The Placer herald., 1874-08-08
The ADDRESS OF THE REPUBLICAN
CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE.

| uOCuuCuly IOtD buo NcW 1OfF
Tribune, will be found we'll worth reading:
| "ln times like these, when the air is fou
with scandal and current literature crowded
with personal and private gossip, we have tt
thank Mr.. John A. Logan and the thir y.
eight other leading statesmen of the "Unior
| Republican Congressional Committee" fol
the ablebodied literary production lately
issued by them under the name of an "Ad-
dress" We have already noticed it. But
it is one Of those things to which the human
mind can always safely recur. 1t is thing
that the losing crews at Saratoga might
read for few days with great satisfaction
and feeling of reli.f that, Notwithstanding
the race was lost a. Saratoga, the whole hui
man race has been saved by the party repre-
sented by Mr.. John A. Logan and his
thirty. eight associates. Persevering people
who have read the "New American Cyclopa-
dia," and Mr. Henry Wilson's History of
the Rise and Fall of Slave Power in
America, and are waiting for new worlds
to conquer, may ind in this document some
thing worth their while to which they can
sit down with great and serene sense OF
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it are such as to moisten the spectacles of the
rural postmaster, who will devote to it the
remaining Sundays of the year, and to it'll
late into ecstacy the manly bosom of the tide
waiter, as he hoists its patriotic utteranct 3
into the bonded warehouse of his memory
In it the village clergyman will find calm
delight, the laborer sweet repose, and the
pleasure-seeker a new sensation. People
will read it by the sad sea waves, and be-
come so engrossed in it that the tide will
come up and cover them before they know it.
and no doubt large quantities of the hay crop
will he lost by the mowers sitting down i'll
shade with this address and forgetting every
thing else in the fascinating interest Of its
pages.
1t is a document not for day but for all
time. People will be found reading this ad-
dress when the solitary New Zealander sits
on the crumbling foundations of the East
River Bridge-and perhaps not till then. 1t
does Mr.. John A. Logan and his thirty
| manner in which the whole thirty-nne vault
lghtly-if we may be allowed the express
sion-upou the banisters of Time at about
the period of Ptolemy |, and slide gracefully
down TO the Heptarchy and the Conquest !,
and then to the administration of Mr.. Bu-
chanan, is worthy of all praise. We hope We
do not over estimate its effect when we ven
ture the prediction that no citizen of the
United States, after reading it, will ever
again vote for James Buchanan. 1t is most
earnestly to be hoped that for this reason the
Il Il,
interior of Pennsylvania where it is under
stood Mr.. Buchanan is constant running for
omething There may be some doubt about
rts effect in other respects. but no candid per
.on can read the portions relating to MIR
Buchanan's adminisraion-and any one
nf moderate attanments can accomplish It 10y
giving two or three hours day TO it for the
rest of the Suinmer-wilhout being impre. sed
With the conviction that it is fatal to Mr.
Buchanan's prospects as IA politician. 1t may
perhaps be objected by capious persons that
| Mr.. Buchanan is dead. But so is slavery
| And lust for that reason shalt these thirt, =
nine statesmen shrink from discussing it? IT.
the name of the Postotlice and Custom
House, then, what shall they discuss? l.
there not at every election imminent peril OF
the revival of slavery? And are not Mr.
Logan and the thirty light leading statesmen.
including George f. Spencer, ncglecting theiI
other business and staying in Congress to
prevent it? Is it not well understood thai
when these gentlemen get off the gravestont
Of that institution it will rise right up aud
overshadow the land? And it slavery, why
not Mr.. Buchanan? Let us admit frankly
then the importance of that large portion OF
the address which has for its object tn de-
feat of Mr.. Buchanan. and let us read il
carefully, even if in the words of the grea
silent man, cit takes all Summer"
The history of our internal improvements
and especially of the Louisville Canal, whicl
ruakes another considerable portion of this
work, has the fascination of romance. The
nef,rous tr ,nsactions of the Democratic
party in connection with the Louisville
Canal and other improvements, are describ-
ed in a fine vein of satire, but with such min
uteness and particularly as cannot fail iC
harrow up the soul of the most casual reader
There is something in the style of this nara
tive which would lead us to attribute it tC
Mr. john A. Logan who was "A promnen
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during all the period it covers and yet il
shows such Intimate acquaintance with all
the details of the wickedness it describe,
that we should not be surprised if it should
turn out to be Simon Cameron, another
Democrat of that period, who has turned
States evidence. However that may be, tb'
country is rejoi ed to have the facts from
those who not only knew all about the grea
deception and cheat, but assisted in carryiu:
It on. 1t is valuable though unexpected
,ddition to public history, and cannot b
read too thoughlfuly by the admirers O
those sincere patriots, John A. Logan, Ben
min +. Butler, Matt Carpenter and Simo
Cameron. who supported and held Office un
der that base, bad party when it was in pow
er, and are now emitting themselves to pop
ular favor by denouncing its corruption. 1t
quite the fashion now to answer charge q