The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-10-06
VIOLATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION.

quirements Of the Constitution and the
laws when they interfered with the execu-
ton of his designs.
UsURPING STATE GOVERNMENTS.
Twice President Grant, in utter defiance
OF the principles ofrepublican government
has without authority of law, used the
United States army to overflow the legally
elected State government of Louisiana, in
order to oblige his brother-in- law, the no
torious Casey, who wished to be elected
United States Senator. He wanted to do
the same thing in Arkansas but was over
ruled by Congress, Notwithstanding his
| personal efforts to influence the members.
| THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA RING.
The history of this infamous association
of swindlers is familiar to the whole coun-
try. A Ring formed for purposes of plum
der has had absolute control of the District
of Columbia for years, and by means of
false measurements and fraudulent vouch-
ers supplied by Babcock, while confiden-
tial Secretary of the President, and by
other devices has succeeded in plundering
the Treasury of millions of dollars which
| the taxpayers of the different States will
| have to make good. Boss Shepherd, the
leader of this Ring, is one of the most in
innate personal friends of Grant, who has
aided him to the utmost extent of his abi-
ity in his designs against the public funds.
Grant is believed to be secret partner in
the Ring real estate pool.
CONSERVING WITH PROFESSIONAL BUR-
GLARS.
In consequence of the ruinous effects of
Boss Shepherds extravaganza upon the in
terests of property holders in Washington
who were outside of the Ring, the leading
citizens pettioned Congress to investigate
the doings of the Shepherd government
One of the most prominent of these citizens
was Mr.. Columbus Alexander and in Or
| der to punish him for interfering with the
Ring schemes, Dick Harrington, then AS.
sistant District Attorney, through the
United States Secret Service, hired pro-
| fessional burglars to break open his own
| safe and then swear that Mr.. Alexander
employed them to commit the crime. The
! conspiracy failed, and when Harrington
was on trial for his share in it, President
Grant, in order to influence the jury, invit-
ed him from the criminal dock to partc-
ularly select reception at the White House.
Gen. Babcock, Grants confidential secre-
tary, is now under indictment for being
THE WHISKY RING.
Since Grant has been in office various
whisky rings, in consideration of contrib
uting Literally to Republican election
funds, and for other considerations which
Gen. Babcock could best explain, have
been permitted to defraud the revenue by
selling untaxed whisky. 1t is a moderate
estimate to say that more than
ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS
have thus been diverted from the Treasury
by the Whisky Rings, all of which must
be replaced by taxing the people. Mr..
Bristow was driven out of Grants Cabinet
for cndeavoring to break up these Rings
and punish the thieves who composed
| them.
| ENORMOUS DEFALCATIoNs.
The business of the various executive
departments under Grants Administration
has been so loosely conducted, and the APP
pointments to office have been so badly
made, that the books of the Treasury on
June 10, 1876, showed defalcations on the
part of Grants oilice-holders which had
accumulated since he was inaugurated
President, amounting in the aggregate to
| $5,500,595. The taxpayers must make this
good.
| ROBBING THE FREEDMEN.
The failure of the Freedman's Savings
Bank with indebtedness to depositors of
over So 900, 900, has defrauded over 10000
poor freedmen of their little earnings,
which they had been induced to intrust
with the rotten concern, under the false
pretense that it was a government institu-
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groes was mainly committed by the most
intimate personal friends of the President,
and he could have prevented it if he had
wished to, for the irregularities in the
management of the bank were fully expos
ed in Tile Sun four years before the swim
ding institution closed its doors. The
Seneca Sandstone Company, in which
GIANT was financially interested, partici.
pated in this robbery of the negro deposi
tors in the Freedman's Bank
THE SIOUX WAR.
The hostlities conducted against the
Sioux, which have resulted in an expendi-
ture of millions of dollars, in the Custer
massacre, and in threatened outbreak of
all the wild Indians in the Northwest, was
entirely unnecessary. 1t was caused by q
| violation, from avaricious motives of
treaty made in 1868. This violation of a
solemn agreement with the Indians was
made in order to afford some personal
friends of Grant an opportunity to seize
and speculate upon mineral tracts and
town sites in the Black Hills country, and
for no other reason. 1t was simply ma.
tional infamy, accomplished for private
gain. 1t is believed that young John De
lano and Fred. Grant were two of the most
active members of the Black Hills ring.
INCREASED TAXATION.
The expenses of the United States Gov
eminent under Grant have been extravagant
beyond comparison for a time of peace.
For six years of his administration, ending
June 80, 1875, the public expenditures
amounted to more than Four Thousand Mil
lion Dollars, all of which has been exacted
from an over-taxed people, and large por-
ton ofwhich has been stolen by Republican
thieves in Office, and their accomplices.
The late Democratic House of Representa-
tives succeeded in getting reduction OF
about $30,000,000 in appropriation bills
but they were fought at every step by
Grant and the Republican Senate, who de-
sired to have more money voted than ever
before.
RUNNING THE NAVY.
The recent Congressional investigation
of the management OF the Navy Department
by Secor Robson shows that under the
present Administration Two Hundred Mil
lion Dollars have been expended, but that
: according to the testimony of Admiral
Porter, we have not single first-class yes
sci, and that, as u whole, the navy is
worth nothing" 1t was also proved that
the most scandalous fraud, corruption and
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