New-York tribune., 1877-05-19
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
LETTER FROM GAIL HAMILTON.

DIAN COMMISSIONER SMITH, PACIFIC MAIL SUB
sIDY, rINcHBACR. robson, AND THE fkoSI-AD-
BoTT CONGRESSIONAL CONTEST
TO the Editor Of The Tribune
SIR: The fifth instance of reform talk which has
deoeperated into SANDER shall take from Inc Con
oyegationalisi religions newspaper published III DOS
TON. Let me premise, however, that TINS paper
seoms not to have aborcd down into those deplhs Oh
decentralization to which the preceding Journals l'o
strange alacrity in diving. They have DEFINITE
and malignant purpose in their tomahaWkSi 1"o
Copgy1gd,ionalist seems rather to be striking out
wildly hit OF miss, under the impression
that sucb offensive and continuous action is that
eternal vigilance which is the price of liberty and
tho proof of virtue Where the former journals
rlot assassination The CopgregdiOnaiS only commits
assoulf and battery with intent to show on. Two
princp!es apparently guide its course one is always
70 believe i'll of its political party, the othcr Is
never TO believe i'll of its own personal Trend foi-
lowing this ccw one can thread the labyrinth OF us
political faith without being absolutely lost IN the
maze. Viewing Republican measures, tho anger
over its left shoulder suggests that II two motives
are possible it should attribute the bad one. ms
if does not apparently from malice, but because 1t
supposes that this is what constitutes diScnmna-
tion. It's political comradcslip is as valuable as a
mans fidelity would be who should 60 around speak
ing of his wife as, in the main, q weli-mcanng
woman no better than she should be, pretty bad IN
fact but all he had and at any rate better tnan the
Gath and ASkclon girls, on the whole lie should
continue to live with her!
This general disposition 10 make the botter appear
the worse reason j. often antGgonized ard overcome
bv the moro ainablc angel over the right shoulder,
who suggests that neghbor and acquaintance can
do no wrong. So them ii Republican stranger is
attacked, il grds at him, irrespective OF evidence
II a personal friend is attacked II stands by him, IL
~, lo-t 4tnif IL
charming-if The CoRgrcg0'joaGisi would not forget
that every body is somebody's friend; and that 10
exoneratc your own friend and TO yindicatc your
virtue by taking IL ont on somebody elses hlcnd IS
not the way to above parlisanshp into patllo-
ism When the Credit MobIlier Investigation had
kent the whole country alert and ashamed for
months The CoRCrgGj5pGH in IFS intense desire tor
the publication Of politics, WAS dissatisfied Win tho
meagerne,s Of the results and Thought the Whole
subject needed deeper plowing than 1t had Ne5
received" Il cmuated the good deacon praying in
the ycstry meeting for the welfare Of Ills Zion:
Purify MS, Lord purify us if it is necessary I'LL
There's only two Of us left" But when the Pacific
Mail subsidy came up the year after Tie CJpgrcJd-
toraIist roared gently if it roarcd at all that the
sound thereof was entirely maudible in the Iaalon
roundabout. For meanwhile the Eoitor-ln-chet
had taken a charming trip to ASpnwa.l IN tho Ciiy
of Toxic Us guest of the directors OF the Paclhc
Mail Steamship Company, with which he was so
pleased that he frankly confesScs =" a thrill OF
pleasure whenever the sight Of her nn'ne IN ih3
shining list brings to mind this voyage" while
Mr. Rufus Hatch, the " Managing Director" whom
TIE TRpUNF rudey and unicelingly calls a "polii-
zeal batEcrskitc" 80 60 managed as to make us all
respect him AS % nobIc-hear:ed Christian man, and
love him as personal friend, and to excite our con-
fdence in advance toward any enterprise IN behalf
Oh "U'Cn n1 't''''' r.r al WIT
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Inlio,, C,u,,nis.oner was attacked The Cougyeol-
toll I. hin, ,n,nfrllv II declare ! him 10
J., g. +~,o christian hero" "N,uc who have
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that in hi, work among the Indians there was tho
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his own noc,ct at e EXPENSE OF any other person.
prr.r s,rcersr more devoted soul las rarely lived,
and i is sal io think That sue IncI rs "e I d s @ ..o
mn frei, LT Po,it'r1I cornG.in,s living by public
punGcr c"o'd not bu' aic yen h' ana tHe'r h''e las
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cu.ulus 'umpoi up Tor o." very parro'. @i drdinus
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