Year: 1875

The drove of seedy Confederates who
/ have been snarling and rending each
/ other over the few Offices at the disposal
/ of the House of Representatives. have
I been more useful to the Nation in 1875
/. than they have been in the last twenty
! years before, if they have opened the
/ eyes of rejecting men to the prospect in
! store for US with the first advent of a
! Democratic Administration. Men who
had grown gray in the performance of
duties requiring expert knowledge and
experience, were ousted by men who had


no other recommendation than that they
were ten years ago in arms against the
Government they now demand to serve
at any price. Union soldiers, with one


limb gone, were ousted by rebel soldiers,
who were debtor for these and other


losses by loyal citizens. Rebel claimants


have not the decency to wait until the


House is fully organized before the tables


are deluged with claims which cannot yet


even be sent to appropriate; committees,
because the committees have not yet


been appointed. One officer fills all the


places at his disposal from his own town,


which is in neither State nor Territory


and he is not enough of an infidel to for


get his own family, as he looks after his


own town Another fills his subordinate


positions by tithing the drove from his


own State, leaving hundreds of disap-


pointed applicants from that one State


alone to fill the air with hungry howls.,


Our own. John g., who can make few


loaves and fishes go farther. than any


other not clothed with miraculous power,


finds his Office a burden, and even wishes


he were dead. The picture would be


pathetic if it were not ludicrous-ludi-


crous if it were not pathetic. There is a


L. /, - L., ~


hardly knows whether to laugh or cry at


the hungry, starving souls who clamor SO


like beggars in the high and mighty


language of ehivalry. Is it to be won
dered at that Democratic editor is una


BILE to restrain his indignation at the in


decent haste of INDECENT and inebriated
Virginia gentlemen" which has so dam
gerously enfeebled "the party by giving
the people of this Nation foretaste of
what they may expect from placing that
party in power2 Why could they not
wait one year2 But necessity knows
neither law nor expediency These ''iu- /
digent and inebriated Virginia gentle
men" have no other resource They
have lived in the sweat of other mems
faces until they are incapable of earning
their own bread. They have been taught |
to believe themselves the "ruling class"
They have made politics their only bust |
ness, and they find politics now their |
only employment They cannot plough,
SOW or reap. They cannot enter into any
agricultural mechanical or commercial |
enterprise. They have no aptitude for !
business" Slave labor has destroyed /
both brain and muscle, and slave labor /
no longer supplies the means for simple |
subsistence less for that easy
going hospitality which was so easy t
when it was supported by other mems |
hands, without any personal sacrifice on |
the part of the men who dispensed it so
royalty. Virginia gentlemen whether
"indigent and inebriated' and clamoring |
for Office, or whether modestly hiding |
their embarrassments under quiet and |
touching resignation more pitiful than .
beggary s self, are the type of the whole |
hungry, waiting crowd which crouches /
behind the Democratic party, |
ready to spring upon the spoils as soon
as that party can get into position to
command the party eommissary. The |
people of the United States may as well
recognize the fact cheerfully, that the
civalry have to be supported by public
if ever the Democratic
party gets into power. The chivalry
have lost heavily by the government of
the United States, since 1860; and they
will claim pay and back pay and front
pay from the government for every loss,
What they choose to claim, the Democ- I
racy dare not refuse.