The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-03-20
old age, that he was when you first adopted
him and ever since you thus honored him.
Yours truly.
-. JAMES BROOKS.
The DISSOLUTION Of the Republican Party.

With the expiration Of this debauched and
degraded Congress, passes away the Republican
party. No continued professions of virtue and
reform can save the. politicsl organization
whose leading members, with large majority
in both Houses of Congress, have shielded cor
ruptiouists and peIjnrers, and thus made them
selves responsible as . party for the ofenses
they were too cowardly or too base to condemn.
Dufing the debate on the. Poland whitewashiug
report, when. q fierce attack Was made By. 8
Democratic Congressman on one of the Credit
threat from Republican Representative, that
the convitticpof the iaenlpated members might
be the signal for general exposure Of matters,
in which the Democratic. side of the House
might find themselves involved Yesterday, in
the closing hours of the session, Democratic
Representative IN the floor Of the House in de.
bate boldly.den ,dneed the Senate as disre-
putable body, and when taken to task for tho
remark, justified it, and declared that the House
of Representatives was q more honest body at
that moraent than the Senate of the United
States. The party which thus stands branded
as disrepusable and self:conyicted of corruption
cannot hope to escape public condemnation.
No professions of honesty and virtue will save
the politicians who will clasp Colfnx to their
hearts, aud make common cause with Patterson
and Harlan, with Pomeroy aud Caldwell, and
with Kelley, Garfield and Bingham.
The fall of Republication may, however,
prove blessing to the newly inaugurated adj
miuistration. President Grant must now zee,
more clearly than ever, the wisdom of making
himself the President Of the people, and not Of
disgraced decaying party His policy will be
the more likely to be shaped on independent
views, since he has seen and known the selfish
mesa and dishonesty of those whose advice he
has heretofore felt disposed to follow. Recent
Developments must have removed all doubt IS
to the unworthy purposes of the Congressional
majority who have shaped the treatment Of the
South. and controlled the general course of the
administration. 1t was very we'll for Pres-
dent Grant to declare on his first Inauguration
that he had no policy of his own, while he fest'
his inexperience in State affairs and his in
debtedness to the party which had elevated him
to the Presidency. But such an intimatiou
now would sadly disappoint popular expecta-
ton. Congress and the party it represents
have forfeited public confidence, but the peo-
pie still trust and honor the soldier President
and look to him to redeem the national char.
acter from the stain left upon it by their dis
honored representatives.. There Is every rea-
son, therefore, why,the President should, with
I his new term of Office, cast off the mo policy"
ne mas ueIeEOtOIc pIUiteScu au0 e1AC EVn
self the responsibility of new departure. The
nation will stand by him now, as it stood by
him in the days of the rebellion, if he will on
ly fight the battle out on his own line. A change
in the Cabinet, such rs will meet popular COM
lnendation liberal, generous and constitu-
tional treatment of the South; an honest effort
to reform the civil service; a bold, digni6ed at
titude towards foreign nations, and firm effort
to, secure full Justice for the Cubans from the
Spanish Republic, will mark President Grant's
second term of office as the equal in usefulness,
honor and patriotism to those filled by Wash
ington and Lincoln. Can the President hesi-
tate in his choice between such career and
mere political association with degraded Or
ganization? He has the opportunity before
him to become in truth the President of the
American people. Will he sacrifice that for
the sake of remaining the President of the
Credit Mobiler Republican party 7-Meso YORK
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