The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-12-05

Notwithstanding the nappy frame OF
mind which the President enjoys, as a
general thing, in consequence of the success
of his Southern policy, there appears to
be several topics of difference between him
and the leading senators of the republican
party which occasionally give the presi-
Dental mind not a little uneasiness. In
short, If the President was not gifted with
that serene indifference to the insults and
sneers of his enemies which comes from q
perfect consciousness CT invincibility, it
would certainly be difficult to understand
how he could for the most part feel 40 i'm
pervlous to the assaults Of his antagonists.
His civil service reform has received
but little actual and genuine support from
any source whatever, and among the
Conklings and Blaines of the party it has
met severe apprehension and undisguised
opposition. The efforts of Senator CoDk-
ling to thwGrt the. presidential intentions
in regard to custom house appointments in
the city Of New York have thus far been
a complete victory for Mr.. Conkling; and
even the confirmation of FitzsimmOns, an
out-and-out democrat, for United States
marshal for Georgia, was the confirmation
Of one of his nominees in q manner and
by vote which can afford the President
but little comfort under the circumstances.
1t took the united vote of the democrats
and the votes of his bosom friend Stanley
Mathews OF Ohio, and the carpet baggers
Conover of Florida and Patterson of South
Carolina, to confirm the presidential nom
inee. But if this was presidential sue
cess, what will be thought Of the agony Of
Mr.. Hayes when only day or two pre-
viously the democrats and Conover and
Patterson were openly changed by repub-
lican senators with an "unholy alliance
to give the democrats a majority in the
senate, and rumoT with thousand tongues
was busy 10 ascribing to the democrats the
design of oustiug Mr.. Hayes from the
executive chair aud seating MIR. Tiden in
his place. For once, it is said, the calm
equauimity Of the presidential fraud was
deeply stirred, the serenity Of his counte.
nance gave way, and joining even his late
republican adversries in the CONSERVATION
OF the moment, poured vials of denuncia-
ton aud fearful threatenings through the
medium Of his senatorial co-operators upon
the heads Of the recaloitrant carpet.
baggers.
II it be possible that such self-poised
and self-sustaining imperturbability as the
President affects to possess can be humil.
lated by any human and mundane pro-
ceedings, then the humiliations are Ger
tainly not wanting.
The success of Senator Conkling il
regard to New York appointments, the
perpetual fears which must annoy ant
worry his conscience when he stops Il
consider the means by which be was de
clured president, aud above all the uuhap
by reflections that TO his political opponent
he owes what little of success has thus fa
been accomplished by his administration
must put to the severest test and the mos
exhaustive trial the stoicism and pOlitica
fortitude of the man who finds himsel
bufetted by such adverse and annoyinl
circumstances.
But if these things move not the alma
BILE stubborness" Of the presidential SOU
what will be thought Of Patterson's pei
sOnal attack in the senate, and his bite
arraignment Of the President and hi
policy, which no republican senator stcppe
forward to repel or answer2 Poor PatteI
son having been upbraided and bull,doze
and castigated numerically by Edward
and Conkliug and charged with per6d
and treason to his party, and with fOrmiD