Year: 1868

null and liberal treaty which our government
has negotiated with the North German Con-
federation for the protection of naturalized cit-
zens, there can be no doubt now. The ofhcid
despatch of Mr.. Bancroft, our Minister at Ber-
lin, to the Secretary of State, which has been
communicated to Congress and which we pub
lished yesterday, sets the whole matter at rest
and must prove very gratifying to our German
fellow citizens. Count Bismarck has shown
himself to be great statesman In this al in
everything else he does. There is no eouiyo-
cation, no attempt to overreach or at subter-
fuge, and no long-winded phraseology or un-
necessary words. His explanation of the
treaty and the intention of it is
clear, direct and business-like. 1t gave
complete satisfaction to the Imperial
Diet, to the members of which it was
made, and when the question of accepting the
treaty was put the whole Diet, with the excep-
tion of two OF three Poles who only declined
voting, rose to their feet with alacrity and
voted for it. In the words of Mr.. Bancr0ft's
despatch, SAN the proceedings were marked
by the disposition to cherish the most friendly
relations with the United States" Hereafter,
then, any of our German naturalized citizens
who are natives of the North German Confede-
ration will be exempt from military duty or
arrest for that purpose should they return to
their native country as American citizens and
not voluntarily resume their allegiance to the
German government. In fact, the right of
expatriation and transfer Of allegiance is fully
I,v
German government Thus troublesome and
an important question is settled, and that
mainly through the broad and liberal states
manship of the great man who, under the King,
rules North Germany. 1t is an example for
the other nations of Europe to follow, as they
will, no doubt, if our government enters at once
into negotiations for that purpose.


Corporation Rogues and Radical Robbers


The radical press in this city are continually
pitching into Tammany and the Corporation,
charging them with being fountains of public
thievery, robbery, swindling and wholesale
corruptions of all sorts. Now, there is nc
doubt Bismarck Sweeny, the Tammany City
Chamberlain, is great snnery but he makes
monthly confession in the shape Of few
thousands returned to the city treasury by
way of interest received on the public funds he
has in charge, and he is entitled to absolution
to the amount of cash paid in. Tweed has also
been great sinner, too, probably the fattest


of the lot; and perhaps all the members of the


Corporation have committed public plumber
sins of greater or lesser magnitude. But ell


these plundering operations, large and small,
put together, do not amount tQ drop in the


bucket compared with the mammoth robberies


the radicals are daily committing all over the


couy<.y Not content with saddling upon the
people tax of six hundred millions year,


they are stealing all the time. They steal


seven to ten millions year on account of the
Freedmen's Bureau. They steal two or three


millions to maintain oppressive military satrap'


sizes in the South. They rob the national
| treasury of twenty millions annually to keep
up national bank currency which could be far


more satisfactorily supplied gratis by govern


ment legal tenders. They have their whiskey


jobs and robberies. their Pacific Railroad


jobs and robberies, their public land jobs


and robberies, their huge contract jobs and


robberies for government supplies, and their


interminable jobs and robberies of minor sort


which never meet the public eye. They have


now before Congress schemes for subsidies


amounting to the enormous sum of two hum


dred and sixty-eight million dollars and over,
which are, in fact, nothing but burglarious


assaults upon the public treasury. They are,


we repeat, robbing everywhere. If the radical
| press will examine into these plundering jobs


they will find that the sins of Tammany and


the Corporation, great as they may be, are but


little pools compared with the mighty ocean


of radical corruption and rapacity. We are


opposed to sins of all sorts, big and little, and


hope the day will come when the wickedness
and corruptions of all parties shall cease and


an era of common honesty dawn upon the now
| polluted public places.


The ssBloated Armaments'' of Europe.
Four millions Of men are kept armed in