The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-02
ARE WE INGRATES?


General Shermans letter in regard to Mr.
Logan's bill compares the moneys which he
received at the time he was commanding
Mr. Logan, and hundred thousand other
better and worse men, with the salary of the
Duke of Wellington's secretary. Thence
General Sherman infers the ingratitude of
republics.
The inference is illegitimate Has Gene
raj Sherman forgotten the tokens of the
nations gratitude to Grant Are houses in
all the chief cities of the republic nothing
Are horses without number nothing? Are
a wilderness of honorary saddles and an in
fnitude of gratuitous boots, are free rides
and free dinners, are perpetual cigars not
to be reckoned that we should be twitted
with negecting our benefactor and turn
ing our superannuated Belisariuses out to
beg?
But perhaps we may find it in our minds
to forgive General Sherman seeing that he
lives in Washington and not in New York
Certainly there is no other city in the world
where the pecuniary rewards of public SER
vice are so numerous and so rich as here
under the sway of universal suffrage Take
Tweed. When that great man first offered
himself for the sutfrages of his fellow-citizens
he was deep in debt. Notwithstanding this
drawback and the further fact that the direct
income of the places which he has filled is
nance, MIR. Tweed relied upon the generosity
and right feeling of his fellow-citizens to
make good to him the losses which he sus-
| tanned by devoting himself to their service
| instead of his private emolument He scorned
| to count the cost when the commonw wealth
demanded his devotion. The event has proved
that he has not trusted in vain.
Mr.. Tweeds native modesty shrinks from
blazoning abroad the exact extent of his pre-
Sapf or fhn Ixrr
was acquired. His sensitive soul revolts even
at the partial publicity of the income list
We are tossed upon the boundless ocean OF
conjecture. But we do know from his own
reluctant lips that this public servant, who
entered the public service a bankrupt, has
become, by an entire abandonment of him
self TO the public good, lone of the largest
taxpayers in New York" His influence is CO.
extensive with his cash. The docile Legisla
ture sits at his feet. as Saul at the feet of Ga
malel and waits, in reverent inactivity, fol
his signal before proceeding to action.
"Iurned by his nod the stream OF honor flows;
His smile alone security bestows"
Are we to ignore SO shining an example OF
the gratitude of republics? Does not Mr.
Tweeo's palace in town, Mr.. Tweed's villa in
the country, Mr.. Tweed's sumptuous stables
and Mr. Tweed's numerous stud, as plainly
show forth the gratitude of New York to iti
Tweed as does Blenheim the gratitude o.
England to Marlborough, or Strathfieldsay,
to Wellington?
1t is true that these substantial tributes to
the virtues and genius of Mr.. Tweed were
not made over to him with the formal pomJ
with which British honors were paid Il
British benefactors. But it is incontestabl
that they were equally derived from hi
constituency. The exact manner of the ope
ration we cannot in all cases know We onl,
know that MIR. Tweed's strictly official remu
, neration is absurdlv inadequate for the main
tenance Of Mr.. Tweeds personal glories