The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-02-20
The Country Calls for Examples.

FlCE to winch the paper is Sent.-AH
The Country Calls for Examples.
The defence Of ColtaN. which we pub
| ished last week, was not complete, as
owing to its great length the telegraph
| did not transmit il in full 1t seems that
| he claims to have received a $1,000 green
| back in a letter from Geo. F. Nesbtt Of
New York, to aid him in carrying Indiana.
| in 1853 also 5000 from his tathor-in-law
These two sums he deposited, he says
and at once bought a check for $1,000
which he sent to Indiana. Mr.. Nesbitt is
| not now living-so that this bit of evil
dence is sustained by the alleged Gift of q
dead man, and the payment of 5000 by q
! tatherin law which two sums make up
the amount of deposit 50 clearly proven on
| the day that Mr. Ames claims to have
swears he didn't receive This is piece
of evidence which wouldn't pass muster
in country Justice trial. and bears very
! plainly the impress of manufacture for the
| occasion. II is openly secuted by some
Of the leading administration papers
There is no escape from the conclusion
| that Coltax is a disgraced mana conclu-
sion that would be but little stronger if
| that terrible Ames should now produce a
| Al.
| whole transaction
! This bad emincnce i. not reached by
| the Vice President alone, The transac-
| ton between Ames and Patterson, of New
Hampshire, is not only as full OF guilt,
| bnt the affair seems to have been \ hiltles
sword that has wounded the one Who
wielded it. If Ames swears truly he cor
| rupted Patterson with his bribing Gifts,
| And yet last June during the Presiden-
tial canvass. Anes wrote a letter, which
| Patterson now produces, declaring that
| all the transactions between the two were
| honest and honorable! Both cannot be
true. In one case or the other Ames is 4
taIstier. In convcting the others, he
| convicts himself twice over.
| The eases of Brooks. Wilson, Garfield.
| Kelley and the rest are little or no better.
| Senator Harlan is convicted of receiving
| $4,000 from the President of the Pacific
road, ostensiby TO aid his election. bal
| Harlan, under oath before the committee
can give no account of the disposition he
| made Of the money. This creates a slls-
picion, amounting to certainty, that the
money was really bride.
| Following these comes the conviction
| OF Pomeroy, in bribing his way into the
United States Senate, and the parallel
| case Of Senator Caldwell And the end
is not yet. Another investigation is going
on, in which a New York broker charges
that he paid to Judge Sherman, brother
OF Senator Sherman, the sum of $4,000
for his influence in the Senate, and that OF
| Garfield in the House, for the repeal Of
the law taxing bankers and brokers. TC
clinch the charge, 4 letter from Judge
Sherman is shown, going into the particu-
lars of the whole corrupt bargain.
These matters are bad enough, but they
are believed by those conversant with the
secret ways of officials at Washington tc
be but q small part OF The terrible corrup-
ton that testers and fattens at the capital
| Certain it is that enough has been proven
| and laid bare to sicken any man having a
spark OF honor or patriotism III his breast
And it is equally certain that but one sale
| course is before Congress, which is tC
expcl every representative and Senator
whose guilty fingers have touched these
debasing bribes. There is no other course
| having in 1t the least element OF safety
That these men should stand up and seek
to defend themselves is preposterous. IN
stead of hlggling, and toying and palter-
ing with corruption, and at last embrac-
ing it, their bounden duty was to have
risen in their places and denounced both
| the bride and the briber
II these men escape, after their crime
has been so blazoned to the world, it will
be a national disgrace. Thieves in all
future Congresses will take new courage
and fresh audacity. Forgers, defalcators,
embezzlers, and all grades of kindred
| criminals will consider themselves made
| respectable. LaWlesSneSs, encouraged by
the example of that high tribunal, will
hold up its brazeE head, and stare honesty
out of countenance. On the other hand,
let this shameful example in high places
meet with the rebuke that it deserves, and
| from that day the official atmosphere to
purified, and the standard of morality
elevated--vice will sling to its dens, and
official positions will seek purer and bet
ter men. The country will gain immensely
by the act.
| s. l.. Boardman, the new Secretary of
the Board of Agriculture, writes to the
| Waterville Mail that the statements thai
he was elected in any wrongful manner
are untrue. We really wish somebody
who knows about this matter would rise
and explain it. And we will here say
| that no comments which we have made
upon the matter were intended to disnar-