New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-10-29

reform IL that 1t 0eeumo0 tn0 departments
Of government at Washington to be eonof'
maiiy corrupt. This il the foundation on
which Schurz and bis followers attempt to
turn the force of Northern feeling TO an
issue which is not the true one. Let belk'
nap, Babcock and the whisky ring be as
corrupt ss Won please. have not word
to say in their defense. But that is no ar
gument to prove that the executive depart
mont stands in such dishonor that the ma
fion must summon up ct once new line OF
action. Was the executive department In
vestiosted more dishonorsble than the Com
ereee which investigated There is no pecu-
liar corruption in administration at Wash
ippton. Put all the railroad presidents of
the country in one room; large prepOrnon
will he dishonest. l need ouly mention
New York Central, Boston and Albany and
MI. Phillips repeated familiar views no
xard,ng the decentralization of the commun-
ity and its cause 1t comes from the ridicule
aiven to the man of honest convictions, he
said, who 10 pronounced odd and crazy. BE-
cause he obeys conscience and not the Daily
stand in horror at the whisky ring ignore
the 4650, 900 600 wasted by the drinking Of
whisky, and think how 81 ,000. 900. might
have been saved by collecting tax from
everv prog.seller who makes brutes of
eighty per cent of bis fellow creatures:
I. object to civil service reform.
said MI. Phillips, in ito common accepta-
ton. 1t does not touch the hem of the gar
ment of the real lesue. Introducing into
American politics the Eoglish system. This
u fringe of sristocrscy; tho entering
wedge which shall change from Jefferson to
Hamilton, and annul the nations verdict
In 1861. It would organise vast army of
ofice-holders- 900 postmasters and 5000
oustomhouse and other 0fRcers-into per-
petual unchanging force. The principle OF
the appointment Of judges-slways mat
RED into every department of service.
Fearing morning with an esprit d. corps,
which only Office could give. these men
would work aggressively, effectively against
the republic, and the corner stone Of an
aristocratic government would be laid.
Real civil service reform IL not founded ON
m English model. II you can't trust your
postmastere. elect them in every town and
city in the United States. That is reform
on the principle that 1t ID safe to trust the
people. But the trouble with the present
advocates of civil service reform il, that
they do not believe in the perpetuity of the
principles of the declaration Of indepen-
dence. They are antagonistic to the prin,
ciples of democracy and can not be counted
upon. Take j. Freeman Clsrke-the man
whom he favored in 1861 was Judge Thomas,
who voted with the seceseiOnists. Judge
HOar YVES not much behind him. Take
Charles Francis Adams man who hasn't
known for ten years whether he was . Dem
ocrat or Republican. Now he has gone
with the Democracy; but if the party takes
an Adams never led his party but to the
grave. If Adams leads the Democrats be
will bury the party-GOd hasten the day!
Mr.. Phillips referred to the amendment
which Mr.. Adams offered in Congress, and
the comments which the Springfield Re
publican made on 1t on OCTOBER 3, 1876:
Mr.. Adams would prohibit the abolition of
slavery without tho origin Of the movement
in slave State, and with the sympathy OF
every Slave State. But this organ of civil
service reform lsuds him % our great phi
lanthropist and statesman - Adams, who
was ready to get down on bis knees to the
South and not only stay there ell his life,
but force his descendsnte to do 60 forever.
Sumner isa't anywhere. Now when paper
which writes such things offers pansces
for the countsy's ills, l anaiyze the physi.
cian. Bird 10 Democrat, another civil
service reformer. Carl Schurz, to be cure.
has come back. But in 1872 he said that
there was NO danger to be dreaded from
the South. Nov he says it will be disas-
trous event if Tilden IL elected President.
Either he was wrong in 1872 or he is mis-.
former" who can not be trusted a leader.
Judge Hoar 10 another man not to be fol-
lowed in his crus .de against Nj. Butler In
the seventh district l recall the last i'm
pressive hours in Summers lite in Washing
ton. In bis last year Of life asked him If
the civil rights bill was safe. ut is in dan
ssE" ssa he; Jadgs H I.'.sa d0 %1h h tine
apon the subject - I asked. "Yes," re-
piled Mr.. sumner, ''but he can not see -
do" came home, and soon after read the
ssd story OF Summers death. Then for the
last time the Senator said to Hoar: 'Take
care of my civil rights bill" With his eyes
dlmmed and sight collapsed, his last words
were eaid; and when he could no longer
hear the response of the man to whom ne
contded his trust, the firm clasp OF Mr..
Hoar's hand assured him. The ju0ge comes
home. would not hold man bound by
IN extreme promise of this kind, when 1t
would have been almost impossible to dis
appoint dying man. But Mr.. HOar was
named Senator to succeed him-the civil
rights bill still hanging in the balance.
Icnmpared the record of Mr.. Dawes and
Mr.. Hoar, and asked the judge to state hi,
position, believing that from Massach usetts
NO man unwilling to 'et his views be known
should be sent to the Senate. Judge Hoar
never answered the call. "Sir," said one of
his supporters to me, ''he will never answer
the question; what will you do with the
civil rights billp When it came up in
Congress Judge Hoar is said to have pri-
vateIy approved OF the bill, but he did not
tense. Now Butler may be scoundrel
but he is not . villain in the dark. We
know what he ia at, what he does, and how
he does it. A mau who refuses tO tell Mas.
sachusetts his action on such q matter az
civil rights ought never to be q leader.
whatever We've be may entertain on civil
service reform. There are two men to
discreditable hypocrite. The other, what
ever he is, is not q hypocrite.
Look at Buffers record and that of
Adams. Mr.. Adams was Freesoiler and
q Liberty" man for eighteen years. and all
that time had listened to xntislavery teach
ing, end inspired by the words Of his father.
But in 1861 Charles Francis Adams offered
TO bind the North hand and foot and gag 1t
BY q cOnstitu,io ual amendment Do you
wonder that to day he goes to the Demoo.
racy from the Republican party, as he says,
ato find an honest mani" When the hour
for action struck there was IN the seventh
district q Democrat of the Democrats, who
had voted the party ticket Q short time be.
fore. At the bugle sound he put the key Of
his Office in his pocket, went to the state
House, and asked for o commission in the
Union army. From that time onward you
can not SHOW in his record one backward
step, He may have some erroneous views;
We may not exactly approve all his meth
dds; but If it is these that give the man his
character, We pray that all so-called Repub-
1icans may follow them, in the spirit OF
Lincoln's famous reply concerning Grant
and whisky.
1t is Butler and Boutwell,, Morton and
Blaine, and men Of that class who are to
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