Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-10


Of Kellogg was one means to fru-'F@te
their designs. The impeaci M mt
come to naught, but have our iFie u
lost any advantage thereby we IN Ok
| not. We think the action If the Rad
ical Senate sitting as court OF m
| parchment affords a demonstration q
| the unscrupulonsness and traudntnC
| nurposes If the Radical party III Lou
isiana that will be worth thousands OF
| votes to us among the thinking people
of the Northern States.
rEIKNAP,S ID d Il A :, Il A n I'D
CRAMPS EFFOs kT II % SAVE
HIM.
We little thought, while preparing
for the editorial columns of yesterday
JOURNAL, the article upon the Kellogg
impeachment, that our telegraphc
columns would contain in the same
issue the details of another impeach-
ment, sustaining fully the manner OF
proceeding adopted by the Louisiana
House of Representatives. But accus-
toned as the country is to corruption III
Office, the grossness of the corruption
of the Secretary of War, will yet take
the people by surprise. Nor can any
man, born upon American soil, or any
man, a citizen by adoption, who carries
| in his bosom the heart of man fail
! to feel shame and modification at the
disgraceful EXP osure that is this morn
ing turning the eyes of all men IN the
civilized world to the Federal Cabinet
at Washington.
It was bad enough that Alderman
should have been Attorney General OF
the United States; it was disgraceful
that Williams should have been his
successor. It was bad enough that
Richardson should have been Secreta-
nv of the Treasury; it was disgraceful
that Sawyer should have held high
position in the same department. 1t
was shameful that Delano should have
been Secretary of the Interior. It was
no credit to the Administration that
Luckey should have been the Presl-
dents private secretary; it was dis
graceful that Babcock should be a
member Of that same Presidents Off
cial family. But the browning dis
grace, tile eliminating infamy, is that
Belkuap should have been S cretary
of War.
And shall we not say too, as de
serves to be said, that the act OF the
President of the United States by
which he sought to save a member nt
the Cabinet occupying or rather dis
grazing the high and honorable posi-
ton of Secretary CT War from impend
ing aud Just punishment for the
grossest corruption ever known IL thai
high position, is an act that will make
every man who calls himself an Amer
lean citizen, low his head in shane
decentralization?
The tolls are surely gathering
around the President The friend Of
the notorious Fisk, and of the scarcely
less notorious Murphey; the boon com
panion of the convicted thieves joyce
and McDouaid: the man who put ACk.
erman in office, who made Williams
Attorney General aDd who tried tc
make him Chief Justice of the United
States, who moved Heaven aid
earth SO far as in his power. to save
. | Babcock: the man who made Richard
son Secretary of the Treasury, aud YhC
appointed Sawyer to high position
the man OF gifts; the man more than
suspected of guilty connection with the
/ great Black Friday panic that brought
such financial disaster upon New York
and upon the country, stood before
the country III scarcely doubtful atti-
tude. But within the last for weight
hours he has done that which, d
condemn hsm III the eyes 0f all think
ing men, even if his escutcheon had
hcen as spOtless as the ermine and his
| reputation as pure and stainless as tie
falling snow. He knew that NJ. Bel
k1ap was guilty of tn" grossest corlup-
ton under the most revolving clrcum-
stances, corruption that deserved not
only disgrace and exposure, bnt the
segerest punishment the law could in
flct, and knowing this he eagerly in
terposed his executive arm to shield the
CT iminal from the penalties Of his great
CRIME. Within forty-eight hours before
he had retained on duty near his person
| ~ IL
ointment, a man who, though he had
just escaped the jaws of the penit, ntiary
as a convicted thief, is yet no4e the
less guilty by the great popular YER
dict. And not only that, in that same
forty-eight hours he appointed to
one of the most responsible, if not the
most responsible position in the De-
partment of the Interior, Mr.. Luckey
recently his Private Secretary, and
who had dlsgrD ced his offica and all
connected with him by his course in
the receat whisky trials at st. Louis.
That any man can be SO infatuated
strikes us with wonder and amaze
ment. Is the man mad, and is he
but ilh' strating the saying that when
the Gods wish to destroy they first make
mad Well might Mr.. Clymer la
ment that Mr.. Belknap, the late Secre-
tary Of War, Was the outgrowth and
true exponent of the corruption of the
extravaganza and the misgovernment
that has cursed our country for years
past, and well might the distinguished
representative from Pennsylvania have
included the President of the United
States in the same category.
GRANT AN ACCESSAKY AFTER
| THE FACT.
Ii one man commits crime ard