Show UNTO THE BREACH ONCE MORE DEAR FRIENDS That the Tribune of this city is an able paper none who know what an able paper is will deny but the Tribune is not an immaculate paper and when the thin veneer of its independence is scratched a little we find beneath it what An ultraRepublican paper that flies into the face whenever anything is said against the policy of the Republican Repub-lican party or in favor of a Democratic Administration It is a Republican 0 paper that never has and never will get over the issues of the campaign of I860 and sorrows because those who were crushed were not annihilated and when the present Administration nominated Mr Phelps of Vermont as Minister to I 0 England the Tribune forgot its independ ence and seemed to remember only its Republicanism Was anything else to be expected for was it not long since told in Bible lore that the leopard could not change its spots Tho Tribune first of all objected to this nomination because Mr Phelps had not taken up arms during the Rebellion like tens and hundreds of thousands yes millions of just such men 0 as Minister Phelps who were in the North It seems that some were in the West and for best I reasons known to themselves too AVc do not wish to make any insinuations against the editor of the Tribune for we honestly think that he always was amid will be a Union man and the absence of Mr Phelps from the field of battle should not be insinuated against any more than the absence of the I gentleman who is so opposed to Mr Phelps But this was not all Behind this intense patriotism therelurked an intenser partisanism and the insults to the Nation of which it now makes so much were not alone its grounds of dislike dis-like The following was among the reasons assigned for its dislike of the new Minister Mini-ster 0 sterAll All the evidence goes to show that the services of Phelps to either party or ountry have been evil He is one of L J 5 1or Yh those polished intellectual men who has 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 it Is it unAmerican to be a polished intellectual man and not be forever lauding the masses and catering to their every whim if the whim is not in accordance accord-ance with the ideas of a polished intellect intel-lect Isit not better to occasionally rise even in heart above the masses than toe b to-e forever content with their condition Mr Phelps did not deny this speech before because he did not deem it worthy wor-thy of a denial but now that it has come into i being again and it is sought to injure him h before the whole Nation and to cast reflections re-flections upon the new Administration he does deny it No it was not sad news to theDEMOCKAT but we knew it would be to the Tribune for it loves to think there is i nothing decent in Democracy and this same denial proves that even a polished intellectual i Democrat can be decent Nor again does the DEMOCRAT deem it i chaste and valorous to insult the mothers who sacrificed their sons at their countrys call any more than it does to insult those who sent their sons to fight for what they believed was their country and who lost their j sons and that cause and who now acknowledge ac-knowledge that their sons died in a cause that was not worthy to win Is anyone n ore wont to expound the Constitution than the Tribune unless it i be the News And the one expounds it as well as the other So true is this that the Tribune has come to think itself the beginning and the end of Americanism and has been such from everlasting until l everlasting and will be Yes the editor of the DEMOCRAT can say on which side he would have bee n in the war and he would have been on nd the Federal side for if ever the world saw a righteous cause it was the one for which that grand and nobte old man John Brown of Harper Ferry died at Charleston Court House But we believe that the heart which so fervently beat for freedom would never have remembered the wrongs of the oppressor after the oppression op-pression had ceased We likewise believe with the editor of f the Tribune in evolution but if ever we become such Americans as it says are true American just make usa e > a grave where the sunbeams rest When they promise a glorious morrow |