Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-05-18

the Quakers who have been appointed and
confirmed as Indian agents will be for
warded to them early next week, and they
will be expected Immediately thereafter
to 20 to their respectiyc-feitis of labor
The Hicksite branch Of the society has
the Nebraska superintqndency, and the
Orthodox branch the Kansas superinten
cy. Each body will appoint from among
its own members an Inspector, who serves
without ray from the Government, and
whose duty will be to go about among
the Quaker agents, and to report on their
doings to both the society and President
Grant. r..' t.. u.u .u.
J. NJ. AsHLEYs APPOINTMENT.
| think the two words ''numbcrs" and
"quantity" may be appropriately employ
ca ~ roPreront tuv Si0"'.uineIon'lai Pc
culiarities of the Republican and Demo-
cratic parties. The former is an assemblage
of individuals brought together by a COM
mon object, but never cOalesced.i Demo-
Gratis sink their Municipalities and merge
themselves undistinguishably into one ad-
hesivc mass which gives the impression Of
bulk or quantity to be measured, -
not counted. Separable it may be; but.
into parts, numbers; not,into complete in
dividuals. The Republican party is, in
politics, what the Protestant denominations
are in religion. The Democratic party
corresponds to the church Of Rome The
Republican party is an armyaof officers,
all of equal rank, with nobodyto command
and nobody to obty, and who will all 60
together when they.are all agreed and feel
like it. The Democratic party is an
army. ,a 'p 40.
will not stop to moralize or philoso-
phize on these characteristic differences. |
only speak of their existence us a fact i'm
portant to the consistency and endurance
of the parties respectively, as | have been
reminded Of it by the case Of General
Ashloy's appointment to the Governorship
of Montana. The Governor, one would
think, had earned the respect and liking
If not the gratitude Of all the Republicans.
From his earliest manhood he was an an
ti-slavery man, constant, active, vigorous,
able, efficient. In his Congressional Dis
trict in Ohio, he had to convert, | think, |
every county from Democracy before he
could be elected /; and he did it, where
all had failed before. Ten years he has
been in Congress; and he leaves it a poor
man. No one doubts that the opportuni-
ties for making money were nnr,,,I1or@s ~
inviting, in all those years. But ne ha'
not an itching palm, Even the ,hthe
ossary expenses, lie has uniformly held
obedient to the call of any good fellow
who needed it worse than he did. More
over, he is the proudest sense a self
made man. As an example and inspira-
ton to the youth of the Republic, such
mans life is invaluable. Without inhu-
cntial friends, without means or leisure
for education; the braye-heated, hopeful, !
aspiring, strengthened boy, was father Of
the honorable useful man we see him..
In the House, when the assembled big
men Of the nation were paying their tri-
butesof respect to the great commonerp
Thad. Stevens, no other speaker of them
all made 50 profound an impression upon
that audience. --t
Bat James M. Ashley is too well known
to the country to need any introduction.
Yet this is the man whom Republicans,
even, have taken pleasure in sandering,
by repeating with false significance the
fact that his nomination was confirmed by
a majority Of only one and later, and
worse, by iabricatng, and industriously
circulating the report, to be taken in con-
nection with the first, that the President
was still undecided about the propriety of
the appointment, and was seriously debat-
in6 the question of abrogating it. as.nar
The simple truth concerning the confirm
alton is this /: the vote was taken about
3 il. the morning. Mr.. Ashley's friends
in the Senate had no suspicion of any OPP
position to the -nominaton existing; and,
as my memory serves me, upwards of 20
of them were absent at that sleepy hour
when the vote was taken. Their presence
would have given bimnabout two-thirds
vote. | will not particularizd the occa-
sion or occasions ofthe opposition. They
do not touch the character of the man.
They were mere personal considerations of
interest and feeling, which could have had
no influence but for thelcommon state of
repusion and ndiviualism of the constitu.
ent particles of our party. ' r."
Personally have no acquaintance with
Mr.. Ashley and, as he will very soon
leave for the distant field of his official
duties, the chance is slender that we will
ever meet. But he is one Of the public
men of the nation whom / honor; and the
mention of his case happens to serve, at
one and the same time, to repel an injus-
tlce, and point out quality in our party
or which it may behove US to beware
The Republican party needs the great
services Mr.. Ashley is capable of render
ing in Montana. 1t Is important that the
period Of her adolescence be improved by
the employment Of the best and most eff
cient political instructor, if we would see
her rpen into Stateship permanently I'M
bucd with the catholic, lasting principles
,t Republcanism. And yet some Rcpub-