The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-09

The Pious Press ON Political Per-
vorsity, with Touches ON TheologicaI
Topics.
Our religious contemp oraries devote CON.
siderable space this week to the consideration
Of the investigations still going on in Wash
ington in regard to the completely of certain
congressman in the Credit Mobilier financial
bubble. As a general thing they seem dis
posed to throw the mantle of charity over tho
fallen Ones OF, at any rate, they hold that the
community are not justified in pronouncing
the accused guilty until the final verdict Of tho
inquisitorial committees is pronounced.
The Independent is of opinion that Mr..
Colfax owes it to himself and his friends 10
make his vindication clear and full; that
Kelley, Garfield, Scofeld and Allison have also
been seriously involved; that Mr. Patterson
and James Brooks are ruined, while Mr..
Bingham and J. F. Wilson have-well, they
have saved their regulations for veracity. As
for Hoax Ames, the Independent hopes that
Congress will make haste to expel him. By
his own confession, it AYERS, he is the Con-
gressional Mephistopheles, and, if the day Of
casting out devils is not past, he ought to 60
out speedily. Like the demon of Scripture,
he means to make all the havoc he can in the
exorcism. The body of which he has long
been the evil genius has been thrown into the
mire and torn by the throes which prepare
for his expulsion; but there can be no sound
ness in the body until such spirits are cast
out. Out with him, then-bag, baggage
bones and bonds.
The Golden Age-anent the Credit Mobilief
trouble wants to borrow ''some pen Of satire
or ink Of gall to deptt the disgrace which has
overtaken some eminent and trusted statesmen
whom their countrymen have delighted to
honor, but who are now hiding their faces
from the stare of mankind. The Age first
takes Senator Patterson of New Hampshire.
formerly a professor in Dartmouth College, q
gentleman, scholar and orator, fair type rs ie
long supposed him to be, of that upright, honest
and Christian character which grows out Of
the best blood and training of New England
it first takes this representative actor and
abettor in this gigantic highway robbery and
discourseth upon him as follows -
We happened to be very busy at work in New
Hampshire during the closing weeks OF the cam
paign. In our canvassings from audience to audi
ence we occasionally crossed the track OF Senator
Patterson VINO was always represented to us as de-
nouncing with peculiar eloquence the Credit Mo-
bilier scandal and protesting his total disconnec-
words which could express Injured innocence.
He even published q letter from Cakes Ames cor
senator Patterson pointed with great elect. a.
much as to say. There, bring you the testimony
Sec cne that am not one Of its sons nor even
the remotest scion of tnat house Of ill-rerute."
Furthermore, during the recent investigations
under oath, testified, II never owned any stock
never received any dividends, In Credit Mobiier."
Wnereupon, in the twinklng Of an eye, he was cor
fronted. and COMPOUNDED and disgraced forever BY
the production OF his own receipts LOT the very
dividends which he swore he had never received.
The Golden Age passes from Patterson and
Colfax as fallen pillars prone on the ground,
and, lifting up its eyes, beholds 80 number Of
other statesmen who have received, like so
many leaning towers of Pisa, push or slant
or an inclination from perfect rectitude, and
who disfgure the horizon like melancholy
monuments pointing not exactly either to
heaven or to hell"
The fate of Pomeroy is given as the tragic
end of successful schemer, millionaire ous
of the public funds, corruptor of Legislation
and pious fraud. He is now joined to his
colleague in public infamy, whereupon the
Aoe calculates :-"What brace of Senators to
renresent one Commonwealth Caldwell and
ponerov, Thank Heaven, Kansas is once
ooo;n free State - It was thought many
wars 400 that Kansas had cost great deal Of
blood and treasure to be made free State.
How much longer is 'this sort of thing to
be kept up, to the intense disgust of the people
of the country
The Observer never has "lnowna time when
the tongue and pen were SO free with the char
acter of public men as at present." and il
might have added that there never was timo
when the character Of so many public men
was in so loose condition and fit to be made
free with. The Observers plea is for charity.
for kindly Judgment Of the motives and ac-
tons of our fellow men, for moderation and
forbearance in making up "a Judgment, and
great caution in its expression when the jufie-
ment is unfavorable. It says
The injury done to truth and righteousness BY
the temporary blackening OF good mans charac-
and t can never i o De ~s sG
hen ought TO be under the law Of charity. Words
once spoken, once Published can never be recalled
They 90 on forever. Swift to hear SLOW to speak.
ts GOOD rule, and yet a hard one to observe
when every man who makes newspaper wishes
| to speak nrst.
The Observer wakes exceeding wroth at Con-
gresham Roosevelt for his proposition to
relieve certain books, written by a Roman
Catholic, from duties now paid On oil foreign
books imported into this country. s'The
sublime impudence of this proposition"
continues our Presbyterian contemporary,
exceeds human belief, even in the capacity
of a member of Congress Why not at once
make Roman Catholics public benefcmries.
support their schools and churches, supply