The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-08-31

Ing affair Dut the plot was marred, ana
the machinery stopped'by the Chief Quarter
| master then stationed at that post, and by
the refusal ofsGeneral Harvey, acting ON
the representation of Col. Crossman 10
sauction the job. George Saunders and the
firm Of lRusscf Waddell & Co., and several
Others, had carved out the greater part of
! the reservation fortheir own use and owner
! ship, for the .modetate sum of twenty-five
, dollars an acre, The Secretary of War was
! willing but the assent of the commanding
officer was essential, He consulted the
. Chief Quartermaster who exposed the plot,
aud. threatened to bid Sl0D- an acre for it
himself If it were to be sold. This blew mp
the whole scheme, aud so the military rese; :
ration in. Kansas has escaped ior the, time the
fate of the reservation in Minnesota. These
facts are known TO gentlemen in this city -
civilians-'from them they, are Immediately
derived, and they are known to most,of the
officers who were sltioned, at Fort Leaven-
worth in the Spring. They cannot he dc
nied- Ii it were not. for the annoying in
reference of Crossnian, and the provoking
Conduct Of Harney, lot of hne fellows
George Saunders cand ccmrades) would be
now reveling in the green acres which sur
round Fort Leayenworth.
i e inISes are thus given to Us of the sys-
tenn by which the Buchanan administration
governs the country. The corruption fund
is enormous Plunder is bountifully and
widely distributed. 1t is sown broadcast
throughout the land, and fraudulent elec-
ticns spring up from 1T, and such fruit Is
reaped from it us Tom "A anderson, Dick Bar
ret, and the Lecompton Constitution. -
\ The Gorruption fund is. thus made self
supporting one. The no hey that Is Spent
in carrying elections is reimbursed toni the
public property or the public treasury by
the votes of those whom it has elected
That horn OF plenty i always full. though
open Mt both ends, for what it IooseS al. one
end it gains at another. The nav is insa-
tiate, but the supply is also unlimited as
long as the funds or the credit of the United
States hold out The system commepoed
with the October clectio-, in Pennsylvania,
two years ago, when the Democratic nopli-
nees We're fralldulently elected by the aid Of
the contributions furnished by New York
bankers, politicians, ocean mail contractors,
and such persons. 1t has been steadily
prosecuted since in the Congressional and
administrative branches of the government
he Showered ON members OF Congress from
the free States, who would vote for the Le-
lcompton Constitution. The Redistribution
of the SpoilS under the grIise of rotation in
office was c0nSummatcd at an early day.
Bribery and corruption all roundi The al
tempt was made TO bribe the people of Kan
sls with FIVE millions of acres Since the
day of buchanan 5 nomination, the same
EN- ginery hashcen at work and it has thor
Oughly debased and demOralzed the party
which sustains him. They are an immense
standing army who eat up the substance of
the country. Their aScendency has enabled
them to lay their hands on that substance,
aud this again enables them to renew their
a-cendency. They lave an organization
which is ~ hostile TO Freedom of expression
or Independence of action rs the army of
Louis Napoleon. The word of the Presi-
dent is the command of the General. Re-
frSal to obey is mutiny, and mutiny is pun
ishc,t with dishonor aud expulsion from the
ranks Thus we see rising from the bosom
Of slave cOmn,rnities and the Surgng masses
of our great cities and the federal offices, an
organization tl,st ,liteatens TO harden into a
dcSpotism moro oppressive to- freedom of
opinion, and more deeply stained with fraud
and stepped IN eorrnptior, than ths parli:t-
mentary niajorities of Wapole, but having
no parallel in history, past vr contemporary,
except i'm the armies of Roman Cesar ora
French Emperor. s..L .r.... .t .~