New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-11-28
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self in pleasant odor wit the anti-Repub-
licans by maligning the President on all
opportunities.
1t impmrs its own influence by such
indiscriminate censure, and the more
especially when it impugns a character
by indirection which it does not chose to
assail in front
The President is arraigned on the sew
eral counts which follow:
| l. 1t is said people who are right well ac-
| quaiuted with the chief executive are gen.
\ orally very confident that he will act upon
the dictation u bis prejudces and prefer.
ences without regard 70 CT nsiderations OF
either expectancy OR justice, however CO.
| gently urged,
| = Although the evidence points TO the
completely of officials very near him. 1t is
not probable that the President himself was
| interested in the spoils Of the whisky ring
| or even coguizant OF the extent of its pecu-
| lations.
The probability that the President was
not himself interested in the spoils of the
whisky ring is qualified by the suggestion
But Mcdonald was the centre of that in
famous circle, and the President placed him
there
1t is subsequently certified of the Presi-
dent ''he is not u thief himself
He has not. perhaps, the very incest sense
of personal honor and official proprety; he
will accept compromising gift but he is
not accessible to an open bride. Let us ad-
init that he is an honest man, as honesty
goes in these t,mes-of what avail to the
country is his virtue in that respect when
he contides its business to the hands of
rogues and plunderers'
Such is the Apr eciation of the Presi-
dents character. He has appointed
dishonest man among some seventy-fve
or eighty thousand office holders in the
United States This one office holder
aud no doubt many others, has been
charged with abusi ng the personal and
official confidence of the people. The
President prosec utes him tearlessly, OBJ
stinately; and in spite of all influences
which could be brought to bear by the
powerful and mercenary ring of which
this particular offender was member
and agent, the President convicts him and
others. The only notice the Picaylne
takes of this yindication OF his own integ-
rity and indignation for abused confidence
is that
Now the whisky ring is broken, his sun
porters are endeavoring to make some CAPT
tai out of the frmness be has displayed in
refusing to screen his guilty appointees.
The imputation is left upon the ezecu-
tive of the United States that he is mac
cessible ''to considerations of either ex-
pediency Or Justice that he is barely
as honest as non esty goes in these times,
and as summary of his offense:
To all intents and purposes, General
Grant might as well be Boss Tweed himself.
Boss Tweed, in his position, could not have
done more to demoralize the civil service
than he has done.
Since things which are equal to the
same are equal to one another, the moral
equation of the Picayute works out the
President of the United States the
equal of Tweed, a convict, in the evil
consequences of his acts, though, from
obstinacy and want of judgment sin
men, he is a somewhat more honest man
than Tweed ''as honesty goes in these
times
There is then "a long list of charges
against the President; there is but one
credit, and this is qualified by the charge
'that his shameful Partially and unrea-
soning obstinacy were the true causes OF
fba Srra cnonIaI Int ho, 60, !
graced the administration of an American
President"
We apprehend that the Picayalne has
never read the old history in which the
answering obstinacy" of President
Jackson in sticking to and rewarding his
friends, constituted such an opposition to
his Blairs and Kendall,; nor of the de-
falcations of tout, his office holder
nor of the defaulting receiver of his
Democratic successor.
We will quote from Parson Brownlow,
whom we propose to introduce as mas
ter of that style in which the Picaytne is
evidently mere neophyte and tyro:
Witness the defalcatons of Swartwout,
Price, Boyd and host of other thieyipg
individual agents (of the Locofoco or Dem
ocratic dynasty, who plumber the treasury.
Not only did these sub-treasury agents
steal the money of the government and
flee to "parts unknown" but they were
even paid big salaries for doing so.
So as it is known that there were 'brave
men before Agamemnon, SO there were
distinguished thieves before Mcdonald.
That the President of the United States
should not be able to watch something
like one hundred thousand public officers
and instantly detect any error in their &C.
counts or acts, may be a sound
ground of reproach. That he should
confide in those whom he has long
known and who may have aided him at a
time when they could have had no other
motive than sympathy for his wants may
be evidence of weakness of heart, hut if
the greatest scandal" has occurred under
his administration he is certainly entitled
to the greatest merit for exposing it and
for Furnishing with memorable justice his
own miscalled friends who have partici-
pated in it.
Evidently, the Picayme is not posted
in the language of irresponsible defama-
ton. Its personal notices are usually of