The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-01-10
Republican Fraud and Corruption.

When some of the officials connected with
the administration of Ex-President Buchanan,
were discovered in the commission of frauds up
on the Government, The chaste and virtuous
newspaper organs of The immaculate "RePubli-
CAM party, became exceedingly indignant and
paraded in the boldest kind Of display type, the
"enormitIes'' of the buchanan dynasty" Then
it was that Covode did smell and Haskins ex-
pose then 1t was that Forney fumed and fret
ted aud famed with fiery wrath at the misdeeds
of the unfortunate 81. b." then the Tribune
whlned and moaned and shed its crocodile tears
over the malfeasance of the "Buchaneers," and
lis little sulphuretted satellite in this county and
ssour own Jordan" went into mysteries over the
prospective ruin OF the country ere Abraham
Lincoln, the great benefactor of the human race
Africans included) would be able to put the
Seat of his blessed unmentionables securely ig
The Presidential chair. Oh how Inteuse, how
fierce and savage, was their anger al "tks corr
rupt old dotard," as they "loyally" aud polite
ly styled the President How thorough and
convulsng as to their moral siomachs, was their
disgust at the s'driveIiIng folly and criminal
reckIessness" of the "Old Man of the Sea-" as
they POLITICALLY and very satiricaIly termed Mr..
Buchanan. Bat where is their stern, proscrip-
tive, Purltanic love of public honesty, nows
Where is their hatred Of treasury thieves, de-
faultng government agents, cheating contrac-
tors, embezzling trustees, speculating cabinet
officers and peculating Generals? Where is the
nasal appeudage OF Covcde, the pen Of Forney,
dipped in gall? Whence have disappeared those
Slamese twins of Northern politics, Hickman
and Haskin, who lain would have cleansed the
Augean stable of the Government Of the filth
deposited therein by party asinines and wind
CALLED presidential equinesa All! they are heard
of no more. Fremont may buy damaged arms
TO impose them upon the Government at exor-
bitant rates, rent palatial houses at monstrous
prices, build Notifications where they are not
needed, purchase provisions through corrupt fa-
vorfes, and engage in gigantic swindles gener-
ally, yet not drops reproof have these pious
agitators of year ago to administer 10 this
grand Woolly Horse humbug of the Abolition
Republicans. Cameron may employ Cummings
and other parasites Of his, 10 clothe and victual
The army, giving them carte blanche for mil
lions, without bond or security OF any sort, and
it is all right in the eyes of the virtuous For
ney, the far-smelling Covode and the rest of the
hypocritical iraud-hunters whose eyes were
wont to be red with weeping over the sins OF
Floyd and Co. Can any one give US reason
for this strange qulescence on the part of these
great and luminous moral retormers! Is there
an interdict from the White House upon their
tongues and their pens? Or are they too agree
ably employed in sucking government pap to
wag the former, and too busily engaged in slgn-
ing contracts for spawned horses and scabby-
backed mules to use the latter, against the har-
pies that hang around the Treasury? Can any
Of our "Republican" friends who are fighting
bravelyiwith red-tape and Uncle Sans money
bags, enlighten US on this subject Will not the
Tr,buns's newspaper echo in this county, give
US some information in this regard II no ex-
planatlon can be given on this point, will not,
then, somebody inform us why SIMON CAMERON
is retained in the Cabinet, after the censare
passed upon HIM by the Van Wyck committee,
portion of whose report we publish in this
issueg Why Is it that the Republican journals
do not yelp and howl upon cameron's track as
they did when IN chase after the members Of
Buchanan's Cabinet2 When millions on mil
lions are squandered through the misconduct oi
the Secretary VI War, and when Committee
Of leading members Of bis own party publish