The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1870-04-14
A VERY HARDCAsE
WITHOUT HONESTY AND WITHOUT BRAINS"
Washington correspondence of the Ohio Stat
Journal

Washington correspondence of the Ohio State
Journal.
Two things would seem to be essential to a
member Of the United States Senate. honesty
and brains. Intellectual ecoundrels are out {
place there, and the most honest men In the
world, with no qualification save honesty. would
be the merest cipher Honesty Is n poor sub
stltute for understanding and intelligence. II is
the province OF medioclity not to govern hut o
be governed. Gen. Boynton Of the Cincinnati
Gazette, hus conclusiyely shown, from official
|evidence that Senator Harlan Is wanting IN
common honesty. We shall not now present
the proofs, MS lie has done Of the greet Iowa
land swindle, by which, as Secretary Of the Int-
Fi0r. Harlan sold to favored parties an immcn
body Of Iowa lands for s2 50nn acre, which was
re.sOld Immediately after for $40 an acre; we
shall not show how servants carpets, furniture,
lOIFes, harness, saddles. hOrse.bankets. slatlUn-
ery, &C. &C., were charged IN official accounts
10 the Department of the Interior which wee
for the exclusive private use Of the fully of The
lgh moral Secretary, or how, while running
he department ON the principle OF pure religion
nd high morality. he discharged Walt Whitman
Or writing unsaIIclihed poetry, and turned out
starve Two score or more of female clerks.
he widows aud daughters Of soldiers, because
ne Of them was uniustly charged With using
rofane language.
The point that we here want 10 make IL that
rs pealm-sinEng hypocrites unhtnesa for
scat III the Senate 10 not because he Is devoid of
Drains. Before Harlan smuggled himself itfo
the Senate, ho was an ltlnerant Methodist PR ach.
er' This was no dlscredlt to him II he had been
an exhurIcr Of respectable capacity. But the
evidence Of ones ears Is against this charitable
supp0sltiOn. lie can not speak the English
language nor any other language. Ills attempts
to pronounce the common French word dpnceur
not long since, cOnVuised the Senate lie gets
absurdly wrong the cOmmOncst quotations aud
sLutleIs when man OF sense speaks Ho allow =
solitary subsuntlvcs to mourn the absence of
thelr iaVorlLe verbs, aud enmpels verbs 10 dlsa
glce WIN their hOminallvcs In gender, number
aud person when they have grammatical and
constitutional right TO agree. lie knows no
more ul constitutional history or the science of
Government than le due' OF medieval arehltec.
tuto or Roman antiquities. lie cannot Open his
mouth without buuder or ATTEMPT 10 nryur
on any question without exciting contempt.
WerO We " CORRECTLY describe llai Ian 4 uersO,n
appearance We should oaccu cd of having pmo
cnnty toward him. We never knew fore
what was meant by n hlug-dOS expression of
eOuntrnanco. II sheep was stolen by som
member Of the Senate, good detective on per.
suual inspection would arrest Harlan Us the thief
No nau with Ills face could be nuVtLlnV else
Than public plundercr, an ignorant blunderer,
Ii sanctImJnl0uS h!poerito aud q superl tive
humhnH. IL Is the manifest interest Of the Re-
publican party to drive Into obscurlty all sucn
bralnless kuaygs rs this.
1t Is maniicSty the interest OF the Republican
party to br ak down and drive out Of public lie
all lmbecies, KNIVES aud charht tor 20 re-
taln these IN power when there L. the best mate
rlaI always a. command, there il no rational
reason. Win the democracy II Is different, Men
OF much honesty and brains are much ScLTcsr IN
their ranks, aud II this ted weru applied they
might bo deprived Of representation.
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