Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-21
A TERRIBLE ARRAIGN-
MENT OF
ADMINISTRATIONS.
Extract From the Speech of
Hon. Geo. f.. HOar, of Massa-
chusetts I'm Belknap Impeach-
ment Trial, May 7th, 1876.

Hon. Geo. +. HOar, of Massa-
chusetts I'm Belknap Impeach-
ment Trial, May 7th, 1876.
The following were the closing SEN
fences OF Mr.. Hosr's Speech:
"My own public lie has been d very
brief and insignificant one, extending
little beyond the duration of a single
trm of Senatorial Office but, in that
brief period | have seen five judges of a
high court OF the United States driven
from office by threats OF impeachment
for corruption or maladministration. |
have heard the taunt from the friendli-
est lips, that when the United States
presented herself in the East to take
part with the civilized world in gener-
Gus competition in the arts OF life, the
only product Of her institutions in
which she surpassed all others beyond
question was her corruption. L have
e i'm the State in the Union foremost
in power and wealth four judges of her
courts ~impeached for corruption, and
the political administration OF her chief
city become a disgrace and a by-word
throughout the world. i have seen the
chairman OF the Committee on Military
Affairs i'm the House, now 4 distinguish
Ell member of this Court, rise in his
place and demand the expulsion OF four
of his associates for making sale of their
official privilege of selecting the youths
10 be educated ut our great military
school. When the greatest railroad OF
the world, binding together the contin'
ent and uniting the two great seas which
wash our shores, was finished, i have
seen our National triumph and eNalta-
ton turned to bitterness and shame by
the unanimous reports Of three COM
mitteeS Of Congress, two OF the House,
and one here, that every step OF that
mighty enterprise had been taken In
fraud. | have heard in highest places
the shameless doctrine avOwed by men
grown old in public office that the true
way by which power should be gained
in the Republic is to bride the people
with the offices created fortheir service,
and the true end for which 1t should be
used when gained is the promotion OF
selfish ambition and the qualification OF
personal revenge. | have heard that
suspicion haunts the footsteps oil the
trusted companions OF the PRESIDENT.
These things have passed into history.
The Iiallam, or the Tacitus, or the Sis
mondi, Orthe Macaulay who writes the
annals OF our time will record them
with his memorable pen; and now, when
a high Cabinet officer, the constitutional
adviser of the Executive, fees from oil
flee before charges OF corruption, shall
! the historian add that the Senate treated
the demand OF the peOpleior its Juds-
ment OF condemnation as a farce, and
laid down its high functions before the
sophistrieS aud je6rs OF the criminal law
yer? Shall he speculate about the petty
political calculations as to the effect on
one party or the other which induced
his Judges to connive at the escape OF
the great public criminal; or, ON the
other hand, shall he close the chapter
by narrating how these things were de-
tected, reformed and punished by con-
stitutional processes which the wisdom
OF our fathers devised for US, and the
virtue and purity OF the people fond
their vindication in the justice oi the
Senate