The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-02-24
S%pasmo6ie Virtue.

When 3 chronic drunkard inveighs
against intemperance, or the devil be-
gins to 'rebrke sin, the majority ot
honest people r apt to suspect 8
triffiing inconsistency between the
preachers and their pratice. When
Kit Burns and John Allen have pray.
er meetings on Tuesdays and Fridays,
and rat worries and whisky dances all
| the rest of the week, even the mos
charitable persons are forced'to believe
that the grace of sincerity does no be-
long to the extensive catalogue OF
| Christian virtues which Kit and John
so happily and brilliantly illustrate.
Common politeness requires that those
individuals who profess to hate liars
should themselves stick to the truth (;
that they who denounce thieves should
not themselves pick pockets, and that
the enemies of rlscality should al
Iiesst not outscoundrelize all the rest
st mankicd.
YET the Radical party, in and ont
of Congress, are Gst now exemPlifying
their confidence in /" the higher Law"
by ignoring these ordinary Principles
of military, and attacking with the
heaviest artillery of voice and pen the
twin vices of corruption and extrava
gance. The nursing father of the
President elect, Mr.. Washburn, OF IL
lnois, raises in his place in the House
of Representatives and fires q ponder
Gus columbiad, loaded with shot, shell
and pig iron, straight into the ranks
of that party Of which Mr.. Washburn
is an honored and honorable member.
This modern combination of Cato
and Aristides tells his gaping collea-
CUES and constituents. that vast en-
pires of the national domain and un-
told millions Of the national bonds
have been given away as subsidies to
certain PacIficrail ways /; that the whole
thing is little less than a gigantic
fraud, a morrstrous swindIe, which is
draining the country of its substances,
contrary to law, justice and common
sense. Other communicates in the
same immaculate political church fol-
low the same track. Frauds in the
Revenue Department, frauds in the
Indian Bureau, frauds in the army,
frauds in the navy, frauds in the
franking privilege, frauds in the SEN
atorial elections. frauds at hone and
frauds abroad, frauds anywhere and
every where, are revealed by the cal
cium light OF these latter-day reform
ers and the concentrated ~rottenness
of American politics as at present adj
ministered is shown up for the admir-
alton of present and future genera
Leading Radical organs, such
as the New York Tribune and Times,
the Boston Adverti er and Springffild
Republican, pat their suddenly
vi. tuous Representatives on t Q back
.nd.bid them clean out the augean
as speedily and thoroughly as
possible. A foreigner would imagine
these Congressman and editors
were a regiment of spotless saints,
who had scaled the shining ~battlements
of heaven and epigrated into the ter
ritory of hell on a missionary tour.
This innocent foreigner would surely
never suppose that these spouters and
were simply r~epudiating
their own acts, and -endeavoring to
atone for a long lie of political iniqui:
ty by a very questionable death bed
When Washburn d Co..
beat their breast, rend their garments
and mourn and howl over the desola-
of our Zone ; when the Tribune
and its cotemporaries, clad in sack
and ashes, chant the same mus:
ere, let it be clearly understood who
these prophets are. and what they res
present. They are the chosen CHAM
pions of the Radical party; a party,
which for eight long years has had the
reins of government completely in its.
grasp, and welded with absolute pow
or both purse and sword. That party
has made war and concluded. peace,
levied taxes and collected revenue,
abolished gold and silver and given up
paper instead, made citizens OF slaves
and slaves of citizens, overturned the
Federal Constitution and muZzled a
Neither king nor kaiser
ever waved a more aristocratic sceptre
than this party. 1t has done what it
when it pleased and how it
plCosCo NSSplSiuS dilhC "diuiISS anu
If corruption and extrava-
yance run riot through the land, if
and scoundrels are in high
and low places, if the people are be-
ing robbed by organized plunderers,
il they are grooming under a weight
Of taxation unexampled in history, if
The Republic is bleeling ut every pore
and drifting swiftly and surely toward
ruin-let the weight of execration and
Of many fall upon the heads of the
and upon the guilty alone.
Tell the truth cast aside giltering gen.
sralities. The South with all her
faults and folies, is from this. crime. 1
The Democracy, with all Z their mis-
takes end mistortunes;1 have neither
part nor lot in the. matter: The
Radical party, of progress the par
ty of "God and moraEtyp 1.-The special
and peculiar expoent of whatsoVer-s
and of good report-fthis party
and this alone, is the criminal whose
friends are now turning states evi.
ience. Let us their testimony ace
eordingly.
The foregoing. from Missouri Rel