The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-10-14
urged military plans which have not accom-
plished snything. 81 @3


plished ANYTHING. ei
- From the New Haven Courier.
Contractors have carried tn this var.
Tho blood of our men, the grosnsD Of the
wounded, the tears OF the ssphan, the vail
of the widow, have been coined into men
ey. -" This is true. Contractors
have carried on this war. They have swim.
died the government out Of huadreds Of
millions. They have piled fortuuss upon
fortunes. Corruption runs riot
in Washington Even Senators aoku vi
edge taxing bribes of half y hundred thou>
sand, while leaders who have tasted the
spoils are lounging about the door Of every
government office, and by threats and bribss
compelling the qualification Of their wishes.
z Political purposes and selfish schemes
have ruled generalship and conducted our
armies to ruin instead Of victory News
papers and cliquss have directed snd chang
ed 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 1869 with the confidence that any
stable and efficient course Of action will di
rect the administration OF affairs through
the first quarter Of the year.
From the Dawes Investigating oemmtttss.
The larcenies prscticed under the Ad-
ministration have exceeded the entire az
penditures under the admins tration of
James Buchanan.
From the Chicago Trbunss Washinstoa Core
spondsnss. t
The tone Of morality Is considerably low.
or 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 q class, had very nice
sense Of honor, 80 far Is the public treasury
was concerned. When they held the pow.
sr here, there was comparatively little
thieving, and when any was discovered, it
was promptly exposed and denounced.
There has been change, dreadful change
for the worse Oh, thossrascally
contractors, says some honest man in the
rural districts. For every dollar wrsngfally
taken by contractor, Eve have been taken
by public servants. Voc
From the Chase .Pomsroy Circular
l. That even were the re election of Mr..
Lincoln desirable, tits practically impossi>
BILE against the union ofinAusnoes that vii
be opposed to him. -.
9. That should he be reelected, bio man
ifest tendency toward compromises and
temporary expedisnts Of policy will be
come stronger during q second term than
it has been in the first, and tho cause Of
human liberty, and the dignity aud honor
of the nation suffer propoftionally,
p6whils the war may continue 70 languish
during bis whole administration, till the
public debt shall become burden toe
great to be borne. "a 80
8. That the patronage Of the govern
ment, through the necessities Of the VA
has been 80 rapidly increased, and. to such
an enormous extent aud so loosely placed,
as to render the application OF the one
term principle absolutely Essential to the
certain safety Of our Republicaa insdtu-
From the Springfield Rspablissa.
tits sad, shocking picture Of life at
Washington, which our correspondents ere
giving u.s. 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 d.
bauchery by high governmsut o0lcials.- -
Members OF Congress putting thsir mis-
tresses into clerkships 10 the departments.
An honorable Senator knocked down 10
the street by woman whom he had outI
ragged. Whiskey drinking ad libtsum. The
Government cheated in contracts, and
openly robbed by its employees.
Writes our most careful corrssponl lent
Q long resident Of the Capital "Wsshing.
ton was never so villainously corrupt % ct
the present time. In the palmy days Of
Southern rule, there was not half the corr
ruption there is now" We do net doubt
that this is true and we repeat, it IL .
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