New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-04-13
Rr.ads On the (;exernmeat.

Now that the war is virtually over, one oil To
first things 10 care for will be the settling up Of ~
counts between the people and men in public once
Things that overlooked OF tolerated In the belsa
oi our bloody struggle will be overhaue and closely
scrutnized; and while much csrelessDess or nese6
of duty and many abuses OF authority may have bee1
pardoned in view Of the circumstances yet there VIZ
be general disposition II bring Offenders to Justice
Prominent among the evils incident TO the war have
been stnpendous frauds In the furnishing OF supplies 10
land and naval forces and We fear that these have
amounted 10 large per centage OF the aggregate vsue
Of supplies. 1t has been estimated, by men whose opin
ions entitled TO respect that in some classes OF sup
plies Government has been cheated twenty per cent
on all the bills it has paid. Certainly the records a
each of our armies, and the archives OF the Quarter
master. Generals Department, containing abandans
proof Of wholesale system Of robbery perpetrsted "
Instead Of complaining Of the exercise OF arbitrary
power by Government, in its endeavors to stop thh
course Of things Of those who would gladly have
seem and who hope to the most careful scrln?
Of the public business aud the holding 0f dishonest per-
accountable to the strctest letter OF the law
venture to say after having given no little Afternoon
tho subject that in proportion 10 the number OF caset
tried before military courts the instances o t!rahhc1
abuse Of power. much complained OF BY tue copper
head press are really not worth mentioning. con.
pared with the shan justice adminlstered In some /"
the minor courts especially in New. York city. GeH
Holt's tribunals sre Of spotess purity 1ae Ineis
have been instances where the arrest o. eivipn' n
been attended with circumstances OF harshpess "a
Of 80 few. taking them altoeetheri .o,
Much eloauence was wasted during tho last sts.o
Of Congress la showing how rapidly se were o'n,S
toward imperial cove nment and trampiing uo ~ ~;
ties OF the people In the dust But stranger a -
no one rose in his psce to rectc the long cstnos
outrageous schemes for plundertng the Treasury
exharsting the financial strength Of the Governnt"
its moment Of peril There was no one 10 say nov "
brave sons and brothers have been sent 10 the n'u
rotten clothing to sleep under tmsy tents ron ux
selves in shoday blankets mount on worthless, oses
horses eat decayed provisions and even 60 70 pa'
with arms that would not shoot There was no ono
say how Government had been made TO take D! ~.
hundred thousand pairs, shoes for IFS soldiers VIII ~"
6lled with chips or glued 90 the "uprersi NO o.c "
alI these over-sealous Legislators to say VINO -,
countabe for the lives Of soldiers shipped ON i"'
transports TO find death in the midst OF names, W
ma ke their last bed at the bottom OF the sea- non
point the finger Of scorn at men high IN piaee i""f
the wealth wrang from their easpirg country ,,ir>
There are two sides 90 every question snu. AZ "a,
Of far play We want 10 some committee OF L.
gress-carIng more for the genera good tnan III III,
own selfish or political intcrests-invesugate ms ihs
ter of frauds We have rolled mp an enormous w.
that wc and our cbildrcn's children VIII have 10
the sweat Of our brows. The country wants 10 huo.'
We know we speak A, least the sense Of the sold es
Of Boston" in saving that the ioycrnnient nave '
sympath:es and will have their moral hs'p. III -
Legitimate efforts ~ investigate abuses ana Oring tue
f many Of the United States Courts are so bur
deneJ " I'M routine business and lie new cases arising
n OF the Revenue laws. that II 10 next 70
mrnssible 10 get criminal case tried without gleat
delay The effect Of such policy as that proposal "
certain members during tho last session OF Congress
In rsyersing tho action in oil tried before the
military tribunals and handing them over to the cnh
authority for trial would be to insgrc the escape oi 10
cnurs from punishment ~ any kind and thus oii"F
urenium to puiess !i'os'cn nrnte'ipi, HFr"~