Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-04-24

THURSDAY MORNING. .....APRlL =. 1862.
AREPUBL1CAN TAXES TIE STAND
AND TESrlflES.
The Chicago Tribune keeps . cor
responded in Washington. Too often
he forgets that truth is virtue ana
that : white man is - good - . mig
ger. provided, &c bat we are compel
lad sometimes to give him credit for
traoknc.s and verscity. In letter
written q few days since he furnishes
the following criticism upon the morals
Of those who breathe the cir Of the
District Of Columbia. Though our
neigbbor, the Gazette, copies largely
from the Tribane,it has neglected to give
ito readers the benefit Of tho testimony
10 question. It has probably overlook.
ed it.
The testimony runs thus:
1.-THE tone Of morality here is consid-
erabIy lower than cv.r it has been be-
fore. Tbs is admitted on oil hands, and
can be proved, or rather needs no proof,
tor the air is heavy with public and pr.
vate guilt. A few years ago . high
Austrian Official, whose populations
were discovered, applied the Lancet to
bic own veins, and another similarly sit
uated hung himself. There 10 no such
sense Of shame here. Any coroner's
jury in Washington would find . yer.
dict Of insanity for such conduct and the
verdict would be accepted 10 good faith.
The southernere, a. . class, had very
nice sense OF honor 90 far az the public
treasury was concerned. Floyd was an
exccpt,on-almost solitary exception
to the rule. When they held the
power here there was comparatively lit.
tie thieving, and when any was discov.
cred it was promptly exposed and de-
nounced. There has been a change
a dreadful change for the worse. The
frauds and attempted frauds in the
treasury, 10 one channel and another,
come SO fast, and from such unexpected
sources, that one is bewldered 10 con.
templating them. Yet nobody has been
brought to justice, and nobody seems to
think it possible that anybody should be
brought to justice. oh, those rascalIy
contractors! says some honest man in
the rural districts. For every dollar
wrongfally taken by a contractor, foe
haze been taken by public servants :"
Is it possible that those Republican
"pinks Of perfection"-those types Of
all that is moral and religious-that
embodiment Of purity and justicc-is it
possible that they arc generally on a
PAR with the thief Floyd, aud much be-
low the generality Of "sou,herners' in
theft and corruption So the witness
says, aud be has not been impeached
The Republicans boast that they have
driven corruption from the Capital
that they have set the bondman free ant
performed many wonderful things, bu,
this witness declares that the tone Of
morality 10 even lower than before, and
he declares that the fact is admitted OF
ell hands. The witness undoubtedl,
>oeaks the truth. The Republican par
t. is . party Of spoils. Already ha,
the county been shocked at the audaci
~ With which officials Of both high and
isw degree assa'l the strong box Of the
nation. What else could have
been expected! The great Repub.
lican movement was made up
Of those who hungered and thirsted
for the spoils Of of6ce-wbo souQh,
cttice, not that they might be o,
use to the country-not that they nigh,
further the cause Of truth and justice
but that they might the more success.
tnHy clutch the spoils aud sa,iate thci,
own fanstical greed. So tie Democra
cy told the people-so it was in truth
There are honorable exceptio1s q
curse, bn, those who make up the ex
rep,ioo form beggarly minority. In.
corrcspon dents m,nd has been i!.uri.
"aied by ray Of sober truth, aud nude,
IL influence lie cries out" Tne,. b.. :
h en- chauge-a dreadful change ~,
ihe ~orse." Corruption, pcculation aud
t'eft stalks forth At MONDAY at the
Capital. The party j" power is max
Ing the most OF its opportunities.
JsSSIsoS, the noted ia, barker and
mtrrauder Of the w Western frontier, mas
been brought up with a round turn. Ills
t'rnl and coadjutor, jim Lane, is in
Congress. Redpathe his chum and CO.
laborcr, has published Ills peccavi. Tn.
villain above named has been eue o.
the most heartless that ever curse i tn.
border. His crimes are legion, and il
them the Republican. abolition pres,
have supported him. Let simple iustic,
be done-nothing more. The st. Lou;,
Republican, speaking Of Jenuison in St
Louis, says:
10 bis verbal application for parol.
TIC stated that no one could say he had
ever violated bis word, but on being de-
sioed he was utterly unnamed. aud
burst into Hood of tears. He con,;n
ued to weep bitterly for some time. ma
Ole to utter word. Canine h;s ..,,f
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