National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-03-10

Robbins are altitudilum. Price So each.
'where is Marsh 2" Echo answers: "Mr.
Clymer discharged him."
An old publication of the North Carolina
Senate is entitled, "What l know about bride
taking" by Two-thousand-ce Robbins.
"Further developments" are scarce, and
Whitelaw Reid rubs his long fingers, aud
cries, "What are we Democrats to do now?"
We have no hesitancy in stating that before
this Belknap case has been settled one or more
prominent Democrats will be implicated in
the national shame.
When Benjamin Hill buried the Ratchet he
raised great white headstone over the place,
and now he worships at that shrine. lie may
be waiting for the resurrection.
Robbins says that he would be very glad to
see Charles A. Dana converted, but between
this bride and that he has not time to stand
around and wait for the event to transpire.
New Hampshire is said to be flooded with
red-nosed Democratic stump speakers, who are
trying to convince the people that crooked
whisky and Belknap have ruined the country.
When "Robbins'' attain the altitulious
figure of twenty dollars apiece they become
an expensive luxury to people whose chief
subsistence is that of "tar, pitch and turpen-
tine.''
XIX Robbins will not be driven from taking
twenty-dollar fees when lie has an opportunity
by the newspapers, even though the money
| should be the price of his vote in the North
Carolina Senate.
Marsh throws his heels over the ballustrade
| of the Montreal hetel and chuckles aud
chuekles as he reads the newspaper accounts
describing Hester Clymer's "hurrying him
away from the Impeachment trial."
The Belknap case calls up "precious memo
ries" of the defunct Democracy, as exemplifed
in the lives and exploits of Dick johnson,
SwaEwout, Galphin, Crawford and a host OF
other worthless of that persuasion,
Seven years ago, in one of the committee
rooms of the Senate Chamber of North Caro-
lima, scene transpired which bears an impor-
tant interest, even to this day. A man had
\ been bribed. A Southern gentleman, sir,
bribed for twenty dollars. Bought for two
| thousand cents-principle, reputation, self
respect, honesty, integrity and honor, all
spamped by the tempting bride of twenty
/ paltry greeubacks. His heinous offense was
discovered. He felt the awful import Of
| the disclosure. A committee had been ap
| pointed to investigate the matter. He was
called before it. He went like a slave
scourged to his cotton picking. He went with
bowed head to plead for mercy. He sank
upon his knees before the members and weep
like small and tender child. With moving
pathos, he told the story of his miserable
crime; with eyes suffused in tears, and voict
husky with emotion, he cried: s.Spare me
spare me-" He sought, he urged, he begged
/ he agonized for leniency. He pictured In
glowing terms the blight which punishment
would bring upon his family. He implored
them in the name of all that was good and
beautiful to save his reputation from eternal
dishonor, his business from ruin, his future
from despair, and the repenting, weeping
mercy-pleading bribe-taker's petition was
granted. He was not fined, he was not incar-
cerated: he was simply censured and allowed
to go free, with the stain of crime and cor.