Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1869-01-19
NUMBER E1lSYzaa'


~ posseesion Oh the Government, if anv
newspaper, like the Journal OF this 'city =
recognized as an organ Of the do5muinDant
party, had charged upon its party leaders. .iA1
and those who hold Office, that they We're IS
orrnpt ignorant thievish, and given eyi- g
ideneei of the truth OF the assertion, that
lsimple fact would have hurled them from adfsf
power. zAnds yet 5the Journal charges fts
own party friends with 6 wasting and steal.
ing more money, during the past year affnfDa In
consequences of dishonestaand sfncapable
officials, than would pay the ciyil expenses sa =
Oh the Government for four years. y For
four years past, -aceoidI6g I'd GRsEEii,E y,ssr
Almanac, counting the expenses Of the %
present year, as the gamount is estimated
the civil tserviceha been within a fraction .
OF secenty-nine million dollars ISIS, ,955,963.f
top' without inciuding, as ought to be in
ciudeds the large amount paid for (dipto2 q
matte services abroad. This large amount,
tne journal admits, has been wasted or
stolen by its party frien ls, in one year
the thieves being still In Office and likely
20 remain.--and yet it falls upon the public !,
ear as q thing naturally to be expected.--, i,
The great masses of the people feel that
the days of honesty passed away with the
advent of Raiiealism to power-that now
Is the carnival of fascality, and they be-
lieve that honest men are .t tpoosweeriesa 10.
correctit.e 6. ulo7 a-1 itrs1 z. ~ IN,
During the administration of Mr. 5yas of
buren,, the defalcstion of SAMUEL SwARrl n
woUI, Collector Of the port Of NsN Yorker
was Dy the public at large, regarded as
crime SO uncommon and SO monstrops,
that it gave the name; of = slSsoarfaooutiagssnas
TO all Kinds OF peculation,s No DemoeratiS 100
press or politician defended the scamp Ssss ,ss,
who had thus proven faithless to his trust sss
but all denounced him. But times Esre ne
changed. Now stealing from Government 2
seems to be thing expected Of officials sni, u,
| and 1t is thus made fashionab Is nly onre5ao
in long time is it punished. .ssiiimmoa
One of the former editors of The Jour- 2
nal Quartermaster HURT, stole from the 10
soldiers and the Radical scamp was tried saw
found guilty, but not punishede ss15i1Gise sdt
W.. II. GIBSON was arrested, Indicted. e I.
tried, and by jury, one-half of them his, sas
own partisan friends, was ,foun1 guilty Off bs
ldeiraudlng the State Treasury, but instead hha
OF being sent to the PenitentiaFy,w was COM
4 piimented by commission Id the army
and was subsequently,, alter the indict,, y,
ment was noliied by an obliging .AttorneFes e
General, made candidate of his party for
Congress, and received the almost united DPS DPS
vote OF his party friends es,s - ~ = II
The journal admits its Radical oficialsv1ai
are thieves and blockheads-- that they lack
the three essential qualities of a6tzJ@ h0a-za
Festy and ezperfeace "-thatlin oneyear they 10
had stolen,itori wasted sum Of money
equal to seven times the entire State debt7K
Rof Ohio-six times as great as itIcoststozsdio
carry on the entire Government during tbs ~ %
/ administration of JOHN QuINcY AbAMs51- '''' IS
four times as much as the entire Lou,
isiana purchase cost the vast, terrf-,. I. = a.,
Etory extending. from the Mississippi TO mo
the Pacific. and we are to have four mors58I 6
tyearsl of suchs srule=-four more ears 4of sd1
sstealing at the rate OF over seventy u' "
million dollars pefIannuirl. SIT dkaA
Sucha statement as this of the Journal.
4 made by a prominent political organ OF II
either Of the great parties OF the eolintry,9I ID
ten years ago, before crime and coEfption sl.I u q
fhad crept into every branch of the, Cow, y.
ernments from the highest to the iowestinuo
ofacial, and before the public smiiid wssssssesT
stupefed or blunted by the frequent recnr- cur ~ ~
renee ofsuch things, tooazd haue e. efeatea,a :,
any party from ,ohich the dananiag facts euaa.
'seAse"t Hs Ue"soSt eOcIy dtO1cN 0RQ precinct
throughout our once favored land. But it is
easily iseen where we areslrifting wbshE Es14 y.
statements startling as this---.More stolen saT
IN in one year than would defray. the civil
expenses of the Government for four I'M
years " - true beyond te possibility OF qaea- m
ton ARE passed by as the idle wind, scarce sI9i
causing passing remark by tile large y SO
mass who are most Interested =, because 90 !
nearly all Of this money thus stolen il III
wrung from those wholabot andtoiloe 10 noii
In thebetter days Of our Republic, when 1sr,
men paid no taxes to ogeEpments sexcept liz :.
those paid for tariff duties, slich statesi1sl.
ment, if believed, that the men in office. y
were either, incompetent or Mererou ees. IL
would have produced a feeling that would daui
have driven any party from power Ia !
now, in these degenerate swhen, ,hon.5, "a a..
esty in public office is the exception and
the most arrant scoundrelism the ,rule.t,,.5
men, themselves honest, take, the factsas y br
matter OF course. 1t is no more than ought ss
to be expected, and ihenceE they exbress no
surprise and no grave displeasureasi s'inhsbnt
oHa for the swords of other osoIsnai3f -li1
'noe And' oh' Tor the men who wore them" .sss
,,sis son ---i-44--- -u-ss- Aasiaf5e aoe7"t1 II
y HE denominations exposed BY John How, :, ~
arg, IN Europe, IN the last century, DO lnet9s a
there is much room for improvement in sj,,e
the discipline of some of the State speni-a,s !.
tentiaries and county jaiTs.H In the New
YORK State prisons men are showered ,ihs
,,ts;ia ~ ueal anu ptnerwise torrureq,a no
manacled to the floor, fed on bread andtoa.s
water, and sometimes so tied down that
they had to stoop and feed as beasts.-Csn.
GdseHe. sa- ~ t5,o,ifY ssii fa45n5 ~ IcTf0 .7k
L The men Thus inhun,an1v trosf al ,,ra .fioit
iguilty oferime and, after trial were duly II
'sehIenceo.i9 ali "a 4ss : ssu5H sdi 70 Ist1s
n During the war, we well remember readg sac
ing of man, who, guiltless of zcrimeg and
only suspected of having knowledge which III