Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-02-22
FROM OUR WASHINGTON
CORRESPOND

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Samuel's Size-His Purse-His Re
fractOry Boys-The Present
Captain to be Re-s3ectsd sc.
WASHINGTON, July 13. 1872.
AS it don't matter now why / have
neglected so long to write you, l skip
the apologies and at once proceed to
report on matters and things in gen.
eral at "Uncle Sans" Head Quarters,
as they appear to me. This same
"Uncle Sam" does a great deal of bus
mess and on very large scale, as
specimen or two will show.
I have just made contract with a
paper maker for $4,000 reams of
wrapping paper for the use of the
Postoflice, and the paper maker i'm
formed me that he has q plenty of
material on hand to make the paper
of, having at one time bought OF the
government at the Treasury, old mu-
tilated money out of which the ink
had been taken by q chemical process
Seventy four tons! This is what / call
a large business, or evidence of hav-
ing done something with his funds,
l was reminded of this by the article
IN your paper of the Sth inst, where
it is shown that General Spinner, has
in about ten years issued over FIFTY
FIVE HUNDRED MILLIONS of
dollars for the said "Uncle," to do
business with. Think of these bills
after paying one debt, passing right
on to pay another, and another, till
literally worn out, though made of
tough paper, and you have a still
larger idea OF the business of this
young "Uncle''
Between the years 1861 and 1865
this spruce young "Uncle" raised
One million and fifty thousand SOL
diers to put down seven hundred and
fifty thousand Democrats in arms who
wished to divide up the farm, and
there was no remote sign of giving
up on "Uncle's" side, when the Dem
ocrats caved. General Meigs, the
Qnarter Master General informs me
that Notwithstanding all he has work
ed off since Grant and Sherman came
in, he has over one million pairs of
soldier pants yet on hand-has seven
hundred thousand pairs of shoes yet,
has eight hundred thousand pairs of
socks, with blowses, shirts, caps, ETC.,
in proportion. to say nothing of or
dinauce stores. The Capitol building
costs IL 400, 900, it covers three and
one-fourth acres of ground, has $50
tons of iron in its cupola frame work
which will be load to move "out
vest when it goes.
This; "Uncle" now in his ninety
sixth year has family of 40, 900, 900,
some of them are Jrunnetts, or rather
darker, but as they are not to blame
for that, he proposes to treat them
all alike and give them equal credid
for good behavior, black or white.
Now in so large family there are
some wild and hayward ones and
some crotchety, queer characters.
Some are sick and vomit up bile.
Sumner. Schurz, Trumbull, Upton,
Greeley, Dana and Dom Piatt are
dreadfully dispeptic and cough vio-
lently. fyou think it possible for
them to ever be any better you just
look in their spit boxes and you'll
'give it up"
Sumner has been told so frequently,
that he was greater by far than all
men, besides, that he thoroughly be-
lieves it himself, and acts accordingly
and egotism never subsidies at the
approach of dotage. Schurz was born
reyolutionist. We have no certain
ty that he struck out at once to re.
volutionize the mode of administer
ing nourishment that was first presen
ted to him and proposed cotton as
substitute for the principal material,
but certain it is, that as soon as he
arrived to manhood he set up his
profession & prosecuted his bent with
vigor till the hangman's rope ran him
out of Europe. Here he at once dis
covered that revolution in our social
system, ESPECIALLY in the dominant
democratic party, opened up field
for him to ply bis calling Soon his
field was spoiled by the party raising
the cry Of war. and as he never builds
up but always tears down, he soon
turned on the new party in power
He always spells raise with l.,
'sraze." Old Broadhead Blair is his
first fruit. Upton gets about as
much attention as the moon gave the
little dog that barked at it as it went
over Boston common. The moon
went right on.
: Trumbull stands as an entering
wedge, ready TO drop into any ap-
parent seam in the Republican party
that promises to assist him in carry
ing his play over to his newly chosen
friends. He knows he has no futur e
with the Republican party. He has
to make new bed or stand up, he is
the last Of the Magdalen seven that
entered Andy johnson on impeach-
ment day, and he only bids the hour
when Republican Illinois can reach
him. Poor Greely, good meaning
man but always unsafe to hitch to.
The two editors, Charles A. Dana
and Dom Piatt have a most unenvi-
able reputation as Journalists. /
doubt whether there is man in the
nation who would consider anything
published by either of them as any
evidence whatever of its truth. Piatt
scattered over the city flaming pos
ter in fulsome laudation of his paper
and one flaming line read cit is the
eye of the nation at the Capital"
Some boys who knew how utterly dis
pissed the paper was, cut out the word
'seye" and getting letters from other
posters pasted in place of eye, very
different organ of the body. The
amendment was unanimously adopt
ed.
Let these hyenas howl. Grant will
not be in the least injured by their
SANDERS. He has less opposition
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