The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-02-04

year, with our national debt of twenty-five
hundred millions and our direct national taxes
of two or three hundred miliionsl A sug-
gestve contrast this to the taxpayers Of the
United States.
What mine What Astounding placers of
greenbacks, gold and diamonds, ilks, satns
and laces, fine houses, fast wom,n and fast
horses are here for the Treasury rings of
manipulators and gamblers in gold, bonds and
stocks; for the whislley rings, railroad rings,
Custom House plundering rings Indian
Bureau rings and for all the holy alliance of
fast men and fast women, of Lawmakers,
breakers, contractors and LOBBY jobbers
Hundreds of millions Of money are still in
these rich placers for the spoilsmen, though
hundreds of millions have been taken out and
divided among the confederate Treasury rob-
bers. Here we meet the beast with seven heads
and ten horns face to face Here are the labors
of Hercules awaiting the President elect.
Here is Bunyan's picture of Christian and
Apollyon. Here lies the difficulty at the
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Senate on the Tenure of Office law in any
shape you please. But there is no fear that
he will fly off at tangent from the republi-
can (Chicago) platform; no fear that he will
try the game of Captain Tyler against
the financial bills of Congress, or the
''policy" of Andy Johnson against the recon-
struction laws or negro suffrage. There
is no fear that if relieved from the restrictions
of the Tenure Of Office law he will turn honest
men out of Office in order to put rogues in their
places. Nor do we suppose that General Blair
himself though he sticks to it, really enter
tains the absurd tomfoolery that our greatest
danger is that General Grant will establish q
protectorate or an empire on the ruins Of the
republic by following the example of Cromwell,
or that of Napoleon the First or Napoleon the
Third.
No such fears or doubts as these are enter
tanned among the radical managers Of the
Senate. But still they are afraid of General
Grant They are afraid that he really means
retrenchment and reform that he will not I'M
derstand that all such notions are claptrap and
humbugs and are thrown out only as the tub to
amuse the whale. And so they intend to hold
his removals from Office subject to the consent
of the Senate. Otherwise, if he were restored
to the Executive status of Lincoln he might
reduce in few months scores of thieving radi-
cal ofice-holders, with the hundreds Of their
outside friends and confederates, to bank
ruptcy, in breaking up their speculations. We
dare say, for instance, that an intelligent and
honest Secretary of the Treasury, of Grants
own way Of thinking, and free to act, could in
six months bring gold down as low, perhaps,
as fifteen per cent premium, and thus save
millions upon millions, hundreds of millions, to
the Treasury of the people, by simply breaking
up the Treasury manipulators and pet brokers
and gold gamblers of Wall street. But how
many Senators, with their cousins, and ne
phews, and favorites, and sharers OF the
spoils, would be among the losers? Who can
tell?
Here, then, the continuance Of the Tenure
OF Office law has practical meaning; for il
may serve to restrain even an honest Secre-
tary of the Treasury in the use of the guiuo-
tine, for fear Of q rumpus with the Senate.
But, again, look at the whiskey rings-he
dealers in contraband whiskey. They have q
lobby fund far exceeding the capital of the old
United States Bank, which turned the country
upside down in its death struggle with Gene
raj Jackson. A bold, faithful and fearless
Internal Revenue Commissioner, in General
Grants way Of doing business, within bw
mates might astonish the country with his IN
earthing of lawless whiskey officials, whistey
stills and whiskey dealers. But under the
Tenure Of Office law the President must tub-
NIT his removals to the Senate, and If Sen,tor
John Doe or Richard Roe has friend thus in
danger he may say to other Senators, ''Savs my
man and I will assist in saving yours !" foi has
not this plan Of operations become q common
practice under Andy Johnson in combinations
and reflections? Is the Senate honest? Ask
Collector Smythe.
What, then, can General Grant do under
this Tenure Of Office law? Let him d. his
duty and turn out the rogues wherever he inds
them, submitting his reasons to the Senate,
and let the responsible majority Of that body
play him false IL they dare. The country will
sustain him the. people expect him to do his
duty, no matter where the blow may fall. We
are satisfied, too, that he viii meet the work
before him without ninching, and that he.ein
lie the doubts, fears and misgivings hat
shake the faith Of the radical camp.
DRAWING A PgIzE.-Policeman Maloiey,
In his achievement against ''the butcher cart"
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