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The scene OF this story Is laid IN the
Southwestern territory, now forming
the states Of Louisiana and Texas. at
the time of Aaron Burrs treason. The
charac. ers lived in a section which was
now American. now French, and now
Spanish. aud this recprl Of their adven-
turOus lives makes a story Of intense
and infringing interest throughout.
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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-03-09

THE rejection of Senator Pinchback yes
terday was one of the most unfortunate
blunders ever committed by the Senate.
1t has no significance as regards the ques-
ton of race or color; but it places the
Senate in the attitude of having stultifed
itself. Having recognized Gov. Kellogg
as the legal Governor of Louisiana, and
having rejected the pretentious claims of
Mr.. Eustis, the logical action in the
premises would have been to admit Pinch
back. But unwise counsels have prevailed,
and a sufficient number of Republican
Senators were so influenced by technical
considerations as to join with the Demo
Gratis in voting for Senator Edmunds'
amendment. No matter what other result
may follow, it is certain that Mr.. Pinch
back will not desert the party even under
this great provocation, and his merits as a
leader will not permit him to wait long
before he receives some new and additional
recognition of the appreciation in which he
is held by his constituents. His rejection,
however, is poor reward for the sacrifices
he has made to the party, and the personal
peril he has incurred by his devotion to
| its principles.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-03-09
DEMOCRATIC pREcEDENrsFoR sELxNAP.

The virtuous indignation expressed in
Democratic circles over the weakness of a
foolish bride. taker would make a horse
laugh were it not so deeply tinged with a
melancholy recollection of Democratic po-
litical crime which as far transcends all
that has come to light in Belknap's case as
The performance of Satan in the Garden of
Eden does that of boy cheating at mar
bles. When the charge of the Govern
ment passed into the hands of the Repub-
-liea# party it was rank with pollution,
weak from the fnsatIate hunger of YAM
pires. bleeding at every pore and stripped
of half of its natural power. The list of
the crimes of Democratic officials for ten
years previous to the war, not including
their centre piece Of iniquity, secession, is
hardly peralleled in the history of nations,
and the student OF the past turns from the
sworn evidence, the legal records of the
crimes, with a nausea that cannot be de-
Scribed. They are found in the known
employment of immense sums of money
belonging TO the Government in effecting
the passage of the Lecompton and Eng
lish bills by Congress; the purchase with
Government money OF newspapers to aid
in securing mere party ends; in the i'm
proper and most corrupt use of the public
money il the employment ofmen in the
public serv ice in direct violation of law; in
the well-estabiished efforts on the part OF
officers of the Government 10 defeat the
statutes of the United States which protect
the Treasury from illegal claims; in the
special record of the tremendous sums OF
money robbed from the Government by
the public printer during Buchanan's Ad'
ministration; in the employment Of money
belonging to the Governmental carry cleo.
tons, and in the fat contracts, ''live oak
contracts" given to those who actually
purchased them from Cabinet officers; il
the princely sums stolen from the Interior
Department by Thompson; in the
grand robberies of Floyd; in the
instruction Of money by Cobb, and
known and Gttested. These crimes were
oYershadowed by the stupendous sin OF
secession, in which forts and fleets and
custom houses and navy yards and State:
were stolen without reserve by this same
Democratic party; but they are not for
gotten, for they were the crimes not o.
individuals, but Of a party-of a nationa
banditti, working up together the inheri
lance of everlasting infamy. In all this
however, there is no excuse for an indi
vidual member of the Republican party
who sins. Even the criminals we havt
described are invited TO try him, to join il
the procession vending its way to hi
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-03-09
REcoIL OF TIE DEMOCa Ratio GUN

The effort TO disgrace and dishonor the
Republican party before the country on &C
count of the disgraceful acts of the ex-War
Minister is proving sad failure. Nobody
sees and feels this more sensibly than the
Democrats themselves. In their haste to
make political capital for the New Hampshire
and Connecticut elections they have made
some egregious blunders, that show alike
their insincerity and inconsistency. In the
first place, they let the witness Marsh, who
isaDemocrat and participation in Belknap's
crime, go out of the country, against the
earnest protest of BIr. Bass, who unfortu-
nately has been detained by illness from his
seat, and was unable to expose, as he would
otherwise have done, the gross misrepre-
sensations of Mr.. Blackburn on that point.
The sending Of Marsh out of the country
deprives the course of justice of one of its
material witnesses. The refusal of the
Democratic members of the committee to
90 before the civil tribunal and secure Mr..
Belknap's indictment and conviction shows
conclusiyely that they have determined to
obstruct the cause of justice and let the
two guilty men escape. They hug to their
bosoms the doubt relating to the power Of
the Senate to impeach an officer who has
resigned his position, and now connive at a
defeat of criminal law. This is for the
purpose Of securing a petty party advan-
tage, by keeping impeachment and civil
punishment at bay until the spring cleo
tons are over. In all this they are to be
Judged by the people, in view of their
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-03-09

Mr.. KAssoN, of Iowa, made a cool
point against the Opposition in his re,
marks on the Grand Jury summons in the
Belknap case Wednesday, showing the
difference between the management of
such affairs by Republican and Demo.
cratic majority. He sail:
"Mr. Speaker, l say the condition is an ex-
traordinary one. 1t is one without precedent,
but with precedents directly to the contrary.
l recollect, sir, after the Pacific Mail investi-
cation was reported to this House, and pro-
ceedings were instituted in the court of this
District in like manner, criminal proceedings
for the punishment of the parties reported to
have been guilty of crime, two members of
the House Committee on Ways and Means
were summoned to give their testimony.
What did they do! Did they come to this
House TO beg they might not be required to
tell what they knew? On the contrary, they
appeared before that tribunal, gave their evil
dence like citizens of this great country, all OF
whom were interested in the punishment OF
crime, and no appeal was made to the House
to protect them against it,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-03-09

the Church and party have little more In
terest than others in seeing them properly
punished. 1t Is waste of time to hunt up cases
of men belonging to other churches or other
parties who were guilty of greater crimes, and
seek to throw greater obloquy apon such other
churches or parties in that way. If they are
more guilty on account OF the greater crimes
of their members, we cannot escape sharing
the guilt Of our own members in their proper
degree. But no man is capable of shining for
his whole Church or his whole party; you
might as well charge the whole Patriot army
with the treason Of Benedict Arnold. Bel
knap's crime was his own, utterly; and the
Republican party can become responsible only
by its own act in becoming voluntary alder
and abettor, Thisitdoes not intend to do. From
the President down to its humblest member the
motto is, "Let no guilty man escape" So
long as the party occupies this position it
identifies itself completely with the interests
of the country. The nations grievance is its
grievance, and the nations laws are its de-
tense. "It is impossible but that offenses
shall come, but wo unto that man by whom
the ofense cometh."
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-03-09

THE Ecening Star of this city affrights
the ex-Confederate House anent the i'm
parchment of Belknsp by foreshadowing
that the precedent of impeaching an ex,
official might become a boomerang. 1t
says:
sit is to be hoped the principle that ex-pub-
lie functionaries may be impeached for past
malfeasance in office shall be firmly estab-
lished, because there are those who broke
their oaths OF office and helped to plumber
Uncle Sam in the trying times about the begin
ming of the late civil war, who are as fon1 of
office now as they were then"
1t is barely possible that the idea ex-
pressed in this paragraph may have had
some weight in influencing the delays
which have occurred in the House regard
ing the Belknap affair. At any rate, ii
presents new feature of the case, which
is worthy of general attention.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-03-09

SEVERAL YEARS AGO, according to the
New York Sun, Gen. Rufus Ingalls, pre-
sented to the wife of President Grant an
exceedingly valuable watch. Several years
subsequent Gen. Rufus ingalls, was de-
tailed to be Acting Quartermaster General
at Washington. The story about the watch
may or may not be true. We presume it
is; but the Sam makes it the basis of a
demand for the imp ,achment of the Presi-
dent At last it seems that indiscreet en-
nifty against Gen. Grant has got the better
of Dana's judgment The basis for the
demand is simply ludlcrous, while the i'm
proprIety of dragging the name Of an esti-
mable lady before the public in such a use
less and scandalous way is undoubted. Let
the Sun go on with this kind of warfare.
1t will certainly react to the advantage Of
those whom it would prosecute.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-03-09
DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN PARTY
CONIRAsrED.

1t is learned from official sources that the
gross amount of the receipts of the Govern
ment from March 4, 1879, to June 80, 1861,
was S2,263, $3.50, 6lo.68, and from July l.,
1861, to June 30, 1875, Sl2,709, 645, 059.9 81,
thus showing the total receipts from the
organization of the Government to the
commencement of the administration of the
Republican party "a period of IS l-3years)
to be only II $40 per cent of the amount
received during the present party admin
istration of Is years.
The gross amount OF expenditures of the
Government for all purposes from March
4. 1889, to June 80, 1861, was S2,230,947,-
l73 81, and from July l, 1861. to June 80,
1875, Sl2 566892, 500. So, or total expend-
iture for 78 l-3 years of only II ITO per
cent. of the amount expended under the
administration of the Republican party
during the past IS years.
In other words, the amount of money
received and expended by the Government
for the first 78 l-3 years (S4,494,607,-
1880 was but II 75-l00 per cent. of the
amount received and disbursed during the
hepuUltCdu duullulSlIdllOH vi ID SedIS-
S25 276, 537,629.44.
The relative percentage of loss by defal-
cations of public officers who handled these
funds during the periods named has not
yet been exactly ascertained lateI than to
the close Of the second administration of
President Jackson. But, if we take the
average of the losses by defalcations of
public officers during those earlier Admin
isdations as the basis for an approximate
result, we find that the Republicans
must be shown TO have defaulted over
Sl60,O00,000, before they will become
amenable to the charges of having been
more corrupt than their predecessors.
Il is one of the browning glories of the
Republican party that in the magnitude of
its landings of money, so far in excess of
any and all of its predecessors, its percent
age of losses are greatly below that of the
parties who are daily denouncing it for
Venality and corruption. Before it can be
safely denounced by the Democratic party
it must be shown TO have become defaulter
by over two hundred millions Men who
prate of dollars in 1860, and compare them
with dollars in 1876, and say that they can
run the Government on the same revenue
in the latter as in the former year, simply
proclaim their ignorance.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-03-09

WE WOULD respectfully suggest to the
Democracy of New Hampshire that while
they have the opportunity afforded by his
presence, they ask one Gilbert c. Walker,
now of Virginia, what he knows about the
funding bill'' of the last named State,
how much he and his brother made by its
adoption, which was effected by his ad.
vocacy as Governor. Also how many of
these funded bonds were stolen and spent
at gambling saloons, and what portion of
the SIT, 900, of which the public school
fund has been robbed, was appropriated to
the payment of the interest on the afore-
said stolen bonds. Gilbert doubtless knows
more about such questionable transactions
than it would be to the advantage of his
party to be informed Of at this particular
time
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-03-09

Mr.. PURMAN, Of Florida, finds that the
House Naval Committee has been subject
ing his official acts to a secret investigation,
and is naturally very indignant about it.
The truth is, the investigations new being
prosecuted by the House are all more or
less secret, and entirely SO when the Dem
ocratic members Of the committee are able
to have their own way. the object being to
smirch Republicans by er parte statements
and screen Democrats by suppressing any
evidence that may be adduced against them.
In Mr.. Purman's case the final result will
undoubtedly prove that he has been the
victim of malicious SANDER at the hands
of personal and political enemy.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-03-09

hypocritical acts; and when the public
Judgment settles down liz candor these
Democrats will begin to feel and suffer
from the recoil of their own armament.
Let them get Marsh back within the juris-
dic;ion from which they released him-let
them go before the grand inquest and have
the late Secretary indicted and condignly
punished-,hen the people may. perhaps,
regard them as a shade better than both
those criminals; but at present the position
of these malefactors is most to be enyied.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-03-09

The Democratic maj ority in the House
recognized the credentials of members
from Louisiana, signed by Governor KEEL
logg, as legitimate and binding. Tue mi
nority Of that party in the Senate voted
solidly against similar credentials signed
by Governor Kellogg, and emitting Mr..
Pinchback TO seat in that body. The
consistency of this is not exactly apparent
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-03-09

Xxx ROBBINS remarked yesterday that he
didn't care so much about his exposure by
the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN himself, but it
made his friends feel so bad. Of course it
does, and simply because the people at
large will find in the arraignment of Bel
KNAPP by such a cheaply- bought-and-sold
man as double sawbuck Robbins something
iDpoOuruOue
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-03-09

THE DEMOCRACY assume to hold Presi-
dent Grant and the Republican party re-
sponsible for Belknap's peculation. II the
logic by which this deduction is reached
should be applied to Representative J. C..
S. Blackburn, whose. blood relative
brother, in fact-Dr. Blackburn, attempted
to disseminate yellow fever and smallpox
throughout the North during the war, what
would be the RESULT .:
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-03-09

IT WAS good day yesterday for per-
sonal explanations on the Confederate and
Copperhead side of the House. Clymer,
Robbins and Blackburn felt called upon to
exhibit themselves in the light of defenders
of the integrity of their intentions, but
with the exception of Mr.. Clymer, they
had nothing to deny, and he did not allude
to the story that during the war his fellow
citizens of Reading, Pa, felt impelled to
drive him from their presence, or to tar
and feather him-we forget which-on &C.
count of his disloysl Copperheadism. A
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-03-09

AND NOW Mrs. Marsh has gone to Can
ada to escape investigation regarding certain
suspicious transactions in which Gentleman
George Pendleton seems to have bsen in
volved. How long it will be before the
Marsh children go also Mr.. Clymer may
be able to tell.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-03-09

CA HIGH-ToNED Southern gentleman,
"sir, by Gawd, sir, would spurn bride,
"sir. The honor of his section, his people,
"and the Democratic party, by Gawd, sir,
"is as dear TO him as life itself, sir. What
sis life, sir, by Gawd, sir, without honor?''
But how about Robbins and his little
twenty. dollar fee as lawyer?
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-03-09
Belknap Alone Responsible.

tGen. Comly's Editorial Correspondents IN the
Ohio State Journal.J
1t may serve the purpose Of dishonest par
tisans to make an effort to identify Belknap's
crime with his party membership; 1t may
serve the purpose of dishonest sectarians to
make an effort to identify Winslow's crimes
with his sectarian membership; no honest man
of clear head will fail to see that if there is
anything peculiar i'm the relation of their
Church aud party TO their crimes, II Is that
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-03-09

this ex- Confederate House." remarked
a shrewd observer yesterday, engaged in
investigating the affairs of the Govern
"ment as administered by loyal Republi-
"cans, reminds me of gang of burglars
"being called upon to give testimony that
something is wrong in bank they have
"iust broken open"
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-03-09

ROBBINS pursuing Belknap or investl-
eating any one, while he stands self-con-
fessed of having taken a paltry twenty
dollar bride, furnishes a rather ludicrous
spectacle of Democratic reform.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-03-09

Mr. CLYMER declared that elf it was
"known that the grand jury was investi-
"gating this matter-the Marsh Belknap
" fraud-all witnesses would be driven
"away." And he took especial pains to
make it known.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-03-09

So PENDLETON is to brought down, too.
But how jealous XN Robbins will feel to
know that Pendleton' price was more than
twenty dollars.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-03-09

The New York Sun says Judge Taft,
the newly appointed Secretary of War, lis
a capable and respectable man." This is
sad-fOr Judge Taft.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-03-09

Now, II GOVERNOR KELLOGG has any
political foresight or partisan pluck, he will
appoint p B. S. Pinchback to be United
States Senator from Louisiana.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-03-09

M ROBBINS had the floor in the House
yesterday. and advertised the NATIONAL
REPUBLICAN to some extent-not so much,
however, as we had previously advertised
him IJnpratefIll Robbins
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