Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-11-11
sycophaOts of fac Bour.

When Richelieu had ieyolyed France in a
struggle in which she wab made TO feel the
edge OF the sword most keenIy, and the inva-
ders we're carrying FIRE aud sword through
some Of her best provinces, the tongues OF
Frenchmen we're loud and bold enough against
the Prime Minister. The Cardinal, not daring
to throw them into Dungeons, as he was wont
to do, or to arrest them, got his mercenaries
to write panegyrics for him. These merce-
naries who thought the more flaming their
incense was, the stronger il smelt, the richer
1t would be thought, and the price be the
greater, always overdid IT, We we're remind-
ed of this historical fact by very labored
egotistical article in the Philadelphia Press,
recently, upon Secretary Chase-we may say
BY numerous articles in most Of the Republican
journals throughout the country. The fall of
Woolsey and the wretched reputation of this
abandoned Minister Of the pronigate Louis,
should teach these Cabinet Ministers Of Presi-
dent Lincoln how vain and heetiug is present
popularity. The Secretary of the Treasury
cannot escape the damning verdict of history
any more than his colleagues in the Cabinet
Tho Secretary Of State and Secretary of War
Here is n triumvirate that in less than FIVE
years will be overwhelmed with the curses of
deceived and ruined people The hope
now Of the country il, where the hope ever is,
under the tyranny Of cruel and powerful min.
isters in the disunion that continued success
must necessarily create among them. Their
interests may be at first the same, while their
power is unsettled, and they have competitors,
but when by their authority, or the authority
OF their master, they have suppressed all op-
posing parties, and have no more their com
mon antagonists to contend with, th0y begin
to think each Of his own advantage, and to
rise higher on the ruins Of one another, as they
rose together before on the ruins of their ri
va!s
Is not this condition of things already be-
coming visible in the Cabinet These pane
gyrists of Messrs. Chase and Stanton will
Fsing small a few years hence, when they sec
these men whom they have so basely eulo-
gized flying in terror and disgrace, with ill
gotten gains, from their indignant country
men The fate of the originators of the South
Sea Bubble, and of John Law, must be the
fate Of the present Secretary Of the Treasury
The inevitable law of retribution must, soon
er or later, overtake these men who owe their
rise to their country ruin and whose fortunes
increase as those of the country diminish.
The men who are eulogizing the financial
plans of Mr.. Chase and the war policy of
Mr.. Stanton know full well that both tend to
the rapid destruction of the country and its
material interests but they find it to their
gain to bask in the smiles Of Court favor,
hoping that they at least, with present opportu-
mites when the crash comes, will escape ruiz
In the meantime the laboring poor, whose
scanty wages hardly enable them with the
high price Of provisions to keep the wolf from
the door, are deceived and caioled But let
these unPrincipled men in power and these
sycophants of the hour bsware, when amid
the ruin and destruction they have OCCASION
ed, the fury of the popular revenge shall be
directed toward their betrayers. The shock
given to credit, the stoppage to speculation,
the contraction to expenditure, will be so
excessive that the laboring classes will be in
volved suddenly in the most overwhelming
Distress and the same causes which increase
their discomfort, and augment their disposition
to revolt, will disable the Government by the
rapid fall of the revenue, either from admin.
istering relief or exerting force. This was the
history Of France in the latter part Of the last
century. II will, it mus be ours, for like
causes produce like results in all ages. There
is a fatality in the march of revolutions like
our own and that fatality makes evident that
when it arises flom fanaticism, as thus has
whole generations of fanatics mast be destroy
ed before society can be reduced to degree
consistent with order. In nations, as well as
among individual s, Providence has a sure
metho of dealing with the passions and sins,
Of men, which is to leave them to the conse-
quenee of their own follies. Heaven help the
men in power when that hour strikes