The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1876-04-06

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70. In their defense he even went
80 Tar as in an annual message to un-
dertake by several millions the debt
of the District of Columbia; gross
attempt to deceive the public which
was Immediately exposed in Con-
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| II. He was party in an intrigue
whereby his own salary was doubled
and caused 1t to DO privately under
stood in Congress that the bill raising
congressional salaries would not re
ceive his signature unless his own
salary was doubled.
2S. lie was for months engaged in
an attempt, at last successful, to make
one of his intimatcs, Rufus Ingalls,,
Qnartermaster General of the army,
and held vacant the Russian mission
as a temptation to Gen. Meigs, who
stood in the way of this scheme.
20. lie supported Kellogg as Gov>
ernor ofLouisiana without authority
from Congress, confessing that he did
not know who was the rightful Gov
ernor, and OH his own will alone; and
he has used the army for many
months to hold Louisiana down for
this favorite.
30. lie did not scruple last year to
grossly misrepresent to Congress and
the country the condition of Louisi.
ana and other Southern States, in or.
der that he NIGH thereby support
his corrupt personal followers there.
81. While a congressional commit
tee was in New Orleans investigating
the condition of Louisiana he vio>
lently took matters in his own bands,
and in their presence dispersed the
legitimate Assembly Of the State by
means OF the army.
80. lie ordered his Secretary OF
War to send the approval of the
whole Cabinet to Sheridan for the
dispersion of the Legislature and his
banditti dispatch, though it is known
that he did not take the trouble to
consult any member of the Cabinet in
the matter, and that several members
did strongly disapprove of these
measures.
80. lie refused to see or hear the
committee which Congress had sent
to New Orleans, and sent q message
to Congress founded on assertions
which the report of that c)n mittce OF
Congress showed to be false and
groundless
81. Thus ho first insultcd his Cabs
met and then Congress in ordcr to
carry out his personal aims, and
sought, by artful misrepresentation
and false statements, made when truth
was al his call and unofficially known
to him, to justify a dangerous usurpa>
ton OF power by the military and the
prostraton Of civil rule.
35. He cndcavorod to intimidate a
congressional committee into making
q report on the condition OF Arkansas,
to subsorve his own viows; summoned
them before him and told them what
they ought to report, and did not
even take the trouble TO ask them
what facts they had found in theil
investigation. Fortunately, they were
too Independent to submit to his die
tation.
SO. One member cf the committed
who made q minority report in accor.
dance with his wishes, he rewarded
with the post OF District Attorney a
Chicago, an Office from which he wa,
lately dismissed for ncapacity.
81. He used the powerful influence
Of tho administration to cause tn pas
sago Of the Ilaboas Corpus and Fore,
bill, measure fagrantly unconstitu
tional, and, as subsequent ovonts hav,
shown, without tho excuse of nccossi
ty or expodioncy.
38. Ho insultcd the public sense O
honor and decency by retaining Mr.
Dclano in Office long after the crosses
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