The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-01-16

selves, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS aio len'nS
great deal of capital out of the corrupttlons
IF the administration. Nobody can blame
.nem for so doing, although most people be-
ieve that the copperheads. would be just as
corrupt as tn; niggerheads if they emily nad
the chance. Nevertheless, such an ADMIN
istration as this is fair game Tor even l's
worst opponents. When nearly every con
tract made by the War Department Is
swindle. and witnesses are exlled by Secre.
tary Stanton lest these swindles should be
exposed; when the Navy Department em
ploys two and half per cent Morgan anu
refuses to buy ships except through agents
and charters vessels at higher prices than
are demanded for their purchase; While 81,
cretary w Giles winks at these abuses instead
If reforming them and while the Treasury
Department illegally employs persons like
Jaw Cooke to sell United States oonds On
per centage, and allows its employees TO
pocket the bills they are ordered 10 ourh,
and transforms the Custom House into a
rebel depot for blockade runners, while Sc
cretary Chase busies himself with laying
pipe for the next Presidency-certalniy the
copperhead or Democratic journals are 1ul'
" justified in everything they may choose
to saw against the administration, and IN
dependent journals like the Herald cannot
avoid Joining them in the attack. VI course
such revelations, are very unfortunate Tor
the Republicans, especially upon the eve OF
a Presidential election; but robbery, like
murder, twill out" and the Republicans
must make the best of it,
In fact they are trying very hard to
make the best of it, as an attentive perusal
of the niggerhead or republican organs
will show. These organs appear to be a
little bewildered as yet, and adopt two diff
ferent lines of defence. Eoening Post leads
off by declaring that all the corruptions OF
this administration are merely the second
crop of the bad seeds planted by Buchanan.
The Tribune, which lacks the brains and
the impudense of the Post, whiningly &C
knowledges that the republican underlings
are guilty of frauds, but claims that the
heads of departments cannot be held re-
Sponsble, since Secretary Chase has been
investigating these frauds for more than
year past This claim put forward by poor
Greedy, himself a partner in gun con
tract, has been received with general gut
faw. Greedy cites the Custom House
frauds as an example of Secretary Chases
Investigations, but when, pray, did Mar
shall Murray receive instructions from Sec
rotary Chase to investigate Palmer's case.
No, no, Mr.. Greeley. that dodge is too finn
sy to deceive any body.
Secretary Chase would have hushed up
the Palmer business if he could, just as he
has hushed up half dozen other cases o.
corruption; and he would have continued
to keep Palmer IN Office, just as he illegally
continues to pay Mr. Jay Cooke for dispo
sing of United States bonds. 1t would be
far better for the Tribune to fall bsck upon
the defence of the Evening Post, and be
content to initiate, when it cannot orlgl
nate, sophistry and lies. The Posts theory
is more plausible, but it is not less false,
than poor Greeley's. Buchanan has very
bad reputation, and it is good idea to at
tempt to make him the scafegoat for all the
sins Of Lincolns administrator as well as
for those of his own. Still it must be re
membered that Buchanan's sins caused the
ruin of his party, and we believe that Lin
coins sins will have the same result.
The corruptions of Van Buren's admin
istration carried "Tippecanoe and Tyler
too" into office with hard clQer and hur-
rah. Tee corruptons of Buchanan ad-
ministration helped to elect Honest Old Abe
whose honesty is all in his name and his
persupal character, since he has proved to
be the most dishonest politician who ever
went to Washington, and cares no more for
his political promises than bankrupt Tor
his promises to pay. Does this adminlstra
ton, whose enormous knaveries throw the
comparatively trifing peccadilloes OF Van
Buren, and Buchanan entirely into the shade,
expect any better fate than defeat at the
polls and ignominy in history If 30, Mr..
Lincoln and his advisers must ignore all the
teachings of the past. To defend themselves
by pleading that Buchanan laugh them how
to steal is only to invite the response that
those who follow Buchanan's example must
share his reward. We commend these re-
fections to the editors of the Post, one OF
whom is said to hold a position in connec-
ton with the Custom House, and must
therefore feel personal interest in the
palmers investigations. Such al interest
could alone explain tue warmth and vigor
of the Posts de.,nce OF the administration,
for the administrator is SO notoriously cor
rupt that to become its apologist is danger
Gus, if not fatal to the reputation Of any re-
spectacle man Men without characters,
like the editor of the Tribune, may safely
venture to assume such a dubious pos ton !;
but we hope for better things from William
Cullen Bryant and his coadjutors of the
Post.