The daily gazette., 1876-03-09
For the Delaware Gazette
The Woman Did it!

i'0 VOUdH OIu IL
Now comes the old, old story from
the garden of Eden. ''Tbe woman
whom thou gavest me, she gave me of
the fruit and l did eat" Forney's
JDress as to the great scandal, says:
"The wives and daughters of the
Federal city have dragged down one
after another of our public men,
Shame on such a base and cowardly
charge. The woman, indeed, Make
a scape goat OF the woman to cover
the stencil! Remove the wives and
daughters, and what would your city
of denominations be? The man at the
other end of the avenue, who says:
"Let there be peace" when he means
discerl; Let no guilty man escape"
when ne means mo guilty informer."
He, it is, the people hold responsible
for the stupendous crimes now being
uuearthed and exposed to the world.
Grimes which may we'll cause the
American people to stand aghast,-
Grimes that must and will be exposed
through the agency of Democratic
Congress. Crimes that startle the
country from Niagara to the Gulf
Grimes SO perfidious, that shake the
bones of the patriotic dead in their
silent resting places. The men chosen
by the chief magistrate to conduct the
peoples affairs, are rot men such as
were chosen by the early Presidents.
Men unknown at least for good ,untried
men. Such men, indeed, as the most
reckless would have passed by, have
been the very men chosen, and now
the consequences: Too late in the day
that the President shall manifest, as is
said: "a disposition not to bring into
his Cabinet any more obscure and un-
tried men, aud willingness to listen
to the opinions of others, before max
ling his selections" All very we'll now,
latter the steed is gone to lock the
stable. How dull must be have been,
net to have seen before, what every
body else saw.
Disgraced at home and abroad we
must hang our heads in very shame
A sorrowful prelude to our long talked
of Centennial, Our Minister to the
Court of st. James, coming home un-
der dark, dark, cloud. A charge Of
fraud so damnable as that, one shud-
ders to contemplate it from an official
in such q position. An American Min
lister arrested in a foreign country
whilst on the cars, en- route for homei
The private Secretary and confidential
friend of the President, escaping the
prison stripes by mere technicalities
of the law, together with the aid and
assistance rs is asserted of the Attor-
, rcy-General, whose known duty it was
to aid in the prosecution. And now,
by his own confession, the Secretary of
War, whose Department is nearer the
heart of the President than all others,
is guilty of crime that must .consign
him to the penitentiary, else the law of
! the land nullity in the hands of the
/ prosecuting officers. His resignation,
, hastily accepted by the President, by
| which q grave doubt is created in the
J public mind as to the legality of i'm.
peachment for the offence. This, too,
in the face of his declaration, "That
no guilty man should escape" Hor
, ror of horrors, was ever such an afflict-
ion! 1t is no party question. A ques-
ton of honor, of national pride. A
4 question that strikes at the vitals of
, every American citizen, and must
! cause the blush to mantle upon the
check of all. If we could believe the
end was here. we might be hopeful.-
With every mail we look for greater
and still greater humiliation. The
knife has been applied to the cancer
none too soon, if the life of the nation
must be be saved. The Washington
, atmosphere must be purified, cost what
! it may. The peoples Representatives
must not falter. The Augean stalls
must be cleansed, though the country
be shrouded in gloom, and our first
Centennial find us in sack cloth and
,. ashes. Such is the distrust in the pub
lie mind that man would not be sur
prised at anything. Can it be the pre-.
diction of Conkling, of New York,
will be verified: ''that before the
present administration is swept out of
the CAPITAL, there will be fires in the
War Department, the Navy Depart>
ment, the Bureau of Public Justice,
and in the post Office department to
cover up their administration"
Can it be that we have sunk to such
level? Heaven forbid.
Who knows but in the terrible ava
lanche go imminent, our war Presl-
dent for peace of mind, ere while may
seek home in which to close out his
days in foreign cline; perhaps, with
son-in.law Sartoris? Such an event
might not be so strange after all.
A disastrous fasco this military gov
ernment has proved, 1t were we'll for
all concerned to get back again soon
as possible under the rule of civilian
statesmen. Men who the people may
trust with ali confidence. Under
whose rule all may sleep well. Such
man for instance, as our own BAY
ARD for Chief. CHIP