The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-02-08
Work for. General Grant.

MONDAY /. ........FEBRUARYs 8, 1869.
& u -. Work for. General Grant. -
!, The New. York Hrald. draws a picture OF
the frauds and corrnpt;ons Of Washington
the wssteful expenditure Of the public mo-
ney--and the manner In which tho leeches
have clung to the Treasury and Congress
for four years, while the nation has been
entertained by the Offering plea Of recon
ssruc.ion. Passing upward through the
various rings, whose corrupt articles Gene
raj GRANT mus. put down if he would save
the Government from bankruptcy, the he
raid reaches that greatest of rings, the
United States Senate, which Mr.. WEBSTER
: once fondly, hoped and believed, would be
tHelast resting place Of Liberty before she
took her fight from this land. Alas for
the vanity of human wishes 1t is amongst
the FIRST to betray the State and form q ring
which is described as one 50 great as to in
clude all the lesser circles Of corruption.
This Senate is "the ring" says the
Herald, (which has conferred all appoint
sments and keeps them confirmed; the
IS ring that has almost ruined the country
"by trying to absorb the whole power of
!" the Government, and the ring which now
shows an unbroken front, and apparently
"stands pledged to sustain with all its re-
s' sistive force the attack which it forsees
the coming Administration will make
"upon It. Here, then, the issue is boldly
3" drawn, and we may st once prepare for
Sd encounter between the public plumber
/" ers through the United States Senate and
"the executive branch Of the Government.
1.-THE Senate, in the contest, will repre-
"sent the amount of plumber which has
been gathered in the last seven years,
"while General GRANT will represent the
I" wish of the people for a return to, eco
" nomical and careful administration of
"the public property, treasure, and civil
positions. The former will doubtless
make very desperate struggle, but the
|" people, suffering to the last extreme to
i" maintain the host of thieves who now
-" fatten upon the national misery, will sup
81" port GRANT" /
The Herald INDUCES the hope that the
Senate will break loose from the thieves,
and repeal the tenure-of-of6ce law before
General GRANT comes into power. We can
hardly believe that that body will fail to
do. this. It will be great peril to place
the country in--the attempt to withhold
from the Executive the authority accorded
to it since the beginning of the Govern
ment; and to withhold it at time like
this, when it is indispensable to reform
abuses which have grown so numerous and
80 great-and from man like General
GRANT, who was not elected to be mere
automaton, like President JOHNSON, and
who will not submit to be burthened with
duties without the power to perform them.
When we add to the great task before
him to diminish fraud, increase acoannta-
bility, economic expenditure, and tighten
the public burthens, the further vexatious
duty Of finishing the very much botched
work Of reconstruction, We may see that he
has work before him which for magui-
tude and perplexity has never been equaled
by that encountered by any man upon his
entering the Presidential office. He is,
however, man of industry and perse-
verance equal to any demands upon him, and
it is reported that he has said that he means
that his Cabinet shall be ga personal staff,
" selected for their power to work and their
" devotion to the Administration. .....
The very magnitude of the labor ahead
is sort Of guarantee for the sincerity, en-
ergy, and public devotion, with which it
must be met. The peril of the nation is
too great to allow the intervention of minor
matters and interests. Mere party and
personal ambition sink into insigni6cance
In presence Of the solemn danger in which
the country is placed. To bring true
s:pesce" out Of all this will require the
stimulus of the highest motives guided by
the wisest judgment and maintained BY the
NEST unhagging industry.