Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1876-05-18

both these propositions are before the
board, and predict negative decis-
ion.
The Grand Inquest.
1t has become evident to all the peo-
pie that the national House of Repre-
sentatives has found other work to do
than the business of legislation. 1t is
well. The nation is on trial. Let the
work be thorough and complete. We
have more than once expressed the
hope that no embarrassment or obstruc-
tiOn will be thrown in the way of the
grand inquest. We take decided ex-
ceptiOns to any fault-finding on this
score. What if the methods pursued
are a little ''crooked?r Does not the end
Justify the means? And Is not the end
sought, the noble one of bringing into
power the men who few years ago
were fighting to destroy the nation
whose morals they are now so anxious
to subserve; and of driving out of power
the men who prevented the destruction?
True our Democratic friends have pro-
crossed backward in their efforts, that
is the trails have in most instances led
into their own woods, but we sincerely
hope they will not be discouraged by
this little circumstance. They have
the string in their own hands, and can
report as they choose, leaving out that
part of the testimony which squints in
the wrong direction. The ground is
their own. Let them hold the fort, and
publish only that which can be tortured
into the implication of Republicans,
leaving out all that is explanatory and
all that hits any Democrat. But we
need not advise them. They will
know precisely how to do it. True they
have succeeded so far, only in filling
the ears of the nation with ISLANDERS
and rumors of ISLANDERS, have built
charges of moral delinquency against a
great many men, only to find them top
pied down like cob-houses, when the
other SHE was heard, and have failed
to make single case against anyone
except Pendleton, and the Democrats
who managed New York under the
Tweed dynasty. Even the Belknap
case is likely to prove a boomerang,
which has rebounded and struck ely
mer, so that the question, Does i'm
parchment impeach? must be answer
ed. Yes it impeaches the iInpeacher,
for Clymer was the man who induced
Belknap to resign, by an offer substan-
TALLY to compound a felony. But we
are glad to observe that their efforts do
not slacken, Notwithstanding these
discouragements. They are making
most praiseworthy efforts. Every Adult
lamite who has personal grievance
is invited to Washington to testify.
Every dismissed officer, every disap-
pointed oflice-seeker, and would-be con-
tractor, party traders and lobbyists, and
bummers, and thieves, and tramps,
and convicted felons and perjured adj
venturers, and scalawags of low degree,
and dead beats, and scoundrels of every
hue have been sought for high and low
and had their passage paid to Washing
ton, that their most Trustworthy voices
might be heard against Grant and Bris-
tow and others. To help on the good
work Democratic newspapers have gone
inside the walls of penitentiaries and
have spread their drag nets in the pools
frequented by gamblers and harlots.
Could anything more be done that we
have not done, say the oracles of the
grand inquest Have rot the Commit
tee taken even escaped lunatics, and
given their incOherent mouthings to
the world as evidence of Republican
corruption? And vet they are not hap
py. They thought they were Few days
ago. They supposed they had a man
who would bring down the President,
that by this housing owl, the falcon,
towering in his pride of place, would
be hawked at and killed. He was ready
to tell and he did tell to the committee
that President Grant had done him the
worst wrong that one man can do to
another, then abducted him and sent
him by force across the ocean, sought
in many ways to kill him, and failing,
came nightly to his bedside and be.
sought HIM not to expose him, and thus
destroy his great fame. There was
much more. He did tale unfold to
that committee TO ''harrow up their
souls, freeze their young blood and
make each individual hair to stand on
end like quilts upon the fretful porcu.
pine" The committee sat there, won.
der-struck, amazed. The democrats
thereon, lifted up their ten hands in
holy horror. They believed it every
word; and if the witness had said that
Grant had actually killed him seventeen
times, they would have simply lifted
their hands little higher. In imagi.
nation they saw the fruition of their
hopes, the President overthrow, tossed
"Sheer DER the crystal battlements, y
and falling
"FrOm morn 10 noon