Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-24
WASHINGTO LETTER.
The Sutiers are COmIng-What Is
Thought About the New Hamp
shire EIectiOn-Cut Down the APP
preparations 1.-The Senate To In
vestsgate the Bugs, &C., &c.
A.,r IIn


Thought About the New HIamp
shire EIectiOn-Cut Down the APP
preparations 1.-The Senate To In
vestsgate the Bugs. &C., &c.
From Oar Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, March Is.
In commencing my weekly letter
this morning l am reminded of an es-
say in one of the old school readers
upon the Horrors of War;" the first
lines of which read: "The common
soldier never sees a battle" This
week the march and clash of events all
along the line are SO confused and
oewildering that your correspondent
is at loss to know what first to write.
There is a momentary lull in tina Bel
KNAPP affair, the committees waiting for
evidence which is surely coming from
the west, through a score Of post
traders who will furnish proof abun-
dainty sufficient for the impeachment
of the ex-Secretary, and after wards for
his conviction in the courts.
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION.
The success of the Republicans in
New Hampshire was not unexpected
here. There are in Washington promi-
nent Democrats WHO have never had
great faith in the effectiveness OF the
exposure of frauds as a political
motor. and while they recognize it as
their duty to bring criminals to their
punishment, they are not so saneuiue
AS to expect the party of moral ideas''
to turn IFS back upon these Of its pals
who have bee II SO unfortunate as to
get caught. Honor among thieves. !"
you know.
No matter how great may be the zeal
If the party out of power, or however
great its struggle for supremacy, it has
been proved rather moIotonously,
since the ar, that it cannot cope with
al army of eighty thou land drilled AMI
desperate office holders. It wonld not
be leach-like or vampire-ike for this
salaried host to let go, or to omit any
effort to hold on with their nails or
suckers. 1t is natural for man to
struggle for means of livelihood, and
a large msjority Of these Office holders
can better afford to pay one-fourth Of
their salary for the success of the
party than to allow the opposition to
Dust them and force them into legiti..
mate work or the aims house.
Hence it is they ''come down."
so munifcently on elections, and hence
it Is that a Presidential contest is no
longer a conflict of opposing political
theory or sentiment, bat struggle of
| f.. ard death between $1,000 picked
otic holding veterans and their million
clients on one side, and the nation on
the other; and, i'll these struggles, it
has been proved again and again, that
III poritics as i'll war, a few trained uicr
with money Can route a much larger
force of enthusiastic civilians.
CUT DOWN THE APPROPRIATIONS.
There is but one way to secure the
disintegration of the corrupt. venal.
criminal, canting party of moral
IDEAS" Destroy the cement that holds
them together; cut down the appropri-
ations until nothing is left for their
Presidents and Cabinet officers, their
Hodges, Shepards, Babcocks, (but why
particularize, say for short the entire
party of "moral ideas'o to steal. Have
they not triumphantly endorsed theft,
and every species of official malfeas-
nee at the polls in New Hampshire,
and thus made themselves accomplices
after the fact, of Belknap. Babcock,
Shepard. ct III oa1a,ae ge,auss
To cut down the appropriations is to
strike the very vitals of the party, and
in this surgery is the hope Of the
country. The Office holders are making
strenuous effort to prevent any reduce