The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-03-25
Radical SsrvIIlty.


plants and fatterers, who are ever ready to
"orook the pregnant hinges of the knee that
thrift may follow fawning." With honeyed
words they buzz around him like bees around
the flowers of the field. Their abject hattery
is as short lived as it is hypocritical. and
from power and place. Unlike the sunhower,
''They do not turn to the sun as he sets
The same look that they gave when he rose.
Shakespeare, who understood human
nature better than any other writer in the
world, admirably portrays this obsequeous
brood of man -worshippers in the brief dia-
logue which takes place between Hamlet.
the young Prince of Denmark, and the cring-
ing courtier, Polonius
Hamlet-Do you see yonder cloud that's al
most in shape of II camel
Polonius-By the mass, and tits like camel,
indeed.
Hamlet-Methinks it Is like a weasel.
Polonius-It is backed like Q weasel.
Hemlet-or like q Whale2
PolOnius-Very like a whale.
Almost every editor Of q radical newspa-
per, from Horace Grsely down, has become
= veritable Polopius to General Grant.
Every thing that he says and every sentsnce
tLat he does are bailed by his satellites as
the productions of man almost inspired.
The deep and varied learning of Goldsmith'S
village schoolmastsr did not excite more
profound wonder and astonishment among
his rustic scholars than does the wonderful
exhibition Of Grants genius and statesman
ship among his slavish admirers.
And still they gazed, and still the wonder
grew,
That one small head could carry all he knew. >
When General Grants Inaugural Address
was published, slthough it was a very COM
mon place affair, and could just as readily
h,ve been written by any other ordinary
man. the radical press throughout the coun-
try hailed it with a perfect shout of Zap
plause. No follower of Mahomst ever re-
ceived a fresh instalment of the Koran with
more unwavering belief in the truth of its
Tevelations-no disciple Of Joe Smith eyer
placed more implicit faith in the divine ORR
gin of new chapter in the Book of Mormon
than did radical newspaper editors manifest
in the perfect and complete political wisdom
Of that document. With them it was a
political gem of the first water. 1t was just
what the country needed-just what it e1-
psctsd, and just what no other man save and
except Gen. Grant could have written. 1t
so seuteutious and yet so comprehen-
sive-so broad and grasping in its statesman
like views-so plain and direct in its posi-
tions-so much like Grant, that no other
man than himself could possibly have writ
ten it !; in word, SO n aStcrly and appropri
ne that nothing but its own dear self could
be it's parallel The same fulSome adulation
crested the announcement of his Cabinet,
with radical Congressman Donnelly's "bel-
lowing dcmagngue, Z. 3. Washburne, as
is dip lomatic figure head, and E. R. Hoar
for its judicial tail. Although it was as un-
expected to his friends as it was to bis foes,
and in the sequel astonished even Gen. Grant
himself, yet these blind followers of the
Veiled prophet saw or pretended to see in it
evidence Of consummate political tact and
unequalled discrimination of character
Had not WashbuIne, they said, been the
fast friend, the Damon to Grant when the
latter stood in sore need of friends, and what
vas therefore more appropriate and in &C.
cordance with the fitness of things than that
be should be Secretary of State2 Besides,
he whose exclusive business it would be to
deal with foreign governments was in favor
of retrenchment and opposed to any more
swindling and corrurt rail road subsidies,
and was therefore the right man in the right
place. And then the astounding discovery
was made, which had hitherto been a pro-
found secret, that the mantle of Webster
and Marcy had fallen on the broad shoulders
of the sage Of Galena-
What, also, was more judicious and be-
coming than the appointment of A. T. Stew
AIT as Secretary of the Treasury Was he
not second Rothschild, although neither a
Galla.in or Chase. and had he Eot been an
original Grant man? Why shonld not the
disabling act of 1889 in Stewards case he
repealed just to accommodate Gen. Grant,
and to enable him to carry out this pleasant
showed signs of revolt against executive
dictation, and when Gen. Grant. having dis
covered his huge blunder. withdrew his first
message from the Senate, these newspaper
Jim Crows wheeled about and turned about
and jumped to the conclusion that Grant
had committed serious mistake-that the
law was narvellously proper one-that it
ought to stand. and that Stewart should be
remanded to his silks. his shawls, his linens
and his lacss. And then, although John A.
j. Cresswell had been an original and ram
pant rebel. and had raised military com
pany in 1851 to resist the passage of the
northern troops..through Maryland. yet when
his nams was announced as Post Master
General. it was hailed with paeons of de-
light-he was in full and entire accord with
the party of "great moral IDEAS" and his
selection bV Gen Grant yuas oraceful and