Year: 1871

expenses. W h6pe 1t Will but tEert
must be several new leaves turned ovel
to secure that joyful consummation
Meantime, let the Government dechnt
to enter upon q new business, which goes
on very well without it's aid.


When we shall have so reformed ou
civil service that every tide waiter and
letter-carrier shall not be expected te
lose his place at each turn of the party
wheel, and every third youth in the land
shall not be looking to Office as his way
to subsistence and competence, We may
think of enlarging the area of Govern.
ment intermeddling With BUSINESS. Un-
til then such enlargement is not to be
considered.


ALLEGED PUBLIC ABUSES.


In the Senate Republican caucus an
unfortunate and mistaken scnsitiveness
upon the subject Of examinations into al
legged public abuses, was manifested by
some over-anAious Senators. The coun-
try will hold to strict reckoning any
man who, while ready to applaud inyes-
legations into municipal corruption in
New York, or State abuses at the South
shall seem to stop short when the affairs
OF the National Administration become
tie subject of inquiry. IF there be such
men, they mistake the time and the tenn
per of the people. More than this they
mistake their duty to their party, and
to the Administration it has placed in
power and supports. This administra-
ton needs no dark-lantern policy, and
must count him an enemy who would
seek to avert the fullest, fairest, and mos
open inquiry into all it's dealings and do
lngs. The time is one for searching in
Vestigation into all manner of public af-
fairs which are ever proper subjects for



r--, CONGRESS.


The country will be relieved to learn
hat four of the principal topics which
engage public attention, namely, the
Tariff. Internal Taxation, Civil Rights,
and Civil Service Reform, are likely to
receive immediate consideration in Con-
gress. Let us have no more threatening
awful things about the Tariff, but have
done with what is to be done, and relieve
the commercial world of apprehensions.
The sooner the Internal Revenue Bureau
IS reduced and simpli6ed, the better, and
4 real reformation of the Civil Service is
ust now wanted more than anything
Else. There are various schemes inyolv-
ng a moro complete defense of Civil
Rights under consideration; bat if any
Congressman can show US how to get rid
If martial law in the South, and soon,
the people to self-destruction
We hope he will do it, and will receive
instant attention from his fellow-legisla-
tors. But we need something beside
salk.


GENERAL GRANT,


If the Government is economically con-
1ucted, the revenue honestly collected,
he taxes fairly adjusted, and the peace
and honor of the country maintained,
hey are satisfied, without running the
risk of a change which might be for the
worse. All these things have been done
under General Grants administration ::
if not TO the entire satisfaction of every
body, yet to the general satisfaction of
the country, aud there is no reason to
believe that change would bring about
any improvement. Besides there is a
feeling of security in the country while
General Grant is President that would
not prevail under another Executive,
even though he might have more expert
ence as civilian and statesman. The
revolutionary spirit still exhibited by q
large portion of the Southern people, in
cluding many of the rebel leaders, is not
calculated to make the loyal people OF
the country forge, as they would like to
10, the events of the late civil war. Ii
the declaration of universal amnesty,
which we trust the President will be au-
Lhorized to make before the adjournment
u the present Congress, does not pro
luce better effect upon Southern feel
ing than the partial amnesty granted al
ready has done, there will be inst cause
for apprehension that large portion of
the SoGth has not accepted, and does
not propose to accept, the results of the
war as final. In such an event the peo-
pie choose to have General Grant, above
all men, in the Presidential chair. They
have perfect confidence in his feaity to
the principles Of The Republican party
in his devotion to the Union Of the State
and the supremacy of the fag-and they
know from experience his ability to main
tain those principles and defend that
Union against ell opposition.


THE INTERNATIoNALs.


Now that the Internationals have beer
dragged into public notice, it would moi
be inopportune to hear what specia
grievances attach, in their opinion, tc
the position of working man in thi:
country. In communities resting upon
a feudal basis. subversive doctrines may
be seasonable and just. In n society
which rests upon universal suffrage
where the people govern in theory, and
can, when they choose, govern in prac-
tics. it would be interesting to know
what kind of Democratic reconstruction
the lnternationalists have to propose.
war against capital which they wish to