New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-15
THE NATURALIZATION OF TWEED.

THE NATURALIZATION OF TWEED.
When that constitutional lawyer, MI
Mari, made tho point that the woes
Louisiana should be ''nationalized" b
was not aware that the concession wa
fatal to the doctrines which he has main
tanned with such fidelity. What is ina
tionalization?" It is simply taking I
question from local constituency and
submitting its decision to the whole PEG
pie of the republic. If such propose
had been made to Mr.. Calhoun he would
have rejected it with horror. He re
garded the States as separate and sacred
Enclosure, within which nc foreign au
thority could be permitted, and without
whose pale no power could decide upon
its rights. Suppose Mr.. Webster had pro-
posed to Mr.. McDufie to nationalize the
tariff, OF to submit to the whole people
the question of State sovereignty-he
would have been rebuked with indigna-
ton. The very use of the word ''nation.
alize" is fatal concession by any State
rights advocate. So we have reserved
this extraordinary surrender to be used to
the confusion of Mr.. Mari whenever he
shall appear as candidate for any Of the
higher Offices in the gift of "this people. "
The naturalization of Tweed has. how
ever, been attained by q more legitimate
logic. He has committed the most ex-
traordinary theft upon State treasury.
and appears by universal admission to be
the centennial thief, or the thief Of the
century. Being Democrat, the advo-
Gates of monarchy abroad hold the insti-
buttons of the republic responsible for
this singular development of political
fraud, nor is it possible, perhaps, to de-
prive them of this reproach by explain
ing the very wide distinction between the
false apostles of an effete doctrine and
the Republican integrity which animates
q majority of the nation.
England has some small pretensions to
claim the belt for the champion robber,
Warren Hastings, as well as for an under
secretary Of State and numerous men,
bers of Parliament, who had enriched
themselves by the corrupt sale Of public
France has had her receivers
general and rascally commissaries; Rus
ia her fraudulent army contractors with
heir shoddy and short weight supplies,
,ut Tweed has, in dramatic parlance,
treated the character in which he ap-
,ears. He is trusted member and
Elected Senator of great party. He
vas even reelected by his party after the
harges of fraud had been substantiated
gainst him. His manner of robbing
vas emlnently representative. His in
orsement by his constituents showed
hat majority Of them approved Of his
:auds. or that they considered it no
Official disqualification. His manner of |
obbey was, as We have said, peculiar.
[e procured for himself q legisla-
We appointment as a member of
board, whose duty it was to
famine and allow all bills against
,e corporation of New York city. 1t has
cen proved that these bills were, by
weeds order, made for larger sums than
10 work done or supplies furnished
lould have cost. In many instances,
lis were made for supplies or services,
either Of which were ever furnished.
ut of the money allowed for these fraud
ent bills, the bogus creditor took sat-
factory compensation, while the very
rye margin left was set over to Tweed
ID his accomplices. The established
riff of Tweed being twelve per cent of
e gross claim. The entire amount
oven to have been robbed from the
ty treasury of New York, by this device,
IS estimated at about forty million
liars. The sum traced into the hands
Tweed, and established by judgment
ainst him, is about six million dollars
we are not aware Of any one who,
ice Verres, the prator of Sicily, was
peached by Cicero, for the plumber of a
ovince, has ever succeeded in getting
ay with as much as six millions of
liars, we are compelled to accord to
veed, the Democratic Senator from the
= district Of New York, the ignomin- ,
Is distinction of being the centennial
ef, or thief Of the nineteenth century. s
And now Tweed has been nationalized
the Federal demand, in extradition, for
custody of his person, that he may be I
y delivered over to the State author t
s of New York. 1t is possible Senator s
yard and other intense believers in the 8
hts of the States, may protest, that each 8
tie should be left to deal with its own i,
ninals, just as attorneys learned in the t
have advised the convicts in the State q
son of Western Virginia, that they have p
ght to select the place of punishment; a
it must be remembered that the con- a
ution says ''no State shall enter into n
, treaty, alliance or confederation, or T
er into any agreement or compact b
b any other State or with foreign f
yer." 1t would be, therefore, impossi- &