Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-01-31
1purh3urJ Jir0iutdM.
Saturday Morning, january sI,Iss.,


who arc the I<nase-t
BY their awn contest N, Black Republicans are
the parties Implicated in the aets of venalliy and
corruption, nnw undergoing Investigation IN the
House of Representatives. The New 1ofk
Times lwhase Washington correspondents, ST.
monitor. e~anfesses that members have sought 10
dispose If their votes through hln| says;
Tur RrpuRltcAxs ~ CoxsRgss.-We have received
one or two letters evidently from friendly sources,
kindly warning as that the disclosures which will re-
splt from the iabors OF The Investigating Committed
at Washington n.ag JIH cath spsaaf ~ogh upon me
heads Of Hsmbrs Of Conyrcs belonging 10 hf R7ppb-
bean party. Upon that score our friends need give
themselves 10 special concern on our account. We
probably knew quite MS well rs any Of our advisers,
where these charges would fall, when they were made.
And we thought then-as we think noW-that the
Editor who would hesitate to denounce corruption
because men of his own party had been gully oil H.
would thereby make himself Their accomphce.
We have very little doubt, il the lnvcsug1uahs OF
the Committee are properly pushed, and lead 10 me
disclosures of any considerable amount OF tt'ts' lsaf
member II tf R~JsUhii-dH pam if"f '"F.'i.i -
those di.e3asara. We have had hets hToHS'l Ni'nih
our knowledge-not by what womb b. tech"ieaiy
Ien,i evidence. bat by such proof a leaves upon orr
own minds no doabt whatever 81 toe conclusion
which they warrant. namely thu mfHthPS claiming
IA b. Rspab,raHs. hare bc7i partss r. tra7'1rt'nn' ifhieh
,rere 10 nal Aea sldycrs "a n peeaalo4g Irofts q
bWs thay nrt 10 adm passing. Ne believe t~lAatamoug
the witnesses who, according 10 rumor, have been
summoned before the Committee, ars some ~ho Gun
establish ths Jaot6y iegal es'laief.
The Washington correspondent of the Phlla'
delphia North American, another ardent Fremont
journal, also recently said
"And if the truth must be saohen out, slavery
seems to exercise n conservative All honorable inila-
enco. The fact is notorious = every observer at
Washington, that nearly I'll The wholesale schemes
of plumber which have bte8 carried through Congress
for years past, all the corrupt %)obbing, all the pfo-
jects of spoliation, and oil the vile aud Ncnnl coinhi-
nations, hare 6ee8 planned ami oirsisf On uHdT hf
control and tn,fh The medas of .Narficrn NAN fgers.-
While they shouted the lcudcst for freedom, and stig-
ma,ized slavery as a stigma 10 civilization, they took
care to pillage the treasury, hy WAY OF refreshing this
sentimental devotion. The selt-appDluted leaders
who were most exercised "a few months ago over the
decentralization that would attend the possible extern
sion of slavery, who mourucl oYrr It's alleged hor-
rors, who beat their breasts IN agony AT its mention,
and who led what protested TO hea great moral crusade,
are exactly the men who have snafmrd the lohbles
since Congress opened, schVmiug III the success oil
new plufdcr. aud cuntrising the most a%uiacions
combinations With the vorr shareholders whom they
affect SO much to abhor. Developments. like these,
which are every day forced before orr eyes, serve 10
disgust intelligent and honest minds at the cant OF
these hypocrites. who are trading upon principles,
the integrity of which upright men proudly maintain.
con the hoor Of the House and on the floor OF the
Sena,e-for both are VIGOROUSLY contaminated, the
latter in a limited dcgrec-the profieatc traders most
known inside and outside the laii, are not only nor
thern members, but they are members who have Ell
deavorcd 10 figure conspicuousls IN all the recent Po-
hucal movements. Their uame are banded about
with vulgar familiarity by the tefY mcui1!7 offend
ing upon Congress. and their uudacious kutVcry give
qualification Tor far more than has yet bccu charged.
They devote themselves exclusively 10 he business
ofextorting compel alton for legislative favor, aud
some Of them have paid enormously iur scn's as A
means Of prosecuting this III graceful tr7nir. Morris
this corruption confined 10 u iea Iai,'el insansas
There are numbers ia the lloase @hpr Vote, 81 a-
lence, or absence, was purchased nj tho last session
for the public printing, the railroad grants and 9th
or special objects Of legislation. fhcac polls were
distributed among certain Republicans holding Seats
and others who were supposed % be influential out
side. And although "A portion OF tins pluHocr Was
appropriated in consideration II TIE all uul comfort
given by Southern Americans, 1t not believed aEy
of them personally shared in its li= fribuuon.
1t is due To the Southern representative AS a bod,
TO say, that however much they my suffer from The
stigma Of slavery, they are not tainted with The dis
dishonesty AMI glatIug %ncndacity OF other from lhe
free States. y ith rare cNecpttons-au1 they are
noted TO be despi.cl-the South has never been i'm
plicated in these infamous transactions; and If II has
given doubtful measures support, either mistaken
sponsibilty. They have not elsetered over the price
of votes, pursued claimants Tor reteiucrs. or bargain
ed with scnryy contractors for u division Of |disropu-
table gains. In these high charactcristjcs, ut leasi.
slavery does not appear TO hafa produced any tane-
ful influence, and II would he well that prole.sel
philanthrophy exhibited itself here, or cNtorted
something OF the respect which Is new conceded 10
the representatives OF an Institution which il 30 I'M
qualitedly condemns