The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-07-18
CorruptInx the Fountains of JUS
lice.


The Locofoco party have systematised COR
ruption in oil departments Of Government
corruption tax is levied by the Admins
tration upon ell the Federal officers to cor
rupt the ballot-box and carry the elections.
The votes and influence Of members Of Con-
gress are bought and paid for, and the terms
Of the bargain are matters of public notori-
ETY. throughout the country. Specific char
ges of these facts have been openly made in
Congress and proved beyond doubt in the
public mind. Douglas himself charged open
bargain and corruption on the Adminstra-
ton in the matter of buying up Congress in
the Lecompton business, and no one doubted
the truth Of the charge. Members of Con-
gress, such as CLANCY Jones and others, have
been paid heavy commissions for their infu-
ence with the President in obtaining large
Government contracts at extravagant prices,
and the proof has been fully made to the en-
tire satisfaction of the country.
But corruption is not alone confined to the
Executive and Legislative departments, to
Federal officers and members of Congress-
The hand Of power and the spirit of party
have been exerted to corrupt the Judiciary
and to pervert justice at the fountain head.
The bred Scott decision was made in ac-
cordance with predetermined political par
ty policy, and the positions assumed by the
Court was marked out beforehand by Loco
foco orators in Congress and the President
and his advisors in the Cabinet. The same
corrupt spirit was manifest in the selection
District Courts, who were pledged by their
political views on the slave trade to acuuit
the criminals. Then, again, the same course
was pursued in Ohio where scarce Repub-
hcan was put upon the jury in the Rescue ca
ses, although the population in that region
IS Republican by an overwhelming majority.
And in the recent Grand Jury, which assem-
bled under the dispensation of the District
Court OF the United States at this place only
two orthree out of twenty-three were Repubi
cans. As there is a majority of Republicans
in the section from which the Grand jury was
selected, it is evident that its political char
acter was not accidental, but was of set pur.
pose and design.
But as closing and damning fact under
this head, we would call attention to the
character of the Grand Jury recently selected
10 sangamon county, Illinois, every single
one OF whom are Locofocos, although there
is but trihing Democratic majority in tina,
county. The Jury was selected by Locofoco
officers, and the design in selecting a clean
array OF Loeofocos was to prevent any Re-
publican from having any hand in the inves
tgation of the grand canal certificate swim
die and robbery committed on the State, and
charged upon his late Locofoeo Excelency
Governor Matteson. Ii is a confession Of
guilt, and shameless attempt to smother the
evidence, to get tChiie-washing Locofoco
Grand Jury to refuse to find bill of indict
ment against the guilty leaders of the Loco
foco party Of Illinois.
Honest men look at it Matteson ant
Fondcy, leading Democrats of Illinois, ar,
charged with swindling, by frauds upon tn,
State Treasury, to an immense amount, and
the evidences Of their completely are 30 cir
cumstantial as to fix the crime upon them il
public opinion. The subject will NATURAL,
and properly come up for investigation q
the next session Of the Grand Jury for San
CANON county. These facts are notorious
and with these facts before them, the LOGO
focos Of the County Court selected pane
OF Grand Jurors,-every single member 8
which is Locofoco, and most of whom ar
pledged to clear Mattes8n and Fondey at a
hazards.
What the Locofocos Of Illinois arc dom
Tor their guilty leaders. we NAV evnect W;
be done for Eads and Rabbit by their breti
rem in Iowa. They will DO shielded in SON
way from thepenalty Of their defalcations.
gTIt is hardly worth while to waste con
ments on the Sickles .denouemcnt. They a,
man aad wife, admirably adapted to eas
other in character and procliyties, and u
terly unfit for anybody else. Sickles Wind
Gated the sanctity Of his marriage bed bv ga
urating il in the life blood of the invad,
Let him wallow in its bloody pollution, al
let his admirers sing peans over the joyo
reunion.
e. Southern Nebraska sent delegates
the Kansas Constitutional Convention. The
delegates were admitted to seats and allow
to speak upon the question Of extending Il
boundaries Of Kansas, but were not permi
ted to vote.