Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-29

CATION to provide for disabled and other soldiers.
and families of soldiers, to an indefinite amount.
So that the end cannot be seen 1t NAV be safely
stated that the child is not vet born that will
cease to meet the tax gatheier in his return
ing rounds, exacting the annual products Of our
toll. for whatI If TO pay the just expenses-the
PATRIOTIC SOLDIERS k
OF the war-it viii be rendered without muir
muir, by all good citizens. Buff it is not for the
use OF the soldier, and is 70 satisfy unjust de
mands, then the toll worn taxpayer should
hold 70 a strict account the men in authority who
in addition 70 the immense sums necessarily
raised for the war, have carelessly, criminally
suffered unjust debts 20 accumulate.
The appropriations for the Army alone for the
year beginning the LIST OF July, 1862. are at the
rate of $500 for each soldier, assuming that we
continually have standing army of over six
hundred thousand men, and the expenditures
have been at a greater rate for the past year.
The soldier don't get it, every man knows that.
What becomes of it2 Who takes I? Is it stolen2
Committees raised by Congress, and Commits
sioners appointed by the President, have reported
facts establishing system of bare faced rascaty.
in handling the money of the people, that never
had parallel in any Christian nation. Some OF
them, it ia presumed, are of so monstrous a char
acter that the President has refused to have them
published by responding to a call to that effect,
that the public interest forbids
Official duty, obligation. and Oaths, have been
but ropes Of sand in preventing officers of this
Administration from seizing the public moneys.
Public contractors have in every possible way
cheated the Government-the people; and thus
delayed the war. Scarcely an article can be
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the finger of fraud has left unframed. Wagons,
horses, provisions, clothing, camp equipage,
arms, ammunition, have all been furnished of a
worthless character, at enormous prices, through
the perfdy of paid officers and inspectors. In
qury has been, to a great extent, smOthered, and
punishment in no case awarded, because connec-
ton in the illegal transaction be traced directly
to those in authority-even to members of the
Cabinet, as shown by the report of the Naval
Committee of the Senate, and the speech of Sen
atOr Hale. The Chairman of an Investigating
Committee declared in his speech, in the House
9Th of February, 1862:
The mania for stealing appears have run through all
the relations Of the Government Almost from the Gen
eral the drummer boy, from those the throne
OF power cabinet ofcers the merest tide waiter
livery who deals with the Government appears to
feel desire that would not long survive aud each had
a common right tOplunder while it lived. =
The example has been set in the very apartments IF tie
Government. As general thing, but favorites
gain access there ana none other obtain contracts
which bear enormous profits.
Senator Hale, in speaking of the fraud of Nor
gan, the brother-in law of Welles, the Secretary
Of the Navy, by which he pOeketed $4,000, says:
have no doubt that if some Of the investigating Com
mttees go on they viii lind that there have been
actions compared with which $4,000 a small sum-
and that il will be considered ungraciouS call up Of
these petty offenders that have taken only $4,000 and
deal with him when there others going OF staggering
load q q
So Dawes, OF Massachusetts, states that the
evidence shows plundering in the first year of
LincOln's Administration 10 an amount greater
than the whole expenses of Buchlnan's Admin
istration for year.
These are Republican authorities, and are fully
sustained BY the general facts, namely, that the
plundering has been 80 extensive; that each sol
der in the field has cost the Government twice as
much, per annum during the last war with
Great Britain, or the war with Mexico
As before stated. these frauds have been traced
to members of the Cabinet so strongly that one
-CamerOn-resigned, after which, the House Of
Representatives passed resolution censuring
him-but showed their servility by refusing to
eensure Welles for he was yet in power, with
patronage to bestow.
With these facts staring him in the face. the
President. instead Of causing offenders to be pun
ished. with kindness towards Cameron truly re
freshing, assumed his unworthy acts. and appoint
ed the offender to still greater hOuOrs. No man
is prosecuted. no man Is punished for the crimes
that blacken humanity itSelt-that Starve aud
freeze our brave sOldiers-that leave them, as the
18th Indiana was left, to trace the road with blood
from their shOeless feet. in pursuing the enemy
But we are told. alt is no time now 90 inquire
into these things" Better say, at is no time
now to steal" No loyal man viii steal from his
Government directiy-from the soldiers Indirect
ly: and if any man does he should be exposed
that ne may be punished. if the authorities will
mete out punishment, and if not. that he may be
known and avoided aS one employed in the bust
ness of aiding the rebellion
A COMMITTEES en- War Claims, whose reports
are, by the President to great extent refused to
the public, have shown that Senator Simmons, of
Rhode Island. original compromise man,
has been selling himself-that is. for his influence
with the Administration in procuring contract
for his friends at high rates, they were to give
him part-Only fifty thousand dollars-one dol
lac on each musket they were to make.
1t would be supposed by all honest men that
such knave and hypOcrite would be kicked out
of the Senate at once He is "a Republican,
majority Of the Senate are Republicans. but we
believe not thieves. Still they shielded this thief
and thus made themselves parties TO his crime.
Having thus briefly. yes briefly indeed. from
the vast material that is before US considered the
points proposed to be included, we are prepared
to examine whether in our judgment, the course
pursued has been the proper one.