The daily union., 1852-10-09


That he got large OF money for his personal and
professional interest IN the claim before he into the
Treasury Department and that he retains this money in
his pocket to the present day When begin TO ana
yze the testimony ITSELF many additional facts will be ex-
posed and some transactions now veled in mystery will
be cleared up.
Meanwhile we ask the American people to contemplate
this last chapter of whig morals
How the wings take Care OF the Treasury.
The attention OF the country this time is especially
turned to the management OF the public treasury.
The allegation OF the democratic party s that under the
present whg dynasty The public treasury has been enor
mously pundered This is main issue between the two
parties in this canvass.
The great Galphn grab out of the public funds, perpe
traed under the administration of General Taylor and by
members of his cabinet, yet fresh in the public
mind Condemned by the better portion of the whig
party. this Galphin business should surely have put Mr.
Fillmores administration its guard and its COOL
behavior.
ln this state Of things, congressional committee of
investigation composed of wings and democrats report
unanimously to the couniry,ha, by single. naked fraud
"a mere forgery and fabrcation-the treasury in whg
custody has recently been plundered to the amount of
near haya million of dollars !!
The same committee report that the fraud was so
PLAIN and papable, that simple letter OF inquiry ad-
dressed during the tendency of the claim the Ameri
can consul at Vera Cruz, at Tampico. would have
necessarily exposed the fabrication and have saved the
peoples money
The same committee report that, on the showing OF
the whig commission itself, the claim was before il
for than two years; that from its first present
ment il regarded by the commission as open to
the gravest suspicion that of the members of the
commission specially warned OF its fraudulent
character by letter; and that the claim still al.
lowed on the explanations" of the claimant, with
The precaution Of any inquiry addressed to Uni.
ted States officials in Mexico, who appear by the
port TO have been able, if inquired Of TO give inform.
alton which would at once have exposed the fraud
So much for the iaehss-amounting, think. to
gross official malfeasance-of the Scott-whig Mexican
commission, under whose award the treasury has been
thus plundered They fully put upon their guard
and yet, in involving half million, they
would not take the simple precauon OF addressing let
ter of inquiry TO Vera Cruz or Tampico.
But further. II appears by the report that the Scott
whig Secretary of the Treasury without whose warrant,
after the award. the money could not be taken
from the treasury, had been, for more than two
years before the award made familiar with the claim
one OF its counsel that be had appeared before the
commission TO advocate il after the commission had been
warned that it fraud that in the time he and
his brother had bought quarter OF the claim for some
thing S22 oo0that is for about 20 per cent OF its
face that the interest thus purchased was together with
Mr. Corwn's conditional interest counsel, sold dis
posed OF for about $50 900 and that theeupon Mr. Cor
win himself having become Secretary of the Treasury,
issued the warrant to draw the whole OF the amount
claimed from the treasury, apparently without suspendng
the claim for a moment he might well have done, in
order TO make the inquiries at Vera Cruz Tampicc,
which would have exposed the fraud.
Was not this say the least OF IT, strange laotes on
the part of the Secretary of the Treasury, in regard
claim which the commission before which he had
sppeard counsel had been put upon its guard as
fraud
Such are some OF the circumstances under which this
great robbery OF The treasury perpeted through the
agency Of Scou-whig commission, and under Scott
whig Secretary.
These facts form case OF high public concenment
So far the public interests and the safety Of the public
treasury concerned, il is than the Gaphin case
which was bad enough
From cases like this Of Galphn and Gardiner must not
the voters Of The cosnry everywhere infer that il they
would the treasury from depreda,on they must take
IL out OF whig hands
l. not this conclusion especially inevitable and irresis
ibe, in view OF the fact that the officials through whose
agency this great fraud upon the treasury has been per-
petraied are all OF them marked Scott men and that
leading whg journals like the New York Express and the
Utica Gazette, have openly announced that the accession
OF General Scott to power will be the signal for the "res
toration OF Galphinism :"
For the rest OF the the rsllyng cry OF the de-
mocrscy may well be, "Down with The whg adminisra
ton, and save the treasury from piage ~
"h'as --s~ n~~--- a s-rr--. cv~ss
The Nai,oaai Tni,gsaeer is exceedingly sensitive be.
the resolutions offered the democratic mass meet
ing, few evenings ago, repeated the opinions of certain