The Shasta courier., 1872-03-23

The time he got into his English grammar
and he has managed to keep we'll in Office
He was made Minister to Spain, and
failed to aeh eve any remembered reputa-
tion in Madrid. He was a general in the
army, and came out of the ranks with no
more fame than thousand other generals,
who quietly took off their swords and went
into trade. lie edited newspaper and
| failed in that. In time he was thrown
into the Senate, where he has only sue
ceeded as an incessant sharp, endless.
| quick witted talker, who has not made a
peech which will last beyond the necessi
ties OF the Democratic party in this cam
paign. We do not esteem our Senate as
an astonishing body. We regard it as a
fine collection of mediocrities. We have
no Senator who will compare with Mf
Gladstone, MIR. Disraeli, Mr.. Bright or Mr.
Lowe, aud so far from Mr. Sburz being
the marvel that his followers insist upon
regarding, he is inferior to Sumner,
Thurman, Edmunds, Conking, Morrill, or
Ferry. and is really about match for
Frank Blair; We mean that he is "a
match for Blair in intellectual resources
As an eager fri.ky perpetual talker, always
obtruding upon the Senate with speech
or an interruption, he is only surpassed by
Garrett. Davis. He can truly say with
Tennyson, "Men may come and men may
go, but l go on forever"
And as for Mr.. Trumbull, we dismiss
him as politician who followed faithfully
in the Republican party until the incense
bearers tempted him off with hopes of the
Presidency. A politician who reforms at
sixty and publishes himself as a estates
man, may excite our curiosity, but scarcely
our enthusiasm. These are the demagog
mes and conspiratoIs who have held the
! country at Their mercy for three weeks,
delaying public business, spending the
peoples money, and bringing the good
name and good faith of the nation into
disrep tie, merel y to defeat General Grant.
their allies are found in disappointed
politicians like Greeley, who abandons IA
tariff man like Grant to aid in the nomina-
tou and election of free trader; or Fenton,
who has been squealing with nose high in
air ever since he and his litter were turned
out of the troughs of the Custom House
or like three or four pretensious newspapers
in the East and West, who advertise their
obstinacy for independence, and proclaim
that no virtue remain in journalism but
what they happily possess; that they alone
are unterrifed and unbought; that thanks
be to God, like the Pnarisee of DID, they
are not as other journals are We really
do not know whether the feeling excited
by this comedy Of scandal and ambition is
one of amusement or contempt We are
amused when We see these strollers froul
tie Republican party establish side show
and advertise themselves as real, new pa
riots, with gorgeous costumes aud na-
chiLery and decorations, and their play is
the ouly lie, itimate drama, while the
performance at Philadelphia is sensational
and unworthy, But we cannot refrain
from onr contempt whan We see the Senate
OF the United States surrendered to the
intrigues of politicians who have no griev-
ance against Grant that does not arise
from disappointed ambition.
Behind these men there is public
opinion which is as true to Grant as it was
true to Jacks N when Calhoun and Clay
and Webster thuhdered at him in the
Senate. The people stood by Jackson
against the politicians, anG he triumphed.
The people are standing by Grant, and we
are profoundly convinced that he will have
a triumph as conspicuous and splendid as
was awarded to the hero of New Orleans