Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-10-24

There is no need TO hunt up other evil
dence to show the misdeeds Of the party In
power than the bitter examinations which
have been made by its own friends and sup
porters, Below will be found extracts from
leading Republican papers, leading military
and political men all now Republicans, in
reference to the extravaganza, rec klessnets,
and corruption of the Administration In
power. The charges are not overdrawn,
and they were all made at times when no
elections were pending, and there were no
men read, and say if they are prepared to
give their vote to prolong for four years
this corrupt state of things. The extracts,
one and all, speak for themselves:
From The Albany Evening Journal
Contractors have fattcned on fat jobs, adj
venturers found the war source Of private
gains, moral desperadoes have tlOcked
about the national capital and lain in wait
for prey. The scum of the land has gath
cred about the source Ofpower, and defiled
them by its reek aud offensive odor.
from The N. Y. Times.l
The mighty interests of the nation have
been made subordinate to the greedy avarice
of swindling contractors. The War Depart
ment 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
chance to Zurich themselves out of the ca
lamities of the country.
Hon. John p Hale, Senator from New Hampshire.l
l declare upon my responsibility as
Senator, that the liberties of the country
are in greater danger to-day from the cor
ruptions and from the protiigacy practiced
in various departments of the Government
than they are from the enemy in the open
field.
LBrigadier General wilcoxl
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 wisdom have
urged military plans which have not ac-
complished anything.
From the New Haven Courier.l
Contractors have carried on this war. The
blood of our men, the groans of the wound
ed, the tears of the orphan, the wall of the
widow, have been coined into money.
This is true. Contractors have carried on
this war. They have swindled the Govern
ment out of hundreds of millions. They
have piled fortunes upon fortunes.
Corruption runs riot in Washington. Even
Senators acknowledge taking bribes of half
a hundred thousand, while leaders who
have tasted the spoils are lounging about
the door of every government office, and by
threats and brides compelling the gratifica-
tion 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 evenfthe
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.
. tFrom the Dawes Investigating Committee.
The larcenies practiced under the Ad-
ministration have exceeded the entire eX-
penditureS under the Administration OF
James Buchanan.
GFrom The Chicago Tribune's Wash. Cor.l'.
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 nice
sense of honor, so far as the public treasury
was concerned. When they held the power
here there was comparatively little thiev-
ing, and when any was discovered, it was
promptly exposed and denounced. There
has been change, dreadful change, for
the worse. Oh those rascally con-
tractors, says some honest man in the rural
districts. For every dollar wrongfully
taken by contractor, five have been taken
by public servants.
from the Chase-Pomeroy Cireular.l
l. That, even were the reelection of Mr..
Lincoln desirable, it is practically impossi-
BILE against the union of influences that will
be opposed to him.
2. That, should he be reelected, his man
ifest tendency toward compromises and
temporary eXpedients of policy will be-
come stronger during second term than 1t
has been in the first, and the cause of hu-
man liberty and the dignity and honor of
the nation suffer proportionally, GB while
the war may continue to languish during
his whole administration, till the public
debt shall become burden too great to be
borne. -&En
THAT the patronage of the Government,
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 institutions.
from The Springfield Republican,
1t is sad, shocking picture of life at
Washington, which our correspondents are
giving us. A bureau of the TreasuryDe-
partment made house of seduction and
prostitution. The necessities of poor and
pretty women made the means of their de-
bauchery by high Government officials.
Members Of Congress putting their mis-
tresses into clerkships in the departments
An honorable Senator knocked down in the
street by woman whom he had outraged
Whisky drinking dd Rbituns. The Govern
ment cheated in contracts, and openly
robbed by its employees.
Writes our most careful correspondent
a long resident of the capital: "Washing-
ton was never so villainously corrupt as at
the present time. In the palmy days of
Southern rule. there was not half the cor
ruption there is now." We do not doubt
that this is true; and we repeat, it is sad,
shocking picture.