The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-04-26
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nous nsuds' COmllitted BY the agents and
pets Oftheir party at Washington and
elsewhere. The exposure Injuries their
party and lessons their chances Of sharing
the spOils, and opens the eyes Of the peO-
pie to the duplicity and dishonesty Of
prominent Republicans. Their motives
In :: keeping shady" relative to the start
ling cOrruptiOns Of their party, mercenary
and disgraceful as they are, are somewhat
excusable and may be overlooked. But
fellows who profess to be Democrats and
yet justify all the rascality, have no ex-
cuse to offer in extenuation Of their base
ness. With brazen etfrontery, to encOur-
age their Republican patrons, they talk
of corruption and plundering Of the treas.
ury under Democratic Administrations,
and seek to call off attention from those
in power to those who have fetired from
the public service. Their silence and
sympathy encourage the villains who are
cnTiching themselves at the expense Of
the Government What has Fioyd's tri-
ding populations in comparison to do with
tide present swindlerS! We are dealing
with the present and not Abe past Will
abuse Of Floyd arrest the swindlihg at
Washington? lie is a fool who suppOses
so. To direct the attention OF ofe pt.UpiSe
to the frauds now practised at Washing
ton, may put a check on them. This the
Republicans and their minions know, and
this is why they so rarely and so eau
tiousIy and SO leniently allude to them.
We admit that under Democratic AID.
ministrations occasionally the Government
was swindled, but as soon as the swindle
was discovered the swindler was dismiss.
ed from service and punished. 1t is dit.
feTent now. Not one Of the detected
scoundrels have been removed from Of.
flee! In Congress and in the Cabinet
! they have powerful supporters Who hive
! mus lar successfully ips,;S5(teA 'iNSrnA.-'
Those who have had the courage and the
honesty to denounce them, have been call
ed SeceSsionists and traitors. This has
been done persistently and systematically,
and by none more violently than Adolf
ton Democrats, in order to silence patri.
otto men and keep the facts from the Peo-
pie. We tell these mercenary instruments
of Republican swindlers that the people
know these facts, and are not to be de-
ceived by the silly cry of " secession SIAN
derS."
We ask these defenders Of knaves. if
all losses to the treasury by frauds, cor
ruption and Encouragement, during the
whole existence Of the Government down
to March, '6l, amount to one.ffth Of the
sum Of which the people have been de-
frauded by the knaveries, the corruptions
and the protligacy Of the last twelve
months? More than a hundred millions
Of dollars, according to a statement of the
New York Tribune, which has not been
contradicted, have been stolen from the
treasury and bestowed upon party favor
ties and personal friends since the war
commenced! And yet papers which
countenance this unparalleled knavery,
this worst Of treason, talk Of the petty
frauds under Democratic rule, and have
the insolence to claim to belong TO the
Democratic party! Democrats regard
such fellows with measureless scorn
Let the people read the speeches Of
Messrs. Dawes, Van Wyck and other Re-
publican members o: Congress, and the
Report of the Congressional Investigating
Committee composed of Republicans
and then consider whether it is not time
for all patriotic men to raise their voices
in favor of honesty and economy, and
whether it is not the highest duty of pa
triotisp to oppose and labor to remove
from office men who tolerate and connive
at such infamous corruption and protiga'
cy as they expose. Let them look ut the
consequences of this disgraceful work, as
pictured in the speeches and report, and
then let them consider whether it is trea-
son to denounce and oppose such doings
and the men who engage in and tolerate
them, or whether, in fact, it is not abso-
lutte treason to defend and permit such
Infamous work. Shall the money abso'
lutely essential to put down the rebellion
and to save the Union money obtained
from the hard earnings of the people and
which they can lily spare-be given to
spectators and thieves, to corrupt officials
and fawning parasites, to subsidized pa
pers and pcnsioned libellers, or shall it be
used for the great purpose for which it is
designed? For the latter, say the Demo-
Gratis, for the former, say the Republicans
and their corrupt allies.
Why is it that "UniOn Democrats"
have kept SO silent about these notorious
and astounding frauds? Are they so I'M
important and triAing as to be unworthy
of notice? Why, when they are forced
to allude to them, do they comment npOn
them mildly, excuse them, and change
the subject to corruption under Demo-
cratic rule? Are they only Democrats
in name, sailing under false colors, the
better to betray the party to which they
profess to belong? Are they Republican
spies in the Democratic camp? Are they
afraid Of mourning the displeasure of their
representatives in the Legislature who in.
dorsed the "wise, efficient and conserva.
tive STEALING and alp policy of the present
National Administration" These are
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