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The Hopes of Iho IIousc of Blair.
prom the N. T. Tribune.
Dean Swift wonll bare drawn an exoellnnt
portrait of the Washington politioian. The
W. 1'. is a obarautur. lie id Indigenous to the
national capital, and rarely thrives in any
other place. Generally, be is a native of the
District, but the record sometimes show in
stances of successful transplanting. Thus, a
fine young New Yorker, who has just seen the
inside of the Tammany ring, and has soaroely
reaohed the Councilman's position, or a
plump, corn-fed IVnneylvanian, who has
attained the early dignities of a party State
Committee, will, if taken to Washington and
properly oared for, bloom Into a very accepta
ble specimen.
To this Washington politician the world is
composed of red tape aud sealing wax. The
economy of nature is one endless circumlocu
tion office, lie lives between the hoars of
10 o'clock and 3, including an hour for
lunch. LI is days of dread are the 1st and
15th of each mouth. llis coustant anxiety
is for promotion from the "class" he is into .ho
'class" above him. Mr. Postmaster-Ueneral
Randall, one of the few cases of successful
transplanting late in life, expressed an axiom
when he said that all the ollicers in the De
partment should support Mr. Johnson be
cause he was the source of their "bread and
butter." We fancy that it as much bread
and butter and an instiuctive, uncontrollable
dread of the 1st and 15th days of next March
that lead to the astonishing unanimity with
which Washington politicians abandon
President Johnson aud surround Usne
ral Grant. The one fact the3e gentlemen
appreciate Is a majoiity in the Electoral
College. From the moment it was known
that General Grant had a majority of the
Electoral votes, they were his warm and
steadfast friends, his lusty, consistent sup
porters, his champious through good report
and evil repoit, just as they would have been
for Mr. Seymour had he been successful.
Grant was their choioe from the beginning.
They never intended to support anybody else.
In all Lis qnarrels with Johnson, they gave
him a silent but sincere sympathy. And
now they will give him the Aational Intelli
gencer; and, if he has any trouble about the
little patronage that drips from the Depart
ment, they will find publie-spirited oitizens
like Mr. Coyle, Mr. Wendell, Mr. lloover, Mr.
Barrel, and the lion. Thomas B. Florence, not
to speak of the multitude of the Blair family
(by blood and marriage), perfectly willing to
take every responsibility from his hands.
Mr. Montgomery Blair is perhaps the most
conspicuous and illustrious Washington poli
tician now living, llis triumphs have been
the wonder of this generation. Under Mr.
Lincoln's administration he was a Cabinet
officer. Another member of his family was in
the Cabinet, a third was an Admiral in the
navy, in charge of the most profitable block
ading station in the service, while a brother
was in the army, or rather osoillating between
the army and the Speakership of the House.
If Mr. Seymour had been elected we have no
doubt that the whole administration would
have been transferred to Silver Springs, and
the multitudinous Blairs would have taken
the Government on contract. The emotion of
Grant would seem to have put an end to this
pleasing anticipation, and to remand the whole
Blair family back to the appalling necessity
of working for their daily bread. Mont
gomery, however, with his serene and
modest genins, oomea to the rescue,
and now, aocording to a Democratic
paper, "publicly advises Demoorats to press
Grant to select his Cabinet from among con
servative Republicans like Trumbull and Fea
senden, and to promise him the support
of the Democracy for his administration."
"The support of the Democracy" is only a
figure of speech for the support of the Blair
family. The mention of Fessenden and Trum
bull as the two gentlemen who are to harmo
nize and consolidate the new Administration,
to bring Mr. Wendell Phillips and Mr. Vallau
digham, Mr. Sumner and Mr. Garrett Davis,
together around the national fireside, is a
quiet piece of irony. The oner of the "sup
port" of the Demooratio party to President
Grant, if he will only bow down and wor
ship the Blairs, is only equalled by an offer
of a similar character which we find reoorded
in saored history. Profane history gives an
interesting illustration. When Andrew John
eon became President he was welcomed
by the Blairs and the Washington
politicians, who brought him assurances of
the "support" of the Demooratio party, oalled
him a 'second Jackson," promised him unani
mous renominatlon, and journeyed to Phila
delphia to endorse him. They so preyed npon
the vanity and the ambition of the poor man
that they dragged him over the oountry like a
travelling circus. No man ever demeaned
himself more than 'resident Johnson. No
man ever kept a bargain with more sinoerity;
and if any President ever deserved the "sup
port of the Democracy," Mr. Johnson did, in
return for his "support" of the Blair family.
But the Convention met, and instead of re
ceiving the "kingdoms of the world and the
glory of them," the con filing "second Jaok
eon" was enrtly dismissed with a sort of oold,
slivering, contemptuous support, ani the
honors were divided between the unpopular
Seymour and a hungry Blair.
Sir. 'Johnson's difficulty was that he soil out
too cheaply, lie really imagined that these
men had "principles." Tuey only wanted
bread and butter. If President Grant wants
to buy the Blair family aud the Democratio
narty combined, with the Kebel army thrown
In, he can do it with one custom-house and
twenty poBt-oUioes: aud they will "suDc-ort"
him, evm if he traueoends in his policy the
extreme dcotrines oi Air. Wendell rnulips
The cheapest articles iu the political market
to-day aie the Washington politicians; ani
the cheapest of the lot are the members of the
honse o( Biair. If Grant thinks they are
worth purchasing, there can be no objection
to his making the trade. We only trust he
will take warning from President Johnson,
and, instead of buying dearly, take the gang
at the lowest figure. 1 his, after due dicker
ing, he will find to be extremely small.
"What Shall We Do With the Negro V
from the N. Y. Nation.
Daring the first few months after the war
this question was very frequently put by a
great mauy people, wuo asked It simply be
cause they did not thiuk it could be answered:
in other words, used it rather as agoodeonuu-
drum than as a means of getting information
Their opinion clearly was that the negro was
an insoluble problem, and they hoped an i be
lieved that he would bring to shame and con
fusion everybody who had ever done anything
to help Lias. Frederick Douglass, who shines
ainonofct bis school of politicians by the po3
session of a shrewd common sense and a keen
and incisive tongue, answered the question at
a meeting of the Anti-Slavery Association, aud
with a good deal oi loroe, by requesting every
body to "let the negro alone" m the very
highest benefit his white neighbors
could confer on hint. Now, though this I
answer really contains in it the key
of the whole negro difficulty, of coarse it has
to be interpreted In a- large and liberal way,
and with a due regard to surrounding oirenm
aUnoes. It would not have been right to "let
the negro alone" immediately after the war.
To make emancipation a blessing and not a
curse to him special means had to be provided
for his protection and education, until he had
become familiarized with the maohine.y of free
society, and had learned to play his part iu
working it; nntil the ruling raoe had given
some tatlafactory indication of recpeot for hi
rights, or he had been provided with tin legal
means of asserting them, and the knowledge
necessary to use the means effectively.
The Freedmen's Bureau was one most
powerful and beneficent agent in making the
tranrilion from slavery to freedom easy, and
it has been maintained up to the point where
there was danger of its preventing tU growth
cf self reliance and prudence among those for
whose benetit it was established, and danger
of its becoming a prey to jobbers and profes
sional politicians. Its labors were admirably
supplemented by the Amerioau Freedmen's
Union Commission, which was established
four years ago, by the voluntary efforts of
private individuals, to do for Northern charity
towards the freedtnen what the Sanitary Com
mission had done for Northern charity
towards the soldiers that is, orgauize it,
conduct it through proper channels to the
quarters in which it was most needed,
prevent waste from want of couoert and
concentrated responsibility, and prevent its
being cursed by the spirit of sectarianism or
localism. It has succeeded in doing all that
it set iUelf to do in a remarkable degree, its
main efforts being directed, since the first year
or two pending the assumption of the work by
the Mate governments, to the supply or the
freedmen's greatest want, eduoation. It has
established and kept going thousands of
Fchools all over the South, and has, daring
the past year, devoted a large portien of its
funds to sowing the seeds of schooU if we
may use the expression by training white
and colored teachers; and it is a remarkable
fact that Union majorities at the South are in
the ratio of freedmen's schools that is, the
more schools you have the more votes you
get for pace and quietness, for the mainte
nance ot the Unite i States Government, aud
for the payment of the United femes ddbt,
and the equality of men before the law. Iu
short, the story of the influence of education,
on politics at the North is the etory of the
influence of education on politics at the
South.
The Commission now propose, after pro
viding funds for tbe maintenance of their
schools one year longer, to dissolve aud leave
the work they have begun to be carried on
by the Southern people themselves, and they
do this because they have been made sensible
by many signs that they are just neanug the
point where persistence in treating the freed-
man as an object of com niseration or as the
pupil or ward of the community would not
only bring into ridicule all that has beeu
done for him, and all the arguments
on which the claims made lor his
political equality have been based, but
wen Id seriously interfere with the growth
of his own character. In stopping their work
now, they stop it while it still retains the
publio sympathy and re? peot, and thus render
a valuable service to the general cause of
charily; for if charity have any formidable
enemies, it is they who keep philanthropic
"movements" going after the intelligent por
tion of the community has ceased to see the
necessity of them, aud after they cease to have
any visible basis but rhetoric, sophistry, and
exaggeration.
J he action oi the b reed men 's commission
may, and we hope will, furnish a useful lea
son to legislators and political agitators in the
stage of reconstruction on which we are now
entering, it the negro is what so many or us
have been asserting that he Is, a man who has
only been kept by a gross abnse of the power
of tbe majority Irom taking his full share in
the work of progress, both moral and mate
rial, he must be left to win his way to his
proper place by the use of ordinary means.
Tbe value or difficulties in strengthening am
elevating white character is now an old and
trite subject of remark. The most energetic and
successful white communities are those for
whom Providence has apparently done least,
as far as outwaTd circumstances are con
oerned; and the same proposition is true in a
vast majority of oases with regard to indivi
duals. Wherever the industrial field is fairly
free, the "self-made man" is getting the better
of the man whose father supplies his capital;
and thongh education is au equipment which
always gives its owner an immense advantage.
the educated man who has nothing but his
own brains to look to lor aid In the struggle or
life almost always beats the eduoated man
who enters the arena with his material future
provided for by others. The thing whioh has
probably most contributed to make JNew
Jtnglanders "the bosses" in nearly every
undertaking in the country, and has plaoed
South Carolina conquered at the feet of
Massachusetts, is the faet that New l.agland
hills are bleak and bare and the New England
soil stony and unproductive. Of oourse,
everything must be done that oan be done to
make the diffloultit-.s with whioh the negro hw
to contend no greater than thoe with whioh
poor white men have to contend. He ought
to have secnrity,.and be oognt to nave eduoa
tion, in so far as it is in the power of tin
Government to supply them; but the great
burden which weighvs the negroes in the raoe
is one which neither Government nor philan
thropist can remove, and that is the want of
all tbe ordinary claims to sooial respects
bility. These claims, in the case of a raoe,
are based on a history rich either in great
deeds or great men, aud in the caie
of individuals either on wealth c r professional
or commercial suooess, or learning or geniui.
No white raoe, or white man, who wants thene
things is thought much of. The negro raoe
must, in short, win a good sooial position in
tbe way other races have won it; and when it
has its roll of poets, orators, scholars, soldiers,
and statesmen to show, people wiy greatly re
spect it; but not till then, no matter how
many novels are composed in its honor or
how many sermons are preached against "the
sin of caste."
So, also, as regards individual negroes, it
may be confidently asserted that aa soon as a
tolerable nnmbar of them have conquered the
difficulties which prevent so many ( us from
being great lawyers and orators and poets and
statesmen, they will soon come to oe valued,
like other men, for what they are, no matter
what may be the color of their skins or the
Size of their facial angle. Prejudices, of
conrf e, are bard to cooqnur, and happy is he
who when be eBterg on life finds none iu his
path; but there is only one way of conquering
them for black or white, aud that is perform
ance. People won't dare to sneer at a black
Ekin when they have beoome familiar with the
spectacle of a Hack skin covering sages and
heroes and jurists aud millionaires. Therefore,
those who wish the negro well should preaih
to him incessantly the lesson of self-reliance
aud self-deliverauce; should speud all they oan
for books and maps and teachers for him, and
as little as possible on gaseous leotures about
his political rights; should, whenever they feel
an irrepressible desire to stump for the ngro,
or vote (or Ben Butler or his like for the Bake
of the negro, expend their seal in packing up
their valises and going to the South, and there
doing, as hundreds of admirable Northern mm
and women are doing at this moment, a little
honest unnoticed here, but we may be sure not
unnotioed everywhere work for the negro, by
opening icnoois ior his instruction in letters,
in industry, in morals, and in politics, and
affording him an example of uno-ttentatious
devotion to duty.
William T. Sherman.
From the N. Y. Time:
There is. and will be until the 4th of next
March, a vast deal of speculation as to who
will be tbe constitutional advisers of President
Grant. This sort of guessing will be a harm
less waste ot time, and the most of it will pro
bably be wide of the mark. The comments
on the probable members ot the Cabinet may,
perhaps, enable General Grant to see what is
the publio estimate of the men from anion
whom h will be likely to tuleot his advisers.
Jim now, however, it would seem more pro
fitable to inquire as to the character of the
men who, whether in or out of the Cabinet,
will be apt to iuflnenoe the newly-elected Pre
sident in his future policy.
Of all these, we believe that WiuUm T.
Sherman will be the man nearest to the new
President and most influential in his eonusels,
hether the former shall be Secretary or War,
General, or Lieutenant-General. In one of
these capacities General Shermau will, doubt
less, reside at Washington during General
Grant's administration; and, so far as Presi
dent Grant is concerned, it will make no dif
ference, as to bis most trusted lieutenant's
influence with him, whioh of th-se offices
h'hermau may choose to ooonpy for we be
lieve that the option rests with the. latter.
There is no reward for Sheroiau's services
within the pownr of Grant to bestow which
the General of the Army would not eagerly
confer on tbe man who was his most trn-ited
counsellor and most efficient coadjutor through
the war, aud whose otten-tried friendship tor
him was one of the most beautiful incidents
of the war.
The country has no reason to be jealous of
the counsels of such a man as Shermau the
most brilliant but the lean understood of oar
generals. He is not only not a politician, but
he never oould become one. Endowed with
the most active and keenest of intellects, he
is so utterly honest that he woild be as likely
to discover and as8nil the weaknesses, corrup
tions, and absurdities or his own as those or
the opposite party. A more unmanageable
man there is not in America. So far as party
purposes are concerned, he would be perpetu
ally saying the wrong thing at the wrong
time. When he w,n sounded last 'year with
a view to the Democratic nomination for the
Presidency, the politicians who attempted the
job were bewildered by his alternate denuncia
tions of radical folly and Uopperheal disloy
alty. For each he had a volley of those sharp,
stinging, sticking invectives which only an
intense, earnest, and honest thinker like
Sherman can hurl.
In these days, when the whole official atmo
sphere at Washington is reeking with corrup
tion; when no one dare say how far or how
high the power of the "VVhisky Ring," the
"Indian Ring," and the "Gold Ring'! may ex
tendit will be something to have as a confi
dential adviser of President Grant a man like
Sherman, who so thoroughly loathes aud so
intensely hates all forms of official corruption.
The f baking of a red rag before a spirited
bull is hardly more certain to excite his
frenzy than the presentation of a clear oase of
offioial dishonesty to General Shermau is to
rovue all the latent wrath of his nature. A
murderer he might excuse; a man who
would betray any official trust for his own
benefit or that of his frieuij he could never
pardon. There are hundreds of Treasury
agents and oottou speculators who oould
testify from experience as to Sherman's con
suming and righteous wrath when he has
caught them in dishonest practices. More
than once during the war he dared the con
sequences of disregarding extraordinary per
mits from headquarters at Washington, in
order to punish or prevent these praotices, for
he is as fearless and unoompromising in the
attack of abuses as of armed foes.
It is fortunate, also, that General Sherman
is absolutely free from the weakness of nepo
tism or favoritism. It was notorious in his
army that his own immediate staff o Abets
were the last to be recommended for promo
tion. His hard-worked Adjutant-General re
mained a captain all through his oampaignB,
while the adjutant-generals of corps and di
vision commanders were colonels, lieutenant
oolonels, and majors. His failure to press the
claims of his own military family was so glar
ing and even unjust to faithful offivra, that
his corps commanders remonstrated with him
for his negleot. He seemed surprised, and
said, "Why, I might as well ask favors for
myself." The idea of availing himself of
his position to help those who were near to
him had never entered his mind. The only
favor he asked" at the time of the reorganiza
tion of the army, when his recommendation
wonld in most oases have been almost equiva
lent to an appointment, was that two of his
division commanders should be made colonels
of the regular army, and this he did not re
gard as a personal favor at all, but as due te
officers who had shown eminent soldierly
ability and spirit. In almost all of the eases
where we have h-ard of applications made to
him by personal friends for his influence, he
has refused. In fact, a personal friend is
almost tbe last man he would help to office,
and most of them know the fact by this tims.
In whatever capacity General Sherman may
go to Washington next March', he will stand
there vfor truth, justice, honesty, and plain
dealing an enemy, not to b-t cajoled or lu-
timidu'.ed, of all Ecoundrels and schemers; as
tiue a patriot as ever wore the American uui
foim, and as stead fact a friend to the President
as any President or rnler ever had. He U
often hasty and wrong in his judgment, but
General Grant has shown already that he
knows bow to use Sherman's best faculties
ai d qualities without yielding his own oool
judgment. It is not likely that Grant will
ever again Bee to doubtful and fateful au hour
as that when he determined to drop below the
batteries of Vlik'burg agiinsl the formal,
written protest of the man to whom he looked
up as to an elder brother, t-hould such an
hour come, however, he will again calmly
trust to his own fearless judgment and follow
it to the end. But, iu the future as in the
past, he will still lean trustingly, we may
almost eay lovingly, on the counsellor he has
so often and so successfully tried William T.
Sherman.
The Battle i AUt Decisive.
From1' Jiiick" J'omemy't jV. Y. Democrat.
Tbe battle of 1SG8 has been fought, it has
not been a decisive battle it has not euded
the war. The fctnoke, aud dust, and turmoil
of the conflict arise from the field of strife, aud
we behold our victory.
The Democracy have not been beaten. A
party which gains nothing cannot gain a vio
tory. The party which loses is not victorious.
In the great battle of 18(18, just fought, the
radicals have lost heavily, and, as they have
lobt, the Democracy have gained. , .
' The victory has been ours, but it has not
been decisive.
The war will still go on. '
' .We have commenced anew for the next cam-
palgn, and It will be a hotter, sharper, more
determined fight on the part of the Democracy
and the people than was the one Just euded.
Every day oarrles us farther and still farther
into the deep and damuing mass of Jacobin
corruption and wickedness. - Every day the
people are opening their eyes to some new ex
posure of radical infamy. Every day the
people are beginning the better to understand
their rights aud their means of defense.
The next fight against the enemy will be
differently conducted than was the last. There
will be more fighting. It will be more aggres
sive, aud less defensive. Brave men will then
go to the front, and oconpy places cowards
have dipgrae d. There will be no flinching Iu
the beat of tbe battle, but there will be alight
for victory, which will continue until victory
Is won. The Deuiooracy will waste no time iu
defence. The party whose history is the his
tory of all that Is great and glorious of Ame
rica, which so long and faithfully administered
the affairs of government, needs not one word
of defense.
We will oarry the war into the rank of the
MHiny. We will put npon the shoulders of
tbe radicals, where they belong, the responsi
bilities and crimes for all the nation has Buf
fered during the past seven or eight years.
We will hold them responsible for the mur
ders, the outrages, and the villainies they
have been guilty of. We will make them
answer for the unprecedented frauds they
have perpe'rated, aud whioh they will con
tinue to perpetrate so long as they have a hold
upon power. We will put the eumy on, the
detennive, and will play them such a tune
that theirs shall be a "dance of death." We
have commenced another campaign. It is
not well to wait until the eve of battle to pre
pare our forces.
Radicalism is committing its frauds aud
stealings as extensively to-day; th people are
being robbed and plundered aud taxed just
as oppressively now as during the time pre
ceding the electlou, and there is just as L;uh
need that there should be wakefulness and
watchfulness now as ever. The people are
the power in this country, and the people
warn those in tbe high places that there must
be equal taxation; that the workiugman shall
not pay tiibute to the bondholder; that the
bordbolder must support himself, or the
people will (inaugurate measures that will
make the botds as valueless as the frost
seared leaves of autumn.
We want a white government for white
men, and the States left to a control of their
own domestic institutions. We want reform
in tbe various departments of government;
tbe offli es cleared of thieves and swindlers, and
filled with honest men, that the tax-payers of
Amerioa may know what has beoome of the
money they bave paid into the national trea
suiy. We want all the rights and privileges
as lieemen that were vouchsafed us by the
Constitution of the United States; and to re
gain these rights; to maintain that Constitu
tion; to maintain the Union; to protect the
toiling masses of Amerioa in the enjoyment of
their eainings; to protect all in their rights,
the Democracy worked with ceaseless vigi
lance. Upon this platform we renew the fight, and
npon this platform we shall gain greater and
more lasting victories.
: Woman's IMglit to the Ballot.
Prom the N. T. World.
"Man to man so oft urjusf,
Is always so to womau."
Mrs. Cady Stanton thinks so, in this week's
llevolution, and in the inculpation are in
cluded several of her own sex. This is the
way of it. A meeting of sundry "thoughtful
mm and women of Nsw England" is called
by the aforesaid "thoughtful men and
women," in no less a thoughtful place than
Boston, to meet on the 2!th. To this meet
ing none of the lights of other days, such as
llbly Foster, Charles Capillary Burleigh,
Windmill Phillips, Henry Canter Wright,
have been invited; not -even Parker Paiuful
Pillsbury. Considering these things, and
also that nothing less than "women's in
alienable right to politioal liberty" is to be
discussed, Mrs. Stanton feels bad. More
over, to aggravate the situation, Mrs. 8. wai
invited, and "in a oordlal and financially
favorable manner, all her expenses for food,
travel, and rest being promised payment,"
and then, at the eleventh hour, says Mrs.
Stanton, "the invitation was withdrawn, for
fear that in inviting us they would be in
dorsing Seymour, Blair, and the World."
Mrs. Stanton does not regret, but simply notes
the laot. Undoubtedly, too, in the quotation
she put herself in better company than she
wonld have found had the Boston bidding been
not withdrawn. Mrs. Stanton, like another of
her sex in the song, prefers "the good old
way" of advocating suffrage, by "dieouaslon,
appeal, and publication," and thinks that the
txulut-ives of the Hub will not io muoh. That
remains to be seen. Only it is oertain that if
the woman would-be suffragans do not stand
together they will fall beyond reoovery. Let
us have peace.
Mr. Mct'ullocli as a Stock-jobber.
From the H Y. Herat J.
Although no more Treasury stock jobbing
despatches have been received from Washiug
tou within the last three days, the publio in
dignation which they excited has by no means
subsided. It is generally known that nntil
within a very thort time past Mr. McCallooh
looked forward to retaining his present office
under General uraut, but hopes of this no
longer exibt, and the Secretary, as a dernier
rensort, is said to be intent on making a million
of dollars, more or less, before he leaves the
department. The semi offioial press despatches
of Friday, Saturday, and Monday last were
therefore, there is good reason to believe, part
of tbe stock-jobbing scheme in which the
Treenry ring is engaged, with Mr. McCallooh
at iu head. This is not ocly a scandal to the
department but a disgrace to the Government,
aud its repetition ought to be punished by the
Pierident by the suspension of his stock job
bing Secretary of the Treasury. It is not the
butdneBS of the latter to attempt to regulate
Wall street by either balling or bearing stocks,
gold, and Government securities, in league
with speculators, or trying to influence the
money market by resorting to expedients.
The Secretary of the Treasury has no autho
rity under the law to inflate the currenoy, and
it was an abuse of authority for him to
thienten to do so, and, moreover, it is indirect
conflict with all that he has hitherto said on
the tubject. But what signifies consistency
and fficial honor when tbe Treasury ring is at
work ? It remains for public opinion to en
lighten Mr. McCnlloch, if nothing else will,
and the former is bnmituoualy opposed to any
inteifeienoo whatever with tbe money market
for tl e benefit of either the Treasury ring or
any other stock-jobbers.
Let Us Hare a Civil Service.
Frot the ff. Y. World.
Fr m all quarters there comes up the ory of
fraud, democrats charging naaioais ani judi
cal s charging Democrats with election frauds,
and tbe country at large incensed at frauds by
Federal officials in almost every department of
the Government connected with the publio
funds. The root of these evils is one and the
same. Men cheat at the ballot-box to get Into
office, and when they get into offloe they steal
until tnrutd out. The immense value of the
publio patronage prompts eleotion frauds, and
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218 & 220,
S. FBOHTST,
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OFFER TO THB TRADB, m LOTS,
FINE U YE AM) BOUKBOX WUISKIE S, O BOM)
Ol 1805, llatOO, 1807, and ' 1808.
ALSO, FREE .TIKE RIB AM) B01RE0X WISRIES,
Of GREAT AGE, ranging from to 1845.;
Idoeral contracts will be entered Into for lota, in pond at Distillery, of this yeis' mnnulcottuel
Y, P- m.
Y. P- M.
Y. P.
TOU NO'S PURR MAXT WHISHT.
locNU's ruau mm wuiskv,
TOl'Nti S PUBK MALI WHISKY.
Therein no question relative to tbe merits of tbe
ceiebratcd Y. P. M. Ills lliecurcai quality or WbUfcy,
ruaDufmuured from me best grain afforded bv Ibe
PbiikdeiDnla oiamet.aud U la soid at tbe low rate of
,s ptr gallon, or ilii per quart, at tbe aalearooms,
SO. .00 rASSlUAK-IiUAD,
T
HE GREAT
RURAL CEMETERY,
M.OUN MORLA.il,
the uncertainty of office prompts fraa 1 oa the
Treasury. To potter away hre, as the Union !
Lespue sages are doiufl at au alleged eleoti'iu
fraud, or to potter away there, as Mr. Jotiusoa
is dcing at one form of fraud in the revenue,
is small bufluKsa. The axe must be
laid at the root of the tree to fell j
the upas. Lopping off a limb hra or
there lather strengthens thereat than other
wise. We must begin at the beginuiiifr, and
that is to take the patronage of the Federal
Government out of the market. - The old
maxim was, to the victor belongs the spoils.
Tbe new maxim must be, no spoils. The
amount of the patronage it is not likely will
be reduced indeed, from the necessities of the
growth of the Repub'io, it is likely even to
augment; but when once disposed of it can be
left unchanged. Instead of a oleaniug out of
tbe departments every four years, just when i
the Incumbents are beginning to learn their
work, and a furious influx in their steal of
ignorant aud greedy partisans whose only '
olatm is that they are partisans, we need a
civil service just as we have a military ser
vice aud a naval service organized, adap
tive, and permanent. Foreign countries have
such organizations, aud their result has been
found to be honesty, efficiency, and as muou
of economy as is consistent with effectual ope
ration. Give us a civil service, then, you Congress
men who are so soon to meet. You ask us to rely
on General Grant for peace, and we ask you
to rely on Mr. Jenokes' bill, or something like
it, for publio honesty. Something must be
done to put a quietus at once on election and
revenue frauds, and a civil service is just the
thirg! .
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