan would I I partly answer only he has employment j I |