Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-10-17
can home is approaching nearer and
near to the true acknowledgements
Journal.
From the Boston Post.
The Ohio Election.

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els. But weeping will not restore tn
dead to life, or confer honor upon
barren sceptre. The Ohio election i
the first great act ofretribution follow
ing the frauds and crimes which de
frauded the country of a President o
its choice and deprived the people O
a thorough reform Administrations
1t has left to the President the noml
nal occupancy of the Executive chair
but nothing else remains to him bu
the semblance of power and the
shadow of authority. The House
which holds the purse strings of the
nation, il strongly Democratic. The
Senate is rapidly approaching the
same condition, and already has su,
preme control over his appointments.
He has, it is true, Cabinet of his
choice, but its counsels are weakened
by divisions, and the civil service
policy which one of its members has
endeavored to enforce has been vain
ly set ct defiance by his Minister OF
Exchequer, and by a regiment of Ohio
clerks, at whose head he marched in
order to save all concerned from To-
nominy and defeat. Forced into the
Executive chair by a united party,
backed by the presence OF Federal
troops and the menaces of its military
chief, the President within few
months finds himself forsaken by
those who clothed him with the robes
of Office, and his own State the first
and foremost to desert his standard.
His present forlorn condition almost
excites commiseratlon. But however
pure he may be in person, however
patriotic in purpose, and however free
from the stain of dishonor attaching
to the forces which led to his induc-
ton to office, he must reap the fruits
ofthe criminal frauds which constitute
the basis of his title and take the con
seque1 ces of the wicked and disgrace
full jobbery which made them efectua.
We have characterized this election
as an act of retributlon. 1t reaches
not the President alone. Secretary
Sherman, whose hopes of re election
to the Senate were sanguine, has been
punished for his notorious defence of
Louisiana frauds, which he, almost
alone, saw fit to place upon the record
OF Senatorial debate. He can for the
remainder of his term continue to
handle the keys of the Treasury, but
that will be naked honor, for neither
he or his chief has the power to Sc,
cure the adoption of a single recon-
mendation. Stanley Matthews, the
chief Of the Presidential board of
trade, and whose active agency more
than that of any other, frauds were
made successful and infamous crimes
to appear respectable, instead of roap-
ing the promised and expected reward
OF the Senatorship, thas been sent to
the rear, and none were more ready
than Ohio Republican to pronounce
him the prince of bumbugs. Next is
Garfield, one .of the ilustrious eight
who, to defeat the people of their
choice, voted every time to cover up
frauds and enable the forgery and
perjury of Returning Boards to tri-
umph. He, too, has got his reward.
AS member of the Electoral Com
mission, he could see nobody but
Ohlo's favorite son and now, after
laboring night and day to secure
popular verdict from his neighbors in
behalf of both, is compelled to retire
with disgust and commune in solitude
over the fiuit of blind partisanship
and the folly Of attempting to deceive
an intelligent people. If there are
any regrets to be INDUCED in his case,
his views on the currency question
will suggest the possibility of holding
truth in unrighteousness, which ought
to lead to reform in what is needful,
and in hereafter avoiding bad com.
pany.
AS TO the effect of the Ohio election
On the Republican party at large, that
will be retlibutlve also. 1t will give
Intensity to the hostility of two wings
nadly contesting for mastery over
each other for the organization. and
cannot but result in its Instruction.
While there will be grief and mourn
ng at the White House there will be
delight at Augusta and Utica, and
he Maine and New York Senators
will take fresh encouragement to per-
severe in robblng the Administration
If whatever of merit it has shown a