Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-09-03
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Special Correspondence.


WASHINGTON, August %, 1877.
Ever since the State of South Carolina
fell into the hands of the shotgun Dem
ocracy, the course of the leaders in that
State towards prominent Republicans
has been growing more and more inconS
sistent with the pledges made by Hamp-
ton to the President last spring, and the
prosecutions foreshadowed against every
one ever at all prominent on the Repub-
lican side in State politics, or whose in
telligence promised to become stumbling
block to the establishment of the
aristocratic ante-war regime, have taken
such definite shape, that many of the
most earnest friends of the Presidents
efforts to restore feelings of fraternity
and good will, have become alarmed and
justly indignant, feeling as they do, that
his kindness has been abused and they
made the innocent abettors OF cunning
ly devised system, under cover of law,
to drive into Punishment or imprisonment
the men who have stood between the
unrepentant secession leaders of the State
and the masses whom they would relegate
to practical state of serfdom. 1t is
understood that delegation is now here
to lay before the President incontrovert-
able evidence of these designs and to
invoke national protection.
The charges of extension Bureau
official Kane, against the former and
present commissioner of that Bureau,
Baker and Bently), and also against
some minor officials, which he laid before
Secretary Schurz nearly three months
ago and which have just come to light
through the Republican, have served tt
increase the feeling of distrust entertain
ed relative to the crooked management
of public affairs by many of our depart
In0HIdl OluCSIS. DdhCI 10 OllOumoedu
TALLY charged with having allowed /;
claim which he had previously rejected
knowing it to be fraudulent and tina
he received $4,000 and $4,000 as
bride for his favorable action; that tn
present commissioner is aware of Baker
criminality, and has labored to defea
any inquiries by which it would becom
known, and that in pursuance to tina
purpose he has dismissed officials who's
honesty and knowledge of the facts rer
dered them dangerous, and replaced ther
with Bakers friends and others who's
lack of virtue insured their silence whe
that appeared most profitable. 1t is fel
that it ought to be an easy matter t
: show Kane liar if he really is such.
AS indicated by general expression
Gen. Boynton has not helped his sic
much by his latest bull against M
Moore who is not on trial. The chare
I of an attempt to blackmail has not bee
r satisfactorily refuted; and the public
ton by Boynton of two confidential lie
tiers written by two different officials
: President Grant, and by him referred
. Secretary Morrill, for his information
naturally excites much curiosity as
how Boynton came in possession of, pa
~ ticularly as he has offered no explanatic
in answer to Moore's averment that thu
ii were stolen. And the contents of tho
y two letters will strengthen the wild
u spread suspicion that there existed pri
% to the Cincinnati Convention, Bristc
u ring, ramifying through every Bureau
, the Treasury Department formed of /
= adherents among the employees that
u public business was made subservient
~ his interests, and that there was esta
- lished Jesuitical system of espiona
Ill over those subordinates who refused
~ identify themselves with the Brist
OF movement; and it will require mt
. than Gen. Boynton's statement to
III contrary to convince many of tn
brought into contact with Mr.. Coma
lie ! that he was incapable of the viol'
lis bulIy's part when he deemed such
departure from the character of a gent