The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-06-23

full promises,-the drift of which is, they
win, each. do the very h6st to and the lost
broom; Of -ineerrupti vand- to- se' IT.
freely in sweeping the Augean etable OF
politics. They botk promise to Reform
every thiDgciyiiiand poMticaf -ezcspt theu-
selves. They both admit tie uecessity Of
ReforD,-and they bothshbeloag to the
party whose sdministtatlon .relderp reform
neoesssry,-4I1ut they both staR cling tena-
eiously to TIE party which has corrupted
the country. : One Of them, with his pens
wrote that party inte power = thu other
with his swoed strepgthened. and perPetp-s
ated that power. Grant 10 the presidential
creation Of Greelsy's pen. It seems that
Greeley il to be the presideatial creation
Of Grants corruption. If each, as presi.
dent, be the creation of the other it IN moro
than likely that each as president, win be
more or less according to the hinge and
likeness of the other. Both are great men,
in the little sense Of greatness. That ISL
the largeness Of their floeks Of followers
lends them greatness which themselves
alone do not possess. One wrote the coun--
try into war. The other headed the savage
war. One massed his savage ideas against
the right. When the ideas changed TO
men,-the other led them against tho right.
The pen of the one and the sword of the
other were the two weapons which fought
the battles, won the victories, worked the
wrongs, and created the corruptions of the
party to which both still belong. These
two men want to rent the White house
from it's owners, the people, for four
years. They both make high bids in the
shape Of promissory notes. The White
house 10 in sad need of renovation. They
ore both resolved to repair it and to make
it what it ought to be.
The President of the United States, In
theory, the servant Of the people, but in
fact, their sovereign, 10, in duty bound, to
watch over the rights of many milliens,
WHO, in theory, are sovereigns-but, in fact,
are subjects. ::
Both these men face those millions
and each, with the whine of q beggar-
man saSs: "Give me your votes Trent
me ~ 'White-house for four years,-
! and here are my promissory notes which I
shall certainly redeem, by which pledge
myself to take good, presidential care OF
you all for four years." The presidential
business 10 based on q credit system.
/ Ulysses Grant, like his Grecian Pagan
namesake of old, ia q soldier,-that Ia, has
worn uniform and done large share of
slaughter land Philadelphia, which boasts
a pretty Grecian name, presents him with
. flourish of trumpets as the best man for
the highest place in this best government
He coolly smokes his cigar,-and writes OF
has written by some friend his promissory
note.
Horace Greeley, like his Pagan Roman
namesake, is q satirist and philosopher 8
and Cincinnati, which boasts a noble Ro-
bow, as the best man to mind and manage
the business of the good people of this best
Government.
He puts 90 his white hat and cautiously
writes ont his promissory note.
And AL the manifold interests of this
great people must, for four years, depend
on the great Smoker and his PROMISES or,
on the eccentric wearer Of the white hat
AID his promises. At least-so far, this
seems inevitable.
And this is Governm ent.
"IIurra for Grant, shouts tho Re
publican office holder and - the colored
man.
"Hurra for Greeley - sh outs the re-
publican who is not an Office no lder,-and
many Democrats.
"Hurra for neither )" mutters another
Republican who is opposed to Grant, on
account of his bad administration, and
cannot trust Greeley because many Demo.
Gratis endorse him.
-" Better Grant than Greeley shouts q
Democrat, who prefers man whose worst
is already known, to an evil not yet tried
"Hurra for some genuine straight-out
Democrat ;" cries another who does moi
know the knack Of separating. his princi.
Piles from his President.
And other some, among the Democrats
will not at all hurra for any of these mer
or in any of these ways, but listen and