The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-06-01
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON
More Radical Villainies-The No
torious Dr.. Nichols.
He Lives in Luxury While His
Charges Starve.
The Democratic Party WIFI he
Successful. Should IL Lose
10th Indiana and Ohio.

The Democratic Party WIFI be
Successful. Should IL Lose
10th Indiana and Ohio.
Especial correspondence of the Ledger.l
WASHINGTON, May 9th, 1876.
Had the Republican party still retain
ed it's ~ascendency and no Democratic
House of Representatives entered to
check its wild career, it is but fair to
suppose that the same beaten track of
official corruption and personal deprav-
ity which has marked it's course for the
last eight years would still be pursued.
And the multitudinary Investigations
which have resulted in such notifying
disclosures would have never been
heard of. When, where, and how, the
reign Of wholesale corruption in Govern
ment officials, from the highest to the
lowest, would have ended, if, indeed, it
would ever have done so, is difficult to
determine. The fair presumption is,
that the Lext Centennial would have
witnessed itin all it's hideous forms and
proportions. But the end is not yet.
Every day something new is brought
to the surface which, like the bloated
and offensive corpse of a drowned man,
requires first all examination and then
a speedy removal. And now among all
the iniquities that have yet been expos
ed none have equalled in hideous beast
illness and glaring inhumanity the man.
ner in which the Government Insane
Asylum has been managed by DR..
Nichols. This investigation has been
in progress for the last two months, and
has disclosed a state of affairs shocking
in detail and revolving in the extreme.
DR.. Nichols has been fairly proven to
have been with his family living at the
Government expense in a style of al
most princely magnificence, while the
patients have been fed ON moldy bread
and faint me at, and more than one OF
them it appears did not get enough even
of that to sustain life. Many of the pa.
tients have been found covered with
vermin and suffering for food, while the
scantiness of their clothing was an out.
rage upon decency. The details are
sickening and seemed more like the
overwroughti imagining of a distempered
brain than the plain and substantial
facts which they have been proved to
be by un~impeachable testimony. All
the facts in the case are upon record,
and may be obtained by any n who
will venture to read the filthy history
of crime and cruelty.
Mr.. John III. Patterson, of New Jer-
sey, w%as;last night nominated to succeed
Fitzhugh, and will, of course.
1t has become evident within the past
week. that the Republican managers
are laboring to disseminate the idea
that the coming Presidential election
will,hinge upon the October election in
Ohio. The Republican organs under
the immediate control of the party man
ayers here, announced Immediately af-
ter the Democratic Convention in Ohio
last week, that, as Gov. Allen was de-
feated last fall, the Republicans would
be certain to carry Ohio in October, and
that that would result in the defeat of
the Democratic sarty in the general
election in November. This assertion
is a shallow Republican trick, put forth
in the hope that it may discourage
weak kneed Democrats. Its utter falsi-
ty is shown by the simplest calculation.
Those Southern States which we are
certain to carry, with New York, New
Jersey and Connecticut, will, with the
addition of California and Oregon, give
us a majority in the Electoral College,
and elect a Democratic President. With
a candidate who can carry the States
named, the Democratic party cannot
be defeated. A reference to the figures
will show that if we carry Ohio and In
diana and lose New York and New Jer-
sey, or New York and Connecticut, we
shall be defeated. But if we carry the
last named States and lose Ohio and
Indiana, pe shall Win. We don't in
tend to lose Ohio and Indiana, w in
tend to carry them both. But it is just
as we'll that our Republican friends
should understand that the Democratic
party does not depend on those States
for success, and that their loss cannot
defeat as. HERNANDo.