The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-03-23

much complaint and real suffering, but not that
actual want had set in. Proud men will fast;
but when il comes to starvation pride is silent.
If Lucifer had been deprived of proper nour-
ishment, he would scarcely have fallen. A
proper amount of nutriment is necessary to
well-regulated Democracy. Manhattan Club
is reduced to one meal per day--bacon and
greens. Tammany Hall has been sold, out
of sheer inanition, and, il is rumored is to be
turned into tavern or a secondhand clothes
sbop and the sleek and well-fed editor of the
World subsists upon the kindness Of the
honored head of the Department of Charities
and Correction. Others are not so happy.
Mr.. Oakley Hall, a huge feeder, and Mr.. Re-
corder IIaokett, who has scarcely found the
fishing abundant, have gone to Washington
as a delegation to represent the frightful con
dition of the faithful to the President Mr.
MorIissoy, Mr.. Wood, and their colleagues
have also had a meeting and an interview
with the President The meeting was at
Willard's. 1t was painfully interesting, and
the truth was spoken that there were eighty
thousand Democrats in New York diving from
hunger because no Offices were to be had.
Then it was determined to see the President:
and straightway these gentlemen called upon
that illustriOus man. With much wisdom he
had provided a lunch, which was devoured in
the most ravenous manner. Then time was
called by Mr.. Morrissey, who said business
was business, and the President was told the
narrowing story. Here We're eighty thousand
Democrats in New York about to die, and thus
increase largely the Republican majority. All
from sheer hunger, while Abolitionists were
growing fat and sleek in post offices and Gus
toms places. "They wereespecially tenacious"
says our correspondent, "against the policy of
giving the offices to Thurlow Weed, Samuel
Tilden, General Slocum, and other outsiders"
We are afraid the italicised words are ironical,
and we dispute them, insisting that Mr.. Weed
is as good a Democrat as Oakley Hall or Johnny
Morrissey. The President was told that since
Mr.. Weed had come into the party there
was no satisfying him. His rapacity was
enormous. He could absorb more Offices
than any six Sachems in Tammany
Hall, and yet crave for more. Mr.. Wood
had had experiences in this way; but Mr..
Weed surpassed them all. Mr.. Morrissey had
known fellows who gouged and grabbed but
when it came to Mr.. Weed he threw up the
sponge. Mr.. Halls experience with thieves
and burglars had enlarged his ideas Of human
nature, and especially of what might be called
its absorbing power; but such a capacity as
Mr.. Weed possessed had never been known
in his practice. The Recorder remarked that
if Mr.. Weed could only make an indictable
of1ense, he would give him the full extent of
the law; but the Legislature was in the hands
of the AbOlitionists. As for himself he needed
little-a ham sandwich now and then would
dO-but h. wanted Oakley taken care Of for
his necessities were greater, and it was a pity
that such genius, a man with such a head,
should be reduced to writing libes and Jokes
in the Sunday papers. After which Mr.. James
Brooks arose and made a very long speech,
detailing the horrors of the faithful in such a
soul-stirring manner that not dry eye was
seen in the room.
We are afraid the President was not as con-
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guage of a Herald reporter, "the President
seemed more guarded and cautious than
ever" A delegate ''asked if the President
would undertake to remove certain officers.
To both inquiries the President simply
answered mum" We pity his Excellency.
He must be dreadlully embarrassed. To pro-
vide for party is bad enough-but there is
| the Senate which worries him, and when he
! dOles out his loaves they are snatched away;
and above all, there is Mr.. ThurlOw Weed
taken into the party out of charity-taken out
! of the cold, and not to starve and yet with
such an appetite With the Senate on one
side, and Mr.. Weed on another, no wonder
the President was ''mum." We extend to
him our sincere sympathy. He has no doubt
emptied his pantries and sliced his
hams, and what more can he do? To see
eighty thousand Democrats on the point o.
death-to see starvation wasting the manly
forms of Morrissey and Wood, Hackett and
| Oakey Hall, Chanler and BrOoks-to see
Tammany Hall actually sold, paint feathers
| and tomahawlls, for bread to eat-abOve al
things, to think of the elegant Manufacturer;
eating a scanty meal from their gold plates
to think of this, and feel that we live in {
! Christian age, is distressing. We want t.
increase the Republican party, but by con
verting our enemies, and not starving them
There are twenty morals to be drawn, but ont
will do-the moral of the fairy story, which
all men know how upon a time sailor called
Sinbad put an old man upon his back, anC
undertook to carry him. We remember tn,
unfortunate consequences. These, perhaps
were what the President was thinking abou
when he 'simply answered num-"
NUNS the Word.
From the Herald.
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