The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-01-11
tFrom'the Cincinnati Catholic Telegraph, Jan }.
SENA1OR SHERMAN.

naIlODul eXlSlcucc IO the lneApeEicHc-
cd .wardship of ncophytes and spccula-
tors. If there be one paramount Sc
cret among the arcana Of causes which
account for the singular stability Of
the British form of government thro'
so many mutations of European ma
tional life, it, is emphatically the con-
servatism of Office, which holds fast by
administrative honesty and capacity
when once discovered, securing to
every pivot of the political machine
the special talents and experienceper
tanning to tho best exercise Of its spe-
cial function. And behold the ac-
knowlcd consequence-not only ma
tional security, but official ercellence,
legislative, executive and judicial
Here, on the other hand, we are every
thing by starts, and nothing long. The
experienced man Of to- dayis the states
man tom orrow, and the rough -shod
trooper of last week is the cooling can :
didatc for Senatorial honors the week
after. t''E
We have not one word to say against
General Schcrck, either as a soldier or
as alcgislator, ourpersonal knowledge
of him being limitod to q passing in
PRODUCTION at Gauley Bridge, Western
Virginia, in the end of September, 81;
but yc arc sorry to say, it is linked
with q very unpleasant association
The most Scanton, because he most an.
proroked outrage erer enacted in our
presence By uhite upon a black felLop
being, wdS there and then perpetrated
before the Generals eyes By one Of his
Stgf and, ,ce regret to say, pcrpetrated
ph tmpunity. 1t was a savage assault
upon the very life of a human being
under circumstances, on the part of
the cpaueted aggrcssor, of the most
gratuitous cruelty. Beyond this inor
dorous reminiscence, our personal ac,
quaintance with ono Of the two candi-
dates now before the Legislature Of
this State for the Federal Senate, does
not extend.
The other candidate is tho present
incumbent of tho position, Hon. John
Sherman, much younger man than
his rival, being not quite forty-three
years Of age, yet statesman oftwelve
years Of Congressional experience, at
The expiration (fourteen months hcnce)
of his present torn. Elected to Con-
gross by the people in 1854, again in
1856, and again in 1858, he had thus
served three terms (six years. in the
House Of Representatives, when, in
1860, the State Legislature indorscd
the popular estimate of his abilities,
by sending him for six years moro to
the Senate. This single fact speaks
volumes. Now if Mr. Sherman's abil-
tiles and services in the House were
such as to elicit SO marked an cstima-
ton from the people and Legislature Of
his native State, upon ,chat principle Of
common sense can the latter body depriue
the nation Of his still larger experience
no,c, and his mastery grasp of financial
questions in particular, when the fact
stands forth that it is in the upper
Chamber, during the last four years
Of monetary as we'll as political peril,
that his most important services TO the
country have been rendered? We be.
licvo the paternity of the national bank
system is properly registered to his
name and til tbs Offspring Arows
out Of ITS swaddiing clothes and lead
ing strings, wo doom it a little unsafe
to do away with its natural guardian
Mr.. Shcrman's grasp of monetary and
financial questions received striking
illustration SO far back as May, 1853,
when it took political opponent, Mr.
Lctchcr, of Virginia, from the 9th Of
that month (whcn Sherman's grea,
speech in tho lIouseon the national OK.
pcnditure was delivored) until the 18th
of June, to prepare reply,
IN the uery FIRST gear Of his Congress
siondl career, he ,rds selected as ono Of
three commissioners to proceed to Kansas
and Investigate the election troubles Of
nat Territory. lie presided for tto ses-
Sions orer the Ways and Means Commit
tee, Tie most important IN tie House
and he. succeeded that 0ble fadacier, Mr.
FeSSendea, rs Chairman Of the finance
Committee mi Senate, When that gen.
temdn WdS called 10 ,Mthe colossal chdu
of Chase in the Treasury.
Mr., Sherman is n lawyer by profes.
sion, and tho son of a lawyer, Honora-
bic Charles r. Sherman, at one time
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Of
this State, and ono of the most learn.
ed jurists that Ohio has yet produced
His elder brother, Charles, is also q
lawyer, and need wo toll the reader
that ho holds tho same degree Of con
sanguinity to tho military stratcgist
whose fame is circumscrbed only by
the geographical limits of language
and to whom not only his native land
but struggling humanity tho worlt
over, owes debt of gratitude that car
never bo liquidatcd.
In reference TO tho above mention
cd attack upon tho negro, Dom Piatt
says, through the Columbus Journal.
"Now, witnessed this litlo affair
and can tell Mr.. Foos that it was no
90 wanton, nor an unproyokod out
rage" that it twas not before th
Generals eyes, nor was it "a suv
ago assault upon the very life" Of an,
body. With those fow exceptions tn
paragraph is correct.
The Captain was treated with grea
insolence by the negro, and gave hin
one rap over the head with bridle.--
That ID oil put tha ahorno loaea n