The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-04-18

What il ao0 says q the President and his
mal.administation Of public atiairs, cannot
BE- SET down TO the credit Of party asperity.
The aeethipg lava.side Of It's iuvective must
be regarded as the upwelling Of virtuOus
indignation against the abuses which il
seeks to expose, and Il theirs i moro than
the wonsed heat ia is searching etiti.
cisms, il must be admitted that Grant him
self has supplied the fuel to the boiling
caaldion. The President recently said Of
Gary speech, thar there swas more Bit
tarness in its personality and ialsehood
than anything he had ever seen in the
lVssu York .Sam.r To this the Sm pub
lishes.the following rejoinder Let every
intelligent man read it, and say If the pic
ture be oyerdrawn. Let him say if it be
not drawn with withering fidelity to the
living subject;
The Sun Is a newspaper. Its columns are
crowded with fresh intelligence every morning.
Nothing OF public interest or Importance being
omitted, ii happens, naturally enough, that al
manner of swindles are exposed in its we'll
packed pages; and in so far as the protection
Of society requires it, the names and charac-
tiers Of the swindlers are revealed. To that
extent the San is undoubtedly personal. But
we cannot recall an instance, 10 all its history,
Of aimless or unnecessary personality. Ii IL
has exposed the Presidents unworthy ambi-
tons, his dangerous love of money and Of
power his disregard of law and Of public SEN
timent, bis prescription of honest men, and
his open combinations with corrupt kuaves TO
debanch and plumber the nation, il was be-
cause those exposures were needed to save
the country from still greater enormities at
his hands. and still lower depths of shame
into which he would and might have plunged
US. II, on the other hand, the President has
been guilty Of licentious practices of private
nature which affected him alone, aud inflicted
no corresponding evil upon the public, the
San has borne no testimony and made no
comment in regard to them. But the mon.
strous abuses which prevail under his patron.
age in every department Of government, and
in almost every place, however remote, where
the Federal power is felt, are not only proper
subjects for our professional inquiry, but they
are subjects which may not be neglected, ex-
cept At the peril Of everything good in the
eyes Of the american people.
When the merchants OF our principal cities
are laid on the rack of Special Agent, and
their limbs stretched and their joints cracked
until they consent 10 dividetheir fortunes with
the gentleman who runs the machine, and
when they look at the sharp features of the
inquisitor, it is the merciless face Of General
IL.
Of Jayne. When hundreds OF thousands Of
dollars duly collected by the regular officers
of Internal revenue are given away BY the
SECRETARY Of the Treasury, the money is traced
directly TO the pockets OF Sanborn; but with.
out the hand OF the President, Sanborn could
not grasp such plumber. II Louisiana lies
suffering, torn, and bankrupt, it was Casey
who applied the seourge and apportioned the
spoils; but it was Grant who gave him the
power. If Black Friday revealed the pious
Corbin in the character Of criminal schemer,
mixing the President Of the United States
with Jim Fisk in disreputable speculation,
the panic Of last September betrayed a still
more criminal intimacy between Grant, Rich
ardson, Robson, and the Cookies
The country endures no calamity, It suffers
no shame, for which this man and bis nearest
associates are not more or less absolutely re-
sponsible. Who selected as kindred spirit
and trusted adviser this weak and ignorant
Secretary Of the Treasury, whose extorted
confessions leave us in doubt whether TO pity
his weakness, to loathe his serviity, or TO
dread his impositions? Who made Delano
Secretary Of the Interior, Robson Secretary
of the Navy, Creswell Postmaster General,
Williams Attorney. General, shepherd Cover.
nor Of the District Of Columbia, and Babcock
engineer in charger Who supplied the
physical force WHICH enabled the carpet-bag-
gers to depredate the South and blight what
they failed to consumer Who commissioned
the whole swarm OF unconscionable brigands
who steal and terrorize from Main to Texas,
and associate in rings Of such rapacity and
strength that the chief concern al this mo-
ment, of forty millions of people, is TO dis
perse and crush them? Gen. Grant may not
like to hear these questions But they are
not personal. When they are answered, not
many months hence, by the whole people of
the Union, as they were answered by a portion
the other day in Connecticut, personal gov
ernment viii have ceased in the United States,
and President Of less imperial pretensions
will stand at the head Of the republic.
We were not aware ofany personal animosi-
ties when we inaugunted the Credit Mobiher
inquiry, and yet we have reason to believe that
the President regarded that grave and solemn
proceeding with severe displeasare. He be-
tEayed sense Of personal injury at every step
OF that historic investigation, which attracted
the eyes OF continent. 1t was not agreeable
to him to see the great leaders of his party.
Senators and Representatives of high renown
and approved fidelity TO him, marched one By
one into that fatal committee rDom, and led
out again with the damnine brand burnt into