New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-07-04

sake, / may denouninate as Senatorial ring,
dcnouncing me e. unfaithful to the Republic
can party, and as throwing dirt upon II oy
offering resolution TO inquire into the con-
duct of public officers" lCheers.1
The simple truth about this matter is this,
Messrs. Trumbull and schurz came to Con-
gress with their meditated purpose to do their
utmost to atliscredit the Republican party in
the eyes of the American people. Their
present position outside of that party and in
coalition with the Democratic party is not
accidental, but the result OF calculation.
Men like Schurz and Trumbull do not act
from mere impulse. No stimulation OF SIM
plicity can conceal this. Seeing through the
thin disguise of Mr.. Trumbull, the "Senatori-
al Ring as he calls the Senators who saw
the logical results of his man9uvers, they ex-
posed him, and his subsequent course has
justified all they said of him. Messrs Morton
and Conkling and other gentlemen who I'M
masked the political traitor, were as earnest
for fair investigation as any other men
could be. And while we regret that they
made any resistance even to the manner in
they were perfectly correct as to the purpose
of its author. We expressed our regret at
this seeming (for it was only seeming) re-
sistance to investigation, because we foresaw
the unfair advantage which an uncandid and
selfish man might take of it before the peO-
pie. President Grant, first, last, and through
all has welcomed the fullest and most search
ing investigation which could be devised, and
this Mr.. Trumbull knows. But it suits his
purpose to say nothing of this. He is law
yer, bent upon making out his case, not a
statesman before the people calmly explain
ing the facts of given situation:
81 ask you tonight, rs intelligent citizens,
knowing the secrecy with which fraud is COM
mitted, and who are aware of the cunning de-
vices resorted to to cover it up, if you would
expect to uncover and detect il if none but
friends of those accused were appointed to
make investigations ?"
Well, let us try the converse of this propo-
sition. Suppose it is true that the ends OF
justice cannot he reached if only the friends
of those accused are to investigate and I'M
cover their conduct, is it not equally true,
that justice may suffer if only the enemies OF
the accused are appointed to investigate? Is
friendship more likely to be blind than NAL
ice? Would not the latter be as likely to
exagserate faults as the former would be to
excuse or conceal them: Now Mr.. Trum-
bull knows, and the country ought to know,
that the Senatorial Ring" as they are now
impudently stigmatized, simply differed with
Mr.. Trumbull upon the one point of joint
committee of the House and Senate. They
preferred that the Senate should conduct its
own investigations, leaving the House to do
the same for itself. Is this to appoint only
the friends of the accused to investigate their
conduct? Is the Senate more friendly to
delaulters and swindlers than the House
If not, Mr.. Trumbull's statement is an in
sulting Islander, for which he deserves the
reprobation of all who honor the Senate of
their country.
We shall notice but one other point in this
most uncandid political manifesto comment
ing on the Republican platform adopted at
Philadelphia. He says:
''' A speedy return to specie payment is
demanded alike by the highest considerations
of commercial morality and honest govern
ment.' Now, see what the Regulars say on
that subject I'VE confidently expect that
our excellent national currency will be per-
fected by the speedy resumption of specie
payments They confidently expect that,
and yet the truth is that we are further from
specie payments to-day, this Goth day of
June, 1872, than we were two years ago on
Al. cal. 3 I'll a., L..
commands higher premium than it did then,
and yet the Regulars confidently expect a
speedy return to specie payments under their
excellent management"
There is not the least inconsistency here.
The fact that gold commands n higher pre-
MUM in the month of June 1872 than IN the
month Of June, 1870, is due to the machine
tons of just such statesmen and patriots as
MIR. Trumbull, who by their efforts to bring
the Democratic element into power, have TO
a small degree unfavorably affected the ma
tional credit and raised the price of gold.
Had no attempt been made to break up the
Republican party, or to cast a doubt upon its
continuance in power, gold to-day would
command smaller premium than two years
ago. The present rise in gold is the protest
of the credit of the country against the effort
now making to eject the present administers
ton. In taunting the administration with
the rise in the price of gold, Mr.. Trumbull is
simply glorying in his own shame, and at the
expense ofhis country's credit. He ISLANDERS
her honesty, endeavors to prove her guilty
of all manner of dishonesty, proclaims her
rulers as corrupt, and then laughs at her
damaged reputation before the world. This
will probably 90 on till November, when the
election of L. S. Grant and Henry Wilson
Twill send gold down lower than any point
reached since the great civil war; for their
election will attest the integrity, the steadi-
ness, the honesty and ability of the Ameri-
can Government, and its disposition to hon
orably discharge all its obligations.
Nir. GrecIey's New Allies.