Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-09-24
A STRANGE OMISSION.

A STRANGE OMISSION.
Tho Ensansuined Garment since sher-
mans Assumption OF the Role Iof savis-
iting Statesman"
Mr.. John Sherman delivered a speech
at Mount Gilead, O., and as it had been
long time since he had had that
pleasure, so he said, he used a printed
copy in order that there might be no
mistake hereafter by either party. OF
course, the Senator raised the ..bloody
shirt" That ensanguined garment has
been part of his wearing apparel or
baggage since long before he was a
ssVisiting Statesman" in Louisiana.
Here is an extract from that portion of
his remarks:
The rebels are on top. Some of the very
men who boastfully threatened to break up
the Union, and. with the oath OF ofhce in sup
port of the Constitution fresh upon their lips,
conspired aud confederated to overthrow IT.
waged war against it and were the cause of
the loss OF half mion of mees have ane een
placed in high Office again, in the very seats
of power which they abandoned with scorn
and defiance. Two members or the ConIed,
crate Congress and one man who sympathlzed
with them are at the head of great Depart
ments of the Government.
No Cabinet members exactly fit this
description; but it is supposed that
Bayard, Lamar and Garland are re-
ferred to. 1t is cheerfully admitted
that the two latter were in the Confed-
crate service, though not both in the
Confederate Congress, and though Mr..
Bayard did not sympathize with them,
charge that he did has been repeated
f11l
occur. The Democratic President and
the Democratic party have no apologies
to offer for the presence of these men
in the Cabinet There is no State in
the Union from which Democratic
President will not take Cabinet Off
Ger, if he see fit. If there be anything
in this point John Sherman may have
it, but the Ohio Senator went further
and said:
This strange turn in events has but one ex-
ample in history and that was the restoration
of Charles II. after the brilliant but brief Pro-
tectorate of Cromwell, and, like that restora-
ton, is reproach TO the CIVILIZATION OF the
age.
1t has been several years since
Charles II. was seated on his throne. so
that Mr.. Sherman's hearers and the
readers of the Post may not be able to
trace the similarity between the two
cases; but, coming down to modern
times, there is case tolerably fresh in
mind which is worth citing.
Mr.. John Sherman. after performing
in the role of Visiting Statesman" be-
came on account thereof a Cabinet Off
Ger under Hayes, being Secretary of the
Treasury. Seated round the same board
was one d. NJ Key. of Tennessee, who
was not only a rebel who had con-
spired and confederated against the
Union, but he was even Democrat after
the war; This same Administration, of
| which John Sherman was the active part,
sent General James Longstreet, the
ranking officer of the Army of North
ern Virginia under Lee, and West
Point graduate. as the Minister of this
country to Turkey. This identical set
of men retained as Consul to Hong
Kong Colonel John S. Mosby, the most
active Confederate partisan at the close
of the war. And, to- crown all, just
before the Hayes Administration ex-
pred by limitation it made Postmaster
| General Key a United States Judge for
life, in order that this ex-Confederate
might never be out of Office.
John Sherman as Senator was
equally considerable of those whom he
|
| at the bottom of the alliance with Ma
| hone, which was no more disgraceful
because the Virginian was an Exon
federate and had been Democrat Is
not this Ohio Republican a pretty fell
| low to talk of ''rebels being placed in
| high Office and put at the ''head of
| great departments" What need to go
back couple of centuries or so to
Cromweil's day, when eight years is
only necessary to show John Sherman
not only approving but advising and
| aiding as Republican what he abuses
| other people for doing as Democrats.
There is, however, this difference. Both
parties appointed rebels to office, while
Republicans only rewarded Democratic
traitors.
Is it not about time for party to go
on long vacation when this is as good
an argument as it can put forward for
continued existence and prolonged con-
tention?
By the way, why did not Mr.. Sher-
man abuse the dead Grant for putting
in his Cabinet not only an ex-Confed-
crate soldier, but Northern man by
birth? This was strange OMISSION
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