The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-11-18
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Political.
GENERAL. GRANTS PRESENTs.-Mr.
! Tilden alltules to President Grant as
one ..wlo has been enriched by costly
presents while exercising the immense
! power of the Presidency" This is an
unqualified assertion, made as il upon
absolute knowledge. and yet, speak
! ing upon all the information | have, l
believe it utterly untounded. The
allegation is that since his election to
the Presidency General Grant has been
! the recipient of costly gifts. Return
ing from, the war a victorious General,
he did receive gifts showercd upon him
by grateful D ople, lut lie rect ived
them as the hero of many battles, and
before he was even nominated for the
Presidency. His case was not solitary.
General Sherman also received m,lni-
ficent testimonials SO did other Cen
erals. Gen. Mcclellan ran for the
Presidency four years before General
Grant ran. lie, too, was ''enricllcd
by costly presents, given. doubtless,
/ i'll consideration Of his military SER
vices, and his political opponents
never ca It foul asper>ioils OH hin, for
it. Wellington, after Waterloo, re-
ceiyed presents amounting to more
than two million dollars. Whether
heroes, i'll former or in recent
times, have done well or ill in
accepting tributes from their country
men, is not, however, the point here.
Be that one way or the other. the right
or wrong is the same in all cases alike;
and since General Grant S accession to
the Presidency, as far as can learn,
he has never accepted costly pres
ent' from any one.-,Seaaedor CohAtehg.
THE LOST TDEaIoCRACY.-The Amer
icln Democracy always had patriotic
purpose until its leaders supported and
shielded the rebellion. From that
hour its course has heen irresistibly
downward. The moment it lost its
patriotic impulse it lost its soul. In
stead Of gr;lppling with treason in
1850 and 1861, its leaders sympathlzed
with it. Ever since, their great diff
Guilty has been to get rid of the poison
which from that day has inc,irably
corrupted their organization. The
colossal frauds of T;lnlmany, the 22nd
of July. New York riots, the bar
barities in the South, the. refusal to
obey the new constitutional amend
mellts, the continued re-:lsSertion of
the heresy of State riglIts-wlat are
all these b.lt the cropping out of the
original sin of submission to rbell-
| ion? 1t Is Il homely axiom that "A
house divided against itself cannot
| stand.'' But here is Il party, not only
divided against, but nearly every MEM
Der of it IS ut war with himself or ut
war with his brother. Democratic
disintegration is the order of the day.
Turn where these men may. there
is no hope. For ten years past the
citadel of the Democracy was Tam
many Hall, whose fraudulent major
| tiles swallowed up the Republican
forces of New York State. and were
| even strong enough to absorb and
obliter,te Republican Commonwealths
like Connecticut and New Jersey.
| Now this citadel is trlillbling to its
foundations by its own innate rotten
ness. 1t is most bitterly asSliled by
the Democrats themselves. Ii they
turn to the South, they find people
sick of reposing confidence in the
Democratic leader OF the North. Ii
they turn to the West, they realize that
every monument of Western progress
and prosperity has. been erected and
consl,mmated by Republicans in the
face Of Democratic opposition. SO
true it is that when the Democracy
lost its patriotic purpose, ten or eleven
years ago. and proffeietl itself rs the
shield and support OF rebellion against
| the Government, it lost its own soul.
-Setlaki0 Times.
The Eureka Now Sentinel, an
honest and outspoken Democratic. pa
per. lets itself loose in tile following
good stye: kukluxism, antl-Orange
demonstrations and Tamnhany frauds
have already cost the Democracy the
election in several States. Gouru-l1ead
editors and mossy-backed stumpers
who defend such outrages i'll the name
of Democracy should be read out OF the
party, or ut least be taught to walk
in the rear of the procession until they
acquire something OF the spirit of tile
age. Several antideluvian LEADERS
in this State should Immediately be
| sent to the rear. Live men must take
the helm or abandon the ship.is
Amongst the charges Senator Schurz
makes against the President is the APP
pointmellt ot'llis brother-inlaw to office.
Amongst the first demands made
upon the President by Senator Schurz
| was the appointment of his brotllel-in-
| law to the office Of Collector in Chi
cago. lie is also particularly hostile
to .scarpet-baggers, seeming. to for
get that it is not very long since his
own baggage was checked through to
| st. Louis and that of his brother-iii-
law to Chicago.-lSt. Charles (-Mo.) Cos
| mos.
Abiding to the United States loan.
| one of the English papers says "a
| government that has Within five years
redeemed nearly five hundred millions
Of the obligations created in conduct
| ing 4 great war, and which has at the
same time greatly cut down the fiscal
burdens of the people, stands In
| uositfon which investors know how to
appreciate Yes, and which the
people of this country know how to
| appreciate, as they will show by their
| votes. ss. 8