Year: 1869

what are these disturbing forces of the body
politic9 Their name is Legion, and their COM
binations for spoils and plunder are endless.


For instance, the New York engineers who
contrived the nomination Of Seymour have
been pronounced a stupid set Of donkeys; but
in view of the spoils and power they were wise
men. Grant could not be beaten. They saw
that. New York could be saved, and perhaps
with Legislature and Governor at the back
of Tammany, with her twenty millions of corr
poration spoils.


What then Suppose the Legislature had
been carried by Tammany with the Governor,
where could we limit their harvest of spoils
and political power? A joint stock combina-
ton, embracing the spoils of the city and the
State and all our railway kings and all their


Wall street affiliations and their telegraph
and newspaper appendages, would command
the treasures of Monte Cristo. They could
buy up all the theatres and negro minstrels in
the city, all the restaurants and oyster house
critics, all the docks and ferries, all the horse
railroads, all the whiskey stills and whiskey
rings and lobby rings, and with all this enormous
stock in trade they might buy up Congress.
As it is the Tammany ring are limited to the
spoils of the Corporation, and there are rings
within this ring and outside this ring that pro-
duce some clashings and hreakages. And the
railway kings are divided. Vanderbilt, fairly
fanked on Erie by Gould and Fisk, is still
watching to catch them s'shOrt." Fisk,
radiant in his success of new issue
Of stock, is buying up opera houses
and building theatres lined with plate glass
and ransacking Europe for the costliest night
ingales for in this magic art Of new issue of
stock has he not the veritable lamp of
Aladdin? Drew, with his six days to mammon
in Wall street and one day to the house of
the Lord, has been outgeneralled, and will per-
haps have to build another church to balance
his accounts. And so they 60. The political
rings Of all sorts, railway kings and powerful
corporasions-which in New York, if combined
under Sweeny, would be too strong even for
Grant-are divided, SO that he may cut them
up in detail So much for the nomination of
Seymour and the issue of the late battle for
our State Legislature.


The whiskey rings, however, still compass
capital stock Of hundreds of millions; other in
ternal and external revenue defrauding rings are
flush of money, while the public land and bond
jobbers of the West in the shape Of railway
jobs and Indian treaties and mining expert
ments, have schemes on hand covering thou
sands Of millions. And all these powerful
combinations of gamesters have their allies
not only in the lobby, in the church
houses of Congress. The war has en-
riched thousands of bold adventurers in all
these public spoliations, and thousands more
are in the field for the same harvest. General
Grant promises to dispense these marauders
and to save the Treasury How is he to do
it? The Hon. Mr. Mullins, of Tennessee, may
say that these Treasury leaks cannot be stopped
''till the Angel Gabriel snaps his resurrection
gun" but we think they can. The gathering
of the elements indicates storm. We have
seen heavy thunder gust rising and spread
ing itself abroad from the West; we have
seen a confused gathering of clouds
rushing to meet it from the East, and with the
collision of these opposing forces we have seen
tempest, sweeping away all distractions in its
resistless march. Next, with the passing
storm we have seen a calm like that Of a soft
May morning on the Hudson.


Such, we expect, viii be the collision and the
consequences between General Grant and all
the rings and combinations of Treasury rob
bers The conflict will be terrific; but the
robbers will be swept away, and then We shall
have "a great calm" The radical leaders
hang fire, the Senate holds back, the rings Of
public plundcrers are preparing for battle. 1t
is just this question, shall this government be
reformed and live, or shall it sink under the
corruptions and debaucheries Of Rome. Let
the people, then, prepare to support Presi-
dent Grant in this coming fight; let it be
fought out, and ''let us have peace"


HAPPY STATE OF AFFAIRS. radical or
gan is satisfied with what Grant has said on
the nigger question. He did not say anything
about the niger in his recent letter, but once
upon time he said amen to the Chicago plat
form. SO for once the niger worshippers are
disposed not to be exacting.


THE GoyERNoR'5 CHANCE. The Governor
may do something practical for the democracy
Of this city by vigorous exercise Of that sort
Of good will that ''cuts to cure" He should