The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-03-25

him. Didn't he make his son, Just from West
Point, Lieut.. Colonel over veterans twice
his age, and send him to make the tour Of
EnropeY What was tito Grant IL he violated
law endregulations As for being a Thought
inl BROTHER didn't he write to his dear
brother, Awful Grant, all about those post.
iraderships that were going to be vacant,'
so that Awful could make the neces sary ar
engagements for selling the places ? As 10
being ''loyal friend,n Babeock, and Boss
Shepherd, and Delano, and Tom MURPHY, aud
Belknap know all about that. lf this puff of
Grant had been in an anti-administration pa.
per, ] shouldn't have believed It; but the
Republican is an "organ''
The same people who blamed Mr.. Clymer
and his committee for letting Marsh 90, after
he had answered every question put 10 him,
and when there was no apparent reason for
holding him, and no legal right to do so, are
now bowling with rage at the Imprisonment Of
Hallett Kilbourne, by order Of the House,
because he refuses to produce the evidence
demanded. II makes great deal Of differ
ence whose foot ''the shoe pinches. II is
now proven, beyond q question, that Grant
was interested in the Real Estate Pool, aud
that il was to conceal that fact, among others,
that Kilbourne refused to produce his books.
But the records show the facts, and Mr.. Kill
bourne will find it useless to attempt to sup.
press them The same questions we're asked
him, during the DISTRICT Of Columbia inYesti
CATION by a House Committee Of the Forty.
Third Congress, that are asked him now; and
he refused to answer them, us he does now
But no notice was taken by the House of his
refusal. While there was a Republican ma
jority in Congress, there was no danger Of in
volving any high official in the scandal that
the Washington Real Estate Pool had brought
on the Administration.
If there be any truth in the commonly re-
ceiyed idea that the darkest hour precedes the
dawn, we must surely be standing upon the
eve of revelation which will clear up much
of the mystery and gloom in which the nation
Is now envelopel. For darker day, or a
more painful and humiliating position, has
never before fallen to the lot Of the United
States. With corruption at the seat of Gov.
eminent, and distrust aud fear among the
people, the whole land seems to be thrown
into the horrors of crisis from which il will
emerge debilitated and disgraced, or with
stronger pricnples and purer morals, and
therefore all the better prepared for a worthy
celebration Of its Centennial, and for the re.
sponsibilties Of its future career.
The recent proceedings in Washington have
not added very much to the information
already possessed on the all.absorbing topics.
Matters indeed seem to remain in stdtu guo
and there is, after all, danger that the prose
cution or impeachment of ex,Secreiary Bel.
KNAPP will end in melo. dramatic farce, il
which the principal actors have already begun
| to fall foul of each other. In the absence OF
the articles of impeachment, the preparation
and presentation Of which are unaccountabl,
delayed, General Belknap has been PLACED
under arrest, cited before court, and admit
ted to bail He is now awaiting the further
action Of his accusers. When it will be taken
or what it will be, nobody can determine
The plea is revived that the resignation O
Belknap reduces him to the position of 4
private citizen, and renders null and void tn,
action tending toward impeachment; and, al
the result Of the whole, there is at least ,
probability that he will escape with the los,
Of office, and the disgrace attaching to hi
character,