Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1869 — The Tenure of Office Law. [ARTICLE]

The Tenure of Office Law.

The news from Washington indicates that although it was supposed 1 the Tenure of Office Law could bo j repealed with little difficulty, the question is still in doubt, with the : chant** in favor of the opponents to its repeal. . j It is said the law is very obnoxious to President Grant, and that he desirts its repeal that his efforts to Weed out unworthy officers may be tintramnielcd. Bntfthe Senate is loth to surrender the power it places in their hands, and while professing the greatest cbntidence in General Grant and while they would be willing to suspend its operations during his administration they are j hot willing to repeal it, because hit sue- , tetsor may itotbe to flood a moil. The law was made to curb a had President aii«l to prevent him fi ling nuportautoffice-s with the enemies of, the country, and also to stop the dis- ; graceful system of removing worthy j men from place because they did not endorse the peculiar tenets of his revolutionary policy. Wc do not believe any lasting good wilL result from the passage of l:\wsjjike the one in question. While ii was intended by its aut hors as a cheek upon ' the arbitrary act ions of a traitorous 1 Executive, it* workings did not stop there, but it became a standing apology in the tboutlis of Ills friends for ' his failure in collecting the revenues of the Government, and instead of being a protection to*worthy officers, it became a shield behind which 1 knaves and scoundrels could intrench I thchnclies and successfully prey | upon the public revenues in defiance < f laW and right Wc do not believe it v, ise to make laws whose workings are unequal. — Congress should not pass a law | whose workings make it a good law for a bad President but a bad law - for a good Presideut—Let the.yuiC mid the unjust'be goverened by the same law. And let all laws be so framed that their penalties will be visited upon those alone who do evil. If the Tenure .of Office law is not lit,, to remain on our statute books while General Grant is President, let it not be suspended (tut let it be repealed. In. President Grant’s j n augural j he says, “i know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious j laws so effective as their gtringent execution,” aud it is. said he pro|)os- j cs to ensure 'tfiiTrepca! oiuHsf uwby . stringently enforcing its provisions, and we believe nine-tenths of the people will endorse him in this course. General Grant was elected because the people, believed him capable and honest, and that under his administration then?would be most searching reforms,in the execution of the laws, a strict collection of the public revenues, an economical expenditure of public moneys, that thieves and plunderers would be sup : 1 planted by honest men, and they demand that ail lets and hiudcrancc to j these desirable ends be removed.