The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-02

will not say, in his camer moments, that
this 10 fraught with danger TO free institu.
tons?
We speak nothing new, when we say
that, recurring to first principles we all
conccde that "that country is freest and
best which is governed the least" The
wisdom of modern craftsmanship would
reverse this, until we are constrained to say
that, in the modern administration of pub
lie affairs, it seems to be conceded that
which the citizen is the most governed.
Our signs tor the days of Adams, Jefferson,
and Madison, when statesmen took their
stand by the pillars of the constitution, and
were ready TO dcnounce and oppose the
slightest departure from any thing not
clearly upheld and justified by it,
Not less essential to the pcrpetuity Of
free institutions, not less important than
strict adherence to the constitution, is the
purity of the judiciary, which is to inter
pref the constitution and tho laws. Who
that loves his country, and has dreamed
that, in its growth and development, the
world must sec all example that would de-
throne auiocrats and kings, and establish
the paramount rights of the people to self
government, can turn over the records of
the past year and not drop a tear on the
records of shame that he would blot out
forever?
A republican party that has saved tho
nation, brought it out of the fiery furnace
of war, and held it up to the gaze of the
world, rcgcneratcd and reformed, Is in
power in the states and in the nation. We
love that party for what il has done, and
we glory in its possibilities and because
We do, we protest against its sclf-dcstruc-
ton. 1t must take the responsibility of
history. On its shoulders must be carried
the Judicial erminc that has been besmcared
with shame and corruption nor can it
shake off the load of corruption that has
fouled with its pestlential breath the at
1t has proved itself very Hercules in
more ways than one, in the last decade,
but while IL might bear a world in triumph
on its shoulders, there are loads that il can
not carry and stand erect
1t had stood up, unfalterngly, under the
strain of a war of such gigantic proper
tions as the world never saw. 1t was fight
ing for life and the rights OF man, and the
whole civilized world has eventually Joined
in plaudts of ''well done" Bat it cannot
fight for plumber and tolerate vice and
live. The memory of the chains it has
broken cannot alone save it. There are
patriots, statesmen, heroes. and christians
in the Congress of the United States. Com
ing back to their work from the tender
ties, and memories of loved homes, with
the impressions of Christs purity and life
predominant in the celebration of his BIRTH
how many will, at once, proclaim in the
halls of Congress, that the corruptions and
shame of the nation shall be stripped off
from the republican party, the body polite
purified, and its name and fame made
worthy of its worldwide mission?
Some things cannot be undonc. A pre-
siding officer of the highest branch of Con-
gress must stand sentinel at the door,
where he has been already placed, to guard
and guide the purity and virtue of the ma
ton. Neither the House nor Senate can be
purified of the flavor Of iniquity OF Credit
Moblier, but the crime of the great salary
grab" which has convulsed the nation and
revolutionzed states, ought to be swept
from our statute books in an hour. Every
fostering sore of corruption ought to be
lanced at once with the most heroic hand
and the ermine of our judiciary should be
snatched, in the very first instant of power,
from the backs of those who have dis
graccd and debauched themselves, and hu-
inflated the whole country.
In this, there is life to that great party
whose shiboleth was and still should be
"The constitution, in its letter and spirit the
laws impartially construed and purely adj
ministered, economy in public expendi-
lures, and pure administrator and adj
ministration everywhere"
We have worked with, and for that
party, from the earlier days of its existence
until this hour, and we can but feel, that it
will be a sorry day for the republic, when
any citizen, impelled by the highest con
siderations of public veal, shall be obliged
to say that the days of its usefulness are
passed, and that, henceforth, he must seek
elsewhere the associations that have been
the joy and promise of his country's fu-
ture.