The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-04-13
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Ehe ssfsl0Ody Shirt" TO Esc ts,c
Radical UatsIc Cry.
Grant Still on the dragged Edge'
About the BabcOck Business.
BABCOCK, HIS TRIAL, COUNCIL
AND OTHER WASHINGTON
MATTERS.
Interesting News from Foreign
Quarters.

WAsHINGToN, April Z, 1876.
1t is definitely ascertained that the
shirt is to be the Republican
battle cry. The policy of hate is to
be re-inaugurated and the prejudices
and passions of the people are to be
appealed to in the effort to keep cor
in power. The Republican
leaders know full well that reason,
aud justice are against them
and that their only hope is in exciting
the prejudiccs and binding the eyes OF
the people to their manifold short
comings. Hence they cry that the
people of the South are "disloyal,"
that "thcy have not accepted the situa-
that they long TO renew the at
tempt to distroy the Union, that they
deny the coloredL men of the South
equal rights. and so through the whole
gamut of lies. This is supplemented
by the cry about the schools being
in danger from the Roman Catholics.
ana that the Democrats are conspir-
ing with them to destroy our system
of education. by thus arousing pre-
judiccs the Radical leaders hope to
attract attention away from tie start
ling revelations now being daily
made, of the ]rottenness that exists in
every department Of the Government.
But the effort will fail, the exposures
Of thievcry, bribery and corruption
made by the Committee of Congress,
which show that the highest officials
of the land have been engaged in
selling ofices-that ever the President
sent a spy to St. Louis during the
whisky investigation to assist in saw
ing his ~favorite from convic-
tion-that a nan was put upon the
Grand Jury to give information that
might be used to defeat the ends OF
justice-that millions are being stolen
annually from the ovcr-taxed people
TO support thieves in idleness and
~luxury-all these things are MAX
ing the people turn with disgust
from the Radicals and their only
chance for relief is in the Democracy,
The Republicans howl about reform,
but they have never been louder i'll
this cry than when their hands
were deepest in the pockets of the
people, and no attention will be paid
TO them now.
The House is working steadily on the
Legislative. Executive and Judicial
Appropriation bill, and it will soon
in substantially the form reported by
the committee, be passed. The Re-
publicans of the House are using
every effort to defeat the saving o.
six millions made by this bill
but they will fail, as Mr.. Randall un.
Npfotdiltto No n,.~;~~- - 70 Avn
all opposition and amendments
When it reaches the Senate that body
viii, no doubt, do with it as they have
with the numerous appropriation bills
already SEN to them, and that is, in.
crease them to the estimates made by
the departments. There will be s
deadlock on these bills between the
Senate and the House, and the House
should stand by its figures. They
have been carefully made and are
known to be sufficient, with economy
aud honesty for all purposes.
The bill passed in the House max
ing silver dollars, a legal tender fol
sums not over fifty dollars, has beer
amended in the Senate and the amount
reduced to five dollars.
Babcock, Luckev and Bradley have
been examined before Clymer's com.
mittee as to the testimony of Bell, the
detective, who swore that he was en-
ployed by them as q spy on Dyer and
Henderson, and that they ~endeavered
TO induce him to steal the papers i'll
the Babcock case. An analysis of theil
evidence shows, that while they Were
anxious to deny Bells statements
they did not dare to do so, and con
firms in the public mind the truth o
Bells testimony, which was not &C
cepted as true and would not have
been without corroborating facts.
The Headquarters of the Army
have been ordered to Washington
and General Sherman will have tc
return here. This is as it should be
for they never ought to have been re,
moved.
Senator Morton refuses to summon
the witnesses asked for by the counse
for the State in the Spencer case
Morton is determined to protect hi:
friend Spencer at all hazards, and has
persistently kept the facts from being
brought before the committee. The
Bloody Shirt Committee, consisting
of Senators Boutwell,, Oglesby, Cam
eron of Wisconsin, Bayard and Nc
Donald. will soon start for Missis'
sippi to manufacture political capital
The Senate as q Court of Impeach-
ment has ordered Belknap to answer
on Monday the 18th of April. 1t is
said that his counsel who are Mont
gomery Blair, Jere Black and Matt
Carpenter will on that day ask foi
two weeks longer. 1t will be seen
that Belknap has a formidable array
of lawyers, three of the best in the
country, two Of them being ex-Attor'
nevs-General of the United States
while the House selected, with the ex'
ception of Proctor Knott and Hoar
country lawyers as managers. They
will be terribly overmatched.
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