The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-04-05
[From 8. +. Examiner
THE LEPER or THE SENATE.

1t will be odd indeed If the madly
proscriptiye and defunctionary course
Of Grants whippers-in does not per-
manently drive out of the Radical
party its very ablest men, those who
have been the foremost from the be-
ginning in bringing tho party into
prominence and power. Grant, him
self, possessed of the insane desire to
prolong his lease Of the White House,
has Infused the same infuriate spirit in
to his leading companions, and they,
actuated by IT, are verifying the prov
erb, ",Vhom the Gods would destroy,
they first make mad" The behavior
in the Senate OF such parasites as
Conkling, Nye and Morton, is doing
infinite mischief to the master whom
theytaro 30 anxious to serve, yet know
ing not how, are working his sure
rum. Solicitous as they are to retain
Grant in power for their own pur-
poses, they are still more concerned
to degrade the men whose superiority
in intellect and conscience gives them
such great unrest. They cannot en-
dure the association OF those who are
so much greater than themselves, as
are Trum bull and Schurz.
Trumbull, by reason of his conscr-
vatism and largeness Of soul, which
scars beyond the narrow confines of
his party, and dcspiscs the intellectual
pigmics who are drawing it into the
vortex of destruction, is the especial
object of the envy, jealousy and ha
tired of the Administration and its ad-
hercnts. He has had the hardihood
to say that he holds his country above
his party, aud TO denounce the cor
ruptness and imbecility of its chiefs,
and to endorse the platform of the
Missouri Liberals, which, among other
things, attacks the constitutionality of
the ku-klux measures, and arraigns
the Administration for its manifest
and manifold crimes against the peo-
pie aud their liberties. For all this
lac has drawn upon himself the angry
rcvilement of the Lepcr of the Senate
Oliver l.. Morton.
Trumbull first earned the ill-will of
| Grant by his independence in voting
against the impeachment of Andrew
johnson, i'll spite of the torrents of
abuse and misrepresentation which that
act was sure to bring upon him
Ever since then he has been an objec:
of suspicion and distrust with the man
whom Johnson proved guilty OF false
hood and trcachery. Now, Grant,
fearing the adverse influence OF Trum-
bull in the Philadelphia Convention,
desires Ia degrade him before the
country, and with that intent sets his
dogs i'll the Senate upon him. But
their bark, AS their bite, is innnocu-
Gus. Lyman Trumbull, notwithstand.
ing the misfortune which has placed
him in the Republican party, has
earned respect for his talents and evil
| IDENTIFY conscientious desire to serve
his country, and pure and clean in
morals, aud stong ia mental and NOR
al character, he, in this last contest in
the Senate, presents an impressive
contrast to his assailant, whose body,
like his soul, is scared with the conse-
quences of an ill-spsnt lite. Wretch
ed in spirit and in flesh as the Indiana
Senator is, he is the lit exponent of the
views and protector OF the crimes of his
chief The physical leprosy of the
master. y criminal sympathy sub
sists between them, which makes it
incumbent on the one TO act as cover
for the other.
1t is not in the nature of things or
Of men for Trumbull and Schurz long
to associate with such infectious crea-
lures, and their voice and influence
will no dobt be found at the proper
time, where their sympathies were
long ago, in unison with the corrected
public sentiment of the country.