The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-04-18

months. For the last three months e
mas answered no satisfactory purpose, bus IL
has been continued by the enemies OF the admins
they have sought to make that examination mmor-
tai by making 1t eternal Cheers and Aughter.l
They have sought to cover up their contemplate
will ever read. That testimony vii hll q volume
six times as large as the Bible; but will resemble
Reform Is now the order Of the day, or rather the
clamor OF the day. | once heard philanthropst
described a Is, one who hoo loved an men, but
reormer may be defined as man
who continually blows his own trumpet and calum-
mates his neighbOrs-arrOgates to himself all the
virtues of the times, while he really possesses none.
am for reform. l claim to have been reformer
tough9ut my whole nh pubic n9ofa caLeer though
subjects l belong to party that has made
greater reforms In its political career than any
cratic party have got to that pointt arrived there
twenty-five years ago-that incapable
Of making any reform. In iact you can
cratic party than you could eengraft living
branch upon dead trunk-it won't grow no how
ing on the cars, who never sees anything till he
gets clearly by it laughter). II the democratic
ry wre % 70 our
plain plain writer's writer's win record this as the the age
systematic attempt to thrust down the republican
party by calumny, oft and industrlously continued
II.
ate, it now exists, has been enactng the play Of
the "school for Scandal" Because we would
not subject the government to the wrong
contemplated by the resolutions OF the smell
ing committee, to which l have alluded,
the scandal went forth, that the majority Of the
Senate were opposed to the investigation and that
honorable members knowingly rsvered up tho
alleged gross corrupti0ns of the administration.
The play OF the School for Scandal was repeated time
cut and subsequently in New Hampshire, and the
character OF Joseph Surface has been performed
again and again, till 1t has been discovered, ike
Sheridan's great original, that he had some On6
behind the screen. President Grant, in fact, Is the
only President who ever took definite steps with
regard to
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
In that direction, indeed, he has gone further
than some of his best friends deemed advisable.
But so determined was he on the subject that he
has taken all the responsibility upon himself, and
has adopted rules that put out OF his hands that
patronage 1t was charged against him he was using
for his own benefit. And now this very President
who has been doing the only practicable thing in
the way of much needed civil reform, is to be dis.
placed by these men who prate abo1t universal
amnesty, and that this great republic must be
broken up of the men who have been engaged al
the fomenters and leaders OF the late rebellion, does
not receive general amnesty. Every late rebel
In the South is allowed to vote, and no man to-day
is DISTINGUISHED by the laws of the United States.
The only disability resting upon any man who en-
gagged in the rebellion is in his nelgibility to Office
JeT Davis has as much right to vote as any one
here, and he has, in fact, exercised that privilege.
But the great trouble with him is that he cannot
return to seat In the Senate OF the United States
The House or representatives passed Dill grant
ing complete amnesty to all but to three classes OF
rebels. First, those who had been in Con-
gress at the beginning Of the rebellion
and abandoned their Seats going over to the
rebellion. Those who had been serving in the army
OF the United States and carried their swords into
the rebel army, and third, those who had served as
members in the secession conventions, and who
had voted to carry out their States The bill
granted complete amnesty to all but those
three classes, among which are such men
as Davis, Toombs, stevens and breckenridge:
Those were the men that made the rebellion, and
for those men he had no further amnesty than that
accorded to their class.
Senator MORTON then proceeded to review the
financial policy, which he eulogsed, and elected the
warm applause Of the audience
Mr.. j. H. Renney Congressman from South Caro-
lima, next addressed the meeting in favor Of the ad-
minstratiOn. The speeches were 50 long drawn
out that the proceedings did not close till twelve
O'Clock, when the meeting, which had considerably
thinned at that time, broke up, and the people
quickly retired.
SO ended the first great popular demonstration In
favor of President Grant for another term.