The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-12-27

money In the public chest as Will buy SUCK
of sealing wax Under these circumstances the |
Wise expedition would not pay. Still the ex-
Governor of Virginia is wise man, and one
who commands certain amount Of confidence
among the governing classes. If he will issue
a anifesto calling for volunteers. and giving
them the assurance that after they have taken
Washington the spoils viii pay for the risk
| and expense of the job, we have no doubt
that he will find good number of adherents
among those of the fashionable New York
rowdes who are temporarily outside Of the
State prison.
The Corruptions and Disasters or the
Democracy-And what Of the RePubii-
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| In the dying agonies of the democracy, as
the party in power at Washington, the loath-
some corruptons which have brought about
| its inglorious dissolution are beginning to be
revealed to the public eye. The country
stands aghast at the sickening spectacle. The
| public attention is suddenly drawn from the
thickening clouds of disunion and civil war to
the details of gigantic frauds among our
government officials. But while the discove-
ries made in this direction are of magnificent
| dimensions the entertainments suspected, but
not yet fully disclosed, are positively sublime.
| A million or two of dollars in bonds
distracted from the iron safe of the Interior
Department, and squandered by the robbers
and jobbers concerned, is respectable item on
the side of losses and leakages; and yet it is
but an item in the general schedule of federal
delinquencies, if half that we hear concerning
them shall prove to be true Detectives, we
are told, are on the track Of two or three mil
lions unaccounted for in the Treasury Depart
ment; and it is feared that every department of
the executive government at Washington will,
| if probed to the bottom, disclose an amount Of
tlieving spoliations that will make even John
Covode open his eyes with amazement. From
what we have seen, however, of the black cata-
logue, we dare Say that an industrious detect
ive-like Covode-could easily foot up against
the immaculate democracy bill of hundred
millions of losses and leakages to the federal
Treasury since the Inauguration Of poor Pierce.
But these enormous democratic spoliations
are nothing new under the sun. We have had
two editions of the democratic national organi-
zstion since 1928 The first edition was the
Jacksonian democratic party, which, coming
into power in 1923, on "the glorious victory Of
New Orleans" was pulverized in the political
revolution of 1910. The prostration of "Nick
Biddle's monster"-the United States Bank
and the substitution of the 'pet bank" system,
brought about the splendid shinplaster inaa-
ton of 1884 IS, which ended in the terrific ex-
plosion and destruction Of the whole fabric in
1887. In this epoch of imitation, speculation
and extravaganza, the general contagion seized
upon thousands Of the federal office holders,
and contractors and jobbers of all sorts. Thus
It was that, in the campaign of 1910, the dis
covered defalcations, entertainments and spo-
liations Of collectors, land Office registers,
United States marshals, attorneys, Indian
agents and Florida war contractors, covering
many millions Of dollars, literally swept this
old Jacksonian Van Buren, democratic party
from the face of the earth
Next followed sort of interregnum OF
twelve years al Washington, under Presidents
Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor and Fillmore,
during which the democratic party was in
transition state from the almighty dollar to
the almighty nigger-from Jackson's financial,
anti. national bank agitation to the agitation
OF this more permanent and formidable ques-
ton of Southern slavery. But in this transit
ton epoch to the democracy, there were some
operations upon the Treasury which, in their
hrazen-faced audacity, will eclipse anything
in the way Of fraud that has ever occurred
under any government under the sun. These
operations were such as the Gardner claim Of
half q million, the Miers claim and the Galphin
claim, all Of which were engineered through
and paid; on the other hand, when Mr.. Fill
more went out Of office, he left the country
quiet upon the slavery question, under the
great healing compromise measures Of 1850.
Upon the faith Of these compromises poor
Pierce was elected President in 1852, almost
by reclamation. Here begins the second, or
the almighty niger edition Of the democratic
party. Not content with the plain and simple
line 81 duty marked out by the people for
his administration, but preferring to cut
his cards so as to turn up Jack in the
Cincinnati Democratic Convention, poor Pierce
took up the almighty niger in the repeal Of
the Missouri Compromise; and In this both
Pierce and Douglas were humbugged to their
hearts content by Jefferson Davis, Senators
Mason, Atchison, and other Southern hre-eaters
But II il enough that that act was the death
blow to this niger agitating edition Of the
democratic party. Staggering under this fatal
blow through the campaign Of 1856 success
fully, the life Of the party seems only to have
been thus prolonged for the most ignominious
dissolution. Torn to pieces by Its internal dis
sensions, IL has been displaced; and i.s blood
suckers, before retiring. are simply appro-
priating all the public funds they can lay their
hands upon in providing for the future.
This Ia the universal law in ell revolutionary
! changes Of governments. The party abdicAting