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Our Special Washington Letter.
Washington-. Jan. 28, 1S72.
Editor Exterpkisk : During tbe blocks
ade on the great Pacific highway, it was
not expedient to keep up correspondence
with your paper, as the inforpaaU&n would
be old and stalo, hence I did not write.
In recommencing, it U gratifying to say
that every qay'a experience proves co,n-
clusively that tbe hopes ana prospects of
the Democracy are improving and Radi
cal stock declining. Tbe debate in the
Senate on Judge Trumbull's resolution of
inquiry into thji abuses of this Adminis
tration has produced a profound, snsatir.n
throughout the nation, and the people
have at last Ria.de up their minds to look
into the matter, and not to be led by the
hue and cry against rebels and the events
af the war. There 13 one thjng very evi
dent, that the Republicans have been
placed on the defensive, and the Democrats
are making a vigorous charge along the
whole line, and striking heavy blows on
headquarters. Gen. Grant just now is as
severely pressed, as he was at Belmont
and Pittsburgh Landing. The Custom
House investigation now going on in New
York, by the Senate committee, is bring
ing in bis military funnily, and it is clearly
proved that Leet. Porter and Dent, at
tachees at the White House. have received
large sums from the New York merchants
by the system, qf cartage, Vv'h'ch they
managed to get the entice control of. This
developement is a source of deep morti
fication to the leading Republican friends
of President Qraqt, and they do not know
from what quarter there may other dam
aging blame assail them. This fear that
has siezed upon Republicans is the prin
cipal reason that they resist every effort
made to investigate, but "rqnrder will
out," and this thing will not stop until the
corruptions are lerretud otit und its guilty
authors exposed.
Last Monday was a grand day for the
Democrats in the House, and a complete
triumph, and the Republicans for the first
time bung their heads in shame. The ball
was opened by len. rarnsworln. Repub
lican, from Illinois, lie presented a peti
tion signed by a largp number of the citi
zens of Washington, asking Congress to
inquire into the mismanagement of the
Territorial Legislature of the District of
Columbia, and offered relief. I cannot do
fetter than to ask you to publish as part
of this letter an extract from the petition)
and part of the remarks of Gen Farns-
worth. The r.etition says as follows :
r
G. The Legislature at the instigation of
the Board, has passed two loan bills, of
S4.00U DUO each, for improvements. Each
bill involves an additional special tax of
$2,000,000 on private property; and this
whole sum of S12.U0O.OQ0 is to be placed
absolutely and without restriction in the
bauds of five ti)en.
?4r. Farnsworth. ir. Speaker. I desire
to say that I have made no investigation
of these charges, and therefore cannot
vouch for them, except so far as they may
be substantiated by papers which have
beei furnished me. It appears, as I un
derstand from a recent appropriation,
made by the L"giolatuf-e of thjs District,
that over S J. 00.000 u l't't UJS been incur
red within the past eight UiOU'.Us by the
government of the District of Columbia
for advertising patronage in this District:
I hold in my hand a list of the sums ap
propriate tp different newspapers, from
which it Hpjjeats that the Unity Choaicie
has been paid for advertising. So(.159 605
the JiepubUcan, $14.400 21); the istnr. S'J.
701 72; the Anzej'jey, a German paper,
S7 72(i 20; the' Patriot, S4.U7S; the Critic,
a theatre paper. $11, 193 77; the Surah ty
Chronicle. $5,757 48; Sunday Herald. 3.
8(10 30; the Sunday Capital. $2,231 02: the
Sunday Gazellee, Si. 200 02; the Grand 41"
"my Journal. $4,074 77; the Georgetown
Courier, $2,201 25; the Sandau limes (a
little paper which I never heard of before,
and whjh ailvert.ises that subscription?
for one yeaj,- are o;m csnt. payable at the 1
end ot the year.) l,2b2 1)0; the Columbian.
another Qerman paper. S3. 055 05; the
New National Era, $3.51)6 75; the Public
1 'vice, $42! Little regard has been paid
to the Public Voice! Then, there are var
ious items for job printing; $4-205 42 for
."miscellaneous prjrti;g SI (501 25 to
Gibson X; Brothers, for printing election
tickets. &c; $2,020 for printing tbe Police
Court investigation. The.e various items
amount to $117,035 74 for advertising. &.c.
during the .eight months that the new Dis
trict government has been in operation.
Bear u mind that President Grant ap
pointed the Governor and Legislative
Council, and other important officers of
the District, nearly all of whom belong to
the Seneca Sand Stone Ring.
The extravagance her.e exhibited is
really larger than those exposed in New
York, taking iuto consideration the rela
tive population of the two places. The
nmittee on the District of Golubia
have been directed by the House 4o ex
amine into these abuses of public trust.
In the House, on the same day, when
the question came up to provide money io
pay the expenses of the committee who
were appointed to repair to New Orleans
to see iuto tbe difficulties in the Louisiana
Legislature, a debate sprung up'that cre
ated a profound sensatiou, and was really
the greatest triumph the Democrats have
achieved on the floor of Congress for long
years, and the press of tbewhoie country
i? commenting on it in terms of the speech
es of Representatives VoorLees and Beck
on the occasion. These gentlemen improv
ed the opportunity of the Louisiana rascal
ity to losh the majority in Congress fgr their
pretended Southern reconstruction legis
lation, of which this tro.iole'in Louisiana
is the fruit. It was the first evidence of
Hie the Democratic Representatives had
exhibited this session. Jt was gratifying
to see that some of them were willing '-to
iJiros- pff iLeir soft velvet gloves io strike
v., . .... ,U U J ,. .
uuiuc iiu iiaiius encasea in iron.-' What
the Democrats in Congress want is bold
ness and vigor. They have played the
moderate and quiescent roit loDg enough
To convince your readers that Messrs,
Voorbees and. Beck did not spare their
oppospnts, large extracts from their re
marks are made portions of this letter,
because what they said s.b.ou.ld go before
the country, The speech above referred
to will be found in another part of this
issue. Ed.
What ilr. Yaobees coaauents on in
general terms, Mr. Beck puts in figures
thus :
Their debts and liabilitn s.actual and con
tingent, have frightfully increased, while
their taxable propery has diminished more
than half in the last few years. Alabama
owed not over S8.000.000 in 1868, now
she is bound for S38.0U0.O0O. Arkansas
has increased her liabilities from $4,000.
000 to nearly $20,000,000; Florida from
little or nothing to nearly SIC.OOO.OOO ;
Georgia from five or six millions to nearly
$50 000,000 however. $0,000,000 ot fraud
ulent bonds have been stopped lately
Louisiana from $6.Q00.000 in 1800. to
$41,000,000, with a deficiency of over $9,
000,000 las; year; North Carolina, say,
from $10,000,000 in 1801. to nearly $35.
O0O.QU0, now; South Carqlina from say,
S5.000.00Q to $29.0.00,0,00; Tepnesyee from
$20,000,000 to $45,000,000; Texas from
nothing to about $16,000,000, with over
$5,000,000 of taxation this year, besides
the most enormous county taxation in all
the States, and not a dollar of this is for
the Confederate war debt ; that was all
repudiated, and many of the States have
nothing to show tor all the millions im
posed by State and county taxation upon
them.
In North CaroVipa Governor Jlolden was
successfully impeached for high crimes
and misdemeanors; he is now editor of the
Government organ at Washington city.
Governor Lulloek, of Georgia, resigned
bis position, and lied from the State to
prevent certain conviction for IjUe offences.
Governor Smith, of Alabama, retired in
disgrace, proved to have officially plun
dered bio State by the illegal and corrupt
issue of $500,000 of her bonds to the Ala
bama and Chattarjooga Uatlroad Company;
Scott, of South Carolina, proved by his
own partisans to be a public plunderer,
who if he escapes impeachment must buy
his corrupt Legislatuie; Reed, of Florida,
willfully robbing his State by illegally
placing millions of her bojids jn the hands
of such a thief as Littlefield is shown to be;
Clayton, of Arkansas, charged by Radical
officials with all sorts of corruption and
indicted in a Radical point by a Radical
grand jury tor the most flagrant offences;
Warmouth. of Louisiana, if half that is said
against him by his own party friends be
true, is worse than any of them; Brown
low, while in Tennessee, making a pende
monium of that State; Davis, cii Texas a
tyrand and usuiper, who is denounced by
his people regardless of party as
a liend 111 tinman 101m, wuose or
ders and acts are a disgrace to Am
erican civilization the&o are the men
placed by Congress over seven million peo
ple in nine once free and independent
Slates; men who are Jqatljed and execrat
ed by the people whose rights, liberty,
and honor it was their duty to protect.
Retributive justice is on their track; some
have been overtaken, the others will be.
Hater and di-pised, their only refuge, if
tljey can escape the penitentiary, seems to
be in the Senate of the United States.
The speeches of Voorbees and Geek are
being published aud commented upon by
the entire Democratic press and a large
portion of the Republican newspapers al
so. Their speeches afe eye-openers to the
public, and will have more effect than any
yet delivered in Congress.
The Senate has reported t,c Apportion
ment Bill which passed the Home before
the recess, and made a radical change in
the number of Representatives. The Sen.
ate cuts down the representation in the
House to 243 members. 40 less than the
House Bill gave. The Seuate also Gxes
the time for the election of members
throughout all the States, iu November,
1872, instead of 1876, so as to secure a
uniform election on the same day. This
y ill remove the difficulty in your State, if
the bill passes as I have no doubt it will.
so far as this provision is concerned. As
you- Legislature assembles in September.
they can pass the needful laws conform
ing to the legislatlari of Congress, which
requires all elections for members cf Con
gress to be by billot. When the bill pass
es you will be telegraphed on this partic
ular point affecting Oregon.
The Liberal Republicans of Missouri
held a Convention at Jefferson City, Mis
souri, on the 24th inst., which, it is said
was one of the largest and most enthusi
astic ever held in the State. They adopted
an admirable set of resolutions, which is
a strong indictment against Grant's admin
istration, and shows decided hostility to
the corrupt practices of their former asso
ciates. In their address they invite all
RepuWiaans who desire the reforms herein
set forth '"to meet in National Mass Con
vetion at Cincinnati, on the first Monday
in May. at noon, there to take such action
as our convictions of duty and the public
exigencies may require." I enclose copy
of the resolutions. They will be found
published elsewhere in this issue. En
Jhe movement is a very impoitant one,
finrl thf mcpt i n rr in Cincinnati will have
representatives from every State. This
Convention meets d-fore the Grant Con
vention at Phijadelrjtji. and the Liberal
Republicans will make a nomination.
Then tt.n thir.l njirtv will be organized, as
the Abolitionists ccmnjenced their organ
ization, by nominating Martin Van Daren
as their candidate in 184S. which defeated
Gen. Cass for the Presidency. The Lib
erals believe thit their cause is ultimately
to triumph, and they are willing to bear
generai defeats, because of this confidence
in the future. They do not believe the
ticket nominated by lbe.ra oa tne l"st Ionr
day in May will be supported by tbe
Democrats, cor will the Democrats unite
on it, for there will be held a National
Democratic Convention to nominate a
candidate for President and Vice Presi
dent, as has been the time-honored usage
.cf the party. This Convention will not
convene uutil after the Republican Con
vention in Philadelphia. It is generally
believed that it will come off on tbe fust
Monday in August. The party is gaining
confidence and, courage every day, and
from all parts of the country comes good
tidings, and there is a prospect of th,e
kindling of the edd De,mc,crAtic fire.
Y'our Representative, Mr. Slater, ad
dresses the Honse to morrow on the rail
road question, and a copy will be for
warded tQ yo.t;.
Republican
Indictment
Grant.
Against
Following are the resolutions
passed by the Missouri Liberal lie
publicans. It is a most complete
indictment acrainst Grant and his
Administration, and comes from
those who helped to elect him to
the Presidency;
Jlesolved, That we, the liberal
Republicans of Missouri, faithful
now, as we were in the dark days
of war, tQ the vital principles
of true Republicanism, by no act
or word will endanger the rightful
sovereignty of the Union, emanci
pation, equality of civil rights or
enfranchisement. To those estab
lished facts now embedded in the
Constiution we claim the loyalty
of all good citizens.
Jiesolced, That true and lasting
peace can come only from such pro
found recQueiUatifiii as enfranchise
ment has wrought in this State,
nor can those governments be pure
or great in which tax-payers, have
no "actual part; we therefore, de
mand with equal suffrage for all
complete amnesty for all, that the
intellect nud experience of every
State may be welcomed to act ive
service for common welfare.
Jlesolced, That no form of tax
ation is just or wise which putc
ncedtees burdens upon the people.
We demand genuine reform of tar
iff, so that those duties shall be re
moved which, in addition to the
Treasury, involve an increase in
the price of domestic products,
and consequent tax for the benefit
of favored interests.
Jcsolucd, That the shameless
abuse of the Government patron
age for the control of conventions
and elections, whether in the inter
est of individuals or of a party,
with its cqiiseqtieiit corruption and
demoralization of political life, de
mands the thorough and genuine
reform of the public service.
Those who would suppress investi
gation forget thev owe a higher
duty to the country than to any
party. We honor those Senators
whose courageous course has com
pelled the disclosures of gross mis
deeds, and they deserve the thanks
and hearty support of good citi
zens.
Jiesoh'ed. That a loyal self-govern
ment, with impartial suffrage, will
guard the rights of all more secure
ly than any centralized authority.
It is time to stpp the growing en
croahments of the executive power,
the use of coercion or bribery to
ratify a treaty, the packing of the
Supreme Court to relieve rich cor
porations, the seating of members
of Congress not elected bv the
people, the resort to unconstitution
al laws to cure the Ku-Iylux disor
ders, irreligeon or intemperance,
and the surrender of individual
freedom to those who ask that the
practice qr preed qt some shall be
the law of all. We demand for
the individual the largest liberty
consistent with public order; for
the State, self-government, and for
the nation, the return of the meth
ods of peace and limitations of
power.
Jiesolced, That true republican
ism makes it not the less qur duty
to expose corruption, denounce
usurpation of power, and work for
reforms necessary for the public
welfare. The times demand the
uprising of honest citizens to sweep
from power the men who prosti
tute the name of any honest party
to selfish interests. Wp therefore
invite all Republicans who desire
tho reforms herein spt forth to
meet in national mass convention
at Cincinnati, on the first Monday
of May next, at noon, there to take
such action as our convictions of
duty and the public exigencies
may require.
Tnunr.qvr Wkkd. Some one
tells the Chicago Tribuiie a good
story of Thurlow Weed to illus
trate his Micawber style of keeping
accounts. lie had quite a large
sum of money intrusted to him for
political pm-poieo in 1S5G, 810,000
of it being given to defeat Millard
Fillmore as Presidential candidate.
Aware of his own fallibility in ac
counts, T. W. gave thig sum to his
partner, Mr. Sinclair, who was to
deposit it in his own name in order
to keep all things secret. Mr. Sin
clair died suddenly of disease of the
heart. All efforts to get back the
$10,000 was useless, of course, so
that it was passed over 10 Airs, m
clair. a fascinating widow, who a
vp.li' afterward became Mrs. Mil
lard Fillmore, and the money
which was to defeat the unsuccess
ful candidate became the cornet-
stone of his "wedding portion."
Extract from the Speech of Mr-!
Voorhees, in the House, Monday,
January 22, 1372-
TIIE NEW ORLKAXS TROUBLES.
As I look upon the scene
which has been exhibited in the
city of Xew Orleans for the last
two weeks, I think no gentleman
upon this iioor has exaggerated its
importance. No one has colored
the affair too strongly. And the
gentleman from Massachusetts Mr.
Dawes is entitled, in my judg
ment, to the thanks, of the country
for the independence of his conduct
in
MOVING THE PROPOSED INVEbTIGA-
He is a leader of his party, and the
i official leader of this House, and
the effects of his measure must tall
upon his political friends. His
conduct is all the more commenda
ble for that reason.
Sir, what do we behald in Louis
iana? Ait American State has
been trying for two weeks to con
vene her Legislature, and trying in
vain. She lias been endeavoring
to assemble the law-making branch
of her government, and up to this
hour has failed, During that time
we have seen an American oiheer
in command of the United States
troops, moving them every day to
and from the Government barracks,
lNTKUPEUINO IN TIIE STRUGGLE,
under orders from somewhere, tin
til at last the mob arises and crocs
to his headquarters. It there makp;
a demand, disgraceful to them and
to the age in which we live; asks
the officer to proclaim martial law.
The answer given by him was not
creditable to his uniform, or rank
but it was, perhaps, just to the ser
vile mob, clamoring for tyranny to
be established on their bende
necks. He tells them to go away
or he will give them the martia
lar of praoe and canister. These
are strange events in a land o
law. m
And at last there come thi:
morning a declaration of war. .
know net whether the intelligence
is true or
er the Louisiana officials have ac
quired Mexican habits of issuing
proclamations lor amusement ant
iiot for mirnoses of battle. De that
as it may,
THE GOOD NAME OF THE AVIIOLI
COUNTRY IS
public decency is outraged ; the
leader of oiie faction proclaims that
he will at a given hour proceed 111
battle array to open one branch of
the Legislature by force of arms.
With due military regard to the
safety of non-combatants, he tells
them to close their houses and
places of business and to keep out
of the streets. This a declaration
of civil war. This time ij; is, not a
slave-holders' rebellion ; it is a war
of two wings of a great and power
ful political party. lias it com
menced ? ho 'can tell
me : i
do not know whether it has or not,
but it this matter does not call for
iirorai.it action on our part, then I
can conceive of no outrage on Am
erican soil that should challenge the
attention of the American Con
gress. Sir, this trouble arises from the
system upon which Congress has
acted in reconstructing tne ooutii.
I have been in the South this.
summer in connection with an in
vestigating committee, and I assert
hat
THE WORST GOVERNMENTS IN THE
WHOLE "WORLD, WITHOUT ANY
EXCEPTION, ARE THE GOVERN
MENTS OK THE SOUTHERN STATES
AT THIS HOUR.
There is nothing comparable to
them. They are unparalleled for
tljcir iniquity, their infamy, and
their outrages. Their law-makers
are incompetent to make laws.
With Legislatures, four-fifths of
vyhorn can neither read nor write,
and who pay not even a poll-tax,
enacting laws and levying untold
millions of taxes upon the property
of the States, what can you expect
except the worst government be
neath the sun ?
More than that, vou will find
taxation the worst curse ot govern
tneut that comes upon mankind:
you will find taxation, which is a
scourge and a burden, even when
it is laid bv a good governmei
and laid righteously. You will
lind it there in the most flagitious,
corrupt, and devouring forms that
the world ever saw. You will
find that the fat cattle, well
fleshed and flavored, have been
eaten up bv the lean and poor
kine. You will find the whole
land swept of every green thing.
Let gentlemen from the Southern
States say what they will to uphold
their btate credit, yet almost trom
the Potomac to the Rio Grande
State bankruptcy universally pre
vails at this hour. You may, per
haps, except V lrginia, but when
the Carolinas and Georgia, and
poor little Florida, and turn your
attention to the ruined States o
Louisiana, Texas, and elsewhere
you behold them living.and breath
ing upon the indulgence of their
creditors, who have not yet forced
hem into absolute bankruptcy.
This state of things exists not
merely in Louisiana, but every
where else in the South in the
States that have been reconstruct
ed. IN VIRGINIA,
it is true, that matters are not so
bad, but she, too, has been plunged
into an enormous ieht since recon
struction commenced. It is the
fault of a pernicious system. You
have called into power an influ
ence and a class which would par
alyze and destroy any State that
exists upon earth. In Louisiana
to-day it is a contest between two
factions of the same party, but
there is this excuse tor one ot
those factions : that it represents
the popular sentiment rebelling
agtnst unbearable wrong. lhe
present State Go vernment of Louis
iana has
CRUSHEP THE PEOFLE
by force of its infamous laws, and
by the imposition of taxes, until
the instinct ot resistance is too
strong to be longer repressed. I
do not say that the one party in
this contest is better than the other,
or that one party would do better
in control of the government than
the other, but
THE YARMOUTH ADMINISTRATION
II AS RUINED THE STATE.
To-day there is a debt of be
tween fifty and one hundred million
dollars resting upon the State o
Louisiana and the city of New Or
leans. At last this administration
of pillage and crime has provoked
the sentiment of the State to resist
it. - You see this fact recognized
by Governor Warmouth's own
conduct. When a few days since
the United States troops ceased to
pass back and forward from the
barracks of the Government to the
Mechanics1 Institute of the city of
New Orleans, when they were told
at a late hour from here tQ stay in
their quarters, and Governor Wai
mouth found himself stripped of
their support, he then hastened to
have repealed a list of obnoxious
laws, a system of infernal and op
pressive legislation. I say to the
Ilouse that I care little What be
comes of either one of these fac
tious, but it does matter much to
the character of the American
Government whether a State shall
literally disorganize itself and dis
solve into elements ot anarchy.
As well almost might you install
the Barataria by priests again up
on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico
s to allow these people their un
bridled swav. U hat the remedy is
involves too elaborate and too vast
a question tor me to enter on now.
upon some more fit and appro
priate occasion, I may submit my
views upon that subject. In my
deliberate judgment the govern
, i i i i .. . it.
merits have ueen omit in me oouiu-
i :-, . . t : II -11 .1.-
ern states, n you win unow tne
expression.
UPON THE WRONG END.
The pyramid stands, not upon its
Ti .. - 1
base, but upon its apex. x ou nave
founded your governments upon
the vice, upon the ignorance, upon
the irresponsibility of mankind; not
upon the stability, not upon the
classes that are responsible for the
peace, the order, and welfare of so
ciety, and now you are reaping
sQine of the fruits ot your system.
"Do men gather grapes of thorns,
or fio-s of thistles?" No; neither
will you gather tfG blessings of
food government from a system
which has brought into power aud
place tho worst and most ignorant
classes of the human race. I al
lude not merely to the black ele
ment of the South; I allude also to
the opportunity which your plan
of reconstruction gave to
ADVENTURERS FROM TIIE NORTH,
and to the vicious arjd corrupt of
all races and Trom all quarters ot
the world. I allude to that fea
ture ot.your policy, disfranchis
ing the intelligence and the virtue
of the South, which a distinguish
ed gentleman from South Carolina,
a tew days ago in this Capitol, de
clared had made his State govern
ment a disgrace to the civilized
world. It is confined, however, to
no one btate. lhe evils ot your
legislation are spread broadcast
throughout all the South. It sa
lutes the eye everywhere. Your
failure to establish peace and pros
perity is universal.
Perhaps there are gentlemen on
the ODiiosite side of this Chamber
who expect to derive much party
benefit from the recent investiga
tion into the outrages in the South,
In this they will be mistaken. It
is true there have been crimes there,
crimes that have made my blood
boil with indignation w-hen I heard
tljeir recital. But when I traced
them back to their causes I found
simply
BAD GOVERNMENTS MAKING BAD
CITIZENS.
You made the governments and
the consequences belong to you
J When did oppressive and corrupt
governments fail to beget lawlesp
ness and crime. If von nviwt t.n
tin votes by these issues in the
coming campaign, you may lay
"8luc i-iuiu ueiusioiL It Will not DO
s?' . Yhije" you will prove that inn
dividual offenses have been corriT
muted: that hi so.inc instances the,
courts have been paralyzed and
have not done their:- duty; while,
you win pro.ve midnight scourge
ings, and whippings, and outrages
of that kind, all of which I de
nounce and abhor, yet you will find
at the same time that by your poh
icy ana your system '
YOU HAD ALL THE POWERS OF GOV
EKXJjEXT UNDER YOUR CONTROL J
you had the courts, in which your
judges could not $ake a seat upon,
the bench without taking your test-:
oath, and in which all the officials
had to join him. TIfe jurors be
longed to you, and all the officer
of the courts ycye under youtpn:
trpi. '
You will find that instead of
their assisting to execute the lawso
of the country, in many instances .
they stood in the way of theirjust
administration. You will find in,
the case of the o
GOVERNR OF GEORGIA,
O
that out of four hundred and forty-six
applications for pardon, ho
granted perhaps three hundred qncj.
fifty ; less than one hundred appli
cations were denied. Pardons
were granted in many instances
before trial. He armed, criminals
with pardons in advance, that they
might go into court and plcafl tlienr
at the bar and return free, again.
to prey upon society, lhe people
of tbe country will find these rear
sons which I have given powerfuj
excuses for the evils and riots,
ed, I am sorry to say, in some sec:
tipns pf the South.
Kadical Corruption:
We make the following extracts
from a speech delivered in the JJ.
S. Senate by T. W. Tipton, Radir
cal Senator from Nebraska. It is
another one of the indictments
against Grant and his Adminis
tration :
Mr. Tipton. I believe
the Republican party is woilhy yet
to be redeemed from the curse that
Vests noon, it to-day on account of
the mistakes pf the Administration)
and the corruption and doicnright
plunder Inri of dishonest office-hold;
ers. I stand here for the purifica
tion of the Republican party; bup
I do plead guilty to the charge
that I believe there is corrupt
tlon deep damning ct?id festering,
edl through this Administration of
ours. I believe that, and I have
uttered it.
We are told that we arp hostile
to the head of the party. Look at
that. May I not. as an honest Re
publican, be allowed to supposp
that there might be a Senator on
this floor better qualified to control
tfie destines ot tfus nation, as a
President even, than the intellec
tual Colossus who now sits in thp
White House Laughter. And yet
if I hold an ppinion of that kind,
am I tQ bp .denounced as entirely
opposing the interests of my party?
Has it comp tp tins, that we h&ve
only one standard bearer, and only
one man tinder whom we can marr
shal and be loyal? If that is so,
ijrod have mercy on you on the
great muster, day. If gentlemen.
wish to press me on that question,
and dsire especially to understand
what 1 mean, U I am iiot sufficient
ly explicit, on demand they can
have satisfaction.
Radical, Defaulters. r The
Guardian of New York, gives a
list of the Radical defaulters, with
their names and amount stolen.
This is only a portion of what
is to follow. There are ninetyr
two names, and the
aggregate-
amount is thirty-seven tnilhpns,
four hundred and fifty-four thou
sand, five hundred and sixty-two
dollars and fifty-four cents. Thp
writer says he "has not room tp
give the details of the carpet-bag
Governors and other officials of
the Southern States."
Georgia, Louisiana, North Car
olina, Arkansas, Texas and Soutfy
Carolina have suffered very much;
in the aggregate about eighty mil:
Hops of dollars.
How much longer the country
can stand this wholesale system,
of robbery we are unable to tell.
The citizens of New York have
just driven the rascals from office
in that city and we hope the work
of reform will not stop there.
Protect o x is working its own.
sweet will with the bpok trade,
too. The imports of books, pamph
lets, maps, &c, in 1869, were
607,201 ; in 1870, $1,769,180; in
1871, $1,868,228. The exports of
the same articles in the same years
steadily fell off, as the figures wit
ness : In 1869, $385,850; 1870,
$341,044 in 1871, $334,312.