Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-07-26

reprimanded and then the case was
| transferred to the post-master-general.
/ thought IL my province to interpose
| / had only to repeat what ! have here
written as to Brownlow's connection
with the production OF the original in
offensive editorial in the World He
never saw or heard of the second edi-
torial of few weeks ago till after it
was publiehed. | stated these facts and
| left Postmaster General General Ores
ham to runpinate. Nobody knows
! what he proposes to do; but the story
goes that Houk, for reasons stated,
still stirs up Gen. Ferris. But Judge
Gresham doesn't see his way clear
through the civil service ST. am. He
regards that law, no doubt. It capital
device for keeping Republicans in Of
flee; but - poor one to thrust thH m
out withal. The congress might de
clare that even clerk, by virtue of his
having been born free and citizen of
an alleged republic, has the
right to condemn or approve a
law of this republic. And
| will some one tell me why Col. Brown
low (he was Union soldier who won
his spurs in battle) has not the right
to criticize the conduct of the head of
a bureau or that of its clerks? Brown
low, luckily for him, did neither; but
the postmaster-aeneral, even the
most kindly and agreeable Judge
Gresham, said to me that Brownlow,
a clerk, could not be permitted to crit
icize coordinate branch of the gov
ernment or its clerks. lie has done
neither.) Even Judge Gresham,
the most approved of the
| .xf s,ll Il.
Of thislimperialized republic, is, in Of
| flee, a shameless monarchist. The
Caesars had reigned 400 years under re-
was wholly imbruted and enslaved
four hundred years before the people
discovered and confessed the fact.
There is not on Gods footstool more
insolcnt, odious despotism than this.
One lifelong placeman, Ferris, exacts
it of another sympathizing grandee,
the Duke of Dead Letters, etc., that
an incident of the latter's retinue be
excised because this mudsill of official
arrogance has said something deroga-
tory of the splendid dignity of man
| employed by the government to collect
| twenty year-old debts from wretched,
lame, halt and blind povertystricke
old soldiers.
EXTRAORDINARY REvULsIoNs OF
FACT.
In 1S6l-62, beUo Hdgrante, ] was EN-
ployed at the headquarters of the Con-
federa'e department commander of
East Tennessee. Then Parson Brown
low was induced by an agreement
! with the Confederates to surrender
himself that he might be sent under
safe conduct to Cincinnati or Louis
vile or some point within the Fed
eral lines. This self-same Col. John
B. Brownlow, then about nineteen or
| twenty years of age was my associate.
He was Unionist and /, a rebel"
Our intimacy incurred my generals
furious displeasure, and j was forced
to suspend our personal re-
lations. His father was
then in jail, in outright violation Of
the agreement made with the prede-
cessor of my commander. See how.
extremes do meet! and will some one
| tell me in what Northern differs from
Southern Radicalism? In what does
an intense stalwart Republican differ
from stalwart secessionist, such as
was General Leadbetter, my Knox
Vile commander? i was put under
! the ban by the ''seceshn for talking
| is threatened with Ostracism by the
counterparts of the ''seceshn for talk
| ing with me.
| Were il not for the SWIVEL service re-
form sham and the more terrible fact
| that Democracy reigns in the lower
house of congress, Brownlow would
| he guillotined to-day. But he is safe,
think, and Houk roars in vain.
BIuNDER OF THE ADMINISTRATIONS
1t is well that the administration
has given Houk the disposal of the
federal patronage in Tennessee.
Houk's constituents will soon discover
/ that he can't deliver the goods or gold
he has promised them. He has almost
run his course. When claimants,
made such by Houk's assurances that
he can invade the treasury as chair
man of the committee on claims at
will, find that he can not, his career is
at an end Arthur. like Houk's con-
stituents, is deluded, even as was poor
Sherman when he was promised
Houk's support in 1S79-S0. Houk
disposed of his patronage as Sherman's
supporter, but was of the 30t
in the Chicago convention. He be-
came an "original'' ardent adherent
of Garfield, and then was again stal'
wart.. But it signifies nothing. His
advocacy of Arthurs' claims and hi'
occupation as presidential grand al
moner for Tennessee assure the acces
sion of more than ten thousand lie
publicans of Tennessee to the Demo
cratic party. Practically, Houk !;
the best Democrat in the Uniteo
States and is doing more TO destroy
Republicanism and upbuild Democ
racy than any living party leader.
: KAUFMAN COUNTY.