Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-26
Special Correspondence of the Chicago Times.
From washington.

The AHthe- Morality Party as Ezsmplifed by
Gideon WeIEs-7'haddeus Stevens, His Lore
of Faro and Wenches-"Sferen and FOTney,
Purueyors to Public Morals
WASHINGTON, May Is.
THE MORALITY or THE REPUBLICAN PARTY,
as Illuminated by the venerable Gideon WeIles,
formerly of Connecticut, now a curious specimen
of human longevity preserved in the Navy De-
partment, is truly lovely to contemplate. This
''ancient mariner is supposed by many to be the
original Captain Noah who commanded the ark.
but, as an admirer of that respectable sailor,
deny that Gideon reminds one of him save slight
ly in his morals
Noah, you remember, got on a terrible cram
page" drank considerable, and committed divers
and sundry little ndscretions, just after landing
from forty days cruise; but it is a common
failing for "old salts" to do similar things, even
down to this day, and l think, therefore, that
Captain Noah should be forgiven, and not be
abused by odous comparisons between himself
and Gideon.
Noah had brother-in law by the name of
Morgan, He neither married Morgan, nor did
any Morgan marry Noah, as far as heard from
But, if such relationship had existed between the
Noah and Morgan families, very much doubt
whether Noah's sense of propriety would have
$4,000 a month for purchasing the ark, or
whether his shrewdness would have allowed him,
for a moment, to think that the most economical
manner of employing man is to pay him two
per cent. upon all the money he can possibly
spend; nor do ] believe that the IDEAS of honesty
then entertained by Captain Noah would have
sanctioned such an arrangement.
But Gideon Weles, OF Connecticut-moral
Puritanical, Chadbandsh, niger believing Gid
.l-.
exemplary member of the great moral reform
and retrenchment Republican party, deems it
safe, expedient, and entirely Christanlike. to
buy few vessels for the navy of the United
States through his brother-in- law, Geo. ID. Nor
gan, another pous Republican And Secretary
Weles kindly and canonically tells George ID.
Morgan that he cannot afford to pay him any
regular salary, but that he will give the mere
trhe-enough for Republican patriot-of two
per cent. upon all the money that he, George,
can spend for ships, steamers, &c, &c, in five
months.
Upon this, George D. Morgan, with great and
ardent patriotism, pitches right into the marine
dicker, and ;, in five months, buys boats enough
to make the snug of seventy thousand dol
lars profit for himself for which you and ! and
other poor reople ''out west" must be taxed.
John p. Hale Republican, of New Hampshire
chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs in
the Senate, investigates the whole matter, and
he reports it swindle upon the government and
the people-one that ought to meet with the Sc
verest punishment-a grand marine larceny per-
petrated upon the betaxed citizens of the United
States through the corruption and the conni-
vance of Gideon Welles, Yankee moralist and
general phfanthropist from conscientious Con-
necticut.
The Van Wyck committee prove it all, and
demonstrate the fact that Welles, the Cabinet
officer of "honest" "Old Abe" is a regular thief,
a robber, pirate upon the navy of these United
States. A House committee prove it; a Senate
committee endorse it: John p. Hale reiterates it
in Senatorial speech; and the House get forty
five votes to censure this high born knave,
and condemn him before the people upon the
same day that they passed a resolution damn
ing with inefaceable disgrace the late Secretary
of War
But Gideon Welles had patronage in his grasp
Republican members could not afford to give
vote against patronage, and so Gideon es-
capped.
Some wears since, in a Western State man
was arrested for stealing hog, He employed
an attorney informed him that he was guilty,
and that proof would be so and so-very conclu-
sive of his guilt.
"Why," said the lawyer, "I can't save you be-
fore any sensible jury-you are bound to be found
guilty-I can't help you-you1l go where you
ought to go-to jail and disgrace.
"Now, you just needn't give up that way, said
the hog thief, 'but go right into court, git up
before that Jury, pitch in, rear, tear, 90 it.,
regular Fourth Of July style, spread eagle and
star spangled banner fashion, and III pay you
well, and bet we win the case and / goes clear"
The hog thief was so mportunate that the
attorney agreed to make the desired high-pres-
sure effort in his behalf, and accordingly "went
in" on the jury for an hour or more. The jury
retired, but in ten minutes, much to the astonish
ment of the court, and particularly of the attor-
ney, came in with a verdict of mot guilty"
The attorney at once called his hog thief client
out and, for the qualification of his own curiosi-
ty, desired to be informed how that verdict was
obtained against such overwhelming evidence of
his guilt. The hog thief looked verycrafty, and,
with wink of neffable shrewdness, said:
"Sir, there wasn't man on that jury but what
either has had or is going to have some of that
same pork to fry in his own house."
Hereafter, when the honest farmers inquire how
the Republican members of the House failed to
censure Welles, in the face and eyes of his proven
guilt, you may tell the story of the hog-thief,
and of the jury that tried and acquitted him, and
how each juryman got a bite of the same pork.
Honest" "Old Abe" still keeps Welles as one
of his constitutional advisers, and meets with him
in Cabinet council from week to week. | am
afraid the honesty OF Lincoln Will begin TO be
doubted by and by. Cameron, Welles, and Ere
mont are heavy load for one honest man to
carry and endorse.
THADDEUs STEVENS,
whom the small sardines of abolition look up to
as great whale in the "Back Sea-" is a very
fine illustration of the excessive morality of abo-
litionism. He is now probably seventy years of
age; he is nominally an old bachelor; virtually
he is a married man, suppose; and certainly be
is, if rumor can be at all relied upon. This
know: Thaddeus loves the niger; Thaddeus
is honest in his admiration for the African; Thad-
deus lives with female person of the African
faith and has lived with her for many years. She
is his housekeeper, so called, and much the COM
plexion of new russet- colored trunk. Thad-
deus and the aforesaid female are inseparable
like Union and Liberty. Whether you visit him
in Pennsylvania or in Washington, you will al
ways find the "housekeeper" and Thaddeus living
together in harmony and peace-black and
wL;ta vhita and hlack haautifuiiv blending in