The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1864-01-06
COHgressiOnaI'a and Other OmciaI
SlyiudleeS

the recent bribery case of Senator
Hall, and other Official swindlers,
says:-''Whatever might be the result
of the investigation by the committee
in John 2. Hale's bribery case, his
own statement in the Senate appears
to be universally considered as vir-
tuai confession of Judgment. lie took
first s., 1000 as retaining fee, and
then demanded and received an addi.
tional $1,000. He e-attempts a de-
Tense on the ground that he was a
LAWYER, but tins is untenable because
untrue. lie performed no legal SER
vices; he appeared before no court,
the only tribunal to which he appeal
cd was tic Secretary of War, and
there as a prominent abolition leader,
he cctdcd in his effort. Mr.. Hale's
own conscience would not have pricked
him had the services been tliosc merely
ofra lawyer, and in going to a man Of
the well>known aptecedents of Rev,
| erdy Johns onto get.adyice, he went
whore lie had reason to believe he
would get something whereby he might
dupe and blind his conscience and
keep the money. Mr.. johnson did
not say the thing that was strictly just
and true when he said that he was in
the habit of doing such things as that
which was cont emplatcd by Mr.. Hale.
Mr.. johnson COULD not do it. lie
cannot even get ommon justice for a
client, to wit, tile Fitz John Porter
case, wherein the commonest order of
the courts was outraged in prejudice of
his client. Again, Mr.. johnson print
ed and published review of the tcsti-
nony in the said Porter case, but it
was refused passage through the mails.
1t is plain then that Mr.. Hale was feed
to use Lis POLITICAL influence; he did
use it, ard was paid for it. This is
the third recent case of the kind. Mr..
Charles Sumner led eff. Early in Mr..
Lincoln's tenn d claim for lalf q mil
lion Of dollars held by some, Northern
mcrchant, was rejected in whole er
Part by the accounting officers of the
Treasury. After long and persevcr.
ing exertions Gy the claimant, the
claim was firmly denied. In the exi-
gency, Mr.. Sumner was appealed to.
He undertook the business, and came
to Washington, where his progress in
getting the whole claim out of the
Government was like that of Cesar's
against Pharnaces. He might, and
perhaps did cxclaim, vrNI, vIDI, vIcI.
How much Mr.. Sumner was rewarded
for this exploit has not publicly trans
pircd, but nothing short of $40, 900 is
at all likely. Again, the old Senator
from Rhode Island who preceded Mr..
Sprague, was publicly exposed and
disgraccd as the recipient Of a bribc of
$50, 900 for a corrupt use of his legis-
lative position. Here then we have
three New England Senators, and the
well read politician will remember
that the newspapers some few years
ago levelled very similar shafts at
Senator IIamlin. These circumstan-
ces will afford some idea Of the purity
of leading New England Abolitionists,
and guide to the motives which govern
ninety>nine-Eundredths of the whole
party, not excepting by any means
the shining abolition lights of the good
city of Wheeling. uy
tThe New York World publishes a
scathing exposure touching Secretary
Stanton's management ofthe HURT
case, and the tender care whercwith
Chase's abolitiontools are protected at
the expense of the ruin of honest and
upright citizens and soldiers--to wit,
the banishment Of Major N, II. Nc
Lean to Vancouvre's Island, so that
he could not be present to, testify in
the Hurtt case. From all appearan-
ces we have now in the administration
more corruption, violence, venality
and crime than all the past history of
the country could gather into one heap.
Such however was to be expected
from the party which has sought to
conceal its own wickedness under i'm
putations Of dlsloyalty and unfaithful-
ness against whose shoes latchets
they are noteworthy to unloose. .'l
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