The Republican journal., 1876-03-30
Too Much of It.

| Too Much of It.
A western exchange thinks there is too
mucn investigation going on in Washing
ton. The President does not approve o
it. He is reported to have sad that sths
Investigations instigated by those who hat
sought to dissolve the Union were under
taken for the purpose of destroying insteao
Of reforming the government 1t is unfor
| tunate that the head Of the government
should think this, because it will become
| his sworn duty to see that the government
| is not destroyed; while it is for the saliva
ton OF the government that the people
as they suppose are conducting the inves
| LEGATION which he denounces as treason
! Gus. There is a house seemingly divided
against itself here. The people trying
| with all their power to expose the villainy
| OF the most infamous set of thieves tina
ever cursed nation by filling its leading
offices, while the chief executive stands
between public opinion and the thieves
and declares that the Investigations are
conducted, not for the purpose Of convict
ing the thieves, but of destroying the ma
ton 1t is strange logic.
Among other acts at which President
Grant stands aghast is the threatened in
vestigation into the conduct of the war
This is alarming. We must admit, if the
military committee are going to inquire
into the manner in which the pecuniary
OUTLAWS Of the war were managed, thai
President Grant may well look aghast
Not for himself, perhaps, but for those
patriots of the Grand Army of the Repub.
lie who stayed VIGOROUSLY and valiantly
at home to buy and sell contracts and pile
up the filthy lucre in tat bank accounts
while the mud-sills in blue were being
moved down by confederate shot ut the
front. If the committee will only go a
little way into this apparently endless job
they will not only cause the President tc
look aghast, but hundreds Of pious and
worthy mon who now occupy exalted
inches in the temple of virtue will keep
him dismally in countenance by looking as
ghastly as a wrung-out indigo bag.
On all this, however, President Grant
may possess his soul in peace and SLEEP
soundly. On every one of these fearful
oonmittaac IF Investigation 1vboca COLI
purpose, according to the president, is tc
ku-klux the best government under the
sun meaning Grants government-ou1
OF existence, there are one or two good
sound, reliable Republicans. They will
not permit the government to be investi
gated out of the Union, perhaps, without
letting the people know something about
it. We have strong hope in them, ant
so we think may the president. They will
not allow the government to be disrupted
by the Democratic ku-klux of the South
ern states, and carried down into Dixie ir
fragments while the president. his cabine
and the Republican party are asleep. l
may be that some of the men in congress;
are not as fully reconstructed as they
might be, and that they are not in the
possession of any more judgment than the
constitution allows; yet any sound lnsur
| ance company will be found willing tc
guarantee the continuance of the govern
ment for small percentage. If however
the best government under the sun
meaning Grants machine-is only to be
sustained by covering up the tracks o
army thieves, navy thieves, Indian bureau
thieves, oflice-peddling thieves, whiskey
thieves and every other conceivable kline
of thieves who could and would steal iron
the people even to dividing soldier.
body and bones and counting him for hal
a-dozen soldiers under burial contract
if to cover up the track of these is neces
sary to the existence of the unity of the
American nation, then in the name o
heaven let it 90 down and let all it's rot
tenness 90 down with it. This is the Cen
tennial year and there couldn't be bet
ter time for it. But President Grant nee(
not have any fears. If he will honestl,
look after the ring thieves in Washington
the people will look after him.