The Sumter watchman. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1855-1881, 1870-02-23
Gilman
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hAER .. CADEEsHxDs.
Sgtnphtc dispa.ch 10 tho Charles.
S9 lasses, Of Saturday last, under date
esihisgsop, Feb. 1S, is as follows :
Capgressmsn Whittemore is pinned
Sine. An original letter, written
81 him, was produced before the Mill.
254Ssf Conmittee to-day, in which letter
IS35H Hkittcplote offers to sell his Wost Point
M SdstShip for Eve hundred dollars."
ss . notice that this matter of sale Of
4 Csdstships has gotten into the columns
spf fsihe press, North and South, and is
ssureatiDg considerable stir-even the
3 4 Republican journals are raising a cry
Cover. it. The New York Tribune,
ssfss taken up the matter, aod has the
sfSilowing in regard to the particular
sscase Of "our honorable representative: $"
st - II appears that at last the Military
T sConiinittee Of tho House have discover
.scd one Congressman who has been
Offering for sale c West Point cadetship.
( Wo.grieve to say that he represents the
State Of South Carolina, and that, not
many years ago, he was citizen IF New
/ York: 1t is to be hoped that lie may
s-be able to dsprove the disgracefuI
scharge brought against him but il the
case is clearly made out, not day should
1 ibe lost 10 cxpelling him from the body
which he has disgraccd."
4 But little while ago, in the midst
of,hc taror Incident to "rcconstructiug"
Z the South-when some Of these carpet
baggers were working themselves into
,the good graccs Of the colored people,
BY their lying harangues aud empty
promises, tor the purpose Of extending
the Radical machinery, so as to control,
for ",hc party Of morcl ideas" the po-
litical power Of the South, and, more
especially aud particlarly tor the pur-
pose Of filing their own pockets with
rluuder, SO small thing as the sale Of
a cadctship would uot have been no
,ticcd. Legitimate business! they would
hive said to each other.
I'hen, the voice Of truth, and the
proclamation Of facts in connection with
the bluckeucd history Of these advcn.
turers-thc slough of Northern com.
munitics-was lost in tho din of
exultant shouts and hallelujahs over
failcu..and impoverished rebels, and the
establishment of the Kingdoms Of
Radicalism in their stead. 1t was oil
/. put down to the malignity Of disap.
pointed rebels. And SO, the most
: corrupt charactcrs-thosc of whom, in
exposition, tho most was said in the
public prints, from tho very notoriety
thus given, were enabled, in the outset,
to climb up to the highest places.
Then, when the wilhcriny and blight
ing truth of MIR. Whittemorc's Boston
antccedcnts, and other littlo "games"
and "practiccs" Of his (some Of them
perPctrated on his own party, hcrc) was
published, and his attention was called
thereto, By some Of the more honest and
respectable Of his party, ooh" says he,
"let'am blow it ont and be donc-it will
all amount TO nothing" And. then, to
himself: "Well, these things are leak
ing out to damaging extent, but I'll
keep silcnce-,ho,'s my policy-put on
my dignity and assume silent contempt"
: Buta day OF more calmncss aud rcacc
,ion has come, and tho Republican purity
begins to find il necessary to purge
itself. 1t has too much dead weight to
carry. And now the Republican press,
with the Tribune in the lead, even talks
about the expulsion Of these characters
from Congress. What will Mr.. White
more now say? Continue his "silcnco"
and "digni'y" policy? Methinks he
will hear voice, issuing out from the
ranks Of his own party, aud touching these
things, pointing him to the hand writing
on the wall. And since "sicncc, that
dreadful bell" be his policy, let eternal
silence be his doom"
We hail all this as the coming of
better day. Men SO corrupt cannot con.
.tinuo TO occupy the high places of the
country. There must and will be
unity of all honest clcmcnts to drive
them out.
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