Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-04-17

lleu1 anu tuChS, -Sdlu Mis-. Dlulplt, dnu
he really looks sweeter than ever. got
two dresses for the price of one, and so l
felt that could afford to hire them made,
and that gave my poor neighbOr lift.
l had set my heart on a couple of lovely
sashes for him, but, dear me! what is the
use? Sashes are only bother to baby,
so put that S. into the box with clear
The first church of Acadia is out of
debt, and has adopted the savings plan
as the best and easiest method for meet
ing its regular benevOlences. The wO.
men are radiant with satisfaction, the
brethren congratulate themselves that
we did it, and Father Steadfast rises
above all clouds of care on the wings of
his rejoicing soul.
From jackson TO Hayes.
From the Hartford Courant
Those who think the country is dete-
i'm morals and manners will do
well to read series of papers in the
Atlantic, "reminiscences of Washing.
ingtOn," written by some veteran with
parative barbarism, the days of David
Crockett and Andrew Jackson and Amos
Kendall, and in reading we are not COM
fOrted by finding that any more sturdy
virtue existed on account of uncOuth
manners.
Jackson may be credited with intro
ducing the system of personal rule,
although he probably would not have
succeeded except by the astute aid of
Martin Van Buren,. As the Atlantic
writer says, he came to the presidency
with a past studded with personal
brawls and duels," and an entire disre-
gard of laws that stood i'm the way of his
imperiOuS will. Ills election was no
tOriOusly the work of Martin Van Buren,,
inspired by Aaron Burr, and with his in
auguratiOn initiated sOrdid, selfish
system entirely at variance with the
broad views Of Washington and of
Hamilton. 1t was assumed that every
citizen had his price; that neither virtue
nor genius was proof against clever
although selfish corruption; that pOliti-
cal honesty was farce; and that the
only way of governing those knaves who
elbOwed their way up through the masses
was to rule them by cunning more acute
than their own, and by knavery more
subtitle and calculating than theirs"
When Jackson came on to be in
augurated his wife had just died. She
was an uneducated, unattractive woman,
whose happiness was to smoke her pipe
In peace by his side, and to whom he
was attached because of the difficulty he
had in securing her separation from her
first husband; he married her two years
before she was legally divorced, and de-
fopdo6 hor ronnf a inp with ahiyo rnuc
devotion. He came to Washington with
stern determination to punish those
who had maligned her during the cam
paign. Those who eulOgized her found
favor with him. This was the keynote
of his personal rule. His Inauguration
was the first Inauguration accompanied
by great military display and the
thunder of the cannon, and his first re-
ceptiOn at the White House was of a
Democratic mob, which drank barrels Of
punch provided for it, smashed china
and glassware, and filled the house with
roaring confusion. The very first semi
official declaration of his policy showed
the personal motive of his rule. The
Telegraph said: "We know not what
line of policy Gen. Jackson will adopt
We take it for granted, however, that h,
will reward his friends and punish hi!
enemies"
And he did. This was the DemOcrati,
conception of the Office of President o
of the United States. This policy wa
fully carried out. Everybody who hat
opposed his election was punished if h,
was i'm office, and those who had aidet
him was rewarded. That was the sol
test for appointment. Over so Demo
cratic editors got good federal appoint
ments. Department clerks who hat
been i'm Office through all changes sine,
the foundation of the government wer
turned out to make room for Jackson
favOrites. Most of these had entered TIT
public service when young, and were I'm
fitted for any other employment. Wher
they asked what they should do to eS
cape starvation for themselves an,
families. JacksOn's organ told them t.
Root, hog, or die" When POstmaste
Mclean rebelled against this removal o
his most efficient subOrdinates to tn,
detriment of the public service. Jack
son transferred him to the Suprem
Court and took Barry, more plant tool
in his place. An instance is given o
JacksOn's favOritism. One of the high
waymen who had robbed coach neal
Philadelphia was named Wilson. He ar,
one of his comrades were sentenced to b.
hung. But this Wilson, some year
previously, at horse race near Nash
Vile, had warned Jackson to Withdraw
his bets on horse which the jockey ha'
privately been ordered to make lose tn
race. Jackson was grateful for hi
escape from heavy loss, and promise
Wilson to befriend him if ever OppOI
tunity offered. Wilson reminded him @
his promise when sentenced to be hanged
and Jackson committed his punishment
| to Imprisonment for ten years.
The Washington society of the periO
was little short of barbarOus. The Jack
son men substituted poker Tor whist an
whisky for Madeira. Drinking an
staggering and dueling were the mod,
The Democratic economy was a grea
bumbug. Adams had been assailed fO
fitting up the White i'm too palatial styl,
Jackson refurnished it at cost of $12
600 with mirrors and carpets, glide,
sofas and chairs of blue damask, an
gaudy furniture generally in wretche
taste. The whole administration was
series of kitchen cabinet intrigues an
purely personal government. The episOd
of pretty Peg O'Neil and the part sh
PLAYED i'm Van Buren's intrigue to Ovel
throw Calhoun is too fresh i'm the publ
mind to need repetition. When we con
trast the brutal rule of Jackson with TIL
constitutional administration of Pres
| dent Hayes, we have reason to believ
/ hot fIA har 1n crnt,,n