The Arkansas banner., 1849-08-07
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In this country, where men seek offices Of high trus, aud sxtsnsive patronage, they must come be- fore the people wh hearts and hands nnsullied with corrupt deeds. The present snd the past are alike subjected to rigid scrutiuy and wo be to him whose actions cannot bear investigation. The whlewash- ing of fawnibg parasites may serve for while to screen the stains upon his character from the public gaze; bat in tle end, the truth will De known, and will bring down upon him the execration and con tempt of all good men Tho lordIy tyranny, the reckless hypocrisy, and fanatic partizanship of Ewing. of Ohio, the present Secretary of the De- pastnent of the Interior, have provoked an exaIni- nation into mysterious portion of the history of his pas, public fife. These inquiries have brought to light system of the viest and most corrupt prac- tices that ever blackened the reputation of public officer. They show that, while a member of the United States Senate from Ohio, Mir. Ewing was en- gagged in s'legislating money into his own pockets,
 swindiiug the government, and defrauding the or phans of revolutionary soldiers. mere tool of that fiscal monstrOsily the United States Bank, he literally sold himself to assist in eecting it's viest purposes, in order to obtain from it the means to carry ou his speculations. With the money thus -ob,aiaea he purchased immense quantities of the revolutionary bounty land claims and then set hi- self to work to effect the passage of those laws that were approved in lss2 and 1853, giving value to these claims, and apprOpriating 5OO,000 acres or public land for their satisfaction. Thus did this honorable Senator use the privileges of his office to legsate for his private purposes, and to enable him to appropriate to himself the bounsies that were intended to benefit the widows and orphans of those who died for their country in the war of '76.
 After he was appointed Secretary of the Trea- sury by ten. Harrison, the Senate, upon two oc- casiOns, adopted resolutions requiring Mir Ewing to report the amount of these bounty land warrants then issued, fe nanes cf the persons 10 'eaon hey ,oere assigaed, and the dates of the assignments Neither of these acquisitions were complied with, but they were delayed. from time to time, upon the most frivolous excuses, until Walter Forward was made Secretary of the Treasury. Mir. Forwards report explained the reason of the previous delay by showing that, while legislating to give valne to the bounty claims, Mr. Ewing was himself the principal specuator in them. And yet this man, with ali this corruption and abuse of office recorded against him. is called by the whigs man of talents intense application, virtue, aud integrity. He is praised by the Taylor organ ''the arfcer of his own fortnne taken into the confidence of the Presi- dent, and appointed to an important office in the cabinet with an almost unlimited patronage, and opportunity to glut to its ll propensity to specu- late upon government funds. If ingenuity and in- dustry in defrauding the government, and the widow and the orphan, of benefits intended for them, be called talents and applications if the abuse ofhis office to corrupt purposes of aggrandzement, is virtue and integrity then is the Secretary of the Interior all that the Taylor organ would have him be supposed. But, while the records of the Trea- sury Department speak forth his infamy, how can cabinet, composed of such materials, merit or meet with the confidence or respect of the people!