New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-06-30
Tho Truth of History.

The Truth of History.
Mr.. Clarkson N. Potter, ex Congressman
from the Westchester district, in this State,
addresses letter to Senator Herman,
which appears in the World this morning,
headed THE Democratic Party; its Dangers
and it's Duties" MIR. Potter starts out fslsi-
fying history. He says: ''Never before in
the history Of the country has there been
an administration whose tone has been so
low, whose influence has been go democrat
ling and whose leading men have been so
largely arraigned for breaches of common
honesty" MIR. Potter is either ignorant of
the history of the country or partisan
who sacrifices truth for party ends. Let US
contrast General Grants administration
with that OF General Jackson, in the print
tive days Of the country and the pure
times Of Democracy. Grant assumed the
duties of President with the fearful
evils of q civil war permeating every
where, and q gigantic debt which 1t en-
tailed overshadowing and depressing all
the business interests OF the country, and
"a widespread organization OF shoddy aris-
| tocracy, with all its corrupting Influences
on legislators and executive officers Jack
son went into the presidential chair with
| fourteen years of peace and prosperity to
start with. He went out of Cttice, leaving
| behind him q country wild with epecula-
| ton, a deranged currency, bankrupt mer-
| chants, business paralyz ID, banks suspended,
| workshops closed, bread riots rampant in
| New York and other large cities. With
rare exceptions, every federal officer
was found plundering the government.
Swartwout. the collector of the port
of New York, robbed the government
of more than s. 800, 600. Price, the United
States district attorney. was defaulter
| to the amount of $250,0O0 Jesse Holt
carried off all lie could lay his
hands on. Postmaster Gouverneur was
| another government swindler. These
robbers and detaulters were Jackson's
| fayorites in the city OF New York. The
| with Democratic defaulters and thieves.
! Grants administration, which We do not
| propose to eulogize as perfection, was In
| fiuitely higher toned than Jackson's James
| b. Hamilton, son of the great Alexander
| Hamilton, who was Jackson's first Secre-
tary of State, and occasionally his conf
| DENTAL adviser, writing from Warrington
| to his friend Martin Van Buren,, February
| %, 1929, says: THE General is wholly I'M
| educated and without talent. His inten-
tions are upright. his integrity unques-
| tionable, his will unyielding, and his devo
ton to his friends go great as to induce him
| to use the patronage of his office to re-
| ward their services" Snch is the charac
tor given to President JackEoa by friend
/
| strongest Ties of friendship. PartOn's his
tory shows the general to be man of linn
tied information, imperiOus and boorish in
his manners, and sacrificing the public in
terest to reward his personal and political
friends. We make no comparison between
Grant and jackson as military chieftains.
Grant was educated at West Point among
gentlemen. jackson had NO such advan-
tage. Grant intellectually, if not the su-
i uoa tho coua1 NJ jackson NV
let rs compare the members of Jackson's
Cabinet with Grants, and see how much
higher the grade, and how much more Gull
tured the members of Grants Cabi-
net. The intrigues, the bargains, the
sales of Offices, and the disregard Of
public interest from 1929 to 1887 are
among the most disgracetul chapters in the
mates that Grant ''gave the highest offices
to those who made him gifts" Bad as
Grant may be in rewsrding his friends, he
has not vet disgraced the capital and
shocked the moral sense of the country by
breaking up his Cabinet to please woman
that Washington society tabooeG. Hamil-
ton Fish is y man of mole culture and a
higher order OF character than was Martin
Van Buren,. Fancy the hoxlings of the sa-
tanic press if Mr.. Fish were found writing
letter to his friends like this: "Let me en-
treat you to give your undivided attention
to the subject Of funds. We will carry the
State. Bet wee and the post make this
bet for me, or on .int account, just IS you
please, viz: $500 that Thompson will be de-
feated; 500 on every thousand up to five
thousand. Bet on Kentucky, Indiana or Hi.
pois Jointly, or on twO p. S-Don't forget to
bet all you can. Have Noah publish the
bets" This is one of the many model
letters written By the model United States
Senator, Governor, Secretary of State,
Minister to England, President Of the
United Statee, ami early tutor of Samuel j
Tilden. General Jack.on's Secretary OF the
Treasury was SAMUEL ID. Ingham, of Penn
sylvania, a mendicant politician, known
only to few leading partisans in thai
State. "He came to Washington" writes
Hamilton, Ito secure q place in the con
troller's department" and through an in
trigue was made Secretary of the Treasury
Bad as Richardson was regarded he was an
improvement on IBgham. Branch, of North
Carolina, was selected Secretary of the
Navy because OF his personal relations with
General jackson. He was country lawyer
without practice, and . speculator in lands
and owed large tracts in Tennessee
where he made the acquaintance Of Gen
eral jackson. He had NO capacity to direc
J affairs of the navy. He was North Caro-
lima horse marine. He lacked education
) j and honesty. Bore was successful meT
| C000G III 1uAducIpuAo 0uO SOAMOAoA "
irreproachable character, and Ro6eson hat
the advantage of Princeton College. thu
Jersey City ferry and the harbor OF New
York. Postmaster General Barry, of Ken
tucky, was another creature OF fortune wit
brought ruin and disgrace upon the depart
ment. He sold postofice contracts as
butcher sells pork. He was whisk.
.. drinker and blsckleg. The country, to it
disgrace, knows OF Eaton, Jsckson's Score
: tarV Of War. Berrien, Attorney General
; vss a. much the subject Of scandal as VIII
hams. The influence OF jackson and Val
Buren's administration was so infamous an
demorallz.ng that in 1910 tia people rose II
their might and swept Democracy Ont {!
existence. Mr.. Potter should not falsif
history. II will not aid him in bis ambition
to be- Governor.-New York Commercial
| Adrertiscr.