The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-10-13
VOL. XX---NO. Al.
A Terrible Arrangement of Republican
Administration.


Administration.
The following were the closing sentences
OF Mr.. Hoar's speech in the Belknap i'm
parchment trial:
"My. own public life has been very
brief and Insignificant one, extending little
beyond the duration of single term of
Senatorial office, but in that brief period /
have seen five judges of high court of the
United States driven from office by threats
OF impeachment for corruption or malad-
mlnistration. | have heard the taunt from
friendliest lips, that when the United States
presented herself in the East to take part
with the civilized world in generous com
petition in the arts of life, the only product
OF her institutions in which she surpassed
all others beyond question was her corrup-
tlon. l have seen in the State in the Union
foremost in power and wealth four Judges
OF her courts impeached for corruption
and the political administration of her
chief city become disgrace and by-word
throughout the world. l have seen the
chairman OF the Committee on Military
Affairs III the House, now distinguished
member of this Court, rise in his place and
demand the expulsion of four his asso.
clates Tor making sale of their official
privilege of selecting the youths to be ed
ucated at our great military school. When
the greatest railroad of the world, binding
together the continent and uniting the two
great seas which wash our shores, was fin
lshed. have seen our National triumph
and cXaltation turned to bitterness and
shame by the unanimous reports of three
committees OF Congress, two of the House,
and one here, that every step of that
mighty enterprise had been taken in fraud.
| have heard in highest places the shame
less doctrine avowed by men grown old in
public office that the true way by which
power should be gained in the Republic is
to bride the people with the offices created
Tor their service, and the true end for
which it should be used when gained is
the promotion of selfish ambition and the
gratification of personal revenge. | have
heard that suspicion haunts the footsteps of
the trusted companions of the President.
These things have passed into history
The Hallam, or the Tacitus or the Sis
mondi, or the Macaulay who writes the
annals of our time will record them with
his memorable pen, and now, when high
Cabinet officer the constitutional adviser
of the Executive, flies from office before
charges of corruption, shall the historian
the people for its judgment of condemna-
ton as a farce, and laid down its high
functions before the sophistries and ieers
of the criminal lawyer9 Shall he speculate
about the petty political calculations as
to the effect on one party or the other
which induced his judges to connive at
the escape of the great public criminal or,
on the other hand, shall be close the chap
ter by narratng how these things were
detected, reformed and punished by con-
stitutional processes which the wisdom of
our fathers devised for us, and the virtue
and purity of the people found their vim
dication in the justice of the Senate 2"
That One Door.
The Chevalicr Gerard de Kampis was
very rich and very proud man. Soon
after the completion of his magnificent
castle, all his great neighbors were invited
to grand feast. At the conclusion of the
sumptuous repast, his guests made speech
after speech, in which the hest was lauded
to the skies, and told that he was the most
fortunate man alive. AS the chevalier
loved tlattery, we can imagine how proud
and delighted he was.
One among the guests, however, said
nothing for a time. When each man had
made his speech, he uttered the following
singular observation upon the happiness
of the host.
"Sir knight" he said, lin order that
your felicity should be complete you re-
quire but one thing, but that is very i'm
portant item"
"And what thing is it 2" demanded the
knight, opening wide his eyes.
Zone of your doors must he walled up
replied his guest.
At this strange rejoinder several of the
guests began to laugh, and Gerard himself
looked as much as to say, This man has
gone mad" Wishing, however, to have
the clue to the enigma, he continued, "But
which door do you mean 2" lie demanded
:" mean that through which you will
one day be carried to your grave" replied
the other.
These words struck both guests and
hosts, and made the latter reflect most
seriously. The proud man remembered
the vanity of all things earthly, and from
hencetorward he no longer thought only
Of the perishable treasurers he had once
SO goried in. He was completely altered,
and only made use of his riches for good
works.