Wilmington journal., 1876-08-25
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Godlove, OF God forsak en- as he should
be called, for he has been the worst
trented man we have heard OF for many
a day 1t has been political maxim
for years past that republics were
angratefuP' | mt without stopping lHst
now TO argue the truth or fnislty OF
that proposition it is only necessary to
say. that so far as he is concerned, 1t
is not the republic but the Republican
party, of which he is a''burning and
shining light" or rather has been un-
til his recent extinction that has treated
him with the basest ingrat,!ude- To
prove this, in The words of the immor-
tai Jefferson. let the facts be submitted
to candid world.
That Godlove stocd high in the
councils of his par'v, glance at ms
public life will aoundantly prove. and
that he has been greatly honored IL
bis day af,d generation: no sane man
will presume to deny. Though during
has term of service he never stamped
his impress upon any great pubic
question, or scared bsyOud the level
Of monutouous mediocrity, he was
D,ember of Congress for all that.
Doubtless he posse ssed talents OF some
sort above his brother Radicals of tue
House, and even more, or he wOnld not
have been selected from such body
| as fit representative to the arlsto-
cratic court of Austria. Grant knows
the good points of a foreign
minister as we'll as TIL ose OF horse OF
bull pup Scheuck and Pierrepont
| and br brother-iu-law. Cramer and Settle
and Burgen and Holden and a host OF
others prove this. Here then was a
man so highly esteemed by the powers
that be, that they appoint him Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo-
tentiary to one of the most august
| courts in Europe. There he resides
hobnobbing with ChancallOrs of the
Empire. Dukes and Marquises aud
9th great nlagnates of the land. aud
having as the phrase is, good time
generally, as all have who bask in the
sunshine of royalty.
Not content however with bestow
ing this great honor upon him. the
Republican Convention of Indiana &
| few months since nominated him n
tbs candidate of their party for the
Office of Governor. They wanted {
man who could squelch Hendricks an(
annihilate poor "biue jeans Jimm,
Williams" There was no other, MAJ
in all Indiana that could do it, and ST
Godlove resigns his mission and oome
home to lead his party to a gloriou
triumph! But somehow or other on
of those prying. Democratic com
mittees in Congress unearth som'
transactions of the ex Minister to tn
House of Hapsburg, and after atindr.
wry contortions poor Godlove is force,
by his party friends to retire from TIN
contest, and oil for the small matter o
stealing few Venezuelan bonds
Is it not bad treatment that Rad;
cal candidate should first be forced t.
give up a fat Office and then forced &
resign the anticipated requirement O
one he highly coveted, merely becnus
a rebel Confederate House of Rep
resentatives had found ont his rascal
ity And WAS it his fault that he wa
caught, how could he take care of af
fairs in Washington and he in Austria
It was base. ingratitude to bring t.
so inglorious a termination caree
that promised so auspiciously. He
an ex-minister to foreign court, VIII
had worn purple and. fine linen an,
knee breeches besides, before king
and princes, contemporary kicked OF
the track by his own party in the pres
ence of his competitor who never il
his life wore anything but home mad
jeans, and blue at that. Could any
thing be more wantonly cruel tha
such treatment? Wonder which is tn
bluest, Jeems' breeches or the phys
ognomy of the ex-minister to Austria
Again we say perhaps Godlove ough
to have our sympathy, on the principl
that sympathy belongs to the unde
dog in the fight. Farewell Godlove!
bright meteor in the political horizo
of Radicalism has been su ldenly e1
tinguished. And all for the sma
matter of few Venezuelan bonds!
For eclipsed for good is Godlove's star
And from the Courts of Austria far
He willis in Indiana.