The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-07-25
.SO,tltd TAX from a. Republican
Newspaper.

One of the most cheering signs of
better dav dawning in political moral
itv is the outspoken honesty of many
of the great Republican journals of the
country in regard to official corrup-
tion, 1t is true, and as lamentable as
true, that some of the smaller fry of
Radical journals conceive it to be their
duty to defend or gloss over rascality
when perpetrated by Republican of
fetal, but that is not the case with the
better class of newspapers of that par
tv. The Chicago Tribune, a Repub-
lican journal, thus comments upon the
case of the Christian Soldier" Gen
eral Howard:
''Gen. Howard has been President of
the University, and during the last five
years has been extremely liberal towards
it, making donations of large sums of his
own money. Though nOminally President,
he has been absent from the city, and on
that account has declined any salary. he
Gently some ore has obtained access to the
records and found that, on motion of SEN
ator Pomeroy, one of the Trustees, large
sums of ''back pay have been voted the
General. The recent exhibit made by
Fred Douglass denies vehemently that any
money was paid him that he had not
earned On comparing the list of dOna-
tiOns made by Gen. Howard with the
money voted to him for service never rem
dered, they correspond so nearly that ii
/ indicates that what he gave with one hand
/ he got back in the other, and that, while
! enjoying the reputation and glory of hb-
eral benefactOr to the University, he was
receiving quietly from the institution
. sum equal to his gifts. His list OF dona-
tions foots up $4,000, and his receipts
/ $17. .5S3 so he is at this time S677 ahead
IL is curious thing, also, that while Sen
ator Pomeroy was, as Trustee, voting away
the money of the institution to Genera
| Howard, the latter, as a Christian of es
| tablished reputation, was certifying TO the
people of Kansas that Pomeroy was one
of the purest and most exemplary Chris
tian statesmen in the land, and that Kan
sas and the whole country would suffer
greatly should his piety and his example
I TO the rising generation be withdrawn from
( the Senate. About the same time, Rev
| DIR. Newman was certifying to the Metho
[ dist clergymen of Iowa, a like characte
for Brother Harlan, and begging them t.
| see that the recipient of Durant's CHECK
! for so, 600 was reelected to the Senate
! We do not desire to question Gen. How
ards honesty, or his piety, or his Christian
rectitude, but we think it is his misfOr
tune that these things are forever pushed
| before the public, and insisted upon as
! complete answer to unsettled accounts anC
full answer to apparent deficit. 1t is hi
misfortune that the squad of men at Wash
ingtOn who made n trade of their religion
professions have been unmasked and ex
posed as hypOCrites. These men, with O
without his consent, have always included
General Howard in their list of unusuall
righteous and VIGOROUSLY Christian cOad
tutors. They have worn the cloak of re
lgiOn to hide their enormities, and nov
Gen. Howard has, from association, t.
bear the suspicion which attaches to tha
whole brood of trailickers in Christian pro
fession. 1t may be set down as general.
true, that any man who frequently make
public parade of his Christianity is a ras
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