Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-04-19

disturbed as the 6xposures we have recently made
of ~ gigantic ftands and populations OF Demo
cratic officials, upon the Treasury Of tho United
States. He Knows that this Is subject OF start
| ling interest," one to which the people are pecu-
iarly sensitive, and he would fan divert attention
from IL by impugning the spotless administration of
Mr.. Fillmore-whch the present Governor of Vir-
ginia declared to be "Washington-like"-o fail
ing in this piece of strategy. by 'dscrediting the
witnesses, because for.ooth, they are not all Dem
ocrats. No matter what Mr.. Sherman's political
opinions are, they cannot disqualify him for telling
the truth and if he il not nm honorable man, capa-
bic of doing Justice even to adversary. the Dem
ocrato Speaker of the House was guilty OF an act
Of gross improperly in putting him upon m i'm
portant committee raised for the purpose of inves-
tigating grave charges in which tho honor Of tho
country, as well as that of tho Administration,
was involved.
But In point Of fact, neither Mr.. Sherman nor
Mr.. Bocock were invested with authority to go
behind the evidence in tho case. 1t was their
duty to examine the witnesses, weigh the evidence
and report the facts Mr.. Sherman has submit
ted all the testimony elected has given tho names
of the witnesses, who thus speak for Themselves,
and il they are misrcprcsened in the report,
nothing could be easier than for them TO deny the
truth of what is thus attributed to them
Many of them were unwHiing witncsscs against
the Administration forced by the authority vest
cd in the Committee, to appear and diyulge facts
which they would have preferred to suppress
We cannot, therefore, doubt the accuracy of tho
report as far as it goes, but we do question very
much whether the ha!f has get been told! Deep
down, in the reccsses of the bosoms Of lacofoco
plunderers where the light of truth has not shone
for many years. there are doubtless secrets which,
if revealed would stir the nation toits proonndcst
depths. But We can only act upon what is
known. The Repnblicdn calls upon us to publish
Mr.. Bococks report. We have done this already,
having taken our abstract of both the majority
and minority reports from n Democratic paper. the
Washington States; but we propose to rcpubllsh
Mr. Bocock's report, if the Republican will pub.
lsh Mr.. Shcrman's report. As our ncighbo al
mts that no has never seen either report, we will
furnish him the following extract from that sub
mttcd by Mr. Bocock First. on the manage
ment OF the BROOKLYN Navy Yard. They lthe
committcc) take the position that appointments
hare been made on polit'cH 9rou"fS: that on the
incoming of the present administration, the pat
ronage thereof was concentrated on two or three
districts. All those districts nj The Time wore
represented by Democrats. The delegation from
the city OF New York and that ncighoorh''d pc
titi,ned the Secretary Of the Navy to divide the
patronage among them equally.
ihercuPo" 'he'e WAS u E''". '''' VI ''"'">''''
ana controversy among inc "'"'r""' "'e"oe's W
ana the secretary OF the Navy '"a' great "onEcS
h"d previously existed nv inc yaf"' s"eh ~ '''f'
"e's' INSTRUMENTATION "'y'"3 " '''"'o"'''"S ~
me mdSh'-c''f"e" o" nc "''" "'' "' "P"'"-
mem ana fc'e"'o" 81 "''mPf''" ""'""c".
7at committee atm" at WcSe Ho"Scs' bu' say
'hey nave not sprung from a'S''''7 "ohc' vi any
steps taken by the present Secretary oil 'he Navy
UNLESS MiS po'rY q nHemP'"3 10 d|f''""'e me
patronage cP"a'y IS he c'nSc e part q IRE
o6"ssS!'!
Tho second point of examination is the anthra
cite coal agency. 1t was proven that DE-. Hunter.
ties ofMe 01fcs. Int has cniirely nsJier,cd it, Tho
o,,,,,;,.oo n,,,,,o,, ,h. cor.c ,r DR. ,J,,,cr aud
ms partner
This is all of the abstract of Mr.. Bocock : re-
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