The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-08-10
Grant and the Whiskey Candidates.

No one can read the testimony Of Mr. |
Bluford Wilson, before the select Com
mittee of tho House of Representatives |
on the whiskey frauds, without feeling
shamed and Inundated 1t is so clearly
made known that the President was d.
rectly or indirectly interested in the
business, that none can fail to see it.
By this evidence alone, even if there
were no other bearing upon the same
point, he standd before the world con-
victed of participating in the proceeds
derived from robberies of the people
who made him their trusted ambassador
From this it naturally follows that be
should by all the means at his Command
try to prevent the exposure of thu sys-
tenn and the conviction of any of his su
bordinates in the business. 1t would
appear indeed that there was sufficient
evidence upon which to base articles Of
impeachment, but even if this be not
done, his guilt is established he is
proved a corrupt President, leagued
with rogues of the most contemplate
stamp to employ the agencies Of his Of
fee for the purpose of private plunder.
The whole history Of these whiskey
frauds, and the action of Grant therein,
seconded as he was by the serVitors, who
as members Of his cabinet were thought
to be men of some independence and
the constitutional advisers of their chief
is painful reading. So long as a Shred
remained to hold q pin, one tried to be-
lieVe that the condition of things in the
admins tration of public affairs was not
quite so bad as was imagined. But
here every fond delusion Is swept away,
and the system by which the people
have been pIundered is laid bare in all
it's hideousness. Notwithstanding all
the contriv ances by which Grant and
his confederates tried to cover up and
hide from view the hideous, putrefying,
deleterious mass, there it is, laid open
before US, an offence to the eye ssand a
stencil disgusting to the nOstril. Even
the minister whom we have sent to Eng
land because Mr.. Dana was by the SEN
ate not thought worthy successor to
the mining Spectator Schenck, is found
to have earned his title to the honor by
his servile cooperation with the thieves.
The name of Edward Pierrepont must
be placed in the list with those of Grant,
Babcock, Robson, Belknap, Delano,
Scheuck, Ortb, Shepherd, Williams, and
others too numerous to mention, of less
~ nUCU, ruU equaI dIsreputablIlty. The
disease once contracted has spread its
contagon through the whole service, and
nowhere does it seem to have ragged
more virulently than within the walls of
the White House itself
The organs which arc controlled by
the Administration, AMI the people 5
servants who consider themselves the
personal retoiners of the President, and
by him arc so regarded; may enieavor to
gloss over the revelations as they may.
They may exercise their ingenuity in
making and and disseminating plausible
constructions of the tale that has been
told. The truth, however, remains; and
painful as must be its realization, the
people are not to be deceived as to its
character The dupIicity and the dis
honesty of Grant are established; the
men in whom tbs people had reposed
their most sacred trusts are revealed as
fraudulent and interruptions, The
| former of these facts has been for long
time bruited about as o rumor; the lat
ter have in a degree been known and es-
tablished, but many now fall under the
ban who had hitherto evaded the charg-
es brought against them.
1t cannot be expected that the coun-
try will trust its affairs any longer to
men of this vile stamp A man must be
sunk so low in the depths of infamy as
to be utterly beyond the hope of rescue
before he will de fraud and enrich him
self at the expense of those to whom he
holds fduciary relations. The betrayal
of a sacred trust forever after dis
qualities a man for a position Of
honor and responsibility, and in
deed for admission into the society
Of the honest and the truthful. Tbs
leaders of the party new in power are
indellibly branded with infamy and dis
grace. aud yet there comes to US voice
from Cincinnati asking US again to trus
them. This is asking too much; it i
very well to tell US that the great in
structer, the distinguished inventor o
the official moral, or rather immoral
code, will no longer be in power. W
/. answer that we want not, and are de
termined to have not, either him or an!
of his disciples. By their actions the.
must judged, and by these they are con
demnad; they may as well now make {
virtue of necessity, and consider their IN
famous career as ended. The peopl
have had enough of them, and rejec
their future service; the whole party, tbs
! active robbers, the participants of thei
pluader, AID the passive spectators 0
: their crimes, are alike covered with ig
nominY ana placed beyond the pale o
the peoples confidence. By their owl
conduct has this result been brough
about, and for it they have but then
selves to thank.