The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-04-02

awful. We were told last summer
that General Grant was the only
man who could martial the host
and perch success on the Radical
banner; which, by reducing a little,
means to save the Republican pdrty.
What a humiliating confession for
a great and powerful party, and
how that humiliation is intensified
when the last redeeming feature
needs to be redeemed. A little
leayen leaveneth the whole lump;
but when the salt hath lost it's
SAVIOR the scene is closed and the
curtain drops. To preserve a body
after the spirit is fled, should be
done in time to prevent decay. If
the party doctors had obeyed the
divine injunction, physician! heal
thyself," full two years ago, and by
some mighty effort cast out a legion
or two Of devils, followed by some
relentless purgative that either kills
or cures, preservation might have
been less visionary than now, But
no; the voices of watchmen on every
tower hath sounded "All is WE'LL"
while serpents and unclean things
have reveled within, till all the en-
balmers Of Egypt, with the Great
Eastern loaded with aromatics, can
not preserve thing that dies by
sections, and rots before it dies.
"The President shall at stated
times receive for his services q com
pensation, which shall not be in
creased nor diminished during the
period for which he shall have been
elected, and he shall not receive
within that period any other emol-
ument from the United States, nor
any of them"
He has sworn to preserve, pro-
tect and defend that instrument;
and the way he has done it, let his
signature to bill increasing his
compensation 100000 during or
for his term of office, be the signifi-
cant answer. The bill was signed
in the closing hours Of the third
day of March, in the shades of
night, while honest men were re-
posing in sleep, and thieves and
burglars were busy atwork, it being
necessary to complete the swindle
, before the dividing momentbetween
his two terms, Che last moment
Of the first term would make the
q robbery legal, the first moment of
l the second term would make it lille
, gal, or during the term for which
| he was elected; The diyiQing point
+ between time and eternity is easily
comprehended, but that imaginary
moment before which Gen. Grant,
as President, can sign a bill to in
crease his salary and after which
he cannot, is beyond the line of met
aphysics, we give it up; SO great a
man never poised on the point of
nothing before.
! Ben. Butler is the father of this
! . Congressional and Presidential rob-
berry. If all his children resemble
him, like this bastard, he repeats
himself splendidly. When this
prince Of thieves left the Demo
cratic camp, it was a God-send to
that part Of christendom,
Doubtless the above clause of the
Constitution was thus framed to
, prevent the very thing that was
| done that a President should not
! put one million and a half of dol
! lars into the pockets OF Congress
, by taking one hundred thousand
himself as a price for h Is name.
Thus the Mercy-seat and the
Throne are alike infected with this
gangrene, whose virus nature loves
to own, but whose touch saint and
sinner both deny. This Redeem
ing feature, and other orbs revolv-
ing around him, have thri(e scut-
tied the Republican ship, whose
! first-born principles will live to
cheer mankind for ages yet 10 come,
but let her punctured hulk md rot
ten crew go down so deep that
bubbles will never rise to ripple the
!, waters above her. LIBERAL.