The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-08-30
Who Stole the MOneY !?

A large portion of the political har-
angues of such demagogues as Thomas
A. Hendricks and John Law consists in
denunciations of Mr.. Lincoln's Admins
tration on account of the gross frauds
that have been committed in army and
navy contracts, To sustain their charges
of corruption they quote the remark of
Mr.. Dawes of Massachusetts, himself
Republican. We give the extract Just
as Mr.. Hendricks, with great flourish
of trumpets, read it in his speech at Ba-
bytown:
." The gentleman must remember that
in the first year of Republican Admin
istration, which came into power upon
professions of reform and retrenchment,
there is indubitable evidence abroad in
the land that somebody has plundered
| the public Treasury well nigh in that
single year as much as the entire cur
rent yearly expenses of the Government
during that Administration which the
people hurled from power because of its
corruption" EnS-.z1fT
No friend of the Government denies
that frauds have been perpetrated, but
before commencing an indiscriminate
attack upon all the friends of the Ad-
ministration, will it not be well to ascer-
tain who are parties to these frauds
Mr.. Hendricks and Judge Law know
who it is that got most of the plunder-
Did they tell the people? Not a bit
of it He who withholds portion Of
ing wrong impression is guilty of false
hood, and Thos. A Hendricks and Judge
Law, in their contemplate effort to hood
wink the people on Thursday afternoon,
were as guilty of falsehood, as though
they had manufactured their statements
out of "whole cloth. EL&E
In the same speech from which Mr..
Hendricks quoted Mr. Dawes, who
was defending the action of the COM
mittee appointed to investigate the frauds
which had been perpetrated, said:
"My friends on the committee of diff
ferent politics from me will have the
| Justice to say that the Republican party
is not the only one that has participated
in these plumbers. y
Why didn't Mr.. Hendricks give the
whole paragraph of Mr.. Dawes speech
from which he pretended to quote?. Sim,
ply because it would make different
impression upon the minds of his hear
. ers than that he desired to make. His
, object was to arouse their animoslty tc
I the government; to insidiously fill
. them with suggestions calculated to alien
ate their affections from the government
and prepare their minds for accepting
: his other proposition: to attach the grea
| northwest to the Southern Confederacy
; We regret to say, the subtle poison tool
e instantaneous effect-one of the misguided
: individuals becoming so wrought up b
n Mr.. Hendricks terrible picture of tn
manner in which he was cheated, as t
- give vent to his Indignation by exclaim
Y ing "down with such Union and go'
ernment."
This paragraph Mr.. Hendricks omitted
d Judge Laws eye-sight always fails hiI
n n when he gets that far, and he also inv'
IS, riably omits readingit it Why? Becaus
III they know it to be true. Now let us Sc
d who are some of the men guilty {
n robbing the treasury in these times
- trouble?
First and foremost come up the giga
on tic frauds in the Western Department
na na Who administered the financial affairs
to that department and paid out all Il
Tag money? Quartermaster McKinstry, +;
he he old democrat who learned how to ma
to age money matters in war times by h
for education under Democratic Admin
tration in the Mexican War."
'r0 Mr.. Hendricks told the people that n
). Dawes was an honest man, and that
= statements were entirely reliable. Graz
. ed. What does Mr.. Dawes say in rega
To- those contracts? Hear him. '
quote from his speech in the House
an Representatives. Let our readers C.
ont the extract and watch Judge Law
~ he coes round the District, and see h,
often he reads it. Mr. Dawes said:
The beef contract too, was in the han
OR- of Democrats; the wood contract was
the hands of Democrats; the whole N
d England Department, from the dist