Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-10-27
The Corruption of the Lincoln
AdministratiOn,---TestimO
acknowledgements OF Honest
Men Read.

Below we give extracts from leading Re-
publican papers, leading military and politi-
cal men, all now Republicans, in reference
to the extravaganza, recklessness, and cor
ruption of the Administration in power.
The charges are not overdrawn, and they
were all made at times ,chen no elections
nere pending, and there oere no motires to
concem the truth. Let honest men read and
say if they are called upon to give their vote
to prolong for four years this currupt state
of things The extracts, one and all SPEAK
for themselves.
| from the Albany Evening Journal (Rep.O
Contractors have fattened on fat jobs, ad
venturers have found the war source Of
private gain, moral desperadoes have flock.
ed about the National Capital and lain in
wait for prey. The scum of the land has
gathered about the sources of power and
detled them by its reek and offensive odor.
From the New York Times Rep.ll
The mighty interest of the nation have
been made subordinate to the greedy avarice
of swlndling contractors. The War Depart
ment has been virtually in the hands and
at the mercy of men who care nothing for
the sutferlngs of the people, except as they
serve their own ends, and give them a chance
to enrich themselves out of the caiamities Of
the country.
Hon. ]. p. Hale, Senator from " Hampshire
| declare upon my responsibility as SEN
ator, that the liberties eff the country are in
greater danger to-day from the corruptions
and from the profigacy practiced in various
departments of the Government. than they
are from the enemy in the open field.
BRIG. Gen. Wilcox.l
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 accom-
plished anything
From the New Haven Courier, tRep.)
Contractors have carried on this war
The blood Of our men, the groans of the
wounded, the tears of the orphan, the wall
Oft the widow, have been coined into money
y This is true. Contractors have
carried on this war. They have swindled
the Government out ofhundreds of millions.
They have piled fortunes upon fortunes.
Corruption runs riot in Washing
ton. Even Senators acknowledge taking
bribes of half hundred thousand, while the
leaders who have tasted the spoils are loung-
ing about the door of every Government
office, and by threats and bribes compelling
the qualification of their wishes.
Political purposes and selfish schemes
have rulec generalShip and conducted our
armies to ruin instead of victory. News
papers and cliques have directed and chang
ed from month to month the policy of the
Government, and unsettled even the Cabi-
net itself, so that no one rises on this New
Years morn (lS63) with the confidence that
any stable and efficient course of action will
direct the administration of affairs through
the first quarter OF the year.
[From the Dawes Investigating Committed
The larcenes practiced under the Admin
istration have exceeded the entire expendi-
lures under the administration of James
Buchanan.
From the Chicago Tribune's WASH Cor. (Rep)l
The tone of morality is considerably low
er than it ever has been before. This is ad
mitted 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 very nice
sense of honor, so far as the public treasury
was concerned. When they held the power
here, there was comparatively little THEW
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, Circular.l
|. That even We're the reelection of Mr.
Lincoln desireable, it is practically impossi
bic against the union influences that will be
opposed to him.
,. That should've be reelected, his man
ifest tendency toward compromise and tem
porary expedients of policy will becom
stronger during second term than it ha
been in the first, and the cause of huma
liberty, and the dignity and, honor of tn
nation suffer proportionally, R4-while tn
war may continue to languish during hi
whole administration, till the public det