New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-03-24
Nsp Orleans Nailp Gtssteut.
MONDAY MORNING, MARCH "a, 1862.
YANKEE Honesty.

Though an unacountablc disregard of their own
future Interests has been exhibited by the people
of the North in compelling this Southern States to
withdraw from the old Union and establish
Confederacy of their own, yet we are not without
evidence that for the present at least. those same
people arc diligently engaged in that ltpreserva
tive business known as taking care of number one.
The New York Herald estimates that the stealage
from the Northern Government by contractors
and othars amounts already to over fifty millions
of dollars. So much has been discovered What
remains behind, yet to be e2humed by future re-
searches and explorations, we do not knoW-but
we do krow that Investigating Committee has
been instituted in the Yankee Congress for the pur-
pose of smelling out the numerous frauds and
pecaatious upon the Treasury, and bringing
them to light and though that committee has
seen several months at work, and has reported
swndling transactions innunlerable, it is still en-
gagged in the same business, with a prospect that
their labor will be as endless as those oil Sysiplus
himself.
The neatest thing that we lave heard Of, in the
way Of deliberate stealing, by the Immaculate pa
triots and ' stern moral men y OF the North as
DIR. Russell calls them, is the recent operation of
the Governor and Auditor OF the Stateof Kansas.
1t seems that these two functionares were en-
trusted with the sale of certain bonds Of their
State; and, proceeding to New York, succeeded in
dsposing Of them at rates varying from eighty-fve
to ninety five cents on the dollar. Returning home
they reported sales at from forty to sixty cents
ou the dollar, the difference being quietly trans.
ferred to their pockets. The fraud never
would have been discovered but for quarrel be.
tween the Governor OF Kansas and the virtuous
jim I.ans--the latter having, in the thieves YER
nacular, !" blowed" " on the Governor, probably be
cause he was not admitted to full share of the
pickngs and stealings. But though in this case
rogues have fallen out 1t is not likely that the
slusion Of the old adage will follow, and homes,
men will get their dues. II there were any honest
men there to get them, which is exceedingly doubt
full, it by no means follows that the cormorants will
disgorge their dishonesty gotten plunder.
These thieving officials the account says, have
been unanimously impeached by the Legislature
of Kansas most superauous and improbable
proceeding. Such thing may be necessary for
the sake of appearances, but for the sake OF ap
pearances only. There is not only no chance to
recover the stolen money, but there is probably
not corporals guard OF she Legislature itself who
would have been restrained by any sense Of mora
" Sectituds from stealing in precisely the way
If an opportunity had been offered. In the OLD
Government it was notorious that the people o
the Northwest had fewer scruples about recog
nizng the obligations Of honesty and the distinction
between naeusa and tuuns than any other portion Of
the Union; and the passion seems only to have beer
intensified since war has furnished such colder
opportunity. But, in truth, no particular section
Of the North seems now to have any special ad
vantage over any other in this respect. They are
all tarred with the stick and all equally eager
in the scramble for the loaves and fishes. The
North may possibly survive, in 1naEcial way, The
war with the south-but it can never do SO unless
it at once drives off the blood suckers and vara
pires who are preying upon its vitas.