The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1876-09-29
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Partys
When a political party goes before
the people with claim for their suf
frage and the control of their Govern
ment and public affairs. the first and
most natural impulse of the public mind
is to know something of the past public
record of the claimants. In order to
aid in this very proper and necessary
investigation the following facts and
figures have been drawn from the Of
fetal records and published. They are
presented without note or comment.
The reader will draw bis own conelu-
sions, and at his leisure answer from
his own convictions the question Dare
the nation trust s,tch a Pa1fy.F
JACKSON AND HIS TIMEs-''To THE VIC
TORS" ETC.
On March 4, 1920, Andrew Jackson,
pledged to retrenchment, economy, and
reform, was illaugusatel President of
the United States.
Proclaiming the maxim that "to the
victors belong the spoil," Jackson let
slip the ''Furies of the Guillotine" in a
wholesale prescription of the old and
tried officials of former Administrations.
John Q. Adams, IN the preceding four
years, had made but twelve changes
all for cause. In the preceding FORTY
years, all his predecessors together had
made only 132 changes-of these JEFF
ierson had removed 62; but Jackson,
in the genuine spirit of Democratic
reformer, in one year removed, it was
estimated, 500 of1icials--in one year
nearly twelve times as many as by all
his predecessors from the beginning of
the Government. The officers removed
were experienced, capable, and trusty.
The character OF those who filed their
glaces-t'sS t'sSlamm, Bang & Co.'s at
tested by the reform which followed.
HE GGEAT PUBLIC AND INDIAN LAND
GRABs.
a rage of speculation in the public
Iands distinguished the period. Gen.
Lewis Cas-, Secretary of War, who
pocketed Illegally, as extra allowances,
the sum of SOS, 900, united with Martin
Van Buren,, Secretary of State, Benia-
min F. Butler, Attorney General, and
others, in a land Credit MobIler for
speculation in public lands-tor specu-
lation in sales by the Government, OF
which they were members. Amos Ken
dali, the Fourth Auditor, and subse-
quently Postmaster General, in like
manner united with a Boston land COM
pany, for a fee of $50 600, in the whole
sale robbery of certain indians in Missis-
sippi of their lands-all swindiing en-
terprises In contemptuous violation of
the law, of which they were the admin
istrators. (H. R. 194, second session
Twenty fourth Congress-.
THE GALPHN swRDLE.
In 1884 John Forsyth, of Georgia,
succeeded Lewis McLane, of Delaware,
as Secretary of State, in Jacksou's
Cabinet. In 1850 the payment of the
notorious "Galphin swindle'' scandaliz-
ed the nation. By the Democracy it
was denounced as esinfamous''-as
sswithout precedent ga clear and
unmitigated swindle r. Their meme.
Ties were bad. In 1887, before the
Wise committee, John Ross, the Chero-
kee chief, testified that in 1885, in the
Cherokee treaty of that year, an article
covering the "Galphin'' was inserted
directly through the influence of "Mr
Forsyth, Secretary Of State,' that it
was urged, in the negotiations of the
treaty, that MIR. Forsyth had great in
fuence with the President; that ssMr.
Forsyth could and would induce the
President to grant q sum sufficient to
cover the Galphin doItZitio1soL TO the
sum stipulated in the treaty if the
CEerokees would sanction a treaty upon
such terms" The article was conse-
quently inserted. Dir. Forsyth admitted
that he sadvised' its insertion. as also
his personal interest in the payment of
both principal and interest. He had
applied to both. Secretaries of War.
Eaton and Cass as Secretary of State
had certified the papers from the De-
partmenE of State to the Secretary of
War. Gen. Cass had told him that the
claim was jnst and when the treaty
was pending before the Senate had
ssccBversed" with Senator's urging it's
ratifications but pleads that, TO them,
his appeals were ssfonnded solely on
the Justice of the claim sthe hard
ship Of the condition OF Che claimants. .
Tfepce, lobbied in 1885 by Forsyth,
Jack 5n's Secretary of State, approved
BY Gen. Cass, bis Secretary Of War,
and justified in 1887 by the Demo-
cratic majority of the WISE committee,
engineered through Congress, in I849,
By another distinguished Democratic
reformer. Mr.. Burt. Of South Carolina,