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REAL ESTATE BOUGHT AND SOLD,
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TTE UAVR A COMPLETE ABSTRACT
YY of Title of all property in Eugene
City, an.l perfect pints of t'ie sitnie, prepared
w ith great cure. We will practice in the
different Courts of the Stat-. Special at
tention given to the collection of all claims
that may be placed iu our hands. Legal
TfuJers bought and sold. setiStt
JOHN M. BACON,
Importer and Dealer in
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STATIONERY, PERFUMERY. &c, &c,
Orr-gon C'ty, Oregon.
At Charman ll'arner's old utand '. lately or
eupud, by S. Ackrrman, Ma in street.
lo tf
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DR. J. WELCH,
DENTIST.
OFFICE In Odd Fellows Ten plo, eor
of First and Abler Streets, Portland.
The patronage of tho-e desiring superior
ooerations is in ntec:al reouest. .Nitrousox-
iic fit' the jiaialess extraction of teeth.
IArti!icial teeth "better than the best,'
ani a cheap as the. c!ieijet.
Will be in Oregon City on Saturdays.
Nov. 3:tf
Dr. J, H. HATCH,
DENTIST,
QThe patronage of tnose desiring tirst Clans
Op'rations, is respectfully solicited.
Satisfaction in all cases guaranteed
N. H. Xi trout Oxj.le administered for the
rainless bxtraction of Teeth.
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ide ui First street, between Alder and Mor
isou itraets, Portland, Oregou.
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wst Turn nl 'nrno t
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W. F. HIGHFIELD,
Established since 1849, at the old stand,
Mtm Street, Oregon, City, Oregon.
An Assortment of Watches, Jew
elry, and Seth Thomas weight
Clocks, alt of which are warranted
to be a represented.
Repairing done on short notice,
md thankful for past favors.
CLAIIK GREENMAN,
ts4L Cly ray man.
tSS OB EG OX CITY.
3 All orders for the delivery of merchan
dise or packages and freight of whatever des
cription. to any part of the city, willbeexe
e ite I promptly and with care.
JEW YORK HOTEL,
,,t, (Dentfches Gafth
Jj treet' PPs-:te the Mall steam
ship landing, Portland. Oregon.
H. R0THF03, J. J. WILKENS,
PROPRIETORS.
Board per Week
o
with Lodging
ft
. 6 00
. 1 CO
Hailroad to Salt Lake.
Letter from ConcpsMnau.SUtcron tic
Subject.
From the St. Louis .RejmUican,
of Fob. 27th, we copy the following
interesting letter from the Hon.
James II. Slater:
Washington', Feb. 20, 1 872.
Editor Missouri Rei-ublican :
In a recent issue of rour very
ablc paper I notice, under the cap
tion of "A Land Grab Killed," an
unfriendly, and I think, though
upon your part unintentionally so,
an unjust criticism upon a measure
recently before the Ilouse Commit
tee on Public Lands. The measure
is one of great importance to Ore
iron and the Territory of Idaho. I
regret it the more as we had confi
dently looked for some encourage
ment from that great center of the
West, the city of St. Louis, with
which we are seeking connection
by means of the road for which the
ground in question is asked. The
commerce now rapidly springing
into the life of the far" Northwest
cannot be viewed with indifference
by the city of St. Louis, if she
would maintain her supremacy as
the commercial center of the Mis
sissippi valley.
It is not large now, but twenty
years may accomplish as much rel
atively ior the State of Oregon.
Washington and Idaho Territories
as the last twenty years have ac
complished lor the Mates and l or-
i - - .
ritories immediately west of the
Mississippi river. But it is not of"
these things I purposed to speak.
You stigmatize the proposition to
aid the construction of this road by
a land grant as a "land grab," and
ay that "of course, whether the
railway was builL or not, the land
, 1 1 " .. . T . a 1 1 .
um pass into- tne nantis or a
King of speculators and the pro
ceeds thereof go into private pock
ets," and as you have thus anahrn
cd the measure, fairness would
seem to require that the friends of
the measure be heard in defense of
it and themselves. It is but rea
sonable, however, to presume that,
had 3-ou fully understood the terms
of the bill you would hardly have
stigmatized it as a "land grab;"
these you could not know, as it
had never been made public. I
can fully understand and appre
ciate opposition to the system of
reckless and almost criminally loose
land grants which have so largely
prevailed in the past and so far as
your criticisiys refer to past grants,
I do not complain; but it is the
confounding of this particular
measure with the past land rrant
system and killing it by heaping
odium of past legislation upon it,
to which I object.
The bill is just the reverse of
what you suppose it to be. The
lands proposed to be granted, or
rather set apart to aid in the con
struction of this road, could not bv
any possibility "pass into the
hands of a liing of speculators,"
for the reason that they were never
to pass out of the hands of the
Federal Government excewt as they
passed to the actual bona fide set
tier upon them, and then only in
quantities of one hundred and 'six
ty acres to each settler, and at the
price of two dollars and fifty cents
per acre.
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a ne imiub arising could not pass
into "private pockets," except as
provided m the bill, ami as the
work of construction progressed,
not one dollar of which could be
turned over to the company build
mg the road, until twenty miles
should be completed, and then
an amount not exceeding $30,-
000 per mile, nor more than
had been received by the United
States from the sale of the lands
granted. The bill provided for
the sale of the alternate sections
set apart to aid in the construction
of the road by the United States.
The settler was to deal only with
the Federal Government, nml not
with the company, which was to
have no control whatever over
these Jands.
The measure was one pre-emin
ently in the interest of the settler;
m short, the settlement of the
country through which the propos
ed road was to pass was the basis
of the proposition, .mrl it T;,ri.
have been appropriately entitled,
"A bill to facilitate the settlement,
of the public lands." masmm-1, n
land at -$2 50 per nrm uh!,;,, on
miles of a great through line of
railway, or within 20 miles of a
navigable stream connecting im
portant commercial points, is really
ehcaper than land from 100 to 300
miles away from such facilities at
Si 25 per acre, or as a rr ft.
xne ciaim to aid rests upon the
proposition that out of tl vni
the construction of the road would
practically create there onHit to
be provided the means in part for
its construction; and as these val
ues would mure to the public lands
through which it was to pass, a
portion of these lands, which' in
their present condition are essen
tially valueless, it was asked should
bo set aside in aid ot the construe-
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uon 01 uie road. These lands are
unoccupied, the productive power
of the country through which the
road was to pass is undeveloped
ana uie son without value. If this
road were built all this would be
changed. Its creative power
would hx a value to the soil, the
puuuc lamis would be occupied by
mi hi, j rcitrs, me now dormant
energies of that section would be
brought into activity, and new
centers ot commerce .und tiQ.L
would be created.
The ' objection to -past lain
grants has not been so much that
corporations have been enriched
but that their enrichment has
been at the expense and to the
disadvantage of the settler by de
priving him of an opportunity to
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secure line to me jrraniea lands at
a reasonable price ; in other words,
that monopoly of the lands result
,n . r. 1 .. i T r 1 .1
eu iium me jrrauis. under tne
provisions of this bill such a 111011
1 l : -i t mm
o )uiv wuiim ue impossible. ine
settler could choose from tlu
granted or ungranted lands at hi?
option. lie could take a home
stead upon the ungranted sections,
or locate and purchase 1C0 aces of
the granted lands at 2 50 pel acre,
and in either case get his title di
rect from the United States. With
out the building of the road there
is but little inducement to settle
either class. It will thus be seen
that the interests of the settler are
fully protected, while a new section
of country is opened to him by the
building of the road, and is given
to the construction of the road in
such a manner as to serve ail inter
ested, while the evils which have
attended and grown out of past
legislation of the kind are carefully
provided against and rendered im
possible under this bill.
That great evils have attended
and been the outgrowth of land
grants in the past is not to be
doubted, but the' have not been
an unmixed evil in their results, as
may be attested by an examination
of the statistics of tlte States where
they have been most thoroughly
tried. On the 27th of January
last I took occasion to present the
claims of the Salt Lake and Oi egi.n
JJaiiroad, and went into an exam
ination of these statistics, the result
of which is here presented:
The era of land grants to aid in
l -
the construction of rail ways began
m 1S50, the first grant bein- to tlu
i.. . . , Til" .
.taie 01 Illinois. .An examination
of the statistics of the States in
" incn tne system ot land grants
has been most thoroughly tested
discloses some very interesting and
important facts, which demonstrate
by the most incontestable data
that it has been of incalculable val
ue in peopling those States and
developing their resources. Take
sir, the States of Illinois, Missouri,
Iowa, Michigan, Kansas. Nebraska'
. iuiiu iim.i ii uiiicsoia. i ne
grants in these States, under var
ious acts of Congress to aid in the
r t t Li-f i. 1 , 1 ' .-.4- ; 1
vwii.-nin.,tiuH 01 railways are as
101 lows :
Illinois
-Missouri
Iowa
Michigan
Kansas
Nebraska
Wisconsin ,
Minnesota
.Acres.
2,595,053
3,745,100
7,207,837
4,922,501
5,000,000
0,0 1 0,000
4,328,300
7,083,403
Total
. .42,008,374
The number of miles of railway
completed and in operation in these
mates at tne ciose or uie, years
18a0, 1800 and 1870, are as follows :
1850. 1800. 1870.
Miles. 3Ii!es. Miles
Illinois Ill
Missouri
Iowa
Michigan .... 342
XV i sconsin . . 20
Kansas
Nebraska
Minnesota
2,790
817
755
779
905
4,823
2,000
2,083
1,038
1,525
1,051
588
1,072
Total
473 5,940 15,380
In 1808, the tonnage upon the
railways of New York, Pennsyl
vania and Massachusetts averaged
9,338 tons per mile. Estimating
the tonnage of railways in these
States in 1SS0 at 2,500 tons per
mile, it would amount to 38,350,-
000 tons: and making every allow
ance for possible excess or over-estimate,
their net merchandise ton
nage could not have been below
25,000,000 tons. The value of
this tonnage, of course, can only be
approximated.
I he value of railway tonnage m
the State of New York in 1800, as
reported in the census returns, was
10-3 per ton; but estimate the
tonnage of these States for 1870 at
150 per ton, and it shows the
merchandise moving upon their
railways in one 3' ear to have been
of the enormous value of $2,500,-
000,000. Placing the gross earn
ings of railways in these States at
0 per cent, ot those of Illinois for
1808, and we have the sum of
3107,000,000 for that year.
Mr. Speaker, it is estimated by
statisticians that every mile of rail- j
way adds to the value ot the prop-:
erty of the country through which 1
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it, passes nve time me cost 01 its
construction. The average cost of
railroads 111 the United State is
placed at 40,000 per mile: but
it-ouce it 10 jj,uuu er mue, and
there has been added to the prop
erty values in these States, within
twenty years, the sum of 2.0tf
ur u.u - aimmiit Cq mi to
mo.e 1,1:111 uu pei acre tor the
lands granted by the Government:
ami within the last ten years there
... . z
mis. oeen added 10 property values
m these States by the construction
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H lauwaVS b I.bDU.iMO- pnui a
-
v i-t-i ku: iwi c-M-i v acre granted
.I.... uiits 101 lanroau pur-
l,osts-
nd now. sir. does anv win
doubt for a moment that these re
'
suits, as demonstrated by facts and
figures, flow directly from tin
grants of lands in those States
and is the present possible vindica
tion of the wisdom of those who
first inaugurated that policy? If
there be such let them examine a
few other facts I have to submit
In 1841 Illiiu is had 22 miles of
railway; m 1850 she had 111 miles
of rail way, having built in nine
years but 89 miles. The first year
alter Congress made her grant she
added 100 miles to her railways,
and in ten years after sha added
2,GS!) miles.
In 1811 the State of Michio-an
had 138 miles of railway; In 1850
she had 342 miles, having built
203 miles m nine years. The first
grant was made in this Slate in
1850, and in 1800 she had 779
miles.
The State of 'Wisconsin had 20
miles of railway in 1850, and 187
miles at the end of 18p5. The
in
;t grant of land in this State
was made in 1850, and she had 905,
nuies in operation m 1800.
I he lu st grant in Missouri was
in 18a2: she built the lust road
the following year, and in 1800
iad in operation 817 miles.
Iowa completed 08' miles of rail-
vay in 18,j5; the next year grants
ot land were made in that, State,
and in 1800 she had 055 miles of
railway.
Grants were first made in Kan
sas in the year 1803; the next year
she appears in the list with forty
miles of railway, ami in six years
ater, or in 1800, had 1,051
mil
eS
compiet ed.
The first grant of land in Ne
braska was made in the year 1802,
but she does not appear in the li.t
with railways completed -until
1805, when she had 122 miles, and
in 1870 she had 5S8 miles in op
eration.' Grants Avere made in the State
of Minnesota in 1S51, but she does
not appear with any completed
road until 18G3, and 111 1870 she
had 1,525 miles.
Following the inquiry into sta
tistics ot population ami property
A'alues, we find everywhere the
fullest evidence of the same gen
eral fact. Iu 1850-the population
1
in
1SG0 their population avus 5.421, -
940, and in 1S70 it was 8,018,805.
Property valuations iirtl.ese States
for 1S50 are not as complete in the
census returns as since. In 1800
the true valuation of real and per
sonal property in these States Avas
estimated by the Census Pureau at
2,243,803,920 or 415 to each
person. In 1870 the true value of
real and personal property in these
Mates, as estimated by the same
department, was 0,029.072.109.
r about 700 to each person, show
ing that m ten years those States
increased their property values at
the rate ot one hundred and sixty
four per cent., and increased their
population at the rate of fifty-eight
and six-tenths per cent. .And
ducting from the gross valuation
of pro pern the estimate increase
f l" "..-1 .!
01 values attrihutabie to the con
struction of railways in the decade,
taken at five times the cost of
their construction, or 1,050,950,
000 the increase of property val
ues alttr such deduction, is over
ninety-six per, cent m ten years
and is thirty-eight and four-
tenths per cent, greater than the
increase of population for the same
period showing beyond the possi-
bility of a doubt that this great
increase in population and Avealth
was in the mam directly the result
ot the rapid construction of rail-
wavs in these States.
1 trust that you will find it con-
venient to allow this communica-
turn space in vour columns. It is
but fair that both sides be heard.
XV e are Avilling to stand or fall
with the merits of our measure,
and hope Ave are not to be con-
demned through the press unheard,
Very respectiuil v yours,
Jas. 11. slater,
A young lady at Council Blufls I
being informed by her "feller"
that he intended to cease his at
tentions, cowhided him around the
room, and as he sprung through
the open-window, told him, with a
parting lick, that that would teach
him to Vie careful for the future
not to trifle with a gentle and lov-
ing heart.
Florida's Carpet-Bag Governor.
SUBSTANCE OF THE ARTICLES OF IM
PEACHMENT AGAINST HIM.
H e have at last the full text of
the articles of impeachment exhib
- itd n(Mi.ut TT.,,,;.. v i
(Tiior ot 1 tonda, on the 10th of
February, by the unanimous vote
of the Assemble Ti. o..t;,.i
7 1 7 ui iivua
are twelve in number, and, strip
ped of technical phraeoloy
charge as follows- Firt-
! CZ -. . till vi-
ucuo .if sOQ AAA cj.... 1 -1
.-.-.v w-,vo t oiaie iuiiiis
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under act approved Januarv os
itso; second a fraudulent conspii
acy to issue ftl.000.000 of Sr-.t,,
hmul. fm- d,n .iw.i.o.vf
1 - -- -- --- - " niv pui VII U- V vn lv 1 fl
the Morula. Atlantic and Gulf
Central IJailroal, with intent to
profit thereby in collusion with
other parties; third, an unlawful is
sue of 1,000,000 in State bonds
for the purpose and with the in
tent recited in Article II.; fourth
a fraudulent signing and issual of
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Jackson vilIe,Pensacolla and .Mobile
Hailroad Company; fifth conspiru-
cy to unlawfully 'issue 1,000,000
of State bonds to David L. Yulee
and other persons; sixth, unlawful
issue of the amount of bondsmen-
ii oiiue uuuus ior tne
tioned in Article V.; seventh con
spiracy with one Milton S. Little-
field and other persons to embez
zle the public monevs 'roceivid
from the hypothecation of State
bonds, and actual embezzlement
of 20,000; eighth, receiving from
Milton S. Littlefield a bribe of &3,
500 to sustain the claim of tlw
Jacksonville Pensacolla and Mobile
Railroad Company to the title of
the property of the Pensacolla
ami Georgia" and Tallahasse, and
Honda, Atlantic and Gulf Cen
tral Jiailroad Companies; ninth,
conspiracy with Charles Pond and
K. 11. IJulkey of the city of New
York, to defraud the State of Flor
ida of & 15,000 in Stat1 bonds, and
actual defrauding of said Slate of
said amount an arms and 'equip
ment purchase; tenth, laying into
the .State treasury depreciated
Stale scrip to the nominal amount
of 1,140 as payment for 81,140 in
united Mates currency paid to him
as due the State, but by him fraud-
ulently retained: eleventh, attempt
ing to bribe a Justice of the Peace
to decide 11. his favor in a case be
fore said magistrate pending; and
twelfth, receiving a bribe of 10,
000 from Aaron Parnett, and for
such bribe signing a con veyance to
said Parnett of internal improve
ment lands. Ine evidence on
which these charges are bassed is
not made m public, but must be ot
the most convincing nature, as up
on reading t he report of the Com-
mittee appointed to investigate
Governor lieeds official conduct
every single memoeror thevssem-
bly voted for impachment on the
articles above snopsized.
Apa'ice to Wives. We often
regret that their husband do not
talk Avith them. This is not the
place to discuss the shortcomings
of a man but sometimes Avhen I
have listened to the faultfinding,
the garrulous repetitions, frioIous
details, the childish exactions of
sympathy and attention wi tli
which some women bore their hus
bands when they are overburdened
or anxious Avith care and work, 1
haA'e not Avondered that some men
grow taciturn in their homes. But
it is a great loss if a man is silent
among his Avife and children. The
husband and wife live so much of
the time in a different world that a
free intercourse can be a great help
and pleasure to each of them. You
will not be likely to make a man
talk by telling him he ought to
talk, or scolding him because he
does not do so. Make it a pleasure
for him to talk with you. Exercise
good sense, good temper and tact
in drawing him out on topics of
interest to himself. Be patient un
der his moods of silence. Be de
serving of the companionship of a
sensible man.
The Peat. Gentleman. Not
he who displays the latest fashion
dresses in extravagance, with
gold rings, and chains to display.
Not tie who talks the loudest, and
makes constant use ot profane lan
guage and vulgar Avords. Not he
who is proud and overbearing
who oppresses the poor, ami looks
with contempt on honest industry
-Not he who cannot control his
passions and humble himself as a
child. No; none of these are real
gentlemen. It is he avIio is kind
and obliging avIio is ready to do
you a lavor with no hope of a re1
ward; who visits the poor, and as
sists those who are in need: who
" more careful ot his heart than
tne mess 01 nis person; aviio is
humble and sociable not i irasci
ble or revengeful; avIio always
speaks the truth without resorting
to profane or indecent Avords!
Such a man is a real gentleman,
wherever he may be found. Rich
or poor, high or low, he is entitled
to the appellation.
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The Crisis Comingr.
fFrom the Oregon Farmer.
lhe people ot the .Willamette
alley have troubled their minds
much during the past ten years as
to the best mode ot securim cheap
or at least reasonable, rates of
transportation on the vast amount
of freight shipped by them down
the valley and out of our river to
San Francisco; and many of them
hoped from promises made, that
when the railroad was completed
to the head of the valley, these
charges would assume a shape
more reasonable for the producer.
In this it appears we have all been
deceived. Mr. Ilolladay has ad
vanced rates of freight on wheat
and flour (the princpal articiles of
freight), the former 5 cents per 100
pounds, the latter 10 cents per bar
rel, on his steamships plying be
tween Portland and San Francisco.
His former rates were sufficiently
highland his line of steamers avus
paying him a very heavy dividend.
The question arises: "What are
the people of Oregon to do? Shall
they remain quiet and allow Pen
Ilolladay to forge fitters and rivet
them upon the people, or will they
rise in their might and strike down
this monster monopolist ? Will
they lie idle and see the result of
their hard toil go to swell the cof
fers of this nabob, or will they, in
the' exercise of their rights, show
him that they are not yet his slaves
and that Oregon is not vet "Ben
Ilolladav's farm"?
Ti ie crisis Avhtn these questions
111 t !
win be decided is near at band, and
will be reached 111 June. The
boast has been made by those rev
eling under Ben Ilolladav's "sane
tuary" that he has enough money
to buy the next Legislature, and it
now becomes the duty of every
man in wregou naA ing the Aveliare
of the State at heart, to see to it
that not a candidate for the Legis
lature in any county but is pledged
to icork and vote against all meas
ures calculated to throw us still fur
ther into this one man system,
nor should they stop here. They
suouid Avoiic ana vote tor meas
ures that Avill get our people out
from under the killing pressure of
his monopolies. W ith Air. Holla
day's control of the North Pacific
Transportation Company and both
the Fast and West Side Railroads,
and the Willamette Transportation
Company, he -possesses a power
which, unless "checkmated" by our
Legislature, will sap the prosperity
01 our Avnoie state, and leave us a
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thousand times worse oft than
whim we had no railrords. There
Avill of course be no advance on
freight -on-the river or railrod lines
until after the election in June; af
ter that date we may expect it at
an' time. Ben Ilolladay has his
tools in every county Avorking for
the nomination to the Legisla
ture of such men as he can use,
or, to use plainer English,
such men as he can bnj and this
game is being played on both par
ties. If he is successful in thrs, the
acts of the next Legislature Avill
be in favor of him, his steamboats,
and railroads, and he will also
Avalk away from our legislative
hallss Avith a United States Sena
tor in his pocket.
Our advice to voters, those
avIio Avork and pay taxes and cher
ish the prosperity of our State,
is to vote against any one, from
Congressman to Coroner, avIio is
known or suspected of being in
alliance in the least with Ben Ilol
laday. Jrote for no man that is
not piedyed against this monopoly.
If you do not, the time is not far
distant Avhen yon will rue the day
you failed to do so.
Discrimination Agaixst For
eigners. That clause in the na
tional constitution which debars a
foreign-born citizen from the Pres
idency and Vice Presidency has
excited some discussion lately, and
the suggestion has been made more
than once that it ought to be strick
en out, in view of the constant in
crease of the large share of cul
ture and intelligence which it con
tains. As an evidence of this foreign-born
"strain" in our citizen
ship, and of the prominence which
it is attaining, Ave may mention
that the Minnesota Legislature
contains seventeen Scandinavians.
It is a question whether the dis
crimination against the citizen who
may chance to have been born in
Ireland or Germany, which consti
tutionally shuts him out from the
highest oflice in the land, is not an
injustice Avnicn should be done
away with. It is certainly an anom-
olous state of things, which, while
rendering it impossible for Senator
Sehurz to reach the Presidency,
leaves the legal Avay to the attain
ment of that prize open to any
plantation r, eg r o. In tdliyenccr.
IIoav it Feels. Mr. Fields, in
his lecture on "Cheerfulness," de
scribes a man so shut in with dig
nity and exclusiveness that when
you shake hands with him you al
ways feel as if you Avere doing it
through a kaot-hoie. ,
NO. 22.
Scandalous,'
When Mr. Davis of Kentuc
oflered a resolution in the Senate
instructing the Whitewashing
Committee to enquire into Grant's
connection Avith "jobs," his present-taking
and other " alleged cor
rupt practicesthe President's syc
ophants denounced it as "scanda
lous." Upon this the Wasington
Patriot remarks that -'there iscer
tainly scandal in this connection,
but it is not in the resolution. The
scandal is that the President of the
United States has laid himself open .
to the accusations implied in this
resolution. There is scandal in
that a President meriting such a
resolution should have in the Unit
ed States Senate defenders of his
misconduct. There is a scandal to
the American people in having a
President culpable to such a de
gree, and so notoriously, as that
such a resolution is just or possible.
Herein lies the scandal, and it is
striking, nay, it is astonishing.
Nay, it is worse vet: it is a dark
and indelible disgrace." And it
adds:
"Time Avas it Avas arPhonored
time when public men accepted
ollice not to coin it into gold, or
nouses, or lands, or other things
most enviable in the ejTes of the
sordid and mercenary men. but
with the nobler motives of doing
their country some good in their
day and generation. The time is
when holding office from the
Presidency down, is a mine of
wtalth, to be Avorked sedulously
Avlnle the incumbency lasts, and,
when it ends, to strive by any and
all means from the same motives,
to have it reneAved. Let Presi
dent Grant's sycophants say what
they will, and effect to scout, as
they may, the imputations cast
ujon his honor, his uprightness,
and his integrity, it is at least cer
tain that when he became I 'resident
he was comparatively a poor man ;
he is 110AV a rich one. Let his
champions in the Senate, or out of
it, explain this mystery if they can.
Until they do this let'them not cry
out "scandalous" to a proposition
to inquire how this wealth Avas ac
quired in a position where no
wealth is. ' Is it not "notorious that
President Grant lias on every sideo
"received gifts of men" houses.0
1 a n d s,eq u i pages, h orses, st ocks, etc.,
and that m many cases offices Avere
soon conferred on the giver by the
Executive? Is his name not very
generally connected with jobs of
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various kihos r is not nepotism, a
Avord of unfragrant meaning,
charged upon him of the most as
tonishing sort, and with the plain
est proof? Perhaps if these things
were lookad into some explanation
might be found of the process
whereby the President has emass
ed, during three Tcarsor less in
the Presidency, quite a large for
tune. Indeed, President Grant, by
his own reprehensible conduct, and
his pernicious example, has plung
ed the civil service into utter dis
grace, and done much to shield
those employed in it from proper
accountability and penalties. In
the face of such a state of affairs,
how preposterous and syCophantio
it is for his companions in the Sen
ate to effect horror at the idea
of suspecting the President of mis
conduct. They may enshrine him if
they will, and call upon the corrupt
horde of office-holders to fall down
and worship him, but they cannot
conceal the "front of brass and
feet of clay."
The impeachment of so many
of the Southern carpet-bag Gov
ernors, by Legislatures composed
of the same class of people, ought
to be sufficient proof of the das
tardly character of those officials.
Indeed they are all men of the
aorst stripe and better fitted for
the gallows than for governors.
Thank heaen, their attrocittes are
gradually opening the eyes of the
people, and even at the North their
true characters are beginning to
be discerned. By and by, avg
trust, when reason resumes her
SAvay the villains and cut-throats
Avill all be hurled from political po
sition in the South, and a neAv era
dawn for that outraged and un
happy section.
During the Avhole of the Franco
Prussian war, and while the Grant
administration was professing the
warmest friendship and sympathy
for Germany, it was secretly en
gaged in furnishing arms to France.
And yet this same administration
now wants England'to pay us for
damages sustained by us through
her partiality for the South. This
is the consistency and honor of
Ulyses S., the hide scraper.
Affectation. Judge Deady, in
Avriting up his judicial decisions,
refers to the "commercial empori
um," as "Portlaud-on-the-Wallam
et. I his is a degree ot affecta
tion that would scarcely be pardon
able in a writer of dime novels, and,
when it comes to the Judge of a
United States Court is simply xi
diculous. W W. Statesman,
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