The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1857-03-04
Rlack RepubIiean CorruptlOn.

black kepuDi1can COrruptiOh'
No event Of the present session Of Congress
has interested the public mind more profoundly
than the action Of the House COMMITTEES on the
bribery charges, whose report, and the action
of Congress thereon we give in full in to days
Sentinel Appointed more than month and a
half since, at the insdgatiOn Of Republicans,
and selected for the task bya Republican Speak
er, with the general appreciation of body in
which the Republicans had aclear working ma
iority, the circumstances of their appointment
were certainly not calculated to alarm abolition
minds with any apprehensions that their friends
would be ur Disseminated against in the
investigate Indeed the national reputation
Of some of We gentlemen aDnpOsing the Com
mitteo was a guarantee, at once, of the ability
and the impartiality with which their duties
would be performed After forty days of stea-
dy application to their arduous task, the Chair
man of the Committee arose in his place, pres
ented the report, and made the customary mo-
ton to print and to postpone discussion till the
members could have the report in their hands
To the astonishment of men of all parties
Bennett unfortunate name) of New York, aud
! Grow of Pennsylvania-two Black Republicans
opposed the motion with violence and in
decency which occasioned Gas the subsequent
vote showed) general reprobation, if not general
| disgust. In the first place, they intimattd a
charge that the Committee was packed but Mr..
Davis promptly and very properly, retorted,
that as the committee was of the choosing Of their
own party they must hare PacEelh In the next
place, these worthless protested that the Com
mittee had exceeded their duty; "but," said the
Chairman, "if you desired to send us on any
such child's play errand as to examine charges
and not inculpate the guilty, you mistOOE your
Instruments"
Finally these gentlemen protested that the
action of the Committee was despotic and un-
just, inasmuch as the parties implicated did not
have the privilege of examining the witnesses.
10 this many replies, entirely satisfactory, must
suggest themselves to every mind. The Com
mittee was jury of inquest, before which the
accused are never heard in their defence; but,
it appears that the Committee did, in every IN
stance, furnish the member charged with copy
of the testimony, in full, with notification that
he could cross examine or introduce rebutting
evidence, exculpatory testimony and argument!
Such were the pretended causes of the fierce
opposition which the report met at the hands of
Bennett and Grow; the real Aeason only appeared
aclea the report a0aS read. Then it appeared that
by the verdict of their peers, after a laborious
investigation, four members of the Congress Of
the United States were impeached of the infa-
nous crime of bribery, and their ignominious
and immediate expulsion recommended The
anineus of the Abolition tempest was explained
when it further appeared that every one of these
traitors was A REPUBLICAN! Pillored to public
gaze, they stand-Gilbcrt, Matteson and Ed
wards, of New York, and Welch, of Connecti-
rates who atten and grow rich on the public
robbery of the country-cats paws for railroad
foxes, whose feet, to the praise Of heaven and
the comfort of honest men, have been burned
| Nv ldSt, Nlllle sleallIlS inc CueSGAuts Hoil tne
fire, And these are the precious preachers who
prate of the demoralizing Influences Of slavery,
orsooth! These are the worthless who step from
the highway to the hustings, and thank God
that they are not as other men, particularly, as
aoe Pssiltaas! And very well may we return
thanks for the want of resemblance, These are
the saints who vex heaven with prayers that it
would avert from them the consequences of the
sin of slavery! ReelHing from the shambles
where they have sold themselves to the highest
bidder, these thieves blush not to stand up in
the face of heaven and challenge comparison
of morals with the Southron, boasting confident
ly theirrawn superiority The time Of trial has
come, and although there may be loop holse oI
escape, in the formalities of legal arragnment
says an Exchange these men will not escape
the unbiased verdict Of the people, among
whom they shall walk to the end of theiI earth
ly stay, branded thieves betrayers of trust, and
slaves whose sacreligious souls were bought and
sold for gain.