Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1876-10-07
BLACK TO GARFIELD.
"Thc RO!teneSt Government This
Side of COnstantinOple.'


the corruptest government on this
side of Constantinople. Perhaps you
will say this is a mere general asser-
ton But am ready to maintain the
truth of it against all opposers. lou
NAV take the rO,tenest monarchy III
Europe, 90 over is history for hun
dred years, and produce the worst act
Of fraudulent spOiatinn upon It's pco-
pie and if do not show something
worse committed here under the au-
spices of the party now in power |
will give up the case.
am speaking of the government
of the officials who rule us for their
pleasure and plumber for their person
al proiit-and it is no answer to quote
Mr.. Lords speech before the senate
on the trial OF Be!knap. His eulogy
was on the virtue aud Intelligence Of
the people, and he argued frcm that
the duty OF their servants TO behave
with integrity. He certainly did not
mean to whitcwasb the administration.
If he ha8 meant TO do So he could nJt
have succeeded, FOR there was not
wash enough in his bucket to go over
the twenty thUusandth part Of bis
job.
While YOU were hunting for certi-
Gates of character among the speeches
Of the Impeachment managers, why
did YOU overlook that of MIR. HOar !!
lie said in effect (for cite him from
memory thai one production i'll which
our country exceis all others in the
world is in the corruption Of It's gov
ernmcnt There was the testimony
of Il candid Witness of your own party,
who knew whereof be affirmed and
spoke directly to the point.
You tell Us that the Republican
party "wil! punish its own rascals." "
The newspaper report Of your speech
SAYS this was greeted with laughter
from the Republican side Of the house.
Certainly it sounds like the broadest
of jokes. If yoa meant in earnest,
please 10 say what yen found this
claim of impartial justice upon. You
will hardly prove it 10y showing that
Dristow and Wilson succeeded. with
much tribulation, in convicting certain
manufacturers of crooked whiskey
and thereby got themselves turned out
of Office. 1t is vain to deny that
there is, and has been, q general sys-
TEN of dishonesty pcrvadIng all ranks
of the civil service, which 50 far from
being punished, is protected, encour
aged and rewarded by the highest
, authorities. You have set your fac, s
like tlirt against all Investigations
tending to expose rascality. Proof
Of that, if proof were wanting, would
be found in Your dcnunciatiJn of the
, present congress for pushing its in
quiries into those regions where ven
atty and corruption might otherwise
have dwelt in safety.
La all your southern measures yol
have shown a positive adherence o
honest government. Ycu forced into
all places of power, men whose char
acters were notoriously bad, aud main
tanned them while they perpetratet
, the most shameless robberies. Iol
resisted every effort of the oppresse,
people to throw them of, and whcl
those efforts We're successful! in SOM
of the states, you mourned the fall c
the felons with sincere lamcn,atiOn
Just look at the crew of godles
: wreiches by whom Louisiana ba
almost been desolaled In the fac
of a constitutional interdict, your 40
: ministration at Washington repeated
: interfered to shield them from justic,
aud to uphold them in the posseessio
- of power to which they had no maj
ner of legal claim At this momen
they are preying upon the prosirai
people Of the state, under the prote'
ton of federal 5ayone,s. Is thi
y what you call Furnishing your ow
at rascals !
d You NAV answer that the whit
!. people of Louisiana being conquered
+ are rightfuIly enslaved, according
~ priciples planted at Plymouth, an
n. therefore it is not for the like of the
ID to invoke the protection of law an
.. a. Justice. | will therefore call yo,
. attention to another case to which II
IS. Dabomeian rule does not apply, al
l. in which the failure of the Republics
party to punish its own rascals ht
been equally signal | mean Il
frauds of the Union Pacific Railwi
company and The Credit Mobile
You will pardon me, l am sure, I
81. referring to this affair; you are I
I'd last man upon whom | would ma
H. =. a personal point, and | could not
of it here if | would try for the COW
nd ton have often expressed renal
ed unchanged. that your integrity W
tie not stained by such connection
-, YOU had with that business. But
both know that it is the most glgan
fraud that the history Of modern tim
discloses. The magnitude of the
- iuuity almost exceeds belief 1
entire amount of booty already TAX
from the public and slowed away
OF the pockets Of the perpetrators can!
Oh Oh be less than one hundred mill
be dollars, and every six months th
inc make a new demand, which is hon
ice ed at the treasury by an addition
payment. | am told that late
torney- general counts Que lundl