The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-09-07

said on this sub; ect have nothing to re- |
tract. These abuses have injured the |
country in the opinion of mankind and |
alarmed the American people. Neither
can those who were guilty of corrupt
practices or those who, in high places,
permitted them to grow up. be excused
as the mere victims of a vicious system
If the plea of temptation were always
held valid as a justification of sin, there
would soon be scarcely a temptation
without a victim, and such victims would
have a pleasant time of it. No, believe
in personal responsibility. / have to ad-
NIT that at no period in our history the
conduct Of some of those highest in our
power has exercised more demoralizing
and degrading influence upon all the
spheres of public life below than it has
within the last few years. | doubt
whether the arbitrary use of the power
of appointment and removal as a means
Of favoritism, and reward and punish
ment, has ever been carried to a more
alarming extent | said so years ago,
and when repeat it to-day, do so with
the assurance that large majority Of
the Republican party have in the mean
time come to the conclusion that l was
right. / go further in saying that the
resolution in the National Republican
platform expressing indiscriminate ap-
proval of Gen. Grants administration
was q weak concession to the established
/ party usage of courtesy at the expense Of
/ truth, and a Misrepresentation of public
sentiment, felt to be such by a large ma
jority of those who assented to it. While
Gen. Grants great services in the civil
war will always be held in the grateful
remembrance to which they are justly
/ II ~
| friends that they can scarcely afford to
equivocate about such things in the
pending campaign Let them have the
manhood to say what they think; let
them call things by their right names,
and they will not only relieve their own
souls, but stand in a better attitude be
fore this generation as well as posterity.
Now to give the lie direct to this
carpet-bag slanderer, this fugitive from
justice, look at the following, from Sena.
tor Morton's recent speech:
From the foregoing statement it ap
pears that the losses during Grants first
iour years were only l-26 part ION the
81 900 of what they were during the sec
ond administration of General Jackson
only l-52 part of what they were during
the administration of Van Buren,; only
lis part OF what they were during Blu
chanan's, the last Democratic admins
tration. The losses during Grants sec
ond term, now more than three years
gone, on the 81 900 are only LAO part ot
what they were during the administra
ton of jackson; l-Sl part of what they
were during Van Buren's administration
and l-26 part of what they were during
Buchanan's administration. These fig
ures are mathematical deductions from
the itemized accounts taken from the
books of the Treasury Department reveal
the hideous character of the lies which
are being poured out upon the govern
ment and the Republican party. They
show what a vast improvement has taken
place in the administration of the gov
ernment since the days of the "Glorified
Jackson" and how greatly the tone and
purity of official morals have been ele
waited by the Republican party, and
should silence with very shame the
"croakers" and libellers of the day.
These letters and figures overturr
mountains Of falsehood, which ought tC
bury our calumniators beneath them
The truth is, that although defalcations
and malfeasance sometimes occur, and
always will, there is more official integ
rity, the revenues are more faithfully
collected. and the public service better
performed than at any former period.
There you have it. Senator Morton
speaks from official figures; Schurz only
retails copperhead slang and malicious
lies, when he accuses Grants administra
tion of being worse than its predecessors