North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-04-07
Wait and sec the New Goods
AT HAMLIN'S.

The Nadical Quarrels About the Oni-
ces.The Country Going to Ruin
While the Radicals are WrsnRiing
The tenure-of. office act has finally been
disposed of, and that shadow of evil and
radical factious hatred is laid. In what
shape its quictus is Observation-Disclosures as
Butler says, it is equivalent to the total
repeal of the act, or us Trumbu!l says, by
providing that suspended officer sh all re-
sumo bis Office if the Senate does not con-
sent to his removals. still an open qucs-
ton. to be explained when the correct
copy of the new bill as it passed, reaches
the public. But that this subject has
excited the country up and down its length
and breadth ever since Grant went into
ofice-that it has been the great sensation
OF the new order of things-that it has
delayed public business, occupied the
attention of Congress for fortnight, and
overshadowed all other public affairs, is a
remarkable and suggestive fact.
The President and Congress have been
upon the verge of as bitter quarrel as
that which took place between johnson
and Congress. lie has lost the confidence
OF his party the radical politicians are
all describing and denouncing faults which
they allege that he possesses in abundance,
and that they are paraded undisguised
before the country. His aficcttaion of
military display, his ncpot;sm and favor
itsm in disposing of lucrative Offices his
appointment to all the best places OF those
to whom he is indebted for presents Of
houses, money, horses, billiard tables,
jewelry, clothes and cisars his repeated
blunders, and other things, nre the con-
slant subjects of radical discourse. In
addition to this, the two houses Of Congress
have displayed scene never before
witnessed in our history, one dcnouncins
the other and insulting its dignity, both
jealous of each others power and preten-
sions, and wrangling over the control of
legislation and patronage. In addition
still to this, are the personal and factious
quarrels Of the radical leaders, bringing
disgrace upon themselves and the country.
All this is not the result Of any disagree
ment upon any principle in politics or adj
ministration. Nota principle or meas.
urc of any Importance to the country Mt
large is at stake. Legislation on the
finances, or reconstruction, or any import
ant subject has not caused ripple of
difference or discomfort. All the turbu-
lcncc, all the war of the radical elements,
the incipicnt quarrel between the Presi.
dent and Congress, the enmities between
radical leaders, have grown solely out of
the distribution of patronage and public
plumber. The appointments to Office, by
whom they shall he controlled, who shall
have them. fern the grounds of all this
disgraceful condition of affairs. The
existence of the tcnure.of office act was
the mere pretcxt. No principle is involved
in that act. 1t was merely an agency
which affected the appointments to Office
Fat salaries and huge stealinys were in
yolved in its repeal, or refusal to repeal
it. Who should be turned cut and who
should stay in, or be put in-that consti-
tuted all the difficulty which has kept the
radical portion of the people in Torment
of excitement for the last three weeks.
Our debt is not sensibly diminishing
the currency is still fraud and cheat,
deprecated and irrcdeemab!e; the taxes
are still dcvouring the substance of the
people; the enormous tariff is still des-
troying every branch of industry and
trade except the gigantic and corrupt mo-
nopolics which it was framed to protect
the South is still under the shadow of &C
disasters, without free govern.
ment, social order or business prosperity {:
the whole land is recling with the shock
of a financial CONFUSION, and blight is
upon its future, while the radical party in
power is ensrosscd by wranxlng disputes
over the petty Offices, and who shall have
the best chance to steal out Of tho public
treasury. How long, o, Lord, how long
ST. Iuul Daily Pioneer.