Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-09
ARRAfGNMENT OF THE GRANT AID.
MTNESTRATION.

its principles" but Its general odol
arising from their doings in Washing.
ton, has become 50 widespread and dis.
gushing, that the ~apologists for then
r thinning out" like the hairs on
the front of the Butlerian Jove, who
heads and masses the carpet-baegers
and negro Legislators in Congress, when
evil things are pushed in Senate OF
House. The following, from the Neu
York Commercial Advertiser, telling the
whole truth, reads like a bill of indict-
ment ofthe Administration rather than
an editorial from AN earnest and activ,
Republican source.
at is necessary that public confidence
be restored before the slightest degree of re-
lief shall come, and it is also necessary
that such legislation as the emergency re-
quires shall be adopted. In the long and
eventful period since the shock of the Sep
tember tempest, public confidence has been
~measureably restored. The universal sus-
picion and distrust have given way to
sounder relation between the community
and the banks. But the reestablishment
Of full confidence and faith vet remains
unaffected because of the non-action of
Con TeSS, and because7of the evident ten
deny in that body toward a policy which
will prove ruinous and again provoke the
disasters from which the country vainly
endeaEors to recover. We have arrived at
the beginning of April, and are in the
midst of a season which is ordinarily the
most abundant in business activity. A
year z now, the loaded trucks waited all
night for the delivery of the goods they car
ried. Every line Of transportation was
choked with freight. The great dry goods
houses occupied the night in
packing the goods they sold
during the day. The hotels were
filed with buyers. Prices were good and
competition was brisk. All this is in bril-
liant contrast with the present sad situa-
ton. Merchants wait vainly for purchas-
eTs, and prices vary with every hour.
While gold advances, long lines of goods
recede in price, but without temptingtrade.
One cannot examine the price list in hard
ly any department of traffic without diScov-
ering \ shrinkage that tells the same uni
form story Of languishing business, depress-
ed industry and an overStocked market.
The fatal faint is upon everything that
eat, drink, or wear; upon the raw pro-
duct as well as the manufactured article.
The effect is not felt by the TO
any great extent, but it is a lamentable
fact to the producer or large holder. And
all this ONE of the strange ~infatuation
which leads Congress to propose the open
Of q new career Of reckless speculation.
in whose vortex honest industry and legiti-
mate commerce will be swallowed up. It
a word of warning that Mr.. Beecher
uttered last night when he said: sCommu-
lie; Governments lie: like that gfgan-
tic ~wickedness Of o,r Government to-day.
lies by the hundreds and by the
hundreds OF thousands, tending to depress
md destroy our industry, and rotting out
he found ltiOns of GU future prosperi-
W. must supplement this with the
bill of Indictment preferred by the
Nelg York Tribune, a journal that
stood by and faithfully labored to build
up the Republican party when the men
who nov control hat party professed
allegiance to other and bitterly oppos-
organizations. That journal says
hat "a constant, incessant series of
dishonest, sordid and vulgar
,fenses against the moral sense Of the
country, have destroyed the enyi-
.ble prestige Of the Republican party,
md made its management a reproach
md a shame"-and concludes with the
,ollowing arraignment:
81. The violation of law in abetting an
udaciOus conspiracy 10y which the State of
louisiana was given over TO a band Of
,nayes who had ~plundered the public
reasury and had been defeated in a popu-
ar election.
80. The systematic debauching Of the
Of several Southern States, by
they have been rendered bankrupt,
nd the very idea of legislative government
made odiOus and contemplate.
.. The creation and support Of a combi-
for plumber in the District of Co
which has loaded the city of Wash
ngton with an intOlerable lead of debt,
nriched a cabal Of politicians, and dis
redited the Capital.
"a. The steady, persistent, and shame
persecution Of the merchants of this
metropolis by an army Of spies and extor-
toners, assisted by United States officers,
Tho divide with thieves and informers the
rice of their degradation.
-. The recent unheard of conspiracy he
ween the Treasury Department and an
politician. BY which the latter was
to steal out Of the public revenue
Ome hundreds of thousands of dollars, and
be officers of the government were ordered
, assist him in these depredatiOns.
rs. i management ofthe national finan-
p so made up of dishonesty, incompetency
nd gross careleSSneSs that nothing like it
as ever been seen in history-touching
ne day the criminal aud the next the bur
,Sque, vibrating between the Idiot Asy-
I'M and the Penitentiary.
-. A cOntemptuOuS disregard of the sol
pledges Of the conventions Of the party,
/ reference to retUenchment, honesty in
IsbUrSements, and the reform OF the Civil
eryice.
rs. And finally an open and cynical in
T~ference with popular elections in every ,
ate where the Republican party is divided,
favor Of the corrupt and immoral ele-
eut, and in bitter hostility to those who
and by the ancient ways and desire to
We to their States q capable, honest and
putable administration. :
1--WE think no intelligent person can can
dly deny that the administration has been :
of these acts, and that IN most of !
it has had the support OF the majority !
Congress. We hold that they cannot he
or condOned. 1t passes u COM
ehension, therefore, how any Republican, ]
he has conscience enough TO take the 3,
to Inform himself of the truth, can
pport such an administration in a course {
hich can only lead to tie gravest evils for ]
e country, and the utter and shameful !
in of the Republican party"
THE deliberation with which Con-
'ess with its two.thirds majority in
oh house, is violating its solemnly t
faith is calling out hot de- I
notation from Republican friends l
at do not falter in their fealty to {
Lrty. Hgrper's Weekly, for instance, t
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