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T1IE COLORED TRI B U X E Jons H. Deveaux, Editor and Business Manager. Office corner Price and Harris Streets. HOURS : FROM 2 TO 4 P. M. fiat?** The Tribune can be obtained at the following places : Estill's Neics De pot ; Kendy's Grocery Store, South Broad and Reynolds streets, and at Witmore s Grocery Store, cor. Harrison and Fahm streets. SAVANNAH, APRIL 8. 187G. Rev. S. P, Huskins is our authorized travelling agent for the Tribune. jpgr We would have it understood that this paper is not responsible for.uor does it necessarily eudorse, the senti ments of communications. Notices inteuded for publication must bchauded in by Thursday evening. Mr. Blaine as a Statesman. Speaking of the brilliant and magnetic leader ot the nation, the Lewiston Jour nal says: The popular instinct, which is otten quicker and sharper than the perception of partisan leaders and pretentious pub licists, keenly discerns the strong qual ities of James G. Blaine as the presiden tial candidate to lead the Republican party to victory tu the approaching na tional contest. His clear comprehension of the national duties and necessities* his thorough appreciation of the vulner able points of the enemy, and the (ear less directness with which he Aims his blows, have awakened the popular enthu siasm to a degree that is disturbing the nerves of sleepy conservatives, and ex- oiting the fears ol the confederate pol iticians of the south and their democratic allies of the north. His rising popular ity has a substantial cause, which timid politicans do not seem to comprehend. A certaiu class of individuals, of limited numbers, while admitting that the pop ular tide is rising in his favor, try to break the force of ihis fact by saying that the masses are incapable of correct ly estimating him,—that he is a saga cious politician, but no statesman. Men's staudard of statesmanship va ries greatly according to temperament and moral and political education. That of some persons, assuming to be judges, is very peculiar. There have beeu Eng lishmen who have regarded Sii Williun Temple as a wiser statesman than Lord Chatham. Oflheiormer Macauley re marks: “We must own that many states men who have committed very great faults appear to us to be deserving more esteem than the faultless Temple. For in truth bis Uultlessness ia cheifly to be ascribed to the dread of all responsi bility. He never put himself prominent ly before the public eye except at con junctures where he was almost certaiu to gain and could not possibly lose.” But to all seusible minds the placid, cautious timid statesmanship of Temple seems diminutive in contrast to the bold measurres and rugged, aggresive parlia- raeutry eloquence ot Lord Chatham. Not uiifrequeutly in our political history hava these assumptions of superior judgment been made by certaiu professed teachers of the people. When Daniel Webster, with the massive force of his logic and eloquence, crushed iuto im palpable dust the errors in political economy and the heresirs of state rights of Calhoun aud Hayne, he was declared to be no statesman, but merely a dis turbing agitator, a New England politi cian, not to be followed. When Johu Quincy Adams boldly de fended the sacred right of petition iu the national house of representatives, where it had beeu repeatedly trampled beueath the despotic heel of the southern and northern democracy, he was declared to be merely a noisy demagogue who was re-opening unprofitable questions and exciting unpleasantness among .southern brethren to the general injury ot the country. In the eyes of these good- natured quierists, Edward Everett, utter ing his polished, elaborate platitudes, which carried with them uo lightnings ot heated indignation agaiust national injustice, was thought to be more states manlike than the hold and scorching words of Charles Sumner on the bar barism ot Americau slaver , and the stroug and fearless denunciation bv Henry Wilson and Salmon P. Chase against the fugitive slave law. The calm, noble declarations of a “higher law,” by William H. Seward, were re garded as conclusive evidence of his uu- titness lor whig leadership, while his bold announcement ot the “irrepressi ble couflfct between slavery aud free dom, aud its indorsement by Abraham Lincoln, in the debite with Stephen A. Douglass, showed these two Republicans utterly destitute ol statesmanship. Men uuaocustomed to the stubborn work ot genuine public life pronounced Millard Fillmore,4iIohu Bell, Horatio Seymour, and other men of mere platitudes, the most pacific aud wise national leaders. S’auding uow the most influential member of the Republican party of the uuion, Mr. Blaine holds a leader ship he has fairly won after 20 years of manly, vigorous effort, growiug in wis dom aud strength with each succeeding year, equal to every occasion on which he is called to play a part. Yet there are those who coucede his popularity, and the consummate ability aud tact with which be confronts, outgenerals, aud defeats the Democratic majority, and is leading the Republicans to suc cess, yet insist that he is uo statesman— that he is only a politician. Very sin gular ideas these wonderful critics have of statesmanship. What do they really mean by their use ot terms? Webster degnes r statesman : “A man versed in the arts of government ; oneemla«»r for political political abilities.■’ Brought to a pratical test, we doubt if there is another man in the country more thoroughly acquainted with all the forms, methods, and workings of the state and national government of this country than J; G. Blaine. There are men who in action and available power ate much less than their written aud spoken words. There are others whose speech is less than their deeds. The latter have a reserved force which words do not measure, but is al ways made to tell when the hour ot effort anil trial comes. What Mr. Blaine has accomplished, when brought to the test, shows that he does not belong to the former class. He was eariv in life n po litical student of remarkable iusight and application, then an able aud popular journalist with rare opportunities for po litical culture and experience, repeated ly the Speaker of the Maine House ot Representatives, 14 years a Member of Congress, 6 years Speaker of the Nation- ol House of Repreaentalives, with a suc cess equalled by none siuce Heury Clay GO years ago occupied the position, and not suipassed, by the great Kentuckian. The scope, the power, the success of Mr. Blaine’s present leadership of the Republican minority the country now scans tor itself and can make up its opinion. With a remarkable memory of all salient facts iu the political history ol the country, with a knowledge ot men of the different sections of the uuion surpassed by no living American, wiih a persoDul magnetism rarely equaled, he gathers men quickly arouud him, and holds them with great tenacity. His administrative qualities are of the high est order. With an astouisbiug capacity for work, aud his powers under thor ough discipline, with a complete m ;8i- ery of all uecessary details,few men can accomplish so much. A boru leader ot meu, buoyant, resolute, indefatigable, he always proves equal to what is ex pected of him. If chosen President,his administration would be oue of the most able and successful in the history of the government. He would prove by prac tical, comprehensive, sagacious states manship, how utterly mistaken ha\e been the comiueuts of a special class ot crit ics that he is a consummate master of political tactics, an able parliamenta rian, but uo statesman. Fortunate will it be for the country aud tor the Repub lican party it he becomes the next na tional executive. [Communicated.] Editor Colored Tribune: As there have beeh anil are now heated dis cussions on Bible reading in the Public Schools, I am credibly informed that in one of the rooms at the Beach Institute, one of the Publie Schools in this city and county,rule 3d is grossly violated,as that room opens with out reading of the Scripture or the Lord’s Prayer as is required. Can you Inform the publie why this is done? and oblige, Captain Jack. The rnle in question is very plain, and mandatory. We leave to others better in formed upon the subject to explain why it is not observed in the room rlluded to-—[Lo.l *+