Year: 1878

hook would get foul under dam, and was


too careful.


The present, or rather the impending, great
succession the event is postponed till next
week in order that the public mind may be
prepared for it-cOnsists in the discovery, or
rather signs that may lead to the dis
cOvery, of what it is fondly hoped


will turn out to be piece of care
lessness, by which the Government loses much
money in the payment of forged and fraudu


lent bonds. The strength of the nibble con-
ssts in the fact that a witness has been found
who will testify that he has 7-30 bond in
his possession which he believes to be fraudu-
lent, which the proper Treasury officers have
certified to be genuine. This witness says
the bond is one of great number, and that
many of them have been redeemed by the
Treasury Department. Strong hopes are en-
tertaned that this witness tells the truth, and
that the Government has been actually de-
frauded of a sufficient number of millions
to warrant Mr.. Glover aud his party friends in
calling upon the people to rise up and put the
whole Government into the hands of the De-
mOcracy. We DO not know who this witness
so well posted on forged bonds is. We pre-
sumo, however, he is a man whose conscience
has been quickened. There seems just now to
be an epidemic of quickened cOnsciences.
Everybody who has been wicked, or wanted to
be wicked, and failed to make it pay, is trying
to turn an honest penny by cOnfessing. with a
quickened conscience, that somebody else is a
rascal. BE that as it may, this witness sup
plies want that has long been felt. 1t has
been freely charged by the Democrats that
false and fraudulent bonds were in circulation
if this witness can prove the fact it will be
as great comfort to the Democracy as the
Florida confessions were to the unsOphisticated
Blair, or. the Brooklyn confession to the re-
mote ard upsuspecting Theodore. With such
witness they can go TO the country and
fairly demand that the books be turned over
to them. And then, may be, We will have such
bookkeeping in the Treasury as we have had
bookkeeping in the House


And all this we shall owe TO Glover Let us
again recapitulate Glover. No man can bear
frequent recapltulatIOn better than he. And
let no one say it is mOnOtOnOus or tiresome.
No Tight-minded citizen can ever tire OF
Glover. He has given name and a character
to an American Congress. Beginning with
demand for enlarged powers to search out
and uncover the corruption and fraud
practiced by his political opponents, he
was not discouraged when these powers
were denied him, and he was restricted to
those granted by the Constitution. Under |
these limitations he has found out more /
things that he didn't want to know than |
any previous investigator ever encountered. |
But he has kept on in the face Of discourage
mcnts that wOuld have appalled, a weaker
man discouragcmeuts that can only be par
alleed by the circumstances of person who
tres to be sociable with his pockets full of
shOrt-fuse explOsyes-until now his zeal
seems about to be rewarded. 1t isn't
a bonanza, to be sure, but under
all the circumstances it is safe to
call it streak of luck. We are not una
ware that he has been criticised in some quar-
tiers, and openly blamed in others. So, too,
was the earnest exhOrter at a camp-meeting, |
who, in moment of enthusiasm, while de-
nouncing those who enjoy the pleasures of sin
for a season, plunged the ferue of his UNI
brela into the centre of hornets nest un-
der the pulpit. But shall not zeal count for
somethngl