Year: 1876

Sam Randall did it-Repubticdn Confidence an


Democratic Dependency Piaa's opinion {
Centennial Tisitors-Repduing Psnna. Avenue


The $500, ,Ooa 900 Loan-"An'eriae before Europe


We have heard many of the clerks who, unde


the mandate of Sam Randall, have been droppe


from the rolls in the Departments, complain of thi


ostracism. An inquiry into the political anteced


ents of some of these unfortunates shows tha
they have been in political accord with Sam him
self He is to blame for thus prosecuting hi


friends. He is 'the man who struck Billy Patter


son. and his Democratic friends should hold hin


responsible.


We took a stroll along F. street in this city fey


evenings ago. and in passing the respective head


quarters of the Republican and Democratic Con


gressional Committees, we were impressed witt


the life and activity in the vicinity of the former


and the gloom and quietness which marked tn


location of the latter. The recent news from Yer
mont and Maine seemed TO have given life even q
the Republican banner, while the Democratic ra'
hung istessly from the flagstaff. This seemed t.
indicate that coming victory which "throws 1T


shadow before" We say, ''let it come"


There is much more activity and stir in Washing
ton during the recess in Congress this year than il
N-->
Centennial Exposition. A very large number oi
the people who come to Philadelphia from the fai
West and other distant parts of the country, visit
the national capital for the first time. Almost al
these people who appear in our streets, puon'
buildings and Hotels and boarding houses are
well-dresspd, well-behaved, temperate, and SOBER
and in the mass give every indication that they be-
long to class of intelligent, industrious, hardy, we'll
to-do people, who are the bone and sinew of the
country, and by their lives and character do honoi
to the nation. What then shall we think or say OF
the following paragraph which we clip from Til
den organ published in this city. Let the thought
full honest people of the country read this diatrbe
of one of Mr.. Tildens snobbish supporters, and
then Judge whether it is best TO support party
whose advocates have. and express such contempt
for the honest masses. These are his words:


The il-bred, illfed, beggarly mob that drifts in
to Washington daily on its return from the Cen
tennial to its Western home is about the severest
criticism on our nations prosperity and our ma
tional breeding ever suffered by all-wise Provi-
dence to live, or sensible generation to thread the
paths of life, q memento of the smailness OF hu-
manity. When We say the average Centennial Wis
itor is meaner than dead dog rolled in tan bark,
we are doing gross injustice to the dog, and fail
utterly TO convey the genuine character OF this
strange class of people. Rnde, dirty, mean ana
hungry, an army of starved grasshoppers would
be balm of Gilead in their stead. They carry their
provender in their pockets, eat it on the curb
stones, and leave the city when their larder plays
out"


Now you know it. That is the estimate which
\; Of II
age industrious citizen who visits the Exposition
from the far West.


Pennsylvania Avenue is now being repaved, and
large number of men are at work upon this splen-
did thoroughfare removing the old wooden blocks
to give place to better and more durable roadway
and when the work now in progress is finished,
very marked and decided Improvement will be wit
messed. But this work has been commenced too
late in the season TO be completed before winter,
and just here comes in the complaint that this avenue
might be rendered almost impossible for the great
er portion of the winter. This work should have
in June last, but our ex-Confederate
Congress held back and would not move In the
matter till nesr the end of the session when all the
members knew, that this work must be done.
This is one of the many illustrations showing the





and wisely provide for the public exegencies.
Nothing was done in time, but days, and weeks,
and months were wasted in fruitless debate over
matters that should have been acted on at once


The fact that.the Secretary of the Treasury has
sold the three hundred million loan constituted of
~ per cent bonds put quietus upon that Oft re-
peated cry, the Republican party has ruined the
country. Hon. Mr.. Cobb, tried in Mr.. Buchanan's
time to place five million loan on the market at
IL per cent. and failed. The difference between
then and now shows how the Republicans have
ruined the country.


On Thursday evening, the I4th instant, there was
8 large gathering at Lyceum Hall, called by the
liberal Republicans to hear Col. d. Ingersoll, the
author of the life of Horace Greeley, make Hayes
and Wheeler speech. The meeting was grand
success and Col Ingersoll's address rang out with
telling effect against sham Democracy


Count de Gasparin, in his scholarly work entitled
America before Europe" after discussing the
cause of the uprising of the rebellion, holds the
language: "Ah! 1t is with nations as
with individuals. Tie people who make progress
are the people of suffering and combat. Noble suf-
ferings glorious combat, without which uprising
is impossible. No, l never will
consent to rank among disasters, the bloody VIC
tories of humanity; it would be to veil the moral
side of history, congratulate Americans on hay-
ing willed the cure with its necessary conditions,
on having recoed neither before the bitterness of
Its necessary remedies, nor the sharp pain of the
operation, nor the transient despondency which
precedes and paves the way for the re-establish-
ment of strength"


The volume from which we quote was written by
this celebrated French statesman during the winter
of '61-2, when we had but fairly entered upon the
fearful struggle that wrested States from States,
severed the greatest church on this continent, dl
vided communities against communities, and even
sat father against son, wife against husband, and
created battlefield more vast than Alexander had
been permitted to view An Institution born OF IN
iquity had been permitted to curse by its presence
the airer half of our glorious country, and at its
insolent demand for yet more of the virgin SOIL the
better, nobler elements of our civilization determ-
ined that the time had come when they would
publish to the world that 'thus far and no farther"
were the only conditions wherein the two classes
could longer abide under the same flag, and that if
come it must, the sooner the better. temporary
affected, but the treacherous slave
element used it but 10 scatter army and navy, dis
mantle fortresses, rob arsenals, bankrupt the
treasury, and even barter for its worthless State
and county stocks, the funds sacredly invested for
educational purposes. ETA.