The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-10-02
THE DOOK-YARDS OF JERU.
SAl.EM


An ancient proverb says that the door
yards Of the holy city were always clean,
because every man swept his own. The
advice implied is very suggestive. 1t is,
that, let every one reform one and take
care of the morals of one, and all will be
kept right, or reformed. Each one doing a
homo workand self-work, more solicitous of
selt-reforma,ion than for his neghbor's
amendment.
AS with individual men, so with bolies
and parties of men. Let every soci, ty,
church, or party sweep its own door-yards,
and none will suffer from neglect of duty.
nor be over troubled about their neighbors,
it thus duly interested in the important
work of self.hoaling and best healing
The great republican party deserves, in
view of its past history, an honorable place
in our national history. A party that can
boast such illustrious names as Greeley,
Andrew, Sumner, Stanton, Seward and
Lincoln, among its honored and lamented
dead, to say nothing of the names of those
living men, who deserve we'll of the coun-
try they have served so well, party that
mostly--we will not say wholly, for it
would not be true, -mostly helped to carry
the nation safely through the long years of
the most gigantic rebellion known in the
annals of ime,-such party cannot have
been without transcendent merit. Its warp
aud wool must have been made up of mil
lions of good men, and good women, too.
That American who denies this need
honor to the republican party IS lacking. in
our belief, either in intelligence or patriot
ISM
But is the now party what it was Is
it still pure Has it kept its own door
yards we'll swept? Have no great abuses
been tolerated that ought to have been cor
rected Have not demagogues, the shame
and bane of all parties and lands, with
brazen impudence, assumed the leadership
that should have been retained by honest
men and patriots ? We know the partizan
claim, that, as a singular spectacle in his
tory, the republican party has ever had,
and now has virtue and honesty enough in
it to correct all the evils it has suffered at
the h md, OF its own corrupt members, or
that it can and will sweep its own door
yards. Let the republican party only do
this, not with sham Investg itions into
abuses and whitewashing reports, but faith
fully and well, let who may he hit or hurt,
let whatever ring of knaves and jobbers
co ne to exposure; shame or prisons, and q
moral spectacle of sublime and heroic
grandeur will DO presented to the world,
such as the world has never witnessed
since Junius Brutus condemned, as the
chief magistrate of Rome, his criminal sor
to death, that the fathers pity babe him tc
forgive.
1T the republican party can correct the
abuses it has fostered, il it can expose ant
punish the bad men who have stolen the
livery of its honored name, best to sery,
their own iniquitous ends, it is high TIM
they were at this most necessary work
How long, for instance, shall the people o
Louisiana be trodden down by such Al
acknowledged usurper as Kellogg, nov
kept in power only by the bayonets of tn
United States army? How long shall con
grcssmen, who ought on all questions tina
come before them, to be entirely unbiasse
by fee or bride. draw their fees an Kellogg
friends and advocates, when their hand
should be stainless of sue, combinations
and their judgments wholly impartial t
act on every question affecting the right
of this people ? Why has not Congress il
terposcd in behalf of the people who hay
suffered for years gross and acknowledge
wrongsY Is 1t possible that the solution {
this question is correctly given IN the 70
lowing explanation from New Orlean
writer In the New York San of Monda
last This writer prctends to tell ho
even Congress was purchased by the Ke
logg party. And here are his words an
figures;
snow, why was II that congress neglected
furnish any redress for the admitted wrongs