The daily gazette., 1876-03-03
Astounding RascGiity.

We wish we could believe that Secre-
tafy Belknap was the only man even of
Grants Cabinet, that had betrayed the
trust which the people repose in those
who were selected to fill the high and
honorable position of adviser of the
President. We fear there are others as
high in office as Belknap who have been
guilty of acts as bad, and it may be
worse than those of which the war Sec
rotary has been compelled to acknow-
ledge.
1t is useless for Grants friends to say
that Grant did not know the cause of
Belknap's wish to resign. We believe
he did know it, and accepted the resig-
nation to help the criminal escape
the just punishment which the law i'm
poses, and just SO he has helped Bah
cock and Schenck and vii help others.
Indeed we believe the country begins to
be alarmed lest the White House may
be found to have been infested by pack
of robbers and law breakers.
The New York Sun Of to-day concludes
an article as follows, and the Sun has
rare opportunities for observation
It must not be supposed that Belknap
is any worse than the others because he
gets justice first. He has done nothing
but what they have done before him. In
its essential character there is no differ
ence between his act and that of Gen.
Grant in appointing men to the Cabinet
because they had given him presents
fNbara i,u aooapfial liffaranoa i,o+
Mr.. Belknap's appointing q post trader
because the man offers to give his wife
$4,000 year, and President Grants ap-
pointing worthless character like Jim
Casey Collector of New Orleans because
he is hiD brother-in-law. 1t is the system
now universally know as Grantism, which
ID dishonest, larcenous, destructive alike
OF public and private morality. Grant
engages in the Black Friday gold conspi-
racy. and $4,000 is sent to the White
House out of the profits Babcock con-
spires with the whiskey thieves in st.
Louis, and Grant and Shepherd aid in
his defence and welcome him back to
Washington; Mrs. Belknap is paid $4,000
year, for the appointment of post
trader Robeson steals $93 900 for Secor,
induced thereto by "a present to lady"
and prostitutes the navy to enrich the
Cattell Ring; Attorney General Will
hams steals the money to pay for his
wife's carriage and to pay the wages to
his servants; Delano and Smith rob the
Indians by wholesale, and Grant looks or
and approves; Creswell robs in the Post
Office Department by means Of straw bic
frauds; Bancroft Davis is proved to be
pribe taker by the Legislature of Massa
chusetts, and is made Minister to tn,
German empire; Secretary Fish has hi
son-in-law employed at large salary a
the agent Of Spain, while he gives pro
Spanish character to the policy of tn
Administration toward Cuba. 1t is tn
same thingln every department from tn,
President down. Bribe-taking, plunder
larceny, Grantism is the rule every
where. The only really honest man i
Bristow, whom Grant has just been vic
lently threatening to kick oot, but ha
not dared to do it.
Ii Democratic institutions are to b
saved at all in this country, the peopl
must rise up in burning indignation an,
not merely drive these persons fror
power, but expel this system out O
Washington apd out of the country. j
republic whose Government is den c
thieves cannot stand.