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Show 1 "HOROftyD" SIMrLICITV. A bttlc over nine years ago wo heard Judgo tits emphafiize, in tones which met 11" "'cbo in ten thousand hroasla ( Amerirantia Sum, H was tbo day when Abraham Lincoln, beloved of the (Country, and in no part of it more than in Utah, was inaugurated inaug-urated for a second term. Since that lime there have been two Presidents: Andrew Johuson, who occupied the chair of Chief M igistrato close on lour years; and Ulysses Simpson Grant, who has reigned nearly six. But within that time what changes have occurred? We have no thought of bringing up those changes for adoration ad-oration or execration; but must direct attention to the peculiar path now being traveled by a country claiming the first place in republicanism. A few mouths njo a charge was made against the Department of Justice that its chief olliccr was uaimr a horse and carriage, lor private purpoeej, which had been bought and paid for by public money. The country was startled at the enormity of tho ortcnae; and Congress appointed a committee to investigate the matter. That committee com-mittee luniished a reitort, which, as was expected, slided over this landau-let landau-let affair, but concluded that a portion of the appropriation for the Department Depart-ment of Justice had bcon "improperly "improper-ly spent," and added "As is tho rase in most of tho other departments." How astonishingly merciful and tender wo arc becoming I A man draws a knife or pistol and deliberately deliberate-ly takes the life of a fellow being, and a sympathetic, jury find him guilty of having killed some person while subject I' 1 "emutional insanity." Another man, rubs his employer, or employers, and thu officers of justice go laily after a "delimiter," mure anxious that he should escape than be arrested and convicted.- Hut a government defaulter a man who in the days uf the first Napoleon and of Hull i' 1 ieiuie would have been made to stiller for a capital uflciwc, ia today to-day all but condoned, and hia crime is viewed n. a venial dereliction ol duty. This cats al the cure of the 11 public, pub-lic, and only knaves urn 1 scoundrels ignore the fact. Will the great people peo-ple say what li.dl bo done '.' |