Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-08-25
Miss Mpahn.

Gail Hamilton in her 10Th letter thus refers to
Miss Meade's removal by Secretary Schurz, and
her reappointment by President Hayes
al sm happy to believe that Secretary scburz
utterly mstook the temper of the American peo-
pie when he allowed any Civil Service Reform
whatever to remove Miss Meade from office for
any cause whatever, Look At ii. Miss Meade is
the sister of Gen. Meade. Have we forgotten
who Gen. Meade Yves 1t will, perhaps never be
ella med for him that he was as great a military
commander as Grant, Sherman, or IhDmas, or
perhaps as McPhersOn; but history will faithfully
record that it fell 10 Gen. Meades lot To ght and
to win the most critical the most fatefu the most
mt morable battle OF the war; that he fought il
when the split of rebellion was at its height,
when Lees army, proud in its prestige and afro.
giant 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 thir-
ty-siX hours, Baltimore in bloody revolt, aud the
Capitol at Washington opened to the Session of
Confederate Congress; fought it when a United
States vessel of war lay at anchor in the Potomac
to receive President Lincoln aud his Cabinet in
case the egions OF Lee should overcome the SOL
diers of the Union. Then and there, my counir,-
men, on the wofu field of Getty sburg, on those
three historic days, the American mon was saved
and constitutional liberty preserved by the gen
eralship of Meade and the hon hearted bravery of
those who fought under him. Aud when | recall
those 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 an hour; when ! recall the SOL
emn and speechless JOY of Mesdes great victory
and when | remember how history might have
been rolled back and the destiny of continents
and races changed by his fa.tering; when think
of that modest hero gentle as a woman in his
manners, tender a child in his ieelng--I can.
not believe 1t is the will of the American people
that while the grass has hardly yet ripened aud
withefed on his grave, his sister, dependent for
I ! Lax. k..t
her humble place in the Interior Department in
the name OF Civil Service Reform.
| / count as the small dust OF the balance all re-
ports in any reform paper, or from any source
whatever, Of all unftness whatever. question
their TRUTH and If tue, they should not be plead
up to our emulation and England and the German
| Empire are pointed odt as models of adminsti a.
non for | do not for moment concede that
they are better than ours but does Secretary
ochuL think that the Government Of Englaul
"ouu under any pieteXt whatever deprive SIS
Ter OF the Duke OF Wellington of her means Of
subsistence OF that a Minister fthe German En-
pre- would dare to d-pace the sister of Won
MOlthe from the comfort 10 which any other Min
ster had placed her Yet Materoo held moi for
England, MOI Sedan for Prussia, so grave a mo.
ment a gettysburg for the United States, where
three days long nations late hung dafkeniug in
the smoke of battle.
thlnk that Gen. Jackson, head and front NJ
The vicious spolls system though he were under.
stood far better the nature of our people of whose
will he had been made the executive: and maj
Mr.. Schurz himself, all aimore1 ia unselbsh pal
riotism and high sense of duty, might fluid his ac.
count in studying the Characteristic anecdote of
him 50 often related by our old Salem neighbor
Col Miller. the gallant an try, sir!' of the wal
: of 1872 1t was he that first advised Gen. Jack.
son that George CroghaD, the splendid hero of the
Fort Stephenson fight in 1913. who, with a hand.
Ia OF men maintained against thousand British
ana Indians, position that involved all the com
muuications and defeuces OF the North west-that
George Cfoghan, with this gallant record was tc
| De court msrtialed a charge of "inemperance
IN alcoholic drinks" When the arbitrary. illogi
cal, aati-reiorm old General heard this, he laid