The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-10-21

give their votes to prolong for four years
this corrupt state of things. The extracts,
one and all, speak for themselves:
From the Albany Evening Journal, Rep)
Contractors have fattened on fat jobs,
adventures have found the war source
OF private gain, moral desperadoes have
flocked about the national capital and lain
in wait for prey. The scum of the land
has gathered about the sources of power,
and detiled them by its reek and offensive
odor.
From the New York Times, Rep)
The mighty interests of the nation have
been made subordinate to the greedy ava
rice of swindling contractors. The War
Department has been virtually in the
hands and at the mercy of men who care
nothing for the sufferings of the people,
except as they serve their own ends, and
give them q chance to enrich themselves
out of the calamities of the country.
Hon. John P. Hale, Senator from New Hampshire.
/ declare, upon my responsibility as a
Senator, that the liberties of the country
are in greater danger to-day from the cor
ruptions and from the profigacy practiced
in various departments of the government,
than they are from the enemy in the open
field.
Brigadier General Wilcox
Contractors have carried on this war.
The blood of our men, the groans of our
wounded, the tears of the orphan, the wall
of the widow, have been coined into
money. Men without patriotism and wis.,
dom have urged military plans which have
not accomplished anything.
From the New Haven Courier.
"ContractOrs have carried on this war.
The blood of our men, the groans of our
wounded, the tears of the orphan, the wall
of the widow, have been coined into
money" This is true. Con-
tractors have carried on this war. They
have swindled the government out of hun
dreds of millions. They have piled for
tunes upon fortunes. + Corruption
runs riot in Washington. Even Senators
acknowledge taking brides of half hun
died thousand, while the leaders who have
tasted the spoils are lounging a5cat the
door of every government Office, and by
threats and brides compelling the grati6-
cation of their wishes.
Political purposes and selfish schemes
have ruled generalship and conducted our
armies to ruin instead of victory. News
papers and cliques have directed and
changed, from month to month, the policy
of the government, and unsettled even the
Cabinet itself, so that no one rises on this
New Years morn QS63) with the conf
dence that any stable and efficient course
of action will direct the administration
of affairs through the first quarter of the
year.
From the Dawes Investigating Committee
The larcenies practiced under the admin
istration have exceeded the entire ex-
penditures under the administration of
James Buchanan.
Special Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune from Wash
ingtOn.
The tone of morality is considerably
lower than it ever has been before. This
is admitted on all hands, and can be
proved, or rather needs no proof, for the
air is heavy with public and private guilt.
The Southerners, as a class had
a very rice sense of honor, 80 far as the
public treasury was concerned. When
they held the power here there was COM
paratively little thieving, and when any
was discovered it was promptly exposed
and denounced. There has been change,
a dreadful change for the worse.
Oh, those rascally contractors, says some
honest man in the rural districts. For
every dollar wrongfully taken by con-
tractor, five have been taken by public
servants.
From the Chase Pomeroy Circular
l. That even were the reelection of
Mr.. Lincoln desirable, it is practically i'm
possible against the union influences that
will be opposed to him.
2. That should he be elected, his mani
fest tendency towards compromises and
temporary expedients of policy will be-
come stronger during second term than
it has been in the first, and the cause of
human liberty, and the dignity and honor
of the nation suffer proportionally,
e9-while the war may continue to languish
during his whole administration, till the
public debt shall become a burden too
great to be borne.
3. That the patronage of the govern
ment through the necessities of the war
has been so rapidly increased, and to such
an enormous extent, and so loosely placed,
as to render the application of the one
term principle absolutely essential to the
certain safety of our republican institu-
TONS
From the Springfield Republican
1t is sad, shocking picture of life at
Washington, which our correspondents are
giving us. A bureau of the Treasury De-
partment made house of seduction and
prostitution. The necessities of poor and
pretty women made the means OF their de-
hatchery by high government officials
Members of Congress putting their mis-
tresses into clerkships in the departments.
An honorable Senator knocked down in
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