Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-04-09
Correspondence of the Herald
FROM WASHINGTON.
imprsvem ents- Congress-Gran and the Poiit-
ical Outlook.

sure hour, / pen few thoughts to
which you may lend the wings of the
Herald ifyou deem them worthy of
such an honor.
Washington is just coming out of
the severest winter tho city has
known since 1913, and our landlady
ascribes the changed seasons to the
influx of Northern men, ideas and
enterprise but whether right or not,
we do know that for the coming
summer we shall have an abundance
OF Boston ice CD which has been har.
vested the past winter from the hith
erto iceless Potomac
Washington has but two seasons.
In one, its Inhabitants in search of
recreation and health have followed
the swallows in their northward
flight; and during the other, which
is measured in its length by the ses-
sion of Congress, our hotels and
boarding houses are full, new faces
are seen everywhere, crowds of beau.
tiful ladies and fashionable men are
in the avenues, and throng places of
business, churches and theatres to
say nothing of the innumerable army
of lobbyists and hangers>on which
are always to be found where ma
tional capitol disburses it's money
and patronage. AS distinct as are
seasons, is the Washington of to-day
when compared with that Of duelling,
fighting, aud slave-walIoping and
selling times. Ten years ago, the
city was the butt of ridicule for all
visitors, but under the reign of free
dom, order and law it has put on q
new life and moves toward a grand
er destiny. The cold fogy," "dog.in.
the-manger" elements have been vot
cd to back seats, and the progressive
powers that rule are determined to
make of Washington what the Capt.
tai of this nation should be.
A loan to the District of $4,000
600 was authorized by act of lcgisla-
ture, ratified by vote of the people,
and was easily negotiated in the
money markets and this large sum
is now being judiciously expended
in grading aud paving the streets and
ornamenting the Public Grounds.
As an evidence of progress, and of
the peoples faith that this is to re-
main the nations capital, we note
the fact that six hundred substantial
and many of them elegant residence
es were built here last year, and the
preparations for this seasons work
are on the same extensive SCALE
But we note other than material
progress. The puplic schools and
other institutions of learning are of
q high order, and most literally pat.
ronized the churches are numerous
and we'll attended the ministry able,
and the Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION. made up in great part from
the Government employees, is pow
err for good which is extending its in.
fiuence az wide as the whole coun-
try and we rejoice at public sem
timent which can fill the largest hall
in the city with the earnest friends
of Temperance, and over the fact,
that such men as Senators Backing
ham and Ferry and Vice President
Colfax dare to stand up before them
as they did last Sunday, and with
words of thrilling eloquence and pow.
err plead in behalf of one of the grand
est moral enterprises of the age.
The present session of Congress has
been an exciting one, as is usually
that preceding Presidential election,
and it has been no exception to the
rule of speeches for "buncombe" and
talking and voting with view to
their bearing on political success or
defeat, thing which it would be
well to avoid in the future and leave
the people free to choose their own
officers, their representatives in the
meanwhile attending to their legiti-
mate work of legislation. Investiga-
tion has been the order during the
entire session, and if this had been
entered npon with an honest purpose
TO expose corruption and fraud where
ever found, all the people would
have said amen, but instead of this
it was done with the hope to fasten
some stigma upon the good name of
the President, and thus defeat his
nomination and election but instead
of succeeding, he has come out of all
these with no more faint of corrup-
ton upon his garments than there
was smell of fire upon those Of the
Hebrew children who were Divinely
protected in the Fiery Furnace, and
to-day the judgment of the people at
the bar of public opinion is entered
against his accusers, and they will
see to it who is executed next Mo-
vember.
Any candid observer in the Hous-
es of Congress will readily see that
the political parties of to-day are the
same as in '62 Then the Democra-
cy composed the rebel armies in the
South and their sympathizers in the
North, while every Republican was
true to his country; and now every
Democrat in Congress apologies for
and excuses the damning deeds of
the Ku-Klux, while Republicans, u.s.
ing the strong arm of Government
authority, have about crushed the
life cut of that diabolical organization
of assassins, Ii anything more was
needed to show up the parties in their
true light, Republicans can point to
their defaulters in the States Prison,
while the Democracy can refer with
pride to their "Grand Sachem" of
Tammany thieves elected to the New
York Legislature.
The conduct of Sumner, Trumbull,
and Schurz has given little hope to
the Democracy, but it can not save
them. lfSumner can go back on the
convictions of lifetime, and now
play into the hands of the party that
tried to murder him because he was
the nations grandest champion of
Freedom, we are glad to know the
people will not follow him.
The sight of Trumbull endeavor-
ing to win the suppOrt of the disor-