The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-04-05

sentatives. It was sent to the House
on Thursday last, and is, to say the
least, very remarkable document to
eminate from the President of the
United States. It is an unusual step
for Chief Magistrate to take, and, al
though the tone of the document is
that of ''injured innocence" yet we
cannot but see in its language and
spirit evidences that our venerable
President" is afraid Of something that
may be revealed by the investigation
against which he protests, which he
would rather not have become public.
1t is, in reality, nothing less than plea
of guilty, and denial of the right of
the House to possess itself of the evil
dence of his guilt, on the ground that
to do SO would degrade him and the
Executive Office, and through him, the
people of the United States! This is
remarkable and humiliating position
in which the President has placed him.
self, in informing the House, before he
was required by the committee to give
his testimony before it, or before he
had any indication that it intended to
call upon him to implicate himself, that
he denied the right, and should resist
''to the last extremity" any attempt to
investigate his official conduct.
The Chicago Journal, in noticing
this remarkable protest, says: 1t was
the tear and dread of having the official
acts and secret history of the Admin
istration exposed, that caused the Pres
ideut and his partizans in Congress to
fight so long and SO desperately to keep
the Speakership and the control of the
House out of the hands of the Repub-
licans; and now, as last resort, Mr..
Buchanan, presuming himself King
instead of President, attempts to in
terfere with the action of the House
and interdict its constitutional preroga-
tives, in order to Illustrate the work of
investigation so well begun.
Some remarkable and most disgrace
full developments of corruption and
bribery have already been brought to
light by the Committee on Public Elk
penditures in the House, who have
been investigating the manner in which
the public printing has been conducted
under Mr.. Buchanan's administration.
The evidence before the Committee
proves that the money arising from
the profits of the Government printing
which are of the most ruinous charac-
ter, has been used under the direction
of the President himself to sustain
~effete" Democratic papers, and to
elect pro-slavery members of Congress
all over the country, and to- an unlimi-
ted amount. Mr.. Wendell's testimony,
shows that Mr.. Buchanan was a party
to these corrupt proceedings that the
negotiation for the transfer of the Union
newspaper-now the Constitution-to
Gen. Bowman by Wendell Zone condi-
ton of which was that the latter should
give t,centy thousand dollars annually
for political purposes, as an inducement
for Bowman to take the paper off his
hands as free gft,) was carried on
directly with the President. In short
it is proved that the President made
the bargain with Wendell, by which a
large electioneering or corruption fund
was extorted from the latter.
1t is such damaging developments as
these that the President is anxious to
have suppressed, and to prevent which
hehas launched forth the present ukase.
But, doubtless, the majority in the
House of Representatives ''know their
duty BETTER" and regardless of the
Presidents attempted Introduction, will
proceed with their work to its compile
ton, exposing to the full light of day
and public scrutiny the foulness of
Democracy" sparing neither high nor
low.
THE IMPRISONED WITNEss.-The
Washington correspondent Of the N.
Y. Commercial Aduertiser writes that
Mr.. Hyatt, of Mass, the eminent phil