The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-29
THOSE TELL-TALE LETTERS.

! The publication Of the letters Of Benjamin r.
r.,tler to Kellogg, and Of the evidence from Kel-
loggs check book that Senator Matt Carpenter
was IN hequent receipt from him Of large sums Of
money, furnishes shameful proof Of the decadence
OF honesty among public men in this country. II
is humiliating and disgraceful exhibition and
if it does not send bo.h of the political tricksters
and demagosues to coventry" it will be be
cause the decadonce Of morality is not confined to
Congress but extends to the people.
1t is idle to say that these men had the right to
appear before the Supreme Court Us presenta-
tives OF Kellogg, and to accept large feos from
him Tor services thc:e rendered or to asse TT that
this action and those fees in no wise compro-
missed them or influenced their course
It is idle to claim that Mr.. Carpenter could
plead for Mr.. Kellogg before the Supreme Court,
and then, while ths payment Of his foe was in
allegiance, enter the Senate and sit in judgment
on the case Of the People Of Louisiana vs.. Kellogg
with unbiased mind and clean hands,
His most brilliant flights Of oratory. his fercest
invectives must have been more or loss in
duenced by the thought that if he overdd the
matter Kellogg might not come down hand
somely and promptly. Taere must have always
owed him large sum of Money, and that rcco!-
lection must, in the very naa,rc Of things, have
influenced his actions if not hH Judgment.
Bon Butler Gid not appear before the Supreme
Court, but acted as advisory coul.cl, for which he
demanded the sum Of $4,000.
OF course, SO insignificant a stm could not
have influenced that pink OF moral perfection,
but it would have been curious 10 wasch the ex-
preston Of Ben's strabismcai countensnce had a
messenger handed him a check from Kellogg for
those 5000, just as he was sailing into tho usur
patton in his own puffy md peculiar way.
In regard to Carpenter, it has always been
therefore, stated that his fee for services to Kel-
logg before the Supreme Court was $500, where. |
as there is evidence in the captured documents
OF his having received $500 from kellogg, which
for.
His captured but rep1lblished letter, duunin |
Kellogg for money, exhibits him in very unfa
vorable light, to say the least
The point about the whole matter is just rlis
hesc two en-, Butler and Carpenter, while sit
ing as judges in the Louisiana case, have de-
handed money from the usurping. Governor, OF
hc ground of services rendered by them in the
supreme Court, at the inception OF the trouble,
md We claim that this fact is, in ITSELF not only
but odn.ning
Caleb Gushing is exhibited IN a. attitude which
9 Simply pusianimous. He was the secret at
orney for both parties and received money from
10Th. That settles Caleb, and we drop him.
It is gratifying to know that the publication of
he captured correspondence il the New York
Tribune, has created profound impression
forth and Wsst-the Western papers having
'een telegraphed them in full from the Tribune.
The remarkable enterprise and judicial fairness
Exhibited by the Tribune ia the Louisiana case is
Torthy Of Gil praise. Il has led the entire press
t the North and West handsomely.