Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-18

Dawes has been read out Of the party for
making the attempt, and Logan has been
threatened for only proposing to place
the army upon peace footing Yet
the fact is notorious here that the War
Department proper is almost solely en-,
gagged in manufacturing places and posi-
siiions for the mass of utterly useless and
worthless Officers who are strutting at
large and eating up the substance of the
people The country has been cut up
into ever so many military departments,
districts, sub-districts, and what not, for
the accommodation of these gentry, and
every now and then new districts have TO
be carved out for their convenience. The
latest assignments of States, ETC., has
been necessitated by the admission of
Virginia, and for the benefit of Gen.
Candy and his string of epauletted under
strappers. Ii has been heretofore stated
that Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland,
and North and South Carolina were 'as-
signed to him as Lis share of the general
spoils of the country at large. We are
now told that this slice, as big as it was,
did not satisfy him, and that the Presi-
dent, in view Of his precious partisan
services as satrap of Virginia, has gra-
ciously added the District of Columbia.
HAnd this addition, says the innocent Or
gan, win give Gen. Candy very reSpec-
table commando
'In o word, the administration Vehem-
emily demands an increase instead of
diminution of national expenditures in
every branch of the government, as has
been shown in the recent debates, and will
hereafter be more clearly demonstrated,
and of course an addition to the burdens of
taxation must become necessary. But
this is not all. There is not single man
in either branch of Congress suspected of
depredations upon the Treasury, or
Especially charged with high crimes
and misdemeanors' in the way of finger
ing the public money, who is not straight
way made the special object of govern
ment care, protection and defense. l
know no man in the Senate, not even ex-
cepting Mr.. POmeroy, who at this moment
enjoys so much of the confidence of Gen.
Grant and Mr. Boutwell, as does Mr.. Har-
Ian In fact, the organ encourages him
to 20 on in his peculiar line in the follow
ing SL1p1allC LnduucIs
"1t ought tc crafty him, however, to
know that these attacks have not lost him
a friend; that he stands as high with his
colleagues in the Senate and his associates
in the House as he has ever stood; and
that the great and growing State which
he has so long and SO faithfully served
will never have cause to be ashamed of a
son who is so capable of sustaining her
owninterests and the great party of which
he is so able champion.
81 verify believe every word of this. l
know that before the damaging attacks
referred to were made, Mr.. Harlan stood
only third-rate at the White House. He
has not lost but gained "a friend there,
| ANY desire of his now must be eXtEava-
CANT, indeed, not to be 'gratlfied' in that
| quarter. That 'he stands as high with his
colleagues in the Senate, and his associ-
ates in the House, as he ever stood, any
one who frequents the halls of Congress
may easily see. In truth, until he had
been latterly shown to possess the means
of granting gifts, and reciprocating social
and financial civilities, he was regarded as
very Small potatoes 1t is only within
a few months that he has been taken into
the charmed circle of the shining lights
of this immaculate Congress. And
dare to say that the Radical party of the
great and growing State he in part
represents, fully appreciate his capacity
for sustaining his and their own inter
ests,' as well as the interests of the
great party of which he is so able a
champion!' "