The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-08-30

moment to the nation in its pecuniary
aspect, but of vast moment as illustrating
the history of the dynasty Of REGULATORS.
MIR. EWING.
From the Union of July 25.
The conclusion is, them irresistible that portion
of the cabinet has either plundered, Knowingly per-
miited Others to plumber, the public treasury, in
der to fit out gold mining expeditions TO New Mex
leo and California,
From the Union Of July %.
When this butcher, Ewing, held the Office of
Secretary of the Treasury under President Tyler,
he dismissed twenty odd clerks in day.
Mr.. Tyler, in spirit of humanity which does him
credit ordered this modern bloody Nero to restore the
decapitated clerks. The rebuked Secretary
ceiyed the degrading mandate, pocketed the dis
grace, did as he was hidden TO do and held on to
his office.
From the Union qf AugustS
He (Mr EwINe) came to the Senate, as we have
said before, literally poor man. He must, there
fore, have made many of his purchases for a mere
trife, and then voted away the public lands to
make them valuable; or ne must have made them
by using his senatorial influence in lieu of other
capital One thing is certain, he made a large for
tune while he was in the Senate, which enabled
him to make large purchases of land on the Hook
ing river, and we have heard that he obtained
more than twenty thousand dollars from the United
States Bank when he was one of our Legislators,
and that institution was applying for recharter.
The Secretary of the Interior may take either horn
Of the dilemma which he fancies. If he did not
defraud the widow and the orphan, he must have
prostituted his senatorial influence, and used it in
lieu Of other capital, or he must have received
much larger bride from the bank than is generally
believed. The facts speak for themselves They
need po explanation, and they cannot be explained
| away II is in vain To assert that Mr.. Ewing made
no purchases of widpSs and orphans,
! II any thing was wanting, in addition TO the
facts we have already adduced, to fasten again
upon the Secretary of the Interior the charge of
corrupt conduct in specializing, while member Of
the Senate, in Virginia and-scrip, it is furnished
by the justification WHICH has been attempted IN
the columns of the Republic Ina The present in
stance, as when exposed the illegal use of the
public moneys by the same functionary in fitting
out gold mining expeditions 10 California, we can
not zee that Mr. Ewing's defence can have any
other effect than 70 demonstrate his guilt
The above elegant extracts We Gull from
the ex-organ Of the eK-administration.
They un;-@cuy charge Mr. EwIse with
oppression, corrupt conduct, Illegal use of
the public money, the prostitution oil ms
Senatorial influence, plundering the trea'
sury, and receiving a bribe Of $4,000
from the United States Bank, There is
nothing here in the way of insinnation or
| innuendo-it is direct averment.
And this is the same ex-orgsn which
now sets up howl and wall, because we
venture to publish some provisions of the
Sub-treasury act in connexion with is own
statements about Mr.. DENNY, and men,
ton that Mr. Mason was the Secretary
of the Navy when the transactions with
Mr.. DENNY took place. II was all right
to charge Mr.. Ewing with fraud, plumber,
corruption, in positive terms-becsuse he
was a "butcher" and "bloody Nero, y
and bloody " hig," we suppose, into
the bargain but it is " cowardly, skulk
ing, diabolical, mercenary, wicked, false,
vile, slanderous, malignant, Infamous
base, ruthless, unprincipled, cold-blooded
revolving, inconsiderate, laundering, bar
barous, savage, wanton, atrocious, shock
ingly depraved, scandalous, and deserving
Of penitentiary"-for all these epithet
are applied in single article--to do what
I" To reiterate the statement of the amour
Of DENBY's defalcstion, which nobody
disputes, and copy the 10Th section of TIL,
independent treasury act, which prohibit
the private use Of the public money BY
persons charged with its safe-keeping
transfer, and disbursement"
This is the charge made upon the Re
public, ON the strength OF which the ex
organ applies the above nice selection o
epithets to the Cabinet and 10 this journal
On this state of the matter il appeals t.
an impartial and candor-loving public L
punish our atrocity, and to sympathiz'
with the much-injured Mr.. Mason, thu
honorable Mr. OSBORNE, and the perse
cuted and innocent Mr.. DENNY.
We imagine that Mr. EwING is quite a
estimsble and amiable man in private
life as Mr.. MAsoS-quite as accomplished
and quite as honorable in all respects; bu
we should not hesitate, if public duty re
CURED IT, to quote section OF an act o
Congress, in conjunction with any officia
act of his, without esteeming il scsnda
or penitentiary offence. Though Mr.