The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-04-02
COMMUNICATED
&" The Dream is Past"

EDITOR ENQUIRER: That General
Grant is only human has taken its
lightning fight, and a continent
moves at the gullability Of men. If
resolutions of coincidence from the
Gentle Democracy and Liberals
would shorten the faces of these
Radical Israolites, ! would favor
such action, it being human TO err
and divine to forgive. What q
cloud Of witnesses stand cursing
and wondering that he who was to
redeem this chosen tribe should
have the ear-marks only of a man
at last; that this dog-star Of that
murky, musty, radical sky, was
born to droop and die like other
men. / suggest they philosophise
q little and accept the situation.
May not this exhibition Of the weak
ness Of human nature in their un-
defiled President be q well directed
dispensation of Providence showing
the vitiated credulity of men, the
fallibility and mutability of that
would-be heaven-born party ? When
men go off after strange gods, wor-
shipping golden calves and craven
images, is not q little chastening
scourge like q hundred thousand
dollars dropping from the peoples
treasury into the capacious NAV Of
their idol a wholesome rebuke for
worshipping the creature more than
the Creator ? If God has a thou
sand ways to bring belieyers home,
he may have mysterious ways to
bring to repentance that party
which was once the spirit and pride
Of this great Republic. And if He
chastepeth those He loveth, their
sorrow should be assuaged, when
true hearts are withered and foul
ones turn to rend passionate lover
and friend. And if he looks on sin
with no degree of allowance, it is
q solemn caution to such as follow
a multitude to do evil; and if he is
Of purer eyes than to behold in
iquity, it may not be committing
sacrilege to recommend q day of
Thanksgiving and prayer, / would
not; but united voice of thanks
that they are no worse off than what
they are, and prayer that their
sins Of omission and commission,
together with the lies of two Vice
Presidents and a host of other lesser
lights, may not come up as q me-
mortal against them, none but the
lngrates and insane would refuse to
offer. Some Republicans tell us
that if recent developments in
Washington had come to the sur
face before the November election,
the result would have been far diff
ferent. Whether this be true or
not, it is logical conclusion from
a thorough knowledge of the prem
ises, on the supposition that man
was created for . great and noble
purpose, and that purpose not de,
featod. But when an unhallowed |
becomes the handspring
Of political action to the accom-
plishment Of great ends, we have
to expect from blind, par
tisan multitude but the result we
now see. Therefore we conclude
If they had seen the handwriting
on the wall, with heavens best in
terpreter to give il terrible force,
The majority would have rushed
Frantically to the polls, even with
solemn forebodings of evil, and
voted the Radical ticket with the
earth opening to receive them the
next moment. A part of the Radi-
'al press is condemning this ma
,ional robbery, which is significant
'f two things, 1t speaks Of little
park of healthy vitality leaning
ondly over the remains, struggling
lnder fearful load Of Congress
ional corruption and general rot
enness, which knows no mercy, has
nst all shame, fears no law, and
'ounded only by It's power to in
ect; and If the stencil from Wash ,
ngton ofends the nostrils of the |
republican press, that cage of un- .
lean birds must be more than {