Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-03-23
Chat with the Editor.

cvince passion for the editorial routine, II
Is not Without a precedent for you know how
Il Is YOURSELF"
When last rnbled up to your third story
domicil you andl were discussing the Scna.
toriil debate over the resolution ol Mr.. SUM
ner TO look into the alledgcd sale Of arms to
the French. How that resolution hung fire in
the Senate and the discussion prolonged for
thee mortal weeks, you need not to be re
minded !. but wish to enter humble protest
against the mode of warfare inrodSced by
Senators to eSlngulsh those Republicans who
feel II duty to differ in policy with the ma.
jOrily oi the party in that botsy. A surcr
course for permanent breach coultl net Ge
suggested than the one adopted and IL the
majority desired 10 create respect and sympa
thy, and support the liberal movement, they
could not have done so much for 1t as they in
their zeal TO traducc Messrs. Sumner, Schur2
and Trumbull, have already accomplished.
Now have no particular regard for the NOV
or Of the resolution in TtrstioD, or for his col
| leagues who supported the proposition with
81 much e@rnestness, but must confess that,
after careful perusal of the debates, am
compelled TO declare TO you my convictions
that there is more truth in the allegation than
our Republican friends are ready to adnAit.
But suppose you and | go back and see with
what perlinacty the proposition to look into
| the alleged Custom House frauds were reciev-
/ cd by this same majority, and bow they
fought the amendment of Mr. Trumbull, look
ing 10 thorough investigation into that pool
of inccstuoHs political corruption, now made
50 evident To eveHy one, but happily, public
sentiment forced them finally to adopt. They
/ were not content TO aeguiesee IN the appoint
ment of committee of investigation, bat
adopted the old Democrats mode Of defeating
the proposition, by charging iueonstan,y up
on those who were its original supporters.
The attempt was IL failure, and those Senators
should have learned on This latter occasion,
that they alone are not competent 10 declare a
policy or a course of action for the people 1t
Is not TO be denied that serious divisions
threaten the Republican organization; but bit.
| ter invcctves, great personalities and prosy
speeches will not be pronounced proper cura-
tives Look over the recent debates, friend
REED, and judge ye, whether my position is
not the part of reason, of unbiased Judgment
that the party is unfortunate in leaders, and
the President equally unfortunate in )litical
advisers.
If traducing new party avajls anything
the liberal movement is most fortunate, for ev-
cry day it is growing in the estimation of the
masses, and already it has assumed proper
tions TINT may well cause "the powers that
be- to consider whether its policy Of hostility
to Messrs. Sumner, Schurz, Trumbull, &c, is
not source of weakness rather than Of
strength
The intelligence Of the people, fortunately,
Is competent 10 decide these qucstions-and
though the Senate may caucus and pick u
committee unlrendly to investigation, and
government employees fill the columns of the
Republican press with their mledctions,
there is a tribunal that cannot be corrupted.
Is it any wonder Mr. REED, that under the
guadngs Of the Senate II purcr spirit should
be evinccd in the other branch Of Congress
that there resolution identical with that
Of The Senate should be adopted quietly and
without debate? That host of sympaihizers
should arise in that body for a risid and thor
oug investigation, or that there was growing
feeling that the patronage of the Government
was u power too scrvilc in it influence? That
rs u remedy the "cvil service has been insIi-
tutcd to relicve the Government Of much Of
the responsibility and the importance attached
to political recommendations Or that Mr.
Dawes, one Of the purcst and wiscst Of New
England men in Congress should express his
disgust with the arbitrary proceedings in the
Senate and own sympathy with the advo-
Gates of nvesti CATION! Or that our own
Representative, Gen. Garfield, should I've class.
ed with thosi who do not believe that all pU-
lltical wisdom is Centcred in the class of men
who are now marshaling the hosts of freedoms
TO mar their own dear and bright record tor
securing and maintaining Republican suprem-
ncy.
But do not allow me 10 trcspass further up
on your gcneial nature, for choose To break
of abruptly the thread of discussion, to re-
sumo 1t al another and more convenient mo-
ment. HORACE.
The New York World hopes the Democrats
I will have nothing to do with the Cincinnati
Convention. 1t urges Democrats to pursue
liberal course and thinks ii will be very impo
lite TO force any candidate upon the Cincin
natians.
The hope is that enough may be drawr
from each party-Democrats and Republi
cans-to make n respectable show Of strength
for stock in trade TO start upon. But whcr
is tho ground of hope, if the leading Demo
cratic organs look with suspicion upon tht
: movement, and admonish their party to Civ,
it the go by, and Republicans who have beer
E fostering 1t, are so imorous as not 10 be abl
. TO hide theiE doubts and misgivings, and ar
c already planning underground retrcats2 Ti
liberal bantllng Is Akely 10 prove sickly affair
, aud its mldwives and wet nurses may think al
ter all, that II stranGing isnot the best disposi
I ton TO make OF it, to basket and leave lh
, waif at the door OF either Summer or SShur
will be.