Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-12-27
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The San Francisco NeWs. Letter
is sort of Ishmaelitish Journal
and is such an habitual scold that
even whom it does say good thing
it's utterances are apt to be dis
priced on account of its cheer ma.
lignity. Yet, occasionally, it ac-
quits itself of a thing so intrinsi-
cally good that even the fact that
it has appeared in the Mescs-L Letter
does not detract from its merits,
which Is saying good deaf. AS q
distinctive Dugald Dalgetty Of the
press, to whom Tyrian and Trojan
are alike, the alert intellectual
gladiators whom Marriott hires to
do his writing generally strike at
people who are on the down grade:
The fact that, OF late, 1t is dealing
doughty blows at General Grant, is
pretty good evidence that it thinks
that Ulysses, like Marlborough of
the England of nearly two centu-
ries ago, has survived his military
aud other popularity. The follow
ing remarks, under the head of
"Smother Public Nuisance" are
so true and opposite that We can
not refrain from giving them our
hearty editorial endorsement. We
can simply add, "Tis true, tits
pity, and pity tits tits true" We
quote:
General Grant is the perennial
rose of American politics. The
trees of the forest have their time
to leaf, but Ulysses never leaves.
He stays right by US, and promises
| to stay go long as we have cent to
be asked for. His conduct during
the past two years has been a ma
tional disgrace; we say "nationa"
because the position which the
| man unfortunately occupies in the
history of the country makes him
Inow, and for all time, q public
character. He sought, with the
aid Of men whose methods might
justly be designated unscrupulous,
to break down one Of the best safe
guards of the permaneDcy Of our
Republican Institutions; for, had
the three modern Warwicks, COnk.
Hing, Logan and Cameron, succeed
ed in their purpose at Chicago, the
first step toward establishing an
oligarchy would have been taken.
When he failed in that nefarious
attempt upon our institutions, he
borrowed u greasy old suit Of
clothes from vagrant, assumed q
hungry look, TOOK off his hat, and
stood before the country as mem
dicant. He got two or three hun
dred thousand dollars, and then,
without taking off the dirty suit or
hungry look, he proceeded to the
National Congress and co0lly
asked it to construct some special
and well-paid office for him. Con-
gress did not absolutely refuse this
modest request, but it took no &C.
tion on the matter-which was q
quiet but very distinct hint; and
now be is, through friend, Gen.
Logan, before Congress with bill
to place him on the retired list OF
the army. This is simply dis
graceful, and, besides, it Is getting
disgustingly monotonous. This
man, standing before the doors OF
Congress (like Poe's raven, "never
f1itting,") eternally grinding out
Of q wheezy old organ a tuneless
tune entitled, "My Services to the
Country,p Is as offensive as the
organ-grindiDg mendicant from
Italy. Grant is not in need of
aims; in fact, he Is u rich man. 1t
was only the other day he purchased
"mansion" in New York, paying
therefor what most of us would
call q good sized fortune. Nor
does the country "owe" him any
thing; he has been we'll paid,
overpaid, in fact, for every public
service he has performed. Indeed,
1t is an open question whether his
actions since the close of the civil
war have not been such as to en-
title him 10 q forfeiture Of,the good
OpiblOh p1A iCoPSSo Va Nho AIAOAA-
can people. He upset the govern
ment of Jefferson Davis, and dis
persed the hungry, ragged soldiers
of General Lee; in short, to use the
cant expression of the day. he
"saved the Union, nsome years ago;
but we are not quite sure but that
he since submitted "the Union" to
q menace ten thousand times more
dangerous. Had the govern
ment Of Jefferson Davis
lived, and the soldiers OF
General Lee triumphed, there
would have been two Republics
upon this continent. Had Grant
aud the triumvirate of Warwicks
succeeded at Chicago, Republican
institutions would have dissp-
peared from off this continent, and
In their place would have arisen
the Institutions OF an oligarchy
that would have been as absolute
in Its rule as is the Czar of all the
Russias.