The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-07
WHEELING W. VA FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 7, 1869.

which was literally the gauntlet Of tie
President, dasked in the very faces q
he men who had elected him. 1t nexf
demanded the Immediate repeal OF tno
tenure of Office Jaw; in order that the
President might be enabled to act inde-
pendently of the statesmen and Poi1tl-
clans, Of all those in the parsT
which had elected him, whip
were capable of giving him advice
and assistance. Then, when u
had supposed the President had obtain
ed sufficient control to- be able to use
the Herculsan broom, the Tribune aud
its satellites took care that for every
officeholder swept out one of its owp
buzzards should be put in. Let TIP
reader imagine the public table freshly
laid BY the new Administration, with
all the art of modern gastrononiy, frop
the piece de resistance to the delicap
Charlotte Russe. Outside the public en-
trance crowd the horde Of Office. seekess
who have not assumed the personal So
peryision of General Grant. At a pr
vate door enter Washburne, J. Russo
Jones, the Dents, the Caseys, and oth@
hangers on, who proceed, before the
public door is opened, to attack the va
rious dishes indiscriminstely, or accord
ing to individual taste. Washburne
staggers off under the weight of the
niece de resistance. The Dents and the
Caseys squabble over the pates and the
pasties. Jones and few Galenaites
plunge theraupon into the Charlotte
RWsse, and leave but mere crust for the
next comers. Then the main entrance ts
thrown open, and the public are invited
to gaze upon the ruin which the wreck
ers have made, or teed, if they can, upon
the fragments. But what will the pub
lie think of these cormorsnts, after they
had been gorged with the good things
which they secured to themselves by
excluding from the circle Of the Pfesi-
dents personal friends and supporters
every man who they supposed would
interfere with this ring arrangement,
when they are now found among the
first TO denounce General Grant for do
ing what they forced him to dot The
public must necessarily look upon them
as the most unmitigated scallawags
ever spawned upon the surface of party
politics. Yet il is fact that the very
men who have plunged General Grant
into this quagmire, out of which ne can
only be rescued by the most dexterous
management and by the forbearance Of
his party and the country gener-
ally, are now denouncing him.
Washburne forced General Grant to
degrade the great Office of Secretary
of State by making it the means
of paying o compliment to a friend.
Not only so, but while procuring the
President to cheat the country by q
pretended appointment, Washburne
cheated the President and the real ap-
pointGe by using what was intended as
a mere personal compliment as a sub
stantial means of advancing his own
and his friends political prospects. Mr.. |
Washburne named forty-eight foreign |
appointees on the strength OF a mere |
personal compliment. Mr.. Fish finds |
himself responsible to the Senate and |
the country for Mr.. Washburne's ap-
pointees, many of whom the Senate pos
itively refuses to confirm. Now, in all
conscience, who is to blame for this |
tiaSCof Is it General Grant, Cincin. |
natus, honest and confding, or Mr. |
a crafty political wire |
puller, who, under the cloak of redress |
ing political evils and cleansing the |
State of political corruption, Grams
every possible place with his immediate
friends and relatives, most of
whom are so totally untitled for the
positions given them as to ocause storm
Of indignant protest to come up from
the party and country through every
in the land down TO Mr..
Washburne's reputed organ itselfi Gen-
eral Grant deserves sympathy, not
blame; while the men who have used
him, and are now abusing him, should
be the objects of the scorn and contempt |
of all COED men. The New York Post
is compelled to demand the removal,
not only of Mr.. Washburne, but of ali |
his friends from office. The New
York Times bemoans the mistakes
says: ave shall be broken up"
if this sort of thing continues.
Leading papers and politicians in every
part of the country declaim against the
curse fixed upon the President by the
Tribune and Mr.. Washburne,
which in two short months has borne
such bitter fruits. No administration |
was ever before so imperilled by a set of
political harpies as that of
General Grant. The wisest men of the
party look upon the political situation
with the most painful and anxious So
Iicitude, and predict that four years of
its present management will most as
suredly make shipwreck of it, if not of
the country itself.