Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-01-20
penunc,at,on or corruption.

Mr.. Senator Hale, of New Hampshire, the 9TH
er day, in the discussion Of the Army Bill, spoke
as follows: -
Mr. Hale-Mr President, 1 am pleased with
the remarks that have been made by the Senator
from Oregon. | sympathize entirely with the
remarks which he has made about the frauds
that have been committed ON thepublic Treasury,
about the army that is waiting to advance on the
enemy, and the army that Is waiting to advance
on the Treasury; but i will tell you the army
that has made rcar upon the Treasury has made a
uery brilliant campaign Of il. Laughter. IL
has been one series of triunlphs, and they haUe
beaten alscays. | confess that from recent visit
to the North, where public virtue stands no low
err say the least, than il does in othet parts of
the country, | have been panied and mortified
beyond endurance to learn how the generous con-
6dence with which this people have furnished men
and poured out money has been abused and tram
pied upon. IL beats all credulity. | stand here
to-day to say-and / say it with shame and
humiliation, and would to God that the neces-
sity did not exist for me TO say it-fhaf some of
the HIGHEST officers of yoRr Government are not er
en,pt from the censure which ought TO rest upon
those ouiltu of these frauds upon the public Treas
uru. I"Put them OUT | have not the power
to put them out. l would be ready, and am
not sure that the time has not come for IL; 1 am
anxious to vote for an act which shall punish with
death deliberate fraud upon the public Treas
ury in time of war; when the nation is bleeding
at every pore, and patriotism is taxing itself to
its utmost to sustain the Army in defense of the
Constitution. l say, deliberately, would pun
sh any man who would perpetrate deliberate
fraud upon the Treasury of such people at such
time with death; and j think the country will
have to come to that Isay tina. such man is
unfit to live under the privileges and opportuH-
ties which belong TO such country as ours, and
to such Government as ours.
Sir, will welcome anything under heaven
which should awaken this people-excuse me. /
believe the people are more awake than the Gov
ernment--anything that shall wake mp this Gov
ernment in all its branches to the importance of
the issue in which we are engaged, and the ne
cessity of the means to which we must resort
hone that taxes will be laid--one hundred and
fifty or two hundred millions of dollars. think
nothing short of that should be laid. The crisis
of this hour has come; the crisis of this country
history is about to eliminate, and we are about TO
demonstrate 10 the world whether or not We can
maintain free Government We can not MAIN
tain it, and we ought not to maintain it, If WE
ARE AS CORRUPT AS THE PRACTICES on QUE Treas
TRY WOULD LEAD ONE TO BELIEyE-lf public cor
ruption has become so general, and the public
conscience so callous, that the things which are
daily practiced before our eyes can be practiced
and tolerated by the people of this Government.
Look sir at the report to which the honor
able Senator from Oregon has referred.
tell YOU that the facts which have been dis
closed by that committee are such as ought
to make every member of the Senate and OF
the House of Representatives hang his
head in shame Such things exposed
spread out to the light of heaven and
earth. and men see them, and what do they sayl
They saw: Veil. il is too bad; it is not right;
do not blame YOU for talking so; but, sir, is any
thing doneg Has any thing been done to purge
this Gopernment of the that are feeding them
sefucs lururianfly and fraudatenfy upon the oeTy
life blood of the nation? Has anything been done
to purge this Government itself of treason and
traitors and thieves and robbers7 But very lit
tie: tell YOU. sir, the public will not stand 1t,
and they ought not to stand il. IL those things
60 ON there will be rebellion in the loyal States
worse than there ever was in those which are now
in rebellion against this Government; and there
ought to be- They will not stand IL, and they
ought not to stand it, and say for one, that in
myhumble sphere, and with such ability as God
has given me- / declare to-day, not upon the
Secessonists on the other side of the Potomac,
but upon the public plunderers on this side, and
call upon the Senate. upon every man who thinks
we have a Government and country worth de
Tending. 10 see to it that we defend IL from foes
that are striking more deadly blows than any that
have been received in any of the disasters which
have befaIen our arms at Balls Bluff or Bull
n