The daily gazette., 1875-02-11

haes they done ssith the repu5ssey phe
civil war leftsus} with navy. Have
we navy now? The ncivil war left
LETT US with an army. Have we an
The Admiral at the head of the navy
which under Farragut made the name
of Mobile Bay famous in our annals
now confesses openly before all the
civilized world that If the United States
were mad enough to try conclusions
tom orrow with the maritime forces OF
81 ain in American waters, the banner
OF CASTLE would in all human proba
bility humble theStars and Stipes will.
In sound OF the cannon Of Fort Hamil.
ton, and drive our rotten and worthless
cruisers off the sea from Boston Bay to
Key West. - -
The frontiers of the republic are
harried openly and impudently to. day
by filthy Indian savages exulting in
the license accorded to them by the
regular forces to be employed in the
dirty work of bullying honest Ameri
can citizens into shameful submis-
sion to rogues and thieves. The civil
war left US with a surplus in the Trea-
Isury and with an unexampled credit
In the financial circles of Christendom
b"ve we surplus to-day And who
contends for the proud privilege" of
lending us money The Secretary of
the Treasury--rthe first man since An
drew Johnson's Minister, Mr.. McCul-
| Tough who has filled thai office during
the last decade without exciting at
once the dis. 'ust and the derisiOn of
fhn xxln IL oil e., "a Al
munity of Amer!"o-the Secretary of
the Treasury to-dar comes forward
and announces an impending deficit of
Twenty Millions of Dollars for the
current fiscal year and of Forty Mil
lions of Dollars for the next fiscal year
to come
The city of Paris, after passing
through the unexampled trials of the
great and unsuccessful war of 1870
with Germany, comes forward now
and asks for Il loan. In single day
forty -taoO times tie amount asked for Is
subscribed Where are the financiers
who compete for the last authorized
loan of the United States of Ameri-
ca?
A decade ago the Radical Repupli-
can party insisted upon laying violent
hands upon the machinery of the
American Government. "They were
the people," in the language of Scrip
ture, and not wisdom" only but vir-
tue, honesty and power should die
with them. They had their will of us.
They have had their will of us ever
since. They have their will of US still
at this hour Though the electors of
"a TT,sfa1 in, Mnunr,hnr loet
rose and set their brand upon these
unfaithful stewards in letters of fire;
though to-day the Radical Republi
can leaders In the Senate and the
House Of Representatives, and the
Radical Republican President in the
White House, stand stigmatized be-
! fore the whole world as repudiated,
scorned and denounced by an over
whelming majority of the honest yo-
ters of the Union, yet they persist and
persevere in welding with unabashed
impotence the power which is but
conventionally and technically theirs
to the open thwarting of the nations
will, and to the open perpetuation Of
policy which the nation has con
demned.
What is there left IN the United
States for this party to degrade and to
destroy? "
They have degraded the Presidency
They have fixed and kept in the seat
of Washington, of Jefferson, of Madi-
son and of Jackson, a man who has
openly made traffic of his patronage
openly scandalized tire decencies of
life by his personal habits, openly
trampled under foot the guarantees OF
the Constitution and of the laws for
the purpose of protecting rogues in
their roguery and ruffians in theiy
lruffianism. Under what previous
| President of the United States have
| such persons as Shepherd and Casey,
Kellogg and Leet been heard of or so
much as imagined?
| They have degraded the judiciary,
| Under what previous administration
of our Government have such persons
as Busteed and a Durell been suffered
to drag the Federal ermine through
the mire of the streets?
They have degraded the army. I'm
der what previous Executive have in
dicted scamps like Merrill been suffer
ed to fiaunt their epaulettes in the
light of day, and braggart blunderers
like Sheridan been hailed with ap-
plause by the officials of the Federal
Cabinet? g. ...... H..
And now they have laid the nations
credit in the dust; and after palsying
the resources of our noblest and most
productive States by shameless poll
cy of outrage deliberately directed to
the development of disorder, they now
confrontthe exhausted industries Of the
whole nation with the appalling pros
pect of national bankruptcy!
And these men, with Grant in the
White Honse and Butler in the Capt..
tol, are now openly and impudently
plotting further and forcible control
of the country which in single decade
they have thus brought down from its
high place among the nations, thus
plundered, thus disgraced, and thus
made to be soothing and reproach
| throughout Christendom?-Neac l0M
| World