The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1882-11-12
4 TREASURED RELIC.

We have before us a valuable little book
which We would be willing to sell cheap.
1t is entitled "The Republican Campaign
"TeXt Book for 1882, and purports to have
been prepared by William L. Mott who holds
the nominal office of Librarian of the Inte-
ror Department, though he is reported to
spend most of his time at the now darkened
and gloomy office on Thirteenth street. The
book is Just crowded with facts and figures
and written i'll that easy familiar vein first
employed by the late Charles Guiteau in
his volume entitled ''The Truth and the
Removal" 1t seems o'be devoted to the
advocacy of some extinct or defunct political
party, name aud whereabouts not known,
and to the vilfication of prominent gen
tleman in the Republican party named
Curtis. Mr.. Curtis has issued circular in
viting citizens to join au association of which
he is president, and We are told (p. 114)-
Thus George WIN. Curtis and his bogus rerormers
declare that 1t is perfectly iustidable highly moral
and In the line OF pure Civil Service for their bogus
association, for this comb inatIon of unprincped
noodles yclep reformers this party OF bogus Civil
Service roformers, to assess tax In the form of
nual dues every memberof their association or party
whether Government oflicals not, FOR u partisan
fund with which to defray the expenses OF their
sanderouS publications against the Republican party
but In the same breath denouuce as immoral corrupt
and oppressive for the Republican organs request
ana receive OF Government officials, for such
poye to contribute "mOney or other valuable thing
In support Of the party upon whose courage aud vr
tues now rs In all the past, wholly rest the liberties
as the morals of the people and nation Is
not that the very genius OF torture The genius OF
the inqulsitiOn? The genius Of an oligarch like u
Bolsguilbert or Front du B9uf! All sympathy for
their oppressed condition. all cOmniseraion for their
wives and children, are extingniShed by the crime of
thus contributing, and they and their families must
eXpiate their oWtrecuiidncs In dIshonor and misery
in the penitentiary and almshouse! pire Curtis and
Wade Hampton: Virs Curtis and JEFF Davis
This is severe, but we are told on the
next page that the system which these
wicked people were opposing is due, of all
persons in the world, to George Washing
ton, because Jefferson Thought Washington
wanted man removed from the State De-
partment who was lampooning the Admin
istration daily, (the man was not removed, }
and because Washington wrote that he
would "not bring man into any Office Of
"consequencc knowingly whose political
"tenets are adverse to the measures which
" the General Government are pursuing"
The book asks Indignantly :.
VIII our Clvll Service reform mood les, will
George William Curtis turn their shafts against the
'Fathsr of his Country -
Altogether it is a very nice and interest
ing little book, and has copious extracts
from the speeches of Hon. Jay Abel IIubbell,
Hon. George NJ. RObeson, and other deceased
statesmen, which would be worth any price,
and will doubtless figure in all school
speakers of the future. Then there are his
torical points, such as that at page 14J,
where We are told that General Hancock
"Owes his nomination more to the secret
management and shrewd wire-puling of
Judge Barley than to all other causes
combined" The present owners have no
use for the copyright and plates of the edi-
tion, because, though it produced an imme.
date and startling effect, as it could scarcely
fail TO do it is rumored that it was not ex-
actly the effect that they expected. This
was sad, but they have certainly made an
absolutely unique contribution to literature.