, 1870-11-26
WASHlEG GTOH.
Buffers Declaration Of War.
The Capitoline Bar, and Sketch Of
Caleb Cushing.
The Abuses of 1uteryic1vinr-.
More of the Dents.

~-O eAo o04J 403u %a0u f46 Vfealdeut eY{
reflected upon severely in his military seoor.
has been and gone Ike ,nsteor Of mystet
He had long talk with the President
two betns bottled and oorked togesher-au
thin ho ran right oH TO Boston to mako
epeeeh for the administration.
believo that this speech and the talk vh;c
preeoded 1t arc political coutexts. III II
wrong Jon will know batter by tho time 70
get thiA letter. Which Ia written Noadxy. IN
the speech Is to DO made Wedpesday nigh
u OF Buffers Associates said to ma to-dsy
-, tEanf Ia al light for denomination. a.
It IL not too late to s2re his election,
ne nlli take The attitude Butler means to pu
On the popular eide again."
t'WhAt ~ that?''
he Alabama claims. There ia a heso o
into fury"
This is the ltet.l reproduction of the CON
yefsatlcn Of ruau to whom the White Hous
doors are open freely, who is ftfend Of Hnt
leE. and who tas JUS. escaped getting to Can
F1ets- II Fesseuden were alive to sae ,l,ia
he might excla,m: >AN~
II can te no party to making blood q nar
Ct political machinery"
NJ At desperate advisers are these who ID
slfe the President to var, for the sake o
<AAN Luz AUF46Gf Is = Q43n WklOTn tb
President pronounced iubeci!e in war.-s,
uniquely stupid inst he crawled into a bottle
lfla III like B.zaino urging Napoleon to de
clare wAr. The President wilt get into Seda
AID Butler will be corked up in another Metz
GARFIELD.
doDerat Garfield has also run OF to m.ko
speech to Cleveland. to deliver before th.
ArmE OF tie Cumberland i enlogy On Geotc,
y. Thomas, who. had he lived, would prots
b'y have been the next President oi the Unite,
States 1@Ao>
Garfield aays that the prntec,iou;sts .rt
stAn61tg on end in this district. It eeem:
that he represents the northeastern corner ol
r4ttsbu1Gh. The Original preillect;on OF this
district was for Henry Clay and his Timothy
Horace Greeley. They tut Al ash pole ther.
snd sent it ali the way to Ashlapt in I941
lhey greE up to believe thAt slarerf WAS the
highcst csime, and that frea trade vas tbs
nsturM aug OF It.; Giddings and Iohn brown
lived 10 the Arhtabu1A endtof this district.
Ben Wade lives in Ashtatula County now.
a fe" Eears ago the Pernsylvauiaus from
l1:tsburEh established iron mllls M the ua-
honlng Valley, In Garfeld's district, and they
nov repIesent s6, 00o. 900 of capital One
arm OF al the iron 10 Ohio Ia m4de there, aud
shree-e'gaths OF sll the coal in Ohio ia mined
heo ira ntHspaper city of this region.
refinery. preparing kerosene for muc,, OF ,he
ettlEe Vest, aud the iron and copper OF Suue-
tior moet there the coal Of AEahoaing, 90 taM
the Cleveland people e1poct their town to be-
come second Pittsburgh. Ths Leader news
paper Of that city. edited BY my esteemed md
nntiring friend, C1xlss, is rel.aot protec-
t'on organ As in the New York Tribune, its
Junior editors are, T believe. like all Young
men, private free traders. Tia Herald, the
other morning daily there, ia discriminating
ntnfectinn paper. only ; little less jealous.
Garoo'd Tas, therefore: IN The hottest fire
tula, ambitious C1evefatd, the roar.ag Ma
hon,ng Valley, a1! in full cry.
and Garfield regards protection ~ N iatel-
!ectual and economical fraud aSSuich ali iude-
pendent meu-,. e., thosesd dot runnioC for Con-
greea-ought to rl:zcard.
The lp1neGe-ownets knew this At the dis
t4pees39o ct three Thousand yards. They saw
man reading books and cultivatine hts larger
powetf, snd they expeEit need . dreadful
1eal usy in their pocket-books. Fo.sonth,
said they, this mAn is righteous, and will be
aGaiIst us presently. So they set about to
conpass Lis destruction. They first offered
to paE gentleman in the Federal service ut
Washington &, 0e0 year to run againat Gar
field. he, failing to be elected and draw that
ealary from tho government, to get petition
at the eare talary crested for him at home.
Mr. T: would not run against his friend. Then
these inmsculata Republicans offered to aup-
port the Democratic candidate. and engaged
4s an enemy to American " industry
The entire vaiue OF tdeir opposition summed
up Just 125 votes, ptpportiening the decrease
Of the vota between 1sst election and this
This ia ths full protection yote Of tho Nahoning
Valley.
And what camo to Garfeld's support
First, all the Joung men Of his district,
who despise ignorance and prote .tion, the
parent and The idiot prirciples,-and next, the
old Henry Clay NhiE farmers Of AshtAbula,
Geauga, and Portage Counties, who now hold
that protection ia played ont, 0na Of them
said 10 the General.
This infant industry is dwarf. I've been
protecting 1t With mr. vote for forty years.
and it cats moo, but 1t never grows any
higher"
At Jefferson, the home OF Wade and Gid
aipgs: Mr. Howell, father Of the poet Wm. II.
Howell, published Newspaper With damaging
statistics on protection, aud even In Cleveland,
bic Rentlemsr, who never appeared to me- to
know the difference betwcen constitutional
principle and hill OF beams. and who is,
therefore, = very high profectionist-e ia
Cleveland, liberal men like Adams. Lockwood,
Rhodes, and others, know and say that their
city can never grow "a safely under
false system Of commerce Is under
one where = protection prejudice prevails.
Cleveland ts u superb city, but it is out Of
line. 4 parasite industry IL the death Of life
IN the trunk: the more it sucks tho feebler
both become.
Garfield is An uuxi!ling enemy to protec-
Chsistians, but he wAs struck OF his pig Is
be rode down to Antoch-eolege. He said:
t'Wlly is this thus?" Il be does not go boldly
to work to distllusioniza the remainder Of his
district, the 115 furnace people will also send
man Hho does not know the constitution
from hill OF heans. in his pface-
RECENT ryTEHyIEWS-
interviewing great a3d 1itt1s men hss been
o~erdone. As managed of late it ought to
bring the blush to the face Of \ gentleman IN
journalism. In this city some Of the most ly-
ing dialogues. cnmprouisirg public man, have
just been published aud telesraphed over the
everything in that form which leaves hero
hereafter rs threa pzrts lie and one p pnt caves
dropping: Take some examplea-
l read in 4 local paper here, I few days ago,
= well-written trautclipt Of what purr 1I:et1to
be a talk With Senator Schu1z. It oc:u red to
me that be must have spoken night OF, aud
been taken down IN shorthand, because he
himself could not hIve expressed his ideas
with more conciseness. The manner waa his,
but the views queer. Altogether, I Was mye-
tiled.
At u o'clock that day l stepped into nexs-
paper Office. and there sat General Schurz.
Sud 1: "seuator, that VAS very well-wris-
ten, as we'll ae very frre1y-accorded express
eion OF your views read to-day"
"vesy wel1-vri.tep, iudeed!" eaid the Sena-
tor, with mortified look, 81 but it ia not t1ae.
never had such talk kh.any person.
Several newspaper men came to see me yes
terday. and asked me to talk for that pur pose,
but I distinctly declined. Il 1hAye such views
a. = I'D f4sJzy~
there will be no mistake in the shade Of mean
ing. JouInalists.-xud profess to be OF that
proieesien,-lower themselves By this style Of
underhand work"
And schurz, bitterly wounded but power-
less, bad to deny in general despatch, the
fact Of the conversation, though the original
fabrication he could never overtake.
General Belknap told me that when be WAS
At West Point last summer New York paper
published two columns Of IN interview with
bin, and, said he: II solernnly aver that
nerer talked with reporter, and never said
anything put down to ne; but Just con-
eluded to let lt,go. a denial would increase
Mr. Scott Smith tells me that the recent
widely circulated interview With Postmaster
Genef1l Creaaeu ia alleged By the lAtter 10
have been obtained from him BY false pro-
tencee-a rnxn presenting himself With Aletser
from nexzp.per .N,s soIreer9naent s'a hsEe' .na
EEEA&4lS ~ 70 24 ~ @t1Q kEAU7e ~AV4A NA0S-
veil presumed to want an office. So they
chatted awhile, and behold! there liz \ long
piece Of what printers call "ros,r which ela;1s
to be put down in = high ofacial's own words.
Another alleged interview with Secretary
Fish, also teleGTaphed East and West, vzs 50
to every journalist. In its low
admissions rs to how ehAmeleesly tie hospi
tality Of gentleman WAS vio1Ated: hox ths
- pump" was applied. and how a. gn.1lliug
hest wis pecked 1t for conclusions, thet, in
group Of Journalists here. the remark Was
made that they al felt like gi1ing up the
craft.
In the name Of decency, stop this thingi
Let the people atop believing these forge1ies
and exto9tcd confessions, and let tho proprie-
tors Of journals refuse them. Every nov and
then, we hear graf howl against this Or that
journal for '' 'desertiug tho party Why,
the loss Of respect and inftnenco eatallea On
Of their prerogatives, ss inf3dehty to journal
Ism ittelf. Few Of us are entirely