The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-04-29

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government which Shepherd controlled, in
order to put him out Of place and power,
the President had the indecency to renom.
mate him at once as the head Of the new
government nomination so scandalous
that the Senate immediately and unani-
mously rejected il.
%. In spite ofthis he still retains Shop
herd in favor as one Of his most intimate
associates
"a, He shocked the public sense off pro-
priety by inviting to the White House, on
a public occasion, Harrington, the cOnfed-
crate Of Shepherd, person then undergo
ing trial for felony, aud never acquitted Of
the charge.
20. He consorts constantly with men of
doubtful character, and still has among
his intimates both Shepherd and Harring-
ton.
70. In their defence he even went so
far as in an annual Message to understate
by several millions the debt Of the District
Of Columbia; gross attempt to deceive
the public which was Immediately exposed
in Congress.
~. He was party to an intrigue
whereby his own salary was doubled, and
caused it to be privately understood in
Congress that the bill raising Congress
sional salaries would not receive his sig
nature unless his own salary was doubled.
rs. He was for months engaged in an
attempt, at last successful, to make one of
his intimates, Rufus ingalls,, Quartermas-
ter Of the Army, and held vacant the Rus
sian mission as a temptation to General
Meigs, who stood in the way Of this scheme.
80. He supported Kellogg as Governor
of Louisiana without authority from Con-
gress, eonfessing that he did not know
who was the rightful Governor, and on
his own viii alone; and he has used the
army for many months to hold Louisiana
down for this favorite.
80. He did not scruple last year to
grossly misrepresent to Congress and the
country the condition Of Louisiana and
other Southern States, in order that he
might thereby support his corrupt personal
followers there.
81. While Congressional committee
was in New Orleans investigating the con,
dition Of Louisiana he violently took mat.
ters in his own hands and in their presence
dispersed the legitimate Assembly of the
State by means of the army.
81. He ordered his Secretary Of War
to send the approval Of the whole Cabinet
to Sheridan for the dispersion of the Leg
stature and his banditti despatch, though
it is known that he did not take the troubl,
to consult any member of the Cabinet il
the matter, and that several members die
strongly disapproye of these measures.
80. He refused to see or hear the com
mittees which Congress had sent to New
Orleans, and sent message to Congress!
founded on assertions which the report O
that committee of Congress showed to b,
false and groundless
"a. Thus he first insulted his Cabinet
and then Congress in order to carry out
his personal aims, and sought, by artfu
misrepresentation and false staten ents
made when the truth was at his call and
unoficially known to him, to justify a
dangerous usurpasiou of power by the mil
itary and the prostration of civil rule.
30 He endeayored to intimidatc Con.
gressional committee into making report
on the condition of Arkansas, to subserve
his own views; summoned them before
him, told them what they ought to report,
and did not even take the trouble to ask
them what facts they had found in their
investigation. Fortunately, they were too
independent to submit to his dictation.
36. One member of that committee,
who made minority report 10 accordance
with his wishes, he rewarded with the post
of the District Attorney at Chicago, an
Office from which he was lately dismissed
for incapacity.
81 He used the powerful influence of the
administration to cause the passage of the
Habeas Corpus and Force bill, measure
hagrantly unconstitutional, and, as subse.
quent events have shown, without the ex
cuse of necessity or expediency.
3S. He insulted the public sense o.
honor and deeency by retaining Mr.. De
lano in Office long after the grossest scan
dals had been proved against him and hi
subordinates in the management Of Indiar
Affairs and when at last compelled by
the dread of losing an important election
to dismiss him he gave him a strong ties
timopial Of character and expressed hi
regret at parting with him.
80, In the prosecution of the whiske,
thieves he gave bis countenance not to th,
honest officials doing their duty, but i
the political gamblers and personal adher
ents whose crimes were threatened wit
discovery.
40. When an honest but overzealou
prosecuting officer uttered words in tb
heat Of argument at which the Presiden
chose to take offence, instead Of pardonin
bis words on the score of his honest ses
for the public interest he ordered his dil
missai.
Al, He kept near him in the most int
mate official relations two men, Babcoc
and Luckey, when both were under gras
suspicion Of completely in revenue fraud
/ AZ. He restored Babcoek to his plae