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AMERICAN ILLIBERALISM.
Written for the Tribune:
(Continued from last week.)
But if he appreciates not the value of
liberty, improves not the golden opportu
nity that lies before him, and falls behind
in the advancing rank of civilization he
has no one to blame but himself. Then let
us give the negro a chance, let him enjoy
those privileges which we claim for our
selves, untrammelled by prejudice and
free from envy and scorn. Upon the cor
.ner-stone of the American Constitution
our forefathers cut the precious principle
"Equality of Rights,"-a principle that the
experience of years has taught in many a
hard learned lesson to be the foundation
rock of every free and ilberal government,
the basis of all progress and advancing
.civilization. Let us cerry out in deed and
fact, let us give life and meaning to this
noble precept of our fathers and' thus
prove ourselves true to a principle that has
l)een won for us and our posterity by the
countless hardships and untold sacrifices
of years and centuries. The same spirit
of narrow prejudice that we entertain for
the sable citizens of the South, we cherish
for the yellow coolies of the West. We
deride their customs, scorn their rights,
hate their presence. And why? It is the
old question of blood and belief. From
this spirit the korrors of the Inquisition
sprung. It was this spirit that tightened
the thumb-screw and worked the rack,
that kindled the fagots and fanned the
flames of torture, that delighted in the
pains of the martyr and rejoiced in his
agonies of deatu, that in all ages has chain
ed the limbs and lashed the backs of slaves,
that has justified all the cruelties of per
secution and slavery by an appeal to its
bigotry, superstition and conceit. Yet far
more discreditable than our regard for for
eign nations, far more disreputable and
apprehensive than our prejudice against
the Negroes and Chinese, is that spirit of
illiberalism that manifests itself in our
government and our politics. This bold
and hungry spirit seeks its realization, la
bors for its satiation, through a general and
unceasing cry for legislation,-legislation
for things of protection and things of wel
fare, things of labor and things of capital,
things of diet and things of drink, things
of sense and things of nonsense, things
conceived by genius and advanced by abil
ity, things born of ignorance and sustained
by stupidity, things believed by cranks
and preached by fanatics; and thus from
every nook and corner of the land, from
every business trade and profession, come
the vandals of illiberalism marching over
the outworks of individual right, over the
choicest flowers of freedom, marching to
ward the realm of socialism,.toward the
stifling clime of retrogression and death.
Beneath the shadow of such a noxious sen
timent, entwined by the parasites of nar
rowness and greed, the oak of liberty can
never flourish. Upon the four pillars of
prejudice of race and intolerance of belief,
selfishness of politics, and jealousy of for
eigners, a staple republican government
can never stand, individual liberty can
never be secure. Such was not the gov
ernment, not the principles for which the
patriots fought, and the heroes died.
Their's was a government of individuals,
" of free independent men. Their's the prin
ciple that cherished the right of freedom
for themselves, and respected in others
the self-same right; that recognized and re
warded merit and worth whether due to
the negro mongolian or white. Such to
day is the government that America needs.
She needs one pervaded by a healthy, lib
eral, cosmopolitan sentiment; one that will
allow every mortal within the bounds of
her supremacy to develop himself to his
fullest capacity, untrammelled by legsla
tion, unscathed by prejudice, free from
obloquy and scorn. O, may she give more
for the eternal principle of Liberty, Fra
ternity and Equality of right, more for one
breath of enlightened freedom, more for a
spark of independent manhood than a vast
universe of socialism, affluence and gloom!
E.
WASHIN(ITON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
WArINGTON, JanJ5, 1887.
The city has been more quiet during the
present congressional holiday vacation 1
than is usual at such times. Quite a num
ber of senators and representatives went
home to eat their Christmas dinners; the
death of SenatorLogan caused various pro- 1
posed festivities to be abandoned, and
rheumatism has again kept the president
prisoner, so that he has been forced to for
go certain social entertainments given in 1
hi honor.
Today almost everybody of prominence
in Washington attendedthe imposing fu
meral ceremonies of the dlstingushed'dead,
'Whlch were held in the senate chamber. :
Gen. Logan and wife~ wore member.
the Methodist church and Rev. D)r.'N6w
man, theW ashingta asta Gm.[qrant,
officiated St the fneeral, assil by the
Sl.*-the;senartha I efm-J
M er of th ntlthe$ church'. "T~he f=- i
nerai processipp f roltt'ie rpIt ter -e
cemetery,which was lengthened by a num
ber of civic and military osganizations, was
in charge of Gen. Sheridan.
This was the sixth funeral that has ta
>f ken place in the senate chamber.
1- Among the tributes that are paid to the
d deceased senator, the honesty of his legis
te lative life was lost sight of. In an area
?t when corruption was rife, and when many
y of the strongest men of both parties were
r- broken down and blasted by public expos
d ure or denunciation, which was almost as
r- fatal, Logan escaped all these long years
n untouched even by suspicion. Although
e his political friends accused him of being
e narrow in his prejudices sometimes, even
a they acknowledged that he was a firm,
u sincere friend who never stooped to hy
t, pocrccy.
g The re-nomination of Mr. Mathews, the
dl colored lawyer front Albany, to be recor
s der of deeds in the District of Columbia,
s promises to become a celebrated case.
s The president holds that since the senate
e rejected him last summer, much of the
s opposition to Mathews' appointment has
[t been removed by the latter's management
r of the office. The democrats are indig
h nant that the president should have again
e seen fit to send in the name of this "car
petbagger from Albany," as they call him,
e and the republicans are watching with in
a terest to see how the senate will treat the
n case of the nominee which it rejected last
d session.
, In renominating Mr. Mathews the pres
e ident said to the senate: "I have ventured
e in view of the demonstated fitness of this
s nominee, and with the understanding that
L- the objections heretofore urged against
3, his selection have to a great extent sub
r- sided, and confessing a desire to tender to
:s our colored fellow citizens just recogni
tr tion and the utmost good faith, to again
r- submit this nomination .to the senate for
d confirmation, at the same time disclaim
;t ing any intention to question its previous
f action in the premises." The matter will
ir cause a warm discussion soon, and it is
d probable that Mr. Mathews will be reject
,- ed again.
d Congress did a good deal of work in the
n brief time that it convened before the hel
1- idays, and it should not be severely cen
1, sured if it did nothing more this session
s except to pass the regular appropriation
s bills. Still much more is projected. Rep
1- resentative Springer says he will do all he
d can to pass his bill enabling the territories
:s of Dakota, Montana, New Mexico and
n Washington to enter the Union as states,
n and he thinks he may succeed.
e There are swo'propositions pending be
,r fore congress now .relative to the subject
*e of marriage and divorce and whether or
)- not any ac' ion will be taken on either of
Le them, the question involved is one of
i. importance and constantly increasing in
- terest. One of these measures proposes a
r- constitutional amendment for the estab
.n lishment of uniform laws throughout the
>f United States regulating marriage and di
Svorre.
vorre.
The White House patient has been re
fractory and consequently he is not so well
as he otherwise might have been. The
president's physician warned him to keel)
still and not expose himself to drafts, and
both of these orders were disobeyed. Then
on Wednesday afternoon the president
drove out to his country place in an open
Victoria, and caught a severe cold.
The president's trouble is a rheumatic
knee and everything is being done to pre
vent the disease fro:n spreading, but, said
the doctor, no medical skill has ever yet
been able to confine rheumatism to one
part of the body. In the case of General
Logan it was the special aim of the physi
cians to keep it from the heart. While
they succeeded in doing this, it attacked
the brain. The president hopes, however,
to be equal to the ordeal of the usual
reception at the white house.
An Experiment in Mule Culture.
And this brings me to speak of a bril
liant Jersey citizen, now of Napa valley,
who not long ago came into the possession
of a rich estate there by inheritance. Sud
denly waking up to the dignities and im
portance of the rural inheritance, my Jer
sey friend the city editor, sent down to
Kentucky for the best blooded mules to be
had. No, he would not raise racing stock.
He was only editor, one of the people, one
of the humble leaders of the people, of
the honest rural people. So he would not
raise racing stock, and s,.t a bad ex ,mple
by devoting his valuble life totheturf; but 0
he would set a good. example of a sober, -
practical life; and maybe would be remem
bered in time by a unanimous hivitation
from both prrties to go to congress. T )ere
fore, asI have said, my Jersey C ty o lit.-r,
of the vest inheritance ia uelightful Naps,
would not raise racin : tock. B1-:t he
would raise mules. An i so.he sent a man
to bring him ten blooded mare mules all
the way from the great and good state of
&enitcu. =The ~ ialeJ arrive -in good
ti-t ten of them, fall, strong, healthy,
wlthood ~lungs., Butthaey' aw not in- -
treaied. n,- faot,"there are .n nine of
them now.. My yoang friend, &e '"ditor
f.ma the city, wentdeer-statking wt i ightý
omp ntd .and walked oi.few rods lie
4o p themfor timed au ftlr , and sen#ig
thespliendid of his saddle munile, ma
them for the antlia f a deer ant.
Ssi b e 4Ffriend, the ed
tor, _ o y_ no mult ndw.-UC dr.. 'r
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