Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1876-05-11
Communication.
Our Washington Letter

Special Correspondence of the OBsERvEs
WAsHTNGToN,D.C ,April29, '76
The Republicans in the Sen
ate refuse to agree to any of
the retrenchments proposed by
the Democrats in the House.
Each one of the minor appro-
priation bills sent to them has
been amended up to the esti-
mates made by the departments.
The excuse is that "the House
is crippling the public service. -
This is mere cant and intended
for campaign purposes. The
Republican orators will say
"lookI the ex-Confederates con-
troIled the House; they refused
to appropriate sufficient money
to run the Government because
they hate it." With these and
the indiscreet utterances of a
few men, they will reconstruct
the rebellion, and clothing it
with MortOn's bloody shirt, will
endeaYor to arouse sectional
preiudices to such a heat that
they, with all theirproven thieye-
ry and corruption will once
more be put in power. This is
their only hope. No party
could withstand the disclosures
made by the House committees
which show every department
Of the Government to be as
corrupt, as was that which final
ly resulted in the French revolu-
ton, which show that the de-
partments only differ in the de-
gree of corruption, as rotten
carcasses only differ in their
smells according to the degree
of their r0ttenness. The Re
pGbEicans see this; and it ap-
pears to them as the handwrit-
ing on the wall did to the disso-
lutte King of Babylon, only no
Daniel is required to interpret
the ''n'e0e meme, tekeJ uphar-
SIN" Its meaning is plain-so
plain that "he who runs may
read and even a fool may un-
derstand." And every effort
will be made by these willy
politicians to avert the porten-
ded fate. They will use every
effort 20 change the issue from
the frauds and corruptions-
from the tbieyery and robbery
which have marked their eight
years of pOwcr--by diatribes
about disloyalty; by bowling
''thc rebellion is not ended;" by
frantic shrieks that "thc rebels
are seeking to gain power;" by
pathetic appeals about their
own loyalty and by their as
sertions as to how they saved
the Union. In this way they
hope to escape the we'll merited
doom which consigns them to
privacy and restores the Gov
crnment to the hands of men
who believe in the doctrines and
will follow the practices of the
Democratic founders But the
American people are not fools.
They will not allow themselves
to be led astray by such shall
low devices. They will do what
the founders of the Govern
ment intended they should do,
that is hold their unfaithful ser
wants to a strict account for
their malversations; no one who
reads the signs Of the times
with Judgment can fail to see,
that the people demand and viii
have radical reform. Com
mon sense shows that this can'
only be obtained through DEM
ocratic success and a Complete
oyerturning Of the party which
has been so long in power that
it has become corrupt from CEN
ire to circumference. As the
people have common sense the
result will be that if the Demo-
cratic party is true to itself and
its principles and does not wan
der off after strange gods as in
1872, but selects from amongst
the bright galaxy Of its leaders,
some man who is recognized as
a Democrat from principle and
by practice, that man will be
the next President of the Uni
ted States. That is the only
danger threatening the Demo-
cratic party to-day. Some of
the same restless spirits, who
devised the folly which resulted
in such an inglori0ns defeat in
1872, are still in the field, en-
gagged in a similar work. They
have called a meeting to be held
in New York on the 18th Of
May, from which another Gre
clan horse may be introduced in
to the now impregnable Demo
cratic Troy, with the same re-
suits as followed. whom the