Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-03-24
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Ths. CoptH,erciql Advertiser has a Washing
ton letter which, ,says; &.fA
& VAlthoueh sadly beset and annoyed by
8ofice-seekers, who insist on 'rotatlon,' mr..
Lincoln is srecoyering rapidly from his re-
cent slight tindispositlon, a gentleman wno
ealleslon him BY appointment tast 9ight, az
elereh o'clock, says that aithough MT. Lincoln
had selected that hour in order to be free
from intrusion, the audience room and the prI-
cate Office ,oere cropded. Among the most
unfortunate solicitors are the unprovided-
for Union members Of the two last Con-
crosses, tcho consider that they hare preenap-
lion riqtt TO place. Any position will be ac-
ceptable, either at home or abroad, that mas
a salary Of fifteen hundred or two thousand
dollars year, but they musthave some kind
of place, and most Of them will be graft
fled in order to get rid OF them" :,
This has only to 90 on a little longer, and
the nation will have TO mourn another dead
President, as it SO lately mourned. the un,
timely fate Of Harrison and Taylor. And
we give fair notice that we shall hold any
one who presumes In that case to talk of
"mysterious Providence" 'inscrutable de-
crees, n'visitation of God" &C., &C., shame
less imposter. The President is being. kill
ed by monstrous experiments on his patience
and good nature-killed by the greed and
impudence of bores, who meanly calculate
that they have only to bore hard enough,
and "most of them will be gratiiied In order
to get rid of them" And (as The CONNER
cial says) foremost among these rapacious
experimenters on his kindness of heart are
certain recently discarded members OF Con-
gress, who strangely seem to imagine that
their i'll success with the people ''gives them
a preemption right to place." We beg leave
most emphatically to dissent, .
1t is of the gravest national consequence
that the President should now be able to nix
his attention exclusively on the national
crisis, and devote all his time and thoughts
to the securing of satisfactory pacification
of our country at the earliest practicable
moment. The office-seekers are not only
killing the President; they are imperilinlg
the life of the nation. We urge the people
to insist on their instant and thorough aDate-
ment.-N. Y. Tribune, March Il.
The foregoing contains pretty pointed
intimation that HARRISON and TAYLOR
were bored to death by office-seekers, and
that LINCOLN stands in danger of being dis
posed of in similar way by men who have
done the blowing and striking for LINCOLN
and his Administration. Democrats have
been charged with being stimulated in their
political action by the hope of official spoils.
1t can, however, be said to their credit that
they never bored to death man they had
put into the Presidential chair. If any
number of people sincerely believed that
the men who have been engaged for four
years in the dirty work Of blasting the fair
fame of Democrats with all manner of out
rageous lies, were honest in their profess
sions, that they were impelled to do this
work by disinterested patriotism, the testi-
mony of The Tribune as TO the greed for
office of these creatures, should be sufficient
to dispel whatever of delusion they have
been under on this point.