The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-01-21
The Physic Works.

| We think the country VIII gun luuCh w.
| of the Credit. MobiIicr corruptions. Public
dishonesty in the Transactions of that COM
nany affords sort of capital. Men who are
not !nculpated will improve the opportunity
| TO commend themselves in comparison with
| those who are, and the Federal Administers
ton naturally seeks to purge itself Of COM
pIcations with the guilty. The tendency of
the country is to corruption; but the expo
sures now being made will act as a break,
and impede the velocity Of the downward
course. ....., ...-.... s..a
The Republican party is not exclusively
involved in the "great scandal" Democrats
and Republicans are swallowed up by the
great crater. Mr.. Brooks, of New York, by
the testimony of both MoCoMB and DURAST,
is smartly inculpated. 1t is consolatory to
outsiders, especially in the South, who have
had no participation In power, and less, if
possible, in the profit OF Government per-
quisites. to see how the investigation is
pressed. The corruption Is sufficiently eX-
posed to induce ali that are innocent to press
it. They make q virtue Of it; and. as we
said Yesterday, the Federal Executive plainly
desires to clear its skirts. HARLAN, by try
ing to tackle on to General GRANT, and thus
lift himself out of the quicksaud, only pro-
vokes the attack Of the Administration jour
nails, and makes his exposure and condcm-
nation all the more certain.
We quoted yesterday from the Washing
ton Repu5lican-the Administration Or
gan-a sharp article on Mr.. HARLAN. That
gentleman, we said, was northern Metho-
dist preacher,-from Vermont we believe.
He is also the editor of the Chronicle, in
Washington, a paper which lie bought from
Colonel FoRNEy. The President is evidently
anxious to rid himself of any responsibility
for what the Chronicle may say, and the Re-
publican therefore pitches into the Rev. Mr..
HARLAN with evident delight. The Chro1,i-
Gle was at one time spoken of a. General
GRANTS organ; but the General has no idea
of being damaged BY any such relation to a
sheet issued by the corrupt senator and
preacher.
These facts are instructive and significant.
Nobody cares about the di+reputablc Senator
HARLAN; but everybody cares about the re-
latioH of the Executive Department to the
s,pndalous history Of the Credit-Mobilier.
Ii is in this view that we copy another par
| agraph from the Republican:
"Mr. Durant substantially testifes that he
did not care button about the Republican
party in Iowa. All that he wanted was to
see Mr.. Harlan in the Senate, and tlmt to
| that end he supported in one place Demo
crat as against a Republican, because, the
| presumption il, the Democrat would vote
| for Mr.. Harlan for the Senate. And Durant
| testihcS further that he Jumped the ten thou
| sand dollars given to Harlan with other eX-
| pcnsc; and had the entire amount paid in one
claim of three or four hundred thousand dol
| lars. So that, practically, the Union Pacific
railroad paid ten thousand dollars toward the
securing for Mr.. Harlan Of his present seat
| in the Senate Of the United States. That, ac-
| cording to the testimony thus far disclosed, is
| the long and the short of it. He is there be-
cause the Crelit-Mobilier Company placed
| him there. lie is there to do its bidding, as
Brooks contracted to do its bidding in the
House. We have no feeling whatever in this
matter, but it is high time that the democrat
ization and the corruption which seem to
| have set in should come to an end. As the
| New York Times said the day before ycster-
day. the Senate Of the United States Is de-
| generating and men are creeping into it as
the mere agents and servants of corrupt aud
selfish corporations, whose only object is to
rob and plumber the people. The great duty
before the country and before the Republic
can party is to drive those INSCRIPTIONS men
out, and punish them as they should be pun
ished. When our Legislatures become as
corrupt as were the Parliaments Of the Eng
lish tIameses-when men are bought and sold
day afer day-it is time to sink party names
and party fealty aud unite for the common
| good. The thieves and plunderers must be
dashed out of the capitol and made TO under
stand that they cannot shield themselves
under the cry Of either Republiclnism or OF
| Democracy. That is the great duty Of the
hour, let the blow fall where it may"
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