Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-09-06

~ in the day of judgment" eyes, sir"
said Burr, lin fifty years OF criminal pratce
| have always found the greatest rascals
turn States evidence" What hope have we
Of Civil Service Reform from Horace Gree
ley? Last week, in Portland, he said that
his ideas of Civil Service Reform were not to
run twice himself, and, IL he got in to make
an equal divide of the offices among his sup
porters. In his letter to Schurz he carefully
avoids this, unequivocally declaring, as well
he might, that he will remove no man from
office. for party reasons. 1t is within the
power of Mr.. Greeley, to-day, by statement
under his signature that, If elected no man
shall be removed from office because he votes
for Grant, to put an end to the application,
during his four years. term, If he is elected,
or the mischievous maxim, ITO the victors
belong the spoils."
But he will make no such declaration
The author OF the letter announcing the
dissolution of the officehunting firm Of
Seward, Weed 81 Greeley, is not likely to
take any such step as is here Indicated. The
platform Of the Cincinnati Convention con-
tains an unequivocal declaration of hostility
to any further subsidies of public lands In
favor of internal improvements. The
records of Congress show how little Mr..
Greeley Is to be trusted to enforce this
plank. In 1887 he was detected in the posi-
tion of disbursing money in aid of the Land
Grant bill of the DesMoines River Naviga-
tlon Railroad. To whom this money, only
the small sum of $1,000, was paid, the
President Of the Company, when examined
under oath before Congress, was unable to
state, though he said he had his suspicious,
and Mr.. Greeley, though diligently sought
by the Sergeant alarms of the Senate, in
the city of New York for period of two
weeks, was on an indefinite visit to the
West. The money was intrusted to him,
the President stated under oath, without
previous consultation, because he was such
an ardent friend of the scheme, aud the
money was used by Mr.. Greeley; although
the President said it was furnished
him on condition that it should not be
used unless the bill passed, and the bill did
not pass. This tranaction, il 1t proves
nothing else, at least shows that Greeley has
been, in times past, no foe to land grants.
Nor Is the character of Greeley such as to
warrant those who had hoped another issue
from the Cincinnati Convention to support
him. His support of the infamous bill
which gave to that now convicted scoundrel,
Judge G. Barnard, the exclusive jurisdiction
to grant injunctions and appoint receivers in
the city of New York; his partnership with
Tweed in the manufacture of tobacco, while
in his newspaper condemning those who use
it as blackguards; his Fourierism; his ''On to
Richmond his support of, and faith in, the
bill by which Congress attempted to stop
traffic in gold, and which bill they were
compelled to repeal within a month after its
passage, so signal was its failure; in short,
his whimsical, his crotchety, erratic course,
wisdom, whom the American people would
be as foolish to make President, as they
would have been to have trusted him with
the power which Abraham Lincoln wisely
ex ercised in the matter of the Niagara Falls
Conference.