Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-11-19


The ST. Lopis Republican, says: The
result of the fsll elections, If II does not
amount TO political revolution, at least
indicates its approach. It can only be
accounted for by growing change in
public sentiment, not local but general in
It's operation, as potent in Nevada as in
New York, in Alabama as in Illinois.
Among the causes of this change is the
stencil of corruption which has surround
ed the National Congress ever since the
Republican party obtained contro. OF 1t.
The quantity of carbon in particular
spot may be estimated from the number
of buzzards it attracts, and that of the
present Radical Congress has been at
tested by an unimpeachable authority,
The Tribune, which, in an editorial writ
ten just before the end of the last session,
and significantly headed, "Watch the
Thieves" thus describes the unclean
birds which hover around the Radical
Congressional banquet;
e" We beg every honest Congressman,
during every working hour from now till
the hour of adjournment, TO watch the
thieves
They are all around youl They
haunt your hotels They send cards to
you at your boarding houses before break
fast. They oyertake you on the avenue.
They lie in wait for you at the doors of
your committee rooms. Through the
lobbies they swarm, aud on the floor of
the House, during the session, the worst
of them do congregate. They are ex-
members. They are members friends,
for whose sake the doorkeeper has been
induced 10 ignore the rule. They come
in the guise of representatives of great
manufacturing interests, of representa-
tiyes of suffering Southern loyalists, of
representatives of our langGishiug com
marcial marine, of representatives of the
most important railroad enterprises, of
representatives of all manner of great
and good things, and always making
false representations.
''Between next Monday and next Fri
day the appropriations win amount to
possibly hundred millions, perhaps
much more. There are thousands of
items 10 be considered, and there is no
time in which to consider them. 1t is the
Thieves Carnival.
within the next five days they will
spring all manner of projects upon Con-
gress. Some of them will want little ap-
preparations for forgotten claims. Others
will want innocent looking changes of g
few words in existing laws, "merely for q
local purpose, sir, " which, when too late,
will be found to be very local indeed.
Some will have pet clauses to be SNUG
ged into appropriation bills; others will
have land jobs, others subsidies, Others
increase of salaries, others release from
obligations. They will have the most
harmless amendments of five words to
be inserted, by general consent, on the
third reading. They will have tricks of
| springing obnoxious measures when the
enemies of them are asleep or off at din
ner. They will find means of reaching
conference committees. They will even
attempt t0mpering ayih expressing
CLERKS"
The Tribune frantically shouted its
appeal 10 every Congressman who
wishes re election, to watch the thieves
until the very moment of adjournment.
But whether they did so or not, it was
too late. The people refused to accept
deaih-bed repentances, and in many q
district, voted for the Radical Congress
man 10 stay at home