The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1876-04-01

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he a slender father :" and. as for be.
inga "thoughtfal brother" didn't he
write to his dear brother, Awful Grant
all about those post. tradersLips that
were "going to be vacant" SO that
Awful could make the necessary ar.
rangements for selling the places =!
And his ''nature is SO generous" He
knew that Awful would make a good
thing of it, and he didn't even whisper
"halves," once. And with the whole
family ION the make, i" aud everybody
around him getting rich, he has never
even noticed it-much less demanded
his "rake." He's so generous" Aud,
as to being a "loyal riend"-well,
Babcock, and Boss Shepherd, and
Delano, Tom Murphy, etal, know all
about that. Aud Belknap knows,
too-Grant stands By Bslknap yet
for the Republicans says that tile Pres
ident is entitled to all tho credit OF
bringing Marsh back-that he did it
of bis own accord, and not because
the House judiciary Committee asked
him to, and that "BeKnap's counsel
is exceedingly aarioms that Marsh shall
come back, and says that if Marsh can
be secured, Belknap's in1ocenee Of the
charges can be fully established" And
90 the President bss promised Marsh
Immunity, aud ho Is coming. II this
had been in an auti. administration
paper, shouldn't have believed it !;
but the Republican is an "orgau."
A RULE THAT DON'T WORK Roth WAITS.
The same people who blame Mr..
Clymer and bis committee for letting
Marsh 60, after be had answered
every question pnt to him, and when
there was no apparent reason for hol.
ding him, and no legal right to do 50,
are now bowling with rage at tho i'm.
prisonment of Hallett Kilbourne, by
order, of the House, because 10 re.
fuses to produce the evidence de.
manded. It makes q great deal Of
difference whose foot 1.-THE shoe pinch
es." It ia now proven, beyond a
question, that Grant was interested
in the Real Estate Pool, and that it
was to conceal that fact, among 9th.
ers, that Kilbourne refused to produce
his books. But the records show the
facts, and Mr.. Kilbourpe will dad it
useless to attempt to suppress them.
The same questions were asked him,
during the District of Columbia in.
vestisatiYn by q House Committee Of
the Forty Third Congress, that are
asked him now 4; and he refused to
answer them, as be does now. But
no notice was taken by the House of
his refusal. While there was q major.
ity in Congress, there was 10 danger
of involving any high official in the
scandal that tho Washington Real
Estate Pool had brought on the Ad-
ministrstion.
ARE OENLhAA
If there be any truth in the CON-
monty received idea that the darkest
hour precedes the dawn, we must
surely be standing upon the eve of q
revelation which will clear up much
Of the mystery aud gloom in which
the nation il now enveloped. For =
darker day, or o moro painful aud
humiliatiug position, has never be.
fore fallen to the lot of the United
States. With corruption at the seat
of Government, and distrust and fear
among the people, the whole land
seems to be thrown into the horrors
of a crisis from which it will emerge
and disgraced, or With
stronger principles and purer morals,
and therefore all the better prepared
for a worthy celebration of it's Cen.
tennial, and for the responsibilities
Of it's future career.
The recent proceedings in Wash
ington have not added very much to
the information already possessed on
the all absorbing topics. Matters in-
deed seem to remain in statu quo
and there il, after all, danger that the
or impeachment of ex
Secretary Belkuap will end in q meto.
dramatic farce, in which the principal
actors have already begun to fall foul
of each other. In the absence of the
article of impeachment, the prepar-
alton and presentation Of which are
delayed, General Bel
KNAPP has been placed under arrest,
cited before . court, and admitted 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 that the
resignation Of Belknap reduces him to
the position of q private citizen, and
renders null and void the action ten
ding toward impeachment, and, as q
result of the whole, there is at least
probability that he will escape with
Tie loss of office, and the disgrace at
to his character.
Mr.. HESTER cLYMER's COMMITTEE,
to which the country already owes
50 much, is making Developments in