Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1858-06-11
The Tariff Bribery Committee.

Ellner the desperation or the cuplulIy
of Boston manufacturing company,
caused it to expend the extraordinary
sum of 100000. to procure reduction
of duties on wool aud other raw materi.
ais. But the most rigid scrutiny has fail,
ed to produce a suspicion that any Sou
thern member of Congress was in any
manner implicated in the transaction,
whilst the Tariff press and party Of the
North seem coolly to have divided this
iniquity amongst themselves without the
slightest sense of shame or compunction
of conscience. "h' 't
The Freesoil editors figure most dis
gracefully in the exposure. Greeley.
who usually claims to be merely stake
holder in sach cases, seems to have been
privy to the whole affair. a"-
- Thurlow Weed. the. controller Of the
Albany Evening Journal, was benetici-
airy to the amount of $4,000. - 4"
James Watson Webb. editor of the
Courier and Enquirer, solicited the part
of purveyor to the enterprise He offer.
ed the hospitality of his household to the
cause, simply STIMULATING that the treasu.
~ burglars should pay for fuel, lights.
marketing and wines. This munifcent
proposition was declined.
The universal Matteson, who was re
Gently whitewashed by Greeley, after
conviction Of corruption, was willing to
work in the enterprise provided the sum
of $4,000 should be placed in the hands
Of Mr.. Greeley. as was recently done in
the Wisconsin Legislature in respect to
the public theft committed by that body
Mr.. j. R. Reynolds appears as the re-
cipient Of about 81 500 for services rem
dered in his causing the adoption of fla
vorable resolution by the American Coun
Gil of New York. N
Besides these there are many minor
thieves whose names are unworthy the
dignity of history, each rewarded accord
ing to his measure Of subordinate iniQui~
tv. But the agent chosen to perpetrate
this fraud, outwitted his employees aud
associates, and reserved as the compen
sation of his own genius about $4,000.
This iact they were afraid to disclose,
as it would be coupled with an admission
Of their own turpitude; and but for the
failure of the concern which had organ
lied the rascality, nothing would ever
been known of the means employed to in :
fuence the revenue Legislation of 1857.
The New York Herald, having been
denounced throughout the campaign of
1855 for selling itself to Fremont, and
having contaminated the Administration
of Mr.. Buchanan with its fulsome and
unsolicited support, is transported with
delight at the exposure of its associates
and compeers. 1t betrays no mortifca-
tioR at the fragrant disgrace which has
befallen the country. 1t clanks with Joy
its own dges of dishonor, and hopes
that in becoming more common they may
seem less conspicuous.
We recur to the significant fact that
these frauds have been perpetrated by
Black Republicans, and we commend 10
such OF our fellow citizens as may medi-
tate joining these Purists in their new
clamor for reform and economy, to in.
vestigate carefully the facts in this case
OF bribery. before they commit their for
tunes to a coalition so unnatural and as
sociates SO dishonorable South.