The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1877-09-06


behavior is very small My neighbo
has been county treasurer Tor twent!
years, and his name is as good as tn
| Bank OF England's. ! should be glad .
he were elected during life; but W.
farmers hold his election over his hea'
every three years, just as il the were
villain. But what may be abstraetll
true OF tenure OF office, and however log
ical may be the principle of no appoint
ment except for fitness, and however ial
lacious. as Prot Flske AYERS, may be th'
idea that those who have served in th'
Nations armies have any special CLAIM
/ TO position in the Nations civil service,
/ IL must still be remembered that th'
/ logic OF great people is not always TO be
relied on-is not half so surely to be re
| lied on as its generous but illogical i'm
| pulses. Prof Fiske contradicts himself
| happily, before he has gone two steps
and declares as between citizen and an
ex soldier OF equal merits the ex soldier
shall have the place This, Of course
admits what he has just pronounced q
iallacy, that the soldiers have a special
claim. and only makes all possible differ
ence between him and the sophists one
of degree. Certain il is that the people
think the soldiers have a special claim
and that iallacy should be respected un
I'll the people are reasoned out OF it. Far
distant be that day, whatever becomes OF
our logic.
am happy to believe that Secretary
Schurz utterly mistook the temper OF the
American people when he allowed any
Civil Service Reform to move Miss
Meade from office ior any cause what.
ever. Look at il. Miss Meade is the
sister OF Gen. Meade. Have we forgot
ten who Gen. Meade was2 II will, per
haps, never be claimed for him that he
was as great a military commander as
Grant, or Sherman. or Thomas, or Sheri-
dan, or, perhaps, as Mcpherson; but his
tory will faithfully record that il fell to
Gen. Meade's lot to fight and to win the
most critical, the most iateiul, the most
memorable battle of the war; that he
fought il when the spirit Of rebellion was
at its height, when Lees army, proud in
It's prestige and arrogant in its power
had dared to invade the free North !;
fought it when to lose would have been
to see Independence Hall under Rebel
flag in less than thirty-six hours, Balti-
more in bloody revolt, and the Capitol at
Washington opened to the session of a
Confederate Congress; fought it when a
United States vessel of war lay at anchor
in the Potomac, to receive President Lin
coin and his Cabinet in case the legions
OF Lee should overcome the soldiers of
the Union Then and there my country
men. on the woful field of Getty on
those three historic days, the American
Union was saved and constitutional lib
erty preserved by the generalship Of
Meade and the lion hearted bravery Of
those who fought under him. And when
| recall these three midsummer days OF
suspense, when, even IN the shadows OF
our mountains, we felt only the shock OF
battle, and life and death hung on the
issues OF the hour when / recall the sol
emn and speechless joy Of Mrade's great
and when / remember how his
tory might have been rolled back and
the destiny OF continents and races
by his faitering; when ! think
OF that modest hero, gentle as a woman
in his manners, tender as a child IN his
cannot believe it is the will
Of the American people that while the
grass has hardly yet rIpened and wither
I'd on his grave. his sister. dependent for
her bread upon her labor. should be
turned out OF her humble place in the
Interior Department in the name of Civil
Service Reform.
count as the small dust Of the bal
lnce ali reports i'm any reform paper or
from any source whatever, of oil unfit
ness whatever. | question their truth,
and, il true, they should not be pleaded
Europeon methods Of Civil Service are
held up to our emulation, and England
and the German Empire are pointed out
As models of administration for us. do
not for a moment eoncede that they are
better than ours: but does Secretary
Schurz think that the Government OF
England would under any pretext what
ever deprive the sister OF the Duke OF
w ellington of her means OF subsistence |
DR. that Minister of the German Empire |
would dare to displace the sister Of Won |
Molke from the comfort in which any
other Minister had placed her? Yet |
Waterloo held not for England, nor Sc |
Ian for Prussia. so grave a moment as |
for the United States, where |
hree days long a nations fate hung
larkening in the smoke Of battle.
/ think that Gen. jackson, head and |
'ront of the vicious spoils system though |
ne were, understood far better the ma
.ure of our people of whose will he had |
been made the executive; and that Mr. |
Schurz himself, all armored in unselfsh |
and high sense Of duty, might |
ind his account in studying the charac-
eristic anecdotes of him so often related |
BY our old Salem neigh Dor, Col Miller. |
he gallant "Ill try, sir T. Of the war Of |
1872 1t was be that first advised Gen. |
Jackson that George Croghan, the splen- |
lid hero of the Fort Stephenson fight IN |
1913, who. with handful OF men. main |
aimed against a thousand British and |
II 81.
and defences of the /
\ Northwest-that George Croghan. with |
his gallant record, was to be court
nartialed on a charge of "Intemperence
N alcoholic drinks When the arbi !
.rary. illogical, antireform old General |
heard this. be laid down his pipe, rose
rom his chair, smote the table with his |
slenched fist, and with his proverbial /
energy declared: Those proceedings Of
The court-martial, shall be stopped. sir |
George Croghan shall get drunk every
lay of his lite If he wants to, and by |
the Eternal the United States shall pay /
for the whisky
As member of cold water temple. /
Gen. Jack~on's speech cannot be ap /
Dlauded Nor does he make a much |
better show as a Civil Service Relormer, |
but / think be came much nearer the /
A merican heart. ] think he represented /
much more accurately the real wishes Of /
the American people, and ] think. also. /
hat il Miss Meade were far less able to |
work than the ReiOrmers represent her |
the people would still forgive Mr.. Schurz |
more freely for breaking his rules aud |
her, at their expense, than for |
casting her adriit in the interests of a !
rigid and economical integrity.
have heard that Miss Meade, having
been dismissed. was afterwards returned
TO her place by the Presidents own inter
vention. / trust this is true am sure
hat no one act of his whole Reform