The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1861-10-18
EXTRAORDINARY POLITICAL C0NFES.
SIONS

The New York papers are having an extra
ordinary time 10 themselves. Messrs Weed
and Greeley are very severe on each other, and
the charges alleged, acknowledged, black with
bFibea, founded on recent legal disclosures,
would conslgn any man in his latitude to ever
lasting lnfamy did be aid in anything half so
vile, only serve as pastime for Gotham editors.
MIR. Bennett comes 10 the rescue, and in bis
own slashing manner makes the application
complete, and points out the way with The NOR
al revealed as to hopeful results to the country
trom1bis quarrel. The annexed is the Herald's
article on the subject
The most singular Poitical confessions, per-
haps, ever made are those Of Thurow Weed
and Horace Greeley, just made by these pohti-
clans in their own journals. The one has been
engaged for some forty years and the other TWEEN
ty IN the dirty work Of party corruption, and
both confess they have had large share in it,
though we cannot expect them TO tell us all The
truth. Weed has been in league with the AL
bany Regency in the railroad operations, both
in the State and the city of New York The
Third Avenue Railroad stock is particularly re-
ferred to by Greeley as the richest of those pla-
GERS IN which Weed has mined, and Weed res
ponds by admitting the TACT and giving Greeley
:: Roland for his Oliver" Obnoxious,' he
says, . as the admission is to a Just sense OF
right and 10 a better condition OF political eth
les, we stand SO far impeached. We would
have preferred moi 10 disclose to public view
the financial history Of political life, nor should
the Tribune have constrained such disclosures.
Public men know much of what the rest of
mankind are ignorant. If we have sinned 10
this way, Mr.. Greeley ought not TO ECast the
fist stone.' He has not always been iastdlous
in the use of money at elections or in legislation.
He knows how much it really cost, and cut
of whose pockets the money came, 10 elect a
Speaker in Congress. He knows how he ex-
Pected to be reimbursed he knows for what
purpose a Thousand dol!ar easet. o-ae teolsd -
him"
Thus does the pot call the kettle black, and
the kettle returns the compliment, and both ac-
knowledge the soft impeachment. Quoth Weed;
" Painful as the confession IS, we are bound in
Truth and from knowledge to say, that James
Buchanan was elected President, and this great
and then happy and glorious republic ruined,
simply because Messrs. Wendell, Forney and
Belmont raised $4,000 more money to be ex-
pended in Pennsylvania than William A. Hall,
Truman Smith and the writer Of this article
could procure for the same Object
This is making a clean breast with vengeance.
Weed and and Greeley, it seems, were excelIed
by Forney in corruption in 1886, and they con-
sequentIy lost the election OF President; but TO
compensate for that defeat they carried, by dint
OF money, the election OF Speaker in Congress
Such are the shameless confessions made by
these politicians in their ordinations and re-
crimlnatOns. They are highly edifying, and
illustrate the Proverb that when rogues fall out
;he public gain by the quarrel.
There is a moral in these revelations for the
study of every honest man and we all ought
to ask ourselves, how can we expect that the
country should be in any other condition than
the depIora5Ie state in which we NOW find it,
when men who stoop to such rascaIily, and
blush not to confess it, have been permitted 50
long to control the political destnIes OF the na-
ton