The daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1874-1883, 1874-10-02
heitOOO's Captured Check. Boot

| EVIDENCE ADDUCED AGAINST UNITED
STATES SENATOR'S AND REPREsENTA
TINEs-IMPossIBIIIT OF ACTING As
PAID ATTORNEY AND IMPARTIAL LIE
| GIsLAToR.
| NEW ORLEANS, Sept 80. The Bulf.
I'm of this morning has the following ar
tlcle, showing the sentiment of Iouisi
ana people on the pecuniary relations of
Kellogg with Carpenter and Butler. as
exposed in the captured correspon-
dcnce:-
The publication Of the letters of Ben.
lamin r. Butler to Kellogg, and of the
evidence from kellogg's check book
| that Senator Matthew Carpenter was in
frequent receipt from him Of large sums
OF money, furnishes shameful proof of
the decadence of honesty among the
pubic men in this country. 1t is a
hlmlllating and disgraceful exhibition
ana II 1t does not send both of the 20
lltical triCksters and demagugers to
Conventry it will be bacause the dcca-
dence 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 as representatives of X ellogg and
accept large fees from him for service.
there rendered, or to assert that this ac-
ton and those fees in no wise compro-
missed them or influenced their course.
1t Is idle to claim that Mr.. CARPENTER
could plead for Mr. Kellogg before the
Supreme Court, and then, while the
payment of his fee was in allowance.
enter the Senate and sit in judgment
ON the case of the people of Louisiana
against Kellogg with unbiased mind
and clean hands. His most brilliant
flights of oratory, his tiercest invectivcs
must have been more or less influenced
BY the thought that if he eycrdid the
matter Kellogg might net come down
handsomely and promptly. There must
have always been in his mind the re
collection that kellogg owed him a
large sum of money, and that recollrc-
tlon must, in the very nature of things
have influenced his actions if not liz
judgment.
Ben Butler did not appear before the
Supreme Court, but acted as advisory
counsel, for which hc demanded the
sum OF $4,000. OF course so insignih
cant sum could not have influenced
that pink OF moral perfection but it
would have been curious to watch the
expression of Ben's strahismcal coun-
tenance had messenger handed him
u check from Kellogg ior those 5000
just as he was sailing into the usurpa.
tion in his own puffy and peculiar way
In regard to Carpenter. il has alwaNs
been stated heretofore that his fee for
services To Kellogg before the Supreme
Court was 81 800, whereas there is evi-
dence in the captured documents, of his
having received 81, 800 from Kellorc.
leaving snug margin of $1,000 to hr
accounted for His captured but un
published letters, dunning KELLOGG
for money, exhibits him in very un
favorable light, to say the least. The
point about the whole matter is inst
this These two men-Butlcr and
Carpenter-whilcs sitting as Judges in
the Louisiana case, have demanded
money from the usurping Governor on
the ground of services rendered by
them in the Supreme Court at the in
ception of the trouble and we claim
that this fact is in itself not only un-
justitiahle but damning Caleb Cush-
ing is exhibited in an attitude which
is simply pusillanimous Hewas secret
attorney for both parties, and received
money from both.