The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-04-01

astonlshcd the country during the lrSt year OF
General Taylors administration, and when his
Cabinet stood at the zenith Of power. The
amount OF that robbery was mere bagatelle-
one hundred thousand dollars-but it produced
old General Taylor resolved to remove his
Cabinet, and was only prevented from doing so
by his sudden DEATH The next piece of public
corruption that came to light at Washington
was that which was brought to so tragic an end
by the suicide of DR.. Gardner. He, and Others
who had embarked in similar robberies at the
same time, expected to reap an aggre-
gate reward Of from half million to
million of dollars. These schemes were brought
to maturity under the administration of Millard
Fillmore To his honor be it said that he was
himself the prime ent who brought them to
light, and disclosed the names of the guilty
conspirators to an indignant community. Had
Mr.. Fillmore's administration lasted eighteen
months longer, the discovery of the Gardner
fraud would have destroyed it, as that OF the
Galphin fraud would have destroyed the ad-
mnistrator Of Zachary Taylor, had his death
not anticipate d it.
What do we now see at Washington? A
scheme deliberately concocted by persons con-
nected more or less intimately with the execu-
tive, under the name of treaty with Santa
Anna Of Mexico, for the purpose OF robbing the
United States Treasury, not of one hundred
thousand or even half million of dollars, but
of an amount which vies with and surpasses the
defalcations and frauds Of the Van Buren, dy
nasty. A scheme to absorb the whole of our
surplus revenue which we require for number
less oh, ects, in project for setting up usur-
per in Mexico, and protecting him from the
revolutionary schemes by which he is now as
sailed. We see it stated in the Washington cor
respondence of everal ournals that out of the
twenty millions of dollars which Santa Anna
expects to flch from our treasury, five millions
are to be appropriated to the payment of certain
Mexican claims about which no one has any
reliable information; and other five, we are
well assured, will go to recompense the lobby
at Washington for their indefatigable exertions
in carrying the project through the Senate. The
administration organ at Washington has been for
weeks taking great credit to its masters for
the all ged honesty and integrity of Mr.. Pierce
in putting Gown with unfnching hand every
thing in tie shape Of Galphinism or Gardner
ism. What hypocrisy! What impudence AT
the very moment the organ is endeavoring to
claim glory for the administration on the
ground gifts honesty, we see it straining every
nerve to plumber the United States treasury of
a sum no less than twenty millions Of dollars,
under the barefaced pretext of foreign treaty.
At the very time the organ is sounding the
praises of Mr.. Pierce for his striking upright
ness, he and his Cabinet are spending all their
strength in attempts to carry project by
which twenty millions Of dollars will be stolen
from the treasury and applied to all sorts of i'm
proper purposes and improper objects.
We ere in the first stage Of as corrupt, as
mbecile an administration as that which mark
ed the Presidency of Martin Van Buren,, and
called forth the indignant revolution by which
the people elected Harrison in 1910!