Year: 1875

rememb cred dream. And he says not word.
Opportunity lies under his hand He might
reach out and take it with almost
o single hearty. manly utterance. But
even he has hesitated and paiterea'
and muttered under his breath tho things no
dared not say aloud. until the opportunity
has almost-perhaps aiready-passed. sitting
there in front of him are Dawes and Garfield
and Hawley, and dozen more who know as
we'll az they know themselves and each other.
that a great crime against State, against
the Constitution. and against liberty has been
committed by the President, and not o mothers
son OF them dares open his mouth. except to
tell some inquisitive correspondent that he is
waiting to hear both Sides" or to put aside
the great startling facts In the case
with the empty drivel Of campaign outrages.


In the Senate, Mr.. Schurz sets before the
country q clear and impartial recital OF the
facts, and thereon arraigns the President and
the party for crime against liberty anu
against law, and the attempt OF Administra-
ton attorneys to make answer to 1t ls 30 weak
and Intellectual rs to be absolutely painful TO
spectators. There is no such dense ignorance
of popular feeling among the Administration
Senators that they do not keenly feel the
peril in which the party has been, placed by
the action Of the President; but not one OF
them oan brace himself up to whisper pro-
test on behalf of party or country.
They look on stolidly while the Presi-
dent overrides the Constitution and ruins his
party. Nothing could more forcibly illustrate
the power the President has gained over the
party. Lie is to all intents and purposes, 80
far as that organization is concerned, absolute.
No leader dares question him, no member 70
dispute his will. There were whisperings OIL
dissatisfaction in the Cabinet, but they were
never above the BREATH and so soon as tney
were made public the Cabinet ministers VINO
were credited with having asserted their own
opinions and from whom the country ex-
pected most, hurried to explain that
there were no differences OF opinion,
but that the Cabinet was unit In
military subordinatOn to the Chief. IL any OF
them had an idea of holding an opinion of his
own, there was no marrow in his purpose, no
backbone in his weak and fabby self-asser-
ton. For moment the very newspaper
organs rose up with some show of maniness
to protest against the Presidents crime but
partisanship prevailed and they fell back
mumbling the old lies about intimidation, and





rehashing the exploded campaign Outrages.


Grant runs the party. Grant is the party
His heel is on Louisiana, his thumb is on
Congress. He holds the party in his grip aud
not man of all his following can muster
courage to protest. q And yet the organs
limber-jointed and supple-kneed, are deprecat-
ing any attempt to make party capital out OF
the Louisiana business. Party capital, indeed!
For no other purpose than to perpetuate the
power of the party in Louisiana was this
crime committed, and the Presidents
party in Congress seem determined to
make party question OF sustain
ing him. In this state Of things, what
nonsense to deprecate partisanshp and the
attempt to make party capital. Let some Ad-
ministration Republican in the Senate or House
come out and denounce the crime and its
instigators, and there will be some sense
in this kind of talk. Till then it must be
party question, for these men make it 50
thamsalyea