The Republican journal., 1871-01-26
PAPER CREDITS.

We publish to-day an abstract of the rev.
Citations m ade by the commissioners appoint
ed to investigate the paper credit iniquities.
disreputable character, the reader cannot
avoid the belief that great deal is yet con-
cealed, which in all human probability will
never see the light of day. just enough is
revealed to make the reader long to see the
whole record, and then to have the backs of
the rogues exposed, and a lash in the hand
of every honest man.
What shameful record of corruption is
brought out! 1t reaches througha long list of
cormorant brokers and middlemen, through
all grades of the State service, away to
Washington, where its influence and power
were felt even at the foot of the throne ITSELF
1t had power enough to remove an Assistant
Provost Marshal General, who resisted the
scheme, and to put in his place plant tool
OF the ring, who doubtless for consideration
lent his official sanction to the plan. Frye,
the Provost Marshal General, at Washington,
teathered his nest nicely in this loyal bust
ness. One witness testifies that he paid him
$4,000 for his little services And SO the
strand OF rottenness runs all through the Of
fetal action, state and national.
If it were possible to single out any one
from this odoriferous crowd, whose rotten
ness assails the nostrils with special stencil,
it would probably be the man Farwell, who as
late as one year ago, was thought to be q fit
representative of Augusta radicalism in the
Legislature, and candidate for Speaker.
His sworn testimony, as recorded by the re-
port, is of the most variegated kind. He swore
that he had commission and that he hadn't
He swore that the men COST him 5000 each,
and that they cost him 800 each-that they
were in the navy and then that they were in
the army. In short, his oaths, like the bull
lets in bad target practice, seem to have
struck all around the truth, and new er hit it.
AS brilliant and ornamental swearist, prob
ably Farwell has not been exceeded since the
days of Titus Oates.
We notice the leading radical papers are
again endeavoring to smooth over this ugly
business, with the specious plea that nobody
is to blame in the matter. Nobody to blame I!
Over halt million of dollars deliberately
robbed from the people of the State, by
bandits leagued under the pretences of 10y
atty and patriotism, and nobody to blame I!
1t may be that there is no remedy. 1t is pos
sible that the rascals have so cunningly
masked their faces, and covered their foot
prints, that the robbery cannot be brought
home to them with the certainty demanded
by criminal prosecution. But because the
thieves cannot be convicted for lack of iden-
tity, that the shameless robbery is therefore
to pass for mere carelessness, slight indis-
erection, is not the view to be taken by the
people of Maine. When an act of the kind,
in the affairs of the state Or in matters of less
magnitude, is known to have been done, and
there IS lack of proof for legal purposes
public opinion locates the guilt, and almost
always with unerring certainty. Public
opinion lays the odium of these transactions
on the republican party, whose officials and
leaders held the bayonets of power to the
Threats of the people, while they robbed
them of their substance, and cried traitor to
every one who demurred