The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1869-03-23

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4 immcuac patronage
I Il tsa propensity II tho American character +
I 20 With the crowd, Ike a aock y sheep. Pres.
/ ,dent s popular, and behold Al bis wauts IN
+ "a the sober second thought comes must Be
emtifed without scrutiny. That is bad enough.
But Add % this propensity The accord 10 this ucs
+ fsyorite all be asks. the indaecment 70 do -
whirh TIC possession BY him q thousands upon
thousands q golden iavors 70 be dispensed 10 hi,
/ farorites Ia turn aud the scenes 10 be witness.
I ed any lay hero IN Washington toll their own
tale Ok The hemiBalng influence, aud plnuly
/ point even the unsophisteated TO the hypocrisy
and corruption and general Generalization Il
cannot fail 70 ensondar someahere The high
est positions are not indifferent to it. Ills peril
nent to state, too, that thore is less need nov
/ than IA President J1hnsou's time, fra Harcules
/ to elcan the Augean stable reduction 81 The
( tax on whiskies leayos less 70 be made BY fraud
and the law, besides Is so much better provided
with gnarls than ever before, as to constitute a
much more cfectual check tn itself than any Of
+ It's predecessors II this Tenure -of.offiec act Is
+ repealel, II may be wanted again, uulor another
I President or oven uudcr This, notwithstanding
our eonGdcnec ID him nos and il may then BE-
Impossible q gc thon8c ssary two-thifls vote
70 psss y ~ thu Presidents yo,o The matter
worthy Of dchberation, as ilicsr i6 Representa-.
tiyos and q majority in tho Senate have aigui6ed
& Their opiai5n.
pts0atcEFuL TRfdECBY.
You may have seen il mentioned in the paper,
that, among the callers upon the President Of
Friday last pss delegation. consisting n sew
eral white aul eulored persons, ~ The Loyal
IeaRue q the nofhbodng city II Alexandra
Va, having f5r its Spokesman the present Post
master Msssoy Of that city, who rend az address
10 tile Presiden; full ofdcyotion 20 The rising sun
and profoundly refretiing that Virginia bad no
been permitted, BY reason 81 her uufocnu-tructe.
condition, 70 assist in bis election The inciagn
!. worth the space il will occupy in your columns
Tor the illustration II affords u the depths % De
basement 70 which desire for oIico il pulling
/ sone doun.
This Postmaster was appointed % his 0fare b.
President Lincoln about years ago. OF courst
be had prnfcsspl 70 be Republican, aud obtsin
ed the place Al such But when Andrew John
sou succeeded, and mountcl tho fence and j
was yet doubtful which way no would jump, hi
Alexandria soup man, lest ha have his tickle TAX
en- M, mounted also, and kept wary eye out O
dent tumblcd Of on to the wrong side and un
Occasionally his man went after him. There Ii,
associated with original secessionists mon hon
orab!e compared with him, because consistent
IN organizing johnson club and in drawing
up seriea 81 resolutions eulogiste Of bis charse
ter and course, aud pledging their faithful ale
glance. But be vent farther. By permission o
his comrades he presented these resolutions per
sonally 70 the president, IN a written address a
may Be verified BY reference b the iles Of th
Washington papers Of Sept, 1866. And % Ia
saved his soup.
Another turn q the political wheel johnson
has gone under and bis adherents, also, on
would naturally think. Bat behold this ire
pressiblo Postmaster 90 the top again repoatinl
! bic job nson game on Grant, The delegation
did not represent tbs Loyal League u Alexan
dra. They represented nobody bat themselves
J Excepting the spokesman they were few per
sons white AID colored, who were glad enough
Of sn opportunity 20 BE- presented 70 Prssiden
Grant That was al u their part in tie matter
] ~ this disposition be took advantage, aud use
, them 70 make AZ occasion u 0fNrng himsel
anew, in exchange for 3 continuation Of biz pot
tage Aud the President was deceived b. Ian
allowed his precious time 70 be sastod ID r.
spofifdi htsrihg Of the words II this polilioa
mountebsuk, as II they were the communicated
! Of large body u the community from which ia
speaker hhilel
This u = matter q public conceru. ifthoro ar
J men IN the country 20 lost 70 81 that its as for
form q government deriving its powers aud char
acief from the people, a. to make markei Of the
i opinion, conscience, dguity, independence an
good uanse With their neighbors Or tho saRa o