Centre Hall reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1868-1871, 1871-01-20
The Moral Degradation of the GOV.
ernmeat IN the Hands OF 0cs'
Grant.

Grants adMMIstpNliah Ia a failure,
II " wut Neven than that--it has low
cred us in the estimation of other pco
pies, aud brought the blush of shame
upon the cheek OF every American
citizen. This is not alone the tcstI'
mony of the democratic press, hut al'
most every prominent leader of the
radical party, aud many ofthe leading
radical journals, upon the moral dcgrH'
dation the country has suffered under
imhecility of the Grant regime
Grant has now got into bitter quarrel
with Motley, American minister To
England, end double'dyed radical
Sumner, Schurz, and other radical
leaders, are dsnouncing his imbecility,
as we have already shown in the Rs
PORTER. to all of which we may add
another sample, from the N. Y. sun,
edited hy Chas. A, Dana, asstant sec
ratary of war under Lincoln, and new
er anything but stern opponent Of the
democratic party. In his issue of the
llth inst, he says;
Il is surprising how little indigna'
tion is excited in the country by the
degraded moral tone which Gen.
Grant has introduced into the conduct
of the national Government. He has
appointed men to the highest places
for the sole reason that they have Civ
en- him presents he has conferred up
on his own and his wife's relations ev-
cry post of power and emolument in
10 which they could be crowded-all
without any regard TO their fitness or
unfitness; and he has kept Bancroft
Davis, the bribe taker, in one of the
most important offices of his Admins
tration for nearly year after the
Legislature of Massachusetts had
, proved and published the fact that he
bad taken bribe Of sixty thousand
dollars to betray his constituents and
defraud his clients. This Is not dis
puted il cannot be the evidence i:
irresistible and il stands among tnt
authentic public documents Of Massa'
chusetts. Davis has not attempted tC
deny it or to palliate it any manner
The fact is confessed the iniquity i
: brazeu and Gen. Grant gives il hi
, approval and makes it his own BY
keeping in high station the man o
: whom such things are known to b
true. And such is the tyranny of tn
, party that even men like Henry VIII
son, Charles Sumner, and George w
Curtis, who especially represent tn
conscience of the Republican body
view this fact with silent acquies
cence.
This is a state of official morals ney
er before witnessed in our country
Q There never before was Il Presiden
{ who would have thought for mo
I ment o; retaining in a place of homo
man who had been proved capabl
of betraying the most solemn trus
: for a bribe. There is not to-da,
! in all Christendom a public man VIII
: will stand up in the face of the worl'
4 and openly attempt TO defend the re
! tention of such person in Office
IL was reserved for Gen Grant thu
: to bid defiance at once TO the publi
y conscience and to political expediency
: Poor, infatuated, foolish man prefer
ring to heap useless favors upon ont
proved 10 be a bribe>taker, rathe
than to gain for himself the respec
a aud confidence of those who esteem
$ honesty and fidelity as indispensable
requisites for the exercise Of autEorit,
in republican government