Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-06-04
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in Congress, greater than others,
IL Is the atrocious action had with
reference to Georgia. This State
had been restored to ell her rights,
was equal 70 all the other States,
her forms Of local law had been
accepted, her officers had been re-.
cognized, every form and require
ment complied with, and she was
as fully a part of the sisterhood
as New York, Pennsylvania, or
any Of those States, and yet she
was forcibly Invested of all her
rights, stripped of her power, and
reduced again to a state of militia.
ry vassa.age. For what was this
done: To accomplish certain par
tizan purposes, and to accomplish
the ambitious and mercenary mo-
tiyes of certain Radicals who
could command influence and
money for bribery. 1t is thus the
Augusta Chronicle treats of the
action of Governor Bullock
in this transaction, and the
means he used to accomplish his
purposes. Says the Chronicle:
In his examination before the
Senate Investigation Committee,
Bullock stated that the whole
amount he expended in his efforts
70 defeat the Bingham amend
ment, beticeea the 9TH Of March
and The 30th Of April, was FOUR.
TEEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOL.
LARS, being an average Of TWO
HUNDRED AND SIXTY DOLLARS PER
DAY. Ii we are not mistaken,
Bullock went to Washington last
fall and spent money quite freely
in procuring the passage of the
bill under which the Legislature
was convened and purgcd by
Terry in January, He also went
to Washington and spent much
time and money, if report be true,
between the last of January and
the 9th of March. How much he
squandered on these occasions
may be we'll imagined when, by
his own testimony 1t appears that
his expenditures amounted to the
enormous sum Of too hundred
and sirty dollars per day during
the period to which his statement
referred.
1t is a question of much i'm
portance to the robbed and op.
pressed people Of this State, to
ascertain from what source those
vast supplies were obtain
ed. Bullock himself is wholly
bankrupt, or at least has no visible
means nor any income, so far as
the public knows, except the sal
airy of his Office, $4,000 a year.
The wing Of the Radical party in
this State, to which he belongs, is
composed of a set of impecuneous
carpet-baggers and broken down
scallawags, who never had means,
money, character, or position.
These could not have supplied
the vast sums which, according to
Bullock's own statement, he ex-
pended at and around Washing.
ton. The only men in the Repub-
lican ranks in this State who have
money, or brains, or social posi-
ton are opposed to Bullock's and
Blodgett's schemes, and hence
they could not have supplied
any portion OF the funds so Law
lshly squandered.
The conclusion is inevitable,
from q careful examination Of the
whole matter, that Bullock drew
and used money for the unlawful
and corrupt purpose Of infuenc.
ing legislation against the inter
est Of the people of the State with
their own money, which, by virtue
of his own Office and position, he
was enabled to control through
the agency of the Georgia Ma
tional Bank.
W. do not believe that there is
q man or woman, of ordinary in
telligence, in the State, who does
not feel assured that the money Of
the State has been used by Bullock
in the corrupt and unlawful manner
which his evidence before the COM
mittee shows to havebeen true
Every member OF Congress must
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