Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-03-15

GRANTIsM, according to the New
York Sun, is composed of low greed,
obtuse moral sentiment, shoddy dis
lplay, the use Of public office for pri-
waite gain, the rewarding Of those
who make you presents by places of
honor and trust, the enriching Of al
your relatives at the expense of the
government, the ignoring of all the
better public opinion, the conception
that high Office is a reward and not an
obligation imposed-in fine, that the
government is ito be administered in
the selfish Interests Of the governors
and for their agrandizement. Ii is
and innovation which docs not seem
to provoke admiration either al home
or abroad.
THERE is not published in all this
broad land paper so intensely I'M
scrupulous, mendacious, and totally
lacking in honesty as is the New
York SIN. The State Leader. from
which we clip the above, when il at
tcmpts to publish whopper, has
conscience enough left TO borrow il.
Ii il happens that one who has stood
high and been regarded as worthy OF
confidence, and justly so, falls at once
all the squalid, miserable part Of the
community, those who have no char
acter, and never had, howl with mos,
unblushing impudcncc, and preach
on every street npon the sin of the
defaulting one, who has lost his good
name. The wanton bawd can assume
the most brassy impudence and
preach long and loud of the disgrace
of one of her own sex who has fallen
from among the honorable and chastc
So we find that the men who did the
act, or sympathized and allotted it, OF
robbing the U. S. Treasury, the navy
and our war dcfenses i'm the work
of treason, and finally drenched the
nation in blood and bonded it with
a six billion debt, are now the
men who lead of in lectures on hon.
csty and purity, and tell how corrnp-
ton is spreading and prevailing in
the country. They now say that they
are the doctors to cure all this; then
arc the pure men TO drive away all
wrong they would, if permitted, adj
minister the government on a right.
cous basis. Their pure souls are in an
agony Of contortion because here and
there officials fail. MS citizcnsin private
life do all over the world. If there is
Anything that has more than another
brought about laxitv Of public NOR.
ais generally, il was the terrible war
which these men, by their treason in
augurated, and further. if there is
anything more than another that to-
day makes lax the rules of public
morality it is the fact that men may
be guilty of high treason in behalf of
human slavery, and then i'm ten years
thereafter appear to make considcra-
BILE strides toward assuming control of
the nation they could not destroy.
The situation is nothing more nor
. less than the recipients of general
Jail delivery in sackcloth and ashes
and mourning over here and there
the fall of an individual, and claim
ing that their own purity should be
passports TO place and decent people
should be turned out. Wrong doing
- no new thing among Cabinet Off
GERS. Secretary of War Crawford
got $4,000 rs his fees in the allow
ance of the Galphin claim. lie was
not impeached, but resigned. Rich
ard NJ. johnson, a good old Kentucky
Democrat, while Vice President. lob
bicd through claim for one Bnckner
for removing the Chickasaw Indians,
and according TO an investigating
committee, Buckner got $37 900 more
than he should have had. johnson
got $4,000 for his part of this job.
General Lewis Cas-, too, as Secrc-
tary OF War. got a large stipend illc-
gally. Did the country ever hear of
the Democracy bringing these men 10
account? When did they ever take
hold as the Republican party has, to
root out corruption Never. The
fact is, when at the breaking ont of
the rebellion. Jake Thompson and
Floyd robbed and plnndered the
nation, and left it defencclcss against
the attacks Of treason, the Demo.
cratic party, in the main, set in to
help them i'm their robbery and trea-
son. -----