Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-04-10
Public Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer
Self-COnfcssed ReprObates.

Self Confessed ReprObates.
The members of the Garcclonian cabal
have betaken themselves to all arts and
ways to remove the odium which rests up
on them. They have tried pleading and
denunciation; lying and night marches
cheating and staggering; but through
and over all sticks ont the ugly fact that
they are Il pack of rascals caught and
beaten in scandalous transaction for
which they should suffer the sevcrest pen
atty known to our laws if they had their
just deserts.
If these men were innocent Of the
crimes with which they are charged does
any one suppose they would have Welded
the position which they held on the first
day of last January They then had full
sway in the State They held the purse
and the sword. They controlled the treas
ury and the militia. They were masters
Of the State House and all that was in it.
They had the Governor and claimed that
they had majority of the new Legislature
that was to assemble They asserted that
they were sustained in all their acts by
law. and had a majority of the people at
their backs to support them in carrying
out their plans to hold the government an
other year. According to their own dec
larations they were entrenched and fortified
beyond the power of mortal man to dis
turb them
This was their situation on the first of
January. what is it now? They have nei
Their Governor. legislature. or any power
in the State. The legislature which they
set up glided from the State House to the
street, then to n private hall, and at last
dissolved into thin air. a subject for ridi-
Guile and scorn. Their pretended Govern
or had just time to issue one manifesto
before he retired to the shades of Old
town. Their Secretary of State absquatu-
lated. taking away the State Seal with him.
but was glad to bring it back and appear
before committee OF the Legislature and
make disclosures of what he knew. The
legislature whose power and authority
they denied they have acknowledged.
Members of the fusion party occupied
seats in it. took part in all its proceedings.
helped made the laws which it enacted
and took pay from the State for their SER
vices in it. Even Garcelon himself APP
peared in response to summons from the
investigating committee appointed by that
body. gave his testimony before it, and de-
livered up the money which he had wrong
fully taken from the treasury and kept.
The chief conspirator has fled the State,
and those who remain in the State are OBJ
iects of contempt.
In fine there is not in the history of this
country recorded So complete surren-
der Of power-in which party claimed
to have rightful control and authority-as
in the very case which we are considering
Ii the Garcelonian cabal had been right,
their power could not have been shaken.
But they were wrong and knew it; their
rascality made towards and fools of them.
and the degradation to which they have
allowed themselves to sink is their own
involuntary confession that they were en-
gagged in monstrous scheme of villainy
1t was the righteous cause of the republic
cans that made them strong; it was the
aa-righteous cause of the cabal that
made them weak. drove them out of the
State House. made them a spectacle for
all the country to cry shame upon. and
wrote their disgrace so deeply that it will
be read for generations to come. Do
they suppose that the rant of brainless
Fogg will serve to cover up or wipe out
the confession which their ignominious
and complete breakdown amounts to in
fact and in the eyes of the people
Never!