The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-05-09
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st y all the Jacobin newspapers and
j. leaders start out in full cry giving
eJ' ion to the pleasure they always en-
Joy wnen such a thing occurs. Week be-
fore last the Republican of this place, made
the announcement that a Democratic ex-
Trustee in this county, was a defaulter to
the amount of about two thousand dollars,
and that another was thought to be unable
to account for all the funds which had come
into his hands. As to the first, We deem
it but justice to state that the ex-Trustee
there was found in his hands about 81 500
which he was unable to pay. His securi-
ties, however, have advanced the money
for him, and he has amply secured them
from loss. We know nothing of the other
case mentioned by our neighbor, and there
may CT may not, have been just grounds
for the charge contained in the Republican.
1t is gratifying in these degenerate times
to know that the Democracy are so gener-
ally honest that an occasional dcreliction
from duty is sure to create universal sur
prise and call forth the ready censure of
radicals. On the other hand radicals by
the hundreds may fail to account for the
money coming into their official hands, and
neither the leaders nor the press of that
party think it worth while to mention the
matter. We presume the reason is that
fraud, official corruption, peculation in ev-
cry conceivable way, s~windling and down
right embezzlemeI.t nave become SO COM
mon among Jacobins as to create no sur
prise in the public mind.
Many hundreds of God and morality
members of the party claiming to be "found-
ed on a great moral idea," and standing
$50 near the veil which divides this from
the spirit world, that they can almost hear
the whisperiLgs of the Infinite" and at
the same time have been engaged in the
nefarious business of robbing the Govern
ment which they protested to serve, and
preying on the funds committed TO their
trust. How many thieves and robbers
there are in the several departments of the
Government, God only knows. Doubtless
they may be numbered by the thousand
and tens of thousands. Notwithstanding
all this, radical JAcobins have the hardi-
hood to attempt to injure the Democratic
party, because, forsooth, it happens to con-
tain { man here and there, who, unmindful
of his official duties, uses in private transac-
tions the public funds, and fails to account
for or pay them over when demanded
We arc not the apologists for any man who
pursues such a course, whether he be a
member of one party or another, but we
think it comes with a bad grace from radi-
cal Republicans, having SO many thieves
and plunderers in their own party, when
they make a greet hue and cry about a
single failure made by a Democrat, A
faithful record of the theiving, plumber
ing, pecllating, r9bbing, cotton stealing
Government swindling, negro cheating
widow and orphan expressing operations Of
the party in power during the last six years
would astonish even the old Harry himself
That record will, perhaps, some time be
made. The materials for its compilation
already exist, and some man will probably
undertake the work. There is one obsta
Gle, however, in the way of the success o.
whoever undertakes it: no mortal man will
live long enough to complete it. 1t would
if correctly aud fully accomplished, require
a hundred large volumes to contain the
facts without any embellishments.