Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-10-19
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 1872.
WHAT is THERE TO RECONCILE?

The recent speech of General Garfield
at Wilmington, Ohio, shows how idle the
rant of Liberals about reconciliation.
He proves that there is nothing on the
part Of the Northern people and their
feelings toward, or their treatment Of,
Southerners that opens aquestion of re-
concilation. An overbearing or quarrel
some disposition toward the South must
be shown, before a reconciliation can pos
sibly be inaugurated among the people of
! the North. In the absence Of this and
of any attempt to treat the Southern peo-
pie differently from the people Of the
North, which the General has conclusive
! ly shown cannot be discovered to exist,
the new gospel Of Greeleyism is without
foundation-a cheat and a fraud. The
accepted Liberal doctrine that the
Union s0IdierS NOR in tile Departments
! at Washington are u Stdndip9 menace
against the Southern people, and that
they must be withdrawn, is an outrage
upon an honest and fair administration
of the Government. The proposition
plainly stated by Mr.. Greeley that in case
of his election, he intended to divide the
public plunder Of official patronage among
all those who vote for him, without ref
erence to the past, is blow at that pro-
tecting care which all civilized people
exercise over and extend to capable SOL
diers who have won the victories and pro-
tected the State from overthrow in time
of war. According to this doctrine of
submission of the North to the South,
! the Union soldiers who have only one
! leg or one arm, or neither, shall be abso
lutely barred from employment under
the Government whatever superiority for
such places they may possess, and the
rebel supporters of Greeley whose ire is
so great as to be infamed by such a stand
ing menace, shall be put in their places,
whether qualified or not. No cOmpeti-
tive or other examination is suggested by
Mr.. Greeley-nothing but a promise to
reward his friends for their political aid
In fact he scouts the idea Of examination
and lays down the one-term principle of
eecting the President as all that is need
ed in the line of civil service reform, re
viving the jackson doctrine that "to
the victors belong the spoils." Will it
bring peace and reconciliation to the
country to turn out of the Departments
all the soldiers of the Union and replace
them with unrepentant rebels of the
South? This is one Of the White Hat alb
surdites We want none OF it.
CAPITAL ITEMS.
Despite the reduction of internal reve-
nue., the receipts continue to be fully
equal to those under the old law. A half
million per day was reached recently, and
fifty millions have been collected during
the first three months of the new fiscal
year, which is pro rata an excess over
the estimate. The effect Of the abolition
on the lst instant Of all stamp duties ex-
cept the two-cent stamp on bank checks
must, however, be anticipated during the
remainder olIthe year.
A friend has just returned here from
a visit to Belefont, Pa, the home Of ex-
Governor Curtin, and he informs me that
of his four brothers who reside near that
place not one OF them support the Gov
ernor in the ridiculous course he is pur-
suing in the Pennsylvania canvass. This
shows that what | recently stated about
his want of influence is true.
1t is toreshadowed that the President
will issue a message to Congress when it
reassembles asking for an appropriation
to send delegation of Workingmen to
Vienna for the purpose of reporting upon
the progres Of the industrial arts in Eu-
rope as shown by the Vienna Exposition,
the delegates to be nominated for APP
proval by the various branches of indus
try represented. The exposition will
open next May. General Z. b. Van
Buren,, Of New York, is the Commission
er on the part Of the United States.
Fitty-one Indians from the Stakcd
plains arrived here Thursday. The par
ty consists OF representatives from the
Arapahoes, Towocahees, Waccoes and
Delawares, They held conference at
the Interior Department to-day. 1t is a
very good sign that peace with all these
tribes will be made and maintained when
their representatives, come all the way to
the capital Of the nation to confer with
the Great Father through the proper ex-
ecutive Departments. The Apaches are
reported to be on the war path in Arizo-
ma. C.M,