National Republican., 1876-12-09

lhSAh " hAo ASoANSANS Al 1ASAASSs AAS - -
true Tilden reformer. he Is man whom
it would delight Northern Democrats to
honor. He could give them lectures on
Constitutional law and illustrate his argu-
ments with narratives from his own expe-
rience. 1t is little funny how familiar
these ex-rebel Democrats are with the
Constitution and what implicit confidence
they have in its provisions.
DUcEs TEcUM The Democratic party has
got It again. They now propose to force the
telegraph companies to furnish copy of all
the dispatches which passed between the
President, Secretary Of War and officers COM
manding troops in the South during the past
two months. They had the duess tscum very
bad last session, and sent them to the Atlantic
and also to the Western Union Telegraph
Companies, demanding all the dispatches
which had passed between the authorities In
Washington and the revenue robbers
in St. Louis. The companies gracefnlly
acquiesced in the demand and fur
nished the investigating committees with
bushels of copies of dispatches. They were
also sent on from the paper mills In New
York by the bag full and placed before the
committees. Then these sage statesmen, sent
to the nations Capital to legislate upon the
vital interests of the country, spent hours and
days investigating these dispatches. They
desired to trap Gen. Babcock by Obtaining
some important dispatch from this mass Of
refuse paper. At last they discovered one.
Upon IT were three large letters-B. 8. NJ,
with small indistinct letters between them.
B. stood for Bsbeock certain, 8. for Sylph and
NJ. for MCGEE. Yes, their day Of triumph was
at hand. They sent for an operator, and by
some chemical process he was to make
the indistinct letters legible These
sage men, with their specs properly
poised, gathered closely about the young man
as he went through the process. They peered
over his shoulders in silence and awe as. the
small letters begun to stsud out clear on the
paper. The excitement became intense and
the interest profound. Smiles Of triumph
stole over their faces as the young operator
lifted the paper up to read. He read 1t. It
was as follows: "The Baby is sick and Sallie
has got the Measles" Tableau:- Ring the
bell and let the curtain drop. D.. 5. ~ ..,.'
EYEGLASSES, as q general thing, seem in
separable to the Office and duties of United
States Senator. At any time during the ses-
sion you may dip your fingers into the waist
coat pockets of ninety per cent. of the mem
bers Of the upper House and fish out An eye
glass or pair of spectacles, vsryangi quality
from the ordinary japsnned bows to the fne
gold or tortoise-shell, convex and concaVe.
Many of these are attached to fine silken
cords, while others are sheathed in patent
leather or dogskin fiscabbardsp and slowed
away in some remote pocket, among lead
pencils, psrlor matches and goose-quin tooth
picks. There Is meaning attached to every
thing, and therefore this preyalency Of eye
glasses among our Senators must have some
significance. We would not for moment
believe that 1t is oving>strictly to old age,
for there are pairs Of eyes In the
Senate of sufficient brillisncy and 1ifs
to. gaze q fair face IN the gallery
rosy with blushes. So, II age alone Is not
the cause, what In the name of curiosity
Isl Perhaps these men, clothed with the.
proud mantle Of national Legislators, are not
willing to go It blind In the discharge Of the
sacred and important duties pertaining to
their exalted trust. This ides is naturally
suggested from the fact that the greater In
sight Senators have into the wants and neces-
sites of people and the more facilities they
have for looking into the affairs of the General
Government, the better prepared they will be
to accomplish the object Of their great mis-
sion as national lawmakers, And yet these
may be false impressions, for right here the
question forces itself upon us, "Does q single
eye justice require giassesp' If so, what kind,
convex or concavei After all, who would
have imagined for moment that eyesingiass
perform such an important part in the legis-
lative machinery Of our nationi .gF.L.
Mr.. CHARLES o'CoNoR has borne the repu.
tation tor many years of being decent man,
1t seems that 1t was a false one. The de-
prsvity which comes of Democratic proclfyi-
ties, instincts and associations was In him and
only covered with q thin veil of assumed vir-
tue. Occasionally can be seen at watering
places and hotels a woman who wears the
outward semblance of Iady-thst Is, she
dresses well, eats with 8 fork instead of .
knife, knows the use of an egg-cup and but
ter-knife, and can waltz in trailed dress
without treading on the trail. For time all
regard the woman, though a stranger, as en-
titled TO respect. Some day she becomes an
gered; her face turns purple-colored; she over
whelms the object of her anger with a food of
billingsgate that would shame London fish
woman and possibly drawing knife or pistol,
endeavurs 10 shoot or stab. At once the
bsgnio inmate stands revealed in all her de-
formity. So It has been with Charles O'Con-
or. He has pretended decency until,
angered by the loss Of the prize--the Attorney
Generalship Of the United Ststes-which he
thought within his grasp, he has revealed the
true inwardness of his nature, and stands be-
fore the world a confessed blackguard and
slanderer. His vile attack upon President
Grant in his letter of November 90 will injure
no one but the writer. He reveals the
writings of the wounded copperhead when
he endeavors to hold General Grant respon-
sible for the blood spilled in the rebellion, in
stead of putting 1t where 1t belongs-on him
self and his Democratic associates. The
coarseness Of his attack on President Grant is
only equaled by its falsehood, and the letter
proves, while It proves nothing else, that
Charles 0'Conor is 9 coarse-m minded rufian.
DEMOCRATIC SENATORS are Just now finding
the official record of their debates and votes an
inconvenient stumbling-block. In their en-
deavors to prove that 1t is in the power OF the
two Houses to amend the Constitution by
means of the adoption of joint rules, because
they fancy that the alleged never-dying char
acter of such rules wou aid their present
purpose of defeating the expressed will of the
people, they are making themselves appear
quite ridiculous. During the war we had oc-
casion to learn that sometimes q subordinate
of quartermaster could do things with i'm
punity which the quartermaster himself could
not do at all in conformity with army regula-
tions. And now 1t would appear thai, accord
ing to Democratic doctrine, the sometime So
called joint rules of the two Houses of the
Congress may not only override the Constitu-
ton by delegating to Congress powers which
the organic law never granted to that body,
but that those so-called joint rules are per-
petual and binding upon all future Congresses,
without readoption. 1t makes heap Of df-
ference, 70 be sure, whose OK is to be gored by
this bull. Would it not be well for the Senate
and pousa m halt and rof1aot nm fbfe auhiaok