The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1874-10-01
More Of it.

So long us the men now at W Washington
are permitted to hold power, SO long
doubtless will the public be treated to
revelations of their incredible corruption.
Salary grabbing, Credit Mobilier swind-
les, and every device by which a people
can be robbed are as common as the sun
rise. The connection of certain men at
Washington, prominent in these iniqui-
flies, with the disagreement of Louisi-
ana, has been long suspected but the
positive proof that the northern leeches
were actually sucking the blood of the
people there was never got at until the
late revolution expo sed the state archives
We give in another column the letters
there found They bear the proof OF the
worst that has been charged. In order
to keep themselves in power, the scoun-
drels in Louisiana had to concliate certain
scamps at Washington, and therefore di-
vided with them the plumber. 1t will sur
prise some that Caleb Gushing is found
to be among these. But if he had nothing
better to do than to employ his time and
talents in supporting and wishing well to
such a miserable and disgusting usurpa-
ton as that Of the Kellogg government,
he must take the consequences. If he
makes his bed with Ben Butler. he must
share his taints
| What spectacle is it for the American
people, to behold the administration put
! ting forth all its warlike energies-with
troops marching, transports sailing, and
ships Of war anchoring before New Or
eanS-a!l ~ sustain this 1candalous rob
berry headed BY the Presidents brother
in-law in Louisiana, and Ben Butler at
Washington
| Criticisms upon this state Of things are
| by no means confined TO Democrats or
Democratic newspapers. The New York
Evening Post, one of the most able as well
as candid Of republican papers, has these
remarks
| We have often directed attention to the I'M
| ference i'll the affairs Of the State of Louisiana
| We have repeatedly said that the vitality of
kellOgg's government consisted wholly in the
military assistance which President Grant has
| given it. To-day Kellogg is acting Governor of
| Louisiana solely through the grace of ULYSSES
5. Grant. There is one way, however, in which
the President might interfere in the affairs OF
Louisiana WtE the most beneficial results. Let
him at once remove James +. Casey, of Ken
lucky, his brother-in-law from the office of
Collector of the Port of New Orleans; John NJ
q. Parker, of Massachusetts, the brother-n-law
of Benjamin +. Butler, from the office of Sur
yeyor of the Port of New Orleans; and Stephen
b. Packard, of Maine, who appears to have
been appointed, not on account of his family
connections, but by reason of his own dement's
from the Office of United States Marshal OF
Louisiana.
50 far as we know, the removal of these men
has not been advised directly since the recent
outbreak in New Orleans, probably for the same
reason vi ich is mentioned by the Nation as the
only mark of justitiability in revolutionary
movement, which this Louisiana movement did
not possess" namely, that it was toreorGaned
to be a failure President Grant ought not to
stand in need of advice in reference to the i'm
policy of retaining these three men in office and
we regard it AS one of the worst elements in the
problem of restoring satisfactory government
of louisiana that all hopes of inducing the
President to make the federal civil service in
Louisiana honest and honorable seem to have
been DESTROYED.