Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-04-17
The War on the President.

One would have thought that after the
! condemnation of the Liberal Republican
movement by the sovereign people at
the polls last fall, the corporal's guard
of editorial trumpeters who had led the
! forlorn hope of deserters would have
been content to do nothing for awhile
beyond sounding their own praises. But
they are apparently deluded by the idea
that they were not very badly beaten af-
| ter all, and they are again blowing
away, hoping that the noise which they
make will attract recruits. Disappoint-
ed office-seekers, ambitious politicians,
and hungry camp-followers are invited
to 90 fall in and join in the new crusade
against the administration.
1t is slso evident that the vindictive
character of the last years assaults upon
the President is to be maintained. No
charge which can defaee his character,
no malevolent insinuatiOns which can
make him odious, no detraction which
can lower him in the estimation of the
people of the United States will be
spared. The decencies of private life
will again be violated, and the family
relations of the chief magistrate of the
republic will again be made the subject
of vulgar remark and of impertinent
criticism ISLANDERS upon which the
people set the seal of their condemna-
ton IN November last. and which were
then regarded as dead and buried, are
now to be brought again to light by
some galvanic process, and made to eX-
hibit an appearance of revived truth and
vitality which can not but be transien Mt
and delusive, although it may be an
nounced that 1t shines for all"
The only new weapon which these
chronic croakers have been able to add
to their armament, is the change
with it has been occasionally found
necessary to make in filling some of the
public offices. Prescription is an
ancient political war-cry, revived and
adapted for the occasion, and one might
imagine from the great outcry made,
that the old Democratic guillotine was
at work again, chopping off the ''heads''
OF office-holders all over the country
while the supporters of the administration
hover over the bodies of the decapitated,
and exult over the banquet of blood.
All this is what the Turks expressively
term . Bosh ~ 1t can not be supposed
that President Grant was gifted with
such unerring sagacity when he first en-
tered upon the discharge of his official
uuUiSS thdt NC utNeE appointed an I'M
worthy, incompetent or idle man to
office, or that he did not occasionally err
concerning the personal popularity or
political position of an appointee. When
such mistakes have been made. now is
the time, at the expiration of these per
sons commissions, to rectify them, and
they are being rectified Only Yesterday
the postmaster at Gloucester, Mass. who
had been several times behindhand in
the settlement of his accounts, was re-
moved and gallant soldier, worthy |
and well qualified for the place. was an
pointed in his stead. 1t would not be
possible to have the laws faithfully exc
cuted unless some changes were made.
No matter now incompetent or worth
less those who have been removed to
make way for better men are, they are
now warmly welcomed as allies by the
Liberal Republican press Ephemeral
politicians, who have been warned into
existence by the executive patronage,
and who have sported their inglorious
career in the warm sunshine of executive