The Lincoln County herald., 1871-03-30
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Opisions differ with regard 70 The u.il.
ity Of prlsons. And the prospsets are
that, u6dk oentinusses Of OF presen.
enlighssnsa rule. ws shalI dispsose with
prisons altogether. and send out malsfac.
tosa ~ tAs Common Couaeil, OF ,ths Leg
islature % reward Of msrit.--Nsw York
tTimes -hspublican M W{Rfk'
Or to the White House and Congress,
| whore there ID most viilainous crowd
Of "male6cters."
| FofemSst smong them is President
Graut, Republican, . nsn with On itchinR
palm, who has accepted bribss openly,
and cold the Offices 81 his disposal, from
Cabinet Minister down, for any price that
he could obtain. Senator Sumner, .
Republican leader, maintains that Grant
ought to be impeached and removed for
crimes. aud misdsmeanors. soe diDoH
Thon comes Postmaster General Crss.
we'll, Republican and member of Grants
Cabinet who connived, through his
''pardner," TO cheat the Government out
Of . couple Of thousand dollars in the
notorious Chorpenning csse. 5-
Ex.Secretary Borie then comes along
mumbling with ex. Attorney. General Hoar
aud Supreme Court Judge Bradley about
the libraries, villas st Long Branch, and
other "aziugs" that gos them their
places. .sll
Nex. We And Simon Cameron, of
Pennsylvania, the greatest corruptionist
10 the United States. This man was dis.
missed from Lincoln's Cabinet for cheat.
ing, but he has been selected BY Presi.
dent Grant to succeed Mr.. Sumner Is
Chairman Of the Senate Committee Of
Foreign Affairs.
Butler next comes squirting along.
This man does not pretend to be honest,
but he is Grants chief adviser, and .
leader Of the Republican party. lie is a
vile spoon thief, and has mental and
moral obliquity that seems to oonfound
all moral distinctions between right and
wrong. He does not know the meaning
Of the word principle" and is q political
blackleg and scoundrel of the 6rst water.
We next end in the list Of Republican
Legislators Roderick Random Butler, the
pension forger from Tennessee Bowen,
the bieamist from Carolina Pig iron
Kelley, from Pennsylvania; Nye Of Me-
vads, chequred lively rascal, who has
contrived to substitute brass for brains,
and who has % little principle as Ben
Butler, without any Of his cheek. Then
We End host Of Carpet. Bag legislators
and monopolists who are always on the
make, and clamoring for laws that will
enrich them at the expense Of the people.
General Howard, the pious Radical
Brigadier, speculates in rotten granite, and
requires periodical coats of whitewash to
cover up his illegal appropriations Of
public money for private use.
Next We observe Indian Commissioner
Parker, . member of Grants military
family" with tho Quakers indignantly
pceling of the Congressional whitewash
that covered up his infamous extortions
on "poor Lo."
Then what is 10 be said Of the crowd Of
Republican Governors and Carpet Bag
officials and legislators who have been
caught IN the very act Of stealing. But
Ter, Of Nebraska, stole the State money,
and is now under trial for IL. Bullock
of Georgia. has swindled bis State out of
millions Of money. Holden. of North
Csrolins, is under impeachment for off
cial rascality. There is not Southern
State that has not been reduced to bank
ruptcy by the corruption Of thei. Carpet
Bag officials.
Coming nearer home, we find the
whole country ringing with Senator
Feuton's exposure of New York Custom
house rascality. Collector Murphy is a
Repu blican, who trains that institution
for the personal benefit Of General Grant
Yet it is q nest Of corruption, and Mr..
Fenton has no language adequate to de-
scribe the vcnality Of the officials.
Our city has not yet recovered from the
idignation caused by Unitod States Mar
shal Sharpe's appointment Of prison birds
and scum as election marshsls last fall.
Ex-Collcctor Bailey, Republican,
swindled tho Government out Of hundreds
Of dollars. a.r
Sickles, the United States Minister to
Spain, is an uupunished assassin.
It was. even necessary to suppress the
Honorable Horace Greeley and the Re-
publican General Committee of this city
for their corruption aud treachery to the
party they pretended to represent.
There is not . jail in the United States
largo enough to contain "the malefactors"
Of the Republican party. r7s7
The difference between the Democrats
and the Republican, seems to be that the
former send their "malefictors" to Black.
wells Island and Sing Sing; while The
latter All the White House, the Supreme
Court, the Cabinet. Congress, the State
government, and the Custom house and
other Offices with those blsokguards and
windlers.-N. Y. Democrat.