The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-05-13
WANTED-SEVEN STATESMEN.

WANTED-SEVEN STATESMEN.
Some time ago the Chicago Tribune
published very extraordinary article
concerning the shortcomings Of Grant S
Administration. We are glad to see
that the people do not sustain that attack
but on the contrary, it meets with disap-
probation from every question. The
newspapers all over the country do not
hesitate to say that, personal malace,
originating through disappointment, caus-
ed the article We quote the following
from the Chicago Post: 'That President
Grants administration is sadly in need
of precisely seven statesmen, the Chica-
20 Tribune AYERS, and every patriot in
the land who failed to get Office swears to
it. We have carefully and conscientious.
" pondered over the subject about a
week, which is about week longer than
any of our predecessors on the subject
have given 1t, and have concluded that
Grant and the people are all in the wrong;
that just seven statesmen must be had, or
the country will be ruined right off.
First, statesman is wanted for Secre-
tary Of State. Nobody but born idiot
could have carried on our State Depart
ment the way it has been done since
Grant came in. To be sure, it has done
little, and the angels in heaven could have
done little thus soon, besides making
changes in our foreign ministers. And
what set we have got Think of send
ing such an unknown, iiliteratc fellow as
John Lothrop Motley to England man
who was never a member of even board
OF supervisors, not to mention State
Legislature, or the American Congress
Or such a man as Old Economy Wash
burne to France, who, though member
of Congress. did not believe in eternal
Congressional raids on the Treasury. Or
John Jay, to Vienna. Think of retain
ing such man as George Bancroft at
Berlin-a mere man of letters, and only
lllustrious as the greatest historian of his
country, and the most successful Ameri-
can diplomatic of these latter years. And
reflect upon the petty mistakes that have
been made in recalling General James
Watson Webb, who used to play poker
With the present Napoleon I'LL, at five
cents ante from Brazil and that life
long. very wheel-horse of craftsmanship,
John P. Hale, from Madrid; and poor
Rosecrans las is determined, from Mex
leo; and the Ininitesimal Harrington.
from Switzerland. Think of all these
petty mistakes, and very many more of
the same sort, and for the very heaven
sake, let us have great statesman for
Secretary of State, who will go to buying
icebergs, and volcanoes, and tornadoes,
and newspapers; and deluging the world
with lies, and running the country into
needless expenditures!
Secondly, statesman is wanted for
Secretary of the Treasury. This thing
of making Wall street brokers pay their
taxes, as Boutwell, is doing, will never do.
It is Understandable in the highest de-
gree. So it is to break up the whisky
rings, and the subsidized rings, and to aid
in breaking up the Indian ring. So it is
to reduce the national debt three millions
month, and open prospect for future
monthly reduction. So it is the most
miserable child's play to reduce the num-
Der of siuecure clerkships by the hundred
compelling even women to earn honest
livelihood by honest pursuits, and not
sham, or worse. 1t is clear we must have
a statesman who shall return to the glo-
rious old way, or the country never will
be swamped in financial ruin, for the benc-
ft of the knowing ones only.
Thirdly, statesman must be had for
the War Department.. These be piping
times Of peace, and if we do not have
some tremendous Carnot OF Stanton to
organize victory against the terrible fore
es of Confederated Cross Roads and the
Digger Indians, the game is up. Poor
John A. Rawlins, who carried on the cx-
ecutiyc business of an army of million
Of men, during an era Of fearful war, is,
Of course, not statesman enough to carry
on the executive business of an army of
twenty thousand men. who have nothing
on earth to do but eat their rations He
must give way for statesmanship-to
some militia General who has been in
Congress, say, or some one who wanted
to be and failed.
In the next place, we cannot get along
at all without statesman for Secretary
of the Interior. Who knows what Indian
reservations Will be for sale next? Who
can tell how many more railroads are 60
ing to get land grants? And if. for the
want of the old craftsmanship, the poor
Indians should get little money for their
buffalo robes, and the agents no steal it
all away, everything would 60 to the
demnition bow-wows! Gov. Cox has
helped to throttle the utterly atrocious
Indian ring, and with its dying gurgle it
. gurgles pathetically, Wanted, a states
man for secretary of the Interior" The
awful desideratum must be supplied. The
Staying of the Indian ring and the rail
road subsidists at the double blow, was
not craftsmanship but barbarious cruelty.
Fifth, Mr.. John A. J. Creswell cannot
run the Post Office Department at all.
He has begun by cleaning out rebels
thieves. and dishonest contractors Thi,