The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-04-27

the thin Third party trickle of these ice
bergs of reform. Yet il will none the
less sweep away in one overwhelming
food the corruptions loathed of all. and
will surely secure as much as it is in hu-
man nature to accomplish. So long as we
have only human means, results must be
more or less imperfect.
IL is absurd to presume that the Exec
utive Of this great Nation can achieve
perfection, without the support of the
people, If he were wise as Solomon and
accredited with the powers OF Moses.
Even Gods chosen people created a gold
en- calf while Moses was receiving the
law. And here we have, along with a
| few others, the President of a College,
ruler Of few hundred calfheaded boys,
| fresh from lifelong failure to suppress
/ the brutal and idiotIc hazing OF his most
| helpless and innocent subjects, setting
himself up as the censor and redeemer
Of Nation of forty millions, against the
! lawless Tapine of few crafty spoilsme n
who have circumvented the Executive.
| He thinks the country is going to the
devil, unless he takes hold of il by the
tail and holds it up, because one in ten
thousand Of the appointments Of the
/ President have turned out badly. What
do these gentlemen expect of human
wisdom and foresight One does not
expect much from the Sunday School
training OF Carl Schurz and Horace
| White. perhaps; but the author OF Than
atopsis and the President OF Yale College
ought to know that the choicest servants
OF God all through the Old Testament
made blunders, and even the chosen
Twelve had Judas among them. We
know that the signers of the New York
D 49, 10 ha
the angels, but they ought not to expect
too much OF the rest OF US, who are not
angels. If Bryant had been Moses, no
doubt he would not have forfeited the
right to circulate the Evening Post in
the Promised Land; if Schurz had been
David, he never would have had that lit
tie affair with Mrs. Uriah, no matter how
much his Heart Bowed Down" If Ho.
race White had been Jonah, he would
have whacked the Ninevites through his
Tribune till they would have been glad
to repent, instead of running away and
pitching himself into the whales belly !;
and if President WoOlsey had been head
professor of the College of Fishermen,
he would have made Judas stroke oar of
the crew beaten by Cornell, or would
have had him gently hazed into insanity
by the graduating class, or otherwise dis
posed of him. But President Grant is
not an infallible like Schurz. or Woolsey.
or the rest of the FIVE saviors who have
affixed their names to the New York
voice. crying aloud in the wilderness; he
is only plain, straightforward, common
sense sort of a man. who does not pre-
| tend to be wiser or better than Moses, or
David, or Christ He did not die in the
edge of the Wilderness, like Moses he
did not set Captain Uriah in the fore
front of the battle like David; but
has had his Judas Well, if
Woolsey had been Grant. perhaps he
may think there would have been no
Belknap. But l will accept his criticisms
of national failures, and will trust his
guidance better in larger matters, when
he shows capacity for managing a few
hundred boys. and securing the rights OF
the few under him. That is the doc.
trine of the parable.