The Portland daily press., 1875-05-07
Current Notes.

The Stakeholder says respecting Jay
Goulds control of the public press: 'At the
last session of Congress schemes which he
was at the bottom of were conspicuous and
filled the chief space in the newspapers. He
controlled during the campaign referred to
two of the ableSt metropolitan Journals, pro-
viding money for the building schemes of one
and stock for Short sales by the editor of
the othel."
The New York Stakeholder admits that
Jay Gould is now greater than Vanderbilt,
but adds that he is in condition where he
can no longer gain by manufacturing panics.
To use its own words: "With the cargo
which he has taken on board, he must have
favoring gales. He least OF all men caa now
encourage such breezes as he has been wont
to stir up in the street in these last years
when his object was to overset other mems
ventures. His boat now loaded down to the
gunwale, his only salvation lies in continued
smooth water. Any financial storm, a sharp
money market, Chicago fire, or any like
event, would probably submerge his fortunes,
unless indeed he sought safety in reputation
and escaped by breaking his brokers'"
Some of our contemporaries will persist in
speaking of us as "rebel." That we fought
for the stars and'bars with heroism of which
Marathon, Leuctra and Thermopyle never
even dreamed, the bones of half dozen sub
stitutes which lie bleaching upon as many
'stormy heights and carnage-covered fields"
bear testimony abundant and ipdisputabe,
and that we suffer ourselves still to be called
"reber' without unsheathing the avenging
dagger and wading up to our knees in gore,
is sin, rlu hapanSn thara iS alrpaUV mnPh
blood upon the hands of our substitutes as
we can furnish soap to wash off without be-
coming bankrupt. Nevertheless, if this
thing is much longer persisted IN, there may
came time when virtue will cease to be
forbearance. One more taste of bloOd-Ihls
sanguinary arm once more upllfted to smite
and the. world will hudder.-LouisuilLe
COurierJOarnGl.
The Hartford COurant says: The selection
of MI. Pierrepont for Attorney-General is an
extraordinary move for a President who is
bending all his energies to securing third
term. Mr.. Pierrepont was among the first to
denounce the proposition, and at an immense
mass meeting in New York last October put
himself on record publicly to that effect, pro-
nouncng the cry of third term ''mad delu-
sion," which is precisely what it has been.
Nevertheless it is as idle to suppose that the
Democrats will abandon cry which has pro-
duced such scare, as it is to suppose that
many timd souls will not continue to be in
terror until the two parties have made their
nominations for Presidential election of 1876.
The logical conclusion to be drawn from
Mr.. Halstead's premises is that when the
democratic party South goes for initiation
and the payment of rebel war claims, and the
Democratic party, West," goes for initiation
and rather sympatbizes with the erring breth-
ran of the South, the old antagonisms will
be aroused, the spirit that sustained the war
will be revived, Republicans will feel as
though another victory must be won or all
that has been gained since 1861 will be lost.
and the concience, best brains and finan
cial interests of the North will be summoned
to make one more struggle for the salvation
of the country from the dishonor of incpient
reputation and the disgrace OF practically
surrendering the results of the war.-N. Y.
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