The daily gazette., 1874-10-01
Congressman Taking BriJes.

WHAT RErUBL1oAE PAPER SAYS OF TIE
DIsdEACEFuL LOUISIANA EXPOSURE,
As the Republican papers OF Delaware,
without a solitary exception, cover up.
screen, and withhold from their readers,
OF excuse or dctead the action Of the high
officials in the Republican party and the
leading men of that party in tn. United
States Senate and House, we invite at
tention to the candid opinion Of a Re
publican paper Of an adjoining state Of
these rascally proceedings as shown up
in the publication Of the letters that
We're captured from Kellogg abandoned
Office in New Orleans during the late
revolution in that city. And we charge
that the Republican papers Of Delaware
are the most seryile party sheets that
are printed anywhere in the country.
They deal with their readers as though
they supposed that their papers were
sent to men who never read or heard
anything outside Of their false and mis-
chievous publications. The opinions ox-
pressed below are not by us, but they
accord with our opinions although ex-
pressed by Radical paper; and we call
the attention of our candid readers of
all parties to them. 1t is time that gen
tlemen OF the Republican party were
willing TO go for their country and not
Tor IN organization under the control OF
such men as governed the action of Con.
,rn ,,4 and l. Il L., a
Payments in so large sums, to 30 many
persons, and to persons holding positions
70 peculiar i'll their relation to the case
to be decided, could have but one object
and that an Legitimate one. They could
only have been made to influence the ac.
tion OF Congress and the President. The
persons TO whom they were made were
able to secure the desired action or inac.
ton of Congress, and being in intimate
intercourse with the President, would b,
consulted by him on the subject, and
their advice would possess all-important
weight. Moneys accepted by snch per
sons might, with every reason, be regard
ed as well invested by those whose cast
woald not bear investigation, but woulC
DE an utterly unnecessary and pretoster
GUS expenditure on the part of thos G who
We're simply seeking justice, and who's,
case was strongin truth and right. More
over, there is significant letter W ritter
10y Billings TO Kellogg :-"Chandlcr i,
working with us, and has worked with NJ
nobly and more effectively than a1ly on,
except Williams. He wished Inc L
write to you about his fee. wouid ar
range the matter with him Mt the earlies
moment possible" This is utterly in
consistent with any theory Of legitiinat
professional services, so far as Chandle
is concerned, to say nothing of the dis
graceful position in which it places tn,
Attorney General. And what is true O
Chandler is undoubtedly true of the 9th
ers implicated. The rewards given then
were out of all proportion to the value o
any legitimate professional services the,
could possibly have rendered at the Tim
or in the future, and the number of-so
called counsel was monstrously out of al
proportion to the amount and characte
of the legal work to be performed.
No intelligent person can regard thes,
payments as made for any other than q,
improper purpose--for anything els,
than to enable a man not elected by tn,
people to seize upon and hold the power.
of the executive. By this means Con
gress was restrained from the perform
ance Of plain duty, and the President
was induced to believe that legally be