Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1881 — The Moral of It. [ARTICLE]

The Moral of It.

None knew better than Mr. Conkling, before the late Presidential election, that James A. Garfield is a man of vacillating character, a statesman of variable views, a politician of unscrupulous methods, a trimmer and a trickster who blows hot and cold in the same breath. Now that Mr. Conkling finds that he has been cheated and betrayed, let him reflect how well he understood, when he made his famous pilgrimage to Mentor last fall to bargain for the control of the Federal offices in New York, that he was about to deal with a man whoso insincerity, tergiversation, and infirmity of purpose were the marked characteristics of his public career. Let him remember that he undertook to play with edged tools and then thank himself for the unkind cuts he has received. He has simply been the architect of his own bad fortune, and on that account forfeits the sympathy which a generous public might otherwise accord him.— Harrisburg Patriot.