Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-03-01
From the Baltimore Gazette.
The Record Of RadicaI RaacaIifY.

AS the Republican leaders have, for
years, been in the habit of claiming for their
party the popular confidence, not only ON
the ground Of its immaculate loyalty, but
also because of its superior morality and
official integrity, it may not be amiss, at
this tim1, to take a glance at its record
That record must necessarily be very i'm
perfect, because much has been covered up
which may never now see the light, and
what is really known falls far short of what
has been stated on the floor of Congress,
and on tie authority of the Civil Service
Commissioners, and Of Special Commits
siOner Wells. These gentlemen have affirmed,
and their statement has been cOTObOrated
by members of Congress, that, of the gross
amount of Revenue collected annually, at
least onc-fOurth fails to reach the Treasury.
If this be true, the yearly loss to the Treas
ury from this source alone is more than
hundred million Of dollars. Throwing
aside, however, all cases in which the
statements, though worthy Of credence,
are Generalized and vague, and taking no
account Of the moneys paid by the lobby
to members Of both Houses of Congress, or
Of the profits derived by some of the latter
from Indian Contracts and Land Grants,
and coming down simply to the record Of
Republican rascality, as published from
day to day in the columns OF newspapers,
the exhibit is startling.
Taking, tiIst Of all. the Republican record
in the Southern States, We find that the
debts OF those States have been increased
by waste, extravaganza and downright
fraud, over two hundre millions of dollars,
and that there is scarcely a Republican
Governor i'll that section Of the Union who
has not been guilty Of high crimes and mis-
demeanOrS. Bullock, of Georgia, and Hol-
den, Of North Carolina, are both Of them
fugitiVes from Justice. Scott, Of South
Carolina, hiss just escaped impeachment b.
a trick. Reed, of Florida, is now under
Impeachment. Davis, OF Texas, is under
Indictment in the Circuit Count Of the
United States for tampcring with the cleo
ton returns, Clayton, OF Arkansas, now
the Senator from that State, has been con-
victed before a committee Of Congress Of
bargain and corruption, and Yarmouth, OF
Louisiana, is accused Of similar practices
by the opposition wing Of the Republican
party in that State.
The dOings of Casey, the Collector of
Customs at New Orleans, and the brother
in-law Of General Grant, are well-known.
SO are the charges Of fraud i'll war contracts.
and of bribery and corruption i'll manipu-
lating the Syracuse Convention that have
been preferred against Murphy, but re-
Gently Collector Of Customs at New
York. The monopoly of the general Or
der business in the same city, by Leet and
Stocking, the extOrtions they practiced,
the profits they made, and their intimate
relations with Gen. Grant, and his
military secretaries, have also Just been
made public through the reports Of the
Senate Investigating Committee. The pre-
amble and resolution of Mr.. Sumner in re-
latiOn to the sale of ordinance stores to
France, the agency of Federal officials in
the manufacture Of cartridges by the Uni
ted States Government for the arms SO sold,
and the discrepancy of four millions of dol
lars between the amount paid by the French
Government and the amount paid into the
United States Treasury, have been made
the subject of discussion in the Senate for
the past two days.
Coming down now to individual cases, a
mere act Of memory recalls the names Of
Blatchford, of the New York Custom
House, a defaulter for nearly a million of
dollars Hodge, paymaSter at Washing
ton, for all amount ranging from four hun
drefi thousand to a million; johnson and
Marden, defaulters IN the Treasury Depart
ment two defaulters in the General Post
Office Department, both of whom were al
legged to be insane a defaulter in the New
\ Ork Post Office, whose :" irregularities "
amounted to about hundred thousand
dollars the case of Roderick Random But
Ter, who was tried on the charge of forging
pension papers, and the recent case of
Stokes, of Tennessee, who has been con-
vtcted of defrauding the Treasury of a large
sum of money on spurious war claims. To
these the New Y ork Journal OF Commerce,
of yesterday, adds the following
Treasurer Blakely, of Santa Cruz
county, California, who claimed to have
been robbed Of county funds by masked
men, has been held to trial for robbing the
county himself. Marshall Laws, accused
of stealing money from letters in the
Boston Post Office, has given bail of
$4,000 to answer in March. G. w.
White, deputy postmaster at Barnesville,
Va, has been arrested for robbing mails.
James NJ. Blackburn, clerk of the United
States Circuit and District Courts at Gov
irgton, is in custody on the charge of mis-
appropriating $4,000 Of the government
funds, and not being able to raise $4,000
bonds, has been thrown into jail. James
Biggs, late United States deputy marshal at
COvington, is held to answer for 5000
deficit in his accounts. Mercer, the Phill-
delphia country treasurer, and his accom-