Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-02-11
Fraud--Fraud--Eyeryyy,iere.

The present Administration appears to be
determined to earn niche in every depart
ment of infamy. Turn whichever way we
will, we hear of frauds on the top of frauds,
until the mind is appalled, at the gigantic
corruption which seems to infest every de-
partment of the Government The very
air is surcharged with moral miasma.-
The physical atmosphere even, seems to be
affected with the prevailing corruption, and
the small pox, as pestilence, hovers over
Washington not unlike the mysterious
effluvia exhaled from the Upas tree. Two
or three defalcations have recently occurred
in the Treasury Department Some con-
tractors have been detected in swipdling. -
The Surgeon-General is arraigned for pocu-
lation. The Navy Department is charged
with corruption. The Brooklyn Navy Yard
is sink of sin, and the New York Custom
House stands indicted ''for aiding and as
sisting the rebels" First, the immaculate
Henry b. Stanton was deposed, and then
comes the Collector Private Secretary "a
nice young man," given to fast living,
champaign dinners, and other expensive
Injuries Never before, in the history of
our own country, did such things occur,
and never before, even in the reigns of. the
most profigate monarchs, was it surpassed
The prevailing sentiment of the day finds
its most fitting expression in sneers at pri-
ker of the White House has .jested every
own prefix of 'Honest" has become the
sublimest joke of the lot
But how are these revelations of official
dishonesty met Does the party in power
show any disposition to put down, to pun
rch hp, lty 70 hot anr
The other day, when it was moved in the
Senate to investigate the charges against
the Navy Department, it was denounced on
the ground that to allege dishonesty to any
department, was to weaken the govern
mcntl The question was not taken upon
going into an investigation, and probably
will not be. In the House, member of.
fered resolution for the appointment of a
committee to investigate the various .charg-
es Of fraud and corruption, and to send fol
persons and papers. 1t was promptly voted
down. The conviction, therefore, is ire
sistable, that the Administration dare not
force an inquiry into its conduct. Whoever
before heard Of II party presuming to ap
peal to the country for support, which thus
skunk away from an investigation OF its Off
cial acts If the present Administration
stole more money during the first year it wa'
in power, than it took to support Mr.. Bu
chanan's Administration for an entire term
how much must it have stolen since, espe
cially, as it has now had two more years tt
get its hand in? What is still more re
markable about this matter is, that the mel
guilty Of all this prohigacy and corruption
claim to be the self-sacrficing exponents o
a new and grand idea which is to usher in
better era-an era as far in advance of th
first century Of our Republic, as the year
that succeeded the discovery of the art o
printing, was in advance Of the darkness o
the middle ages. All real reformers hav,
been distinguished for remarkable virtue
austcnty and integrity. The fact that thes
men are the very reverse of all this, is suf
fcient proof that they and their principle
are bogus. When they try to cover up thei
iniquities, it is a confession of guilt, anC
the republic will so regard it.-Day Book