E 67/ Glass L^_7_L Book >& 9fc 7f OF THE MALVERSATIONS AND CORRUPTIONS ^^ OP THE 'fff^' EXECUTIYE GOVERNMENT & OF CONGRESS. THEIR USURPATIONS, PROFLIGACIES, FAVORITISM, IMBE- CILITY, NEPOTISM, OFFICIAL SINECURES, AND NEGLECT OF DUTIES. The EohherJ.es of the Indian Ring^ the Railway Ring, the National Bank Ring, the Bonded Debt Ring and the Eastern Protection Interest Rir;ise our belief that it is little less than calamitous that a man so strong in his convictions, so nai-row in his views, so uninstrueted, and so saturated with the spirit of " practical politic^," should have obtained the ascendancy which Mr. Boutwell seems to have obtained over the mind of General Grant." grant's desertion from the white house AND OF HIS OFFICIAL DUTIES. The disreputable practice by the Executive head of the nation, of the habit of constant and continual absence from his post of dutj-, of course renders him utterly unfitted for that studious consic'eration of great public questions which is literally imposed by the Con- stitution, and is therefore a matter of serious State necessity. General Grant seems to have had a sort of prescience when he wrote to Mr. Morris, of Illinois, that his being a candi- date for the Presidency would be a great public misfortune. The ivT. Y. San (Rad. ) thus speaks, with the exception of what is within brackets, of the President: "The Court Journal in Wasiiington, (Forney's Chionicle,) publishes the following bul- letins from the Palace : " Secretary Cox is the only member of tlie Cabinet now in tbe city."' *• Secretary Robeson is expected to return here about the middle of next week." [It also publislied a few days since, that at General Grant's request, an e.xtra box had been provided for him at the theatre, where he could retire to smoke, converse, ic. j "Ten years ago, a similar announcement would have provoked indignant comment all over the country. But we have made progress since then, especially under the present rcyime, which in many important respects is modelled upon that of Louis Napoleon. " lu the whole history of the Government, no such flagrant disregard of the public inter- ests and wilful contempt for public opinion have ever beeu exhibited by any former Adminis- tration. The conduct of the President and of his Cabinet in this respect is a shame and a scandal. " The President has been absent from Washington about one-fourth of the time since his inauguration. He has drawn from the Treasury some $10,000 in salary for which no pre- tence of service has ever been rendered. That is to say, he has taken this much pav while running about the country in search of pleasure and amusement, or looking after his personal interests. ''The President receives $25,000 a year for salary alone, bat the appropriations for the White House make it nearly all clear profit. (The report proceeds to say, the White House grounds to which the people have immemoriall v had access, but from which thej' are now ex- cluded, are all kept up at public expense.) Secretaries, clerks, messengers, steward, servants, gardeners, laborers, lights, fuel, stationery, green house, kitchen garden, stables and nu- merous other items are paid for out of the pockets of the people. These appropriations, which were wholly unknown a few years ago, have grown up gradually, until they now sum up tens of thousands annually. "With all these advantages, the President might at least set the example of remaining at his post, even if incompetent to discharge the duties propei'ly. The effect of this sort cf strolling absenteeism is to bring the Presidency into discredit, besides showing a want of appreciation of the dignity and responsibilities of that high trust on the part of the incumbent. "The Queen of England, who reigns but does not govern, is rebuked for her absence in Scotland at this crisis. Here is a telegram from London, published by a coincidence on the day when the Washington Court Journal announced the absence of all the Cabinet but one member. •■ Displeased with the Queen.— There is deep displeasure here at the retreat of the Queen to Balmoral at this crisis, and some persons urge a regency, with the I'riuce of Wales at its head, [It is susceptible of proof that at a gathering of Radical members of Congress in the rooms at the National hotel, of a reckless Senator of Michigan, who it is stated took offence when abroad at Mr. Motley, on the occasion of Mr. Lincoln's going to Hampton Iloads to confer with rebel commissioners relating to peace measures, it was proposed and emphatically urged to depose him, and one Senator, more fierce and violent than the lest, indulged the hope that the steamer carrying him would be blown up.] " In monarchical England the Queen is called to account for leaving Windsor, although she has little if any responsibility in carrying on the Government, while in this republic the President, who is charged with seeing the laws executed, turns his back upon the capital and upon his dut}'. "Of course the members of the Cabinet follow the example of their chief, and abandon their offices to the clerks, although paid $8,000 a year for attending to them. Is it to be wondered at that the public service is demoi'alized from top to bottom, that corruption is the order of the day, that frauds are conuealed, and that looseness, disorder, and venality prevail through the Departments? " The very men who thus desert their places for pleasure are those who impose the most slavii'h and degrading rules on their subordinates. Factory regulations have been set up by Mr. Bancroft Davis, Mr. Fish, and others, which are absolutely disgraceful. Clerks must record the hour of coming to office and departure from it, and deduction is made for all loss of time." Since the above publication from the N. Y. Sun, edited by Mr. Dana, who for so many years was the managing editor of the N. Y. Tribune, several of the leading papers of London have come out in strong denunciation of that mere effig}' of power, the Queen, for her absence at Balmoral. They also advocate the creation <>f a regeucy. An examination of Forne^-'s Chronicle, the Court Journal of Washington, shows that the President has been absent, from his pont of duty in dozens of times — some of them for a long period at the resorts of fashion and foil}'. These discreditable practices have been often committed when Congress has been in session, and even at its last hours when the rush of legislation often demands the keenest scrutiny of the Executive, and should too, in some cases of reckless current legislation, have called out that exercise of the veto power which the Constitution requires. And here it should be slated that previous Presidents and Cabinet Ministers were nearly all very able statesmen, to wlioin men of all parties could look with pride, and who possessed the conceded high qualities of capacity, ability and learning, to which were joined habits of strict and laborious attention to their official duties and responsibilities. If, is not, in t,he nature of thincjs, that General Grant, ■when mingling with the frivolous vo- tariea of fashion at the watering places near Xew York city, or flying from point to point across the con I i cent, can give any proper attention to state subjects, or present other mtssagcs to Cong' ess in iinportant emergencies than the late feeble one for the extension of the session. The late pi-ociamation of neutrality was not '^ done in Wai-hington,'^ bo far as his or Sec- retary Fish's Revising, wi'iting or signing it was concerned, but it, was "done" by someone of the clerks there, ( who are the only class that are reliably at the capital.) General Grant in an excursion to Europe, and as a temporary member of King William or Napo- leon's staff, would be just as much at Washington as when purporting to be there at the "doing" of the neutrality proclamation. At the very least, General Grant and Mr. Boutwell could have attended Admiral Farra- jrut.'s funeral, which was but a short ride from them. Concerning this a leading journal Bays : "It certainly was a roost singular fact that no official representative of the Government was present at Admiral Farragut's funeral, last week. Singular indeed. General Grant was at Long Branch, while the old fighting sailor's remains were being borne to their last repose. Why was he not present to represent the Government on the occasion? He can travel hundreds of miles to see a horse race, but not a foot to honor the man who spent his life in the service of the nation, and under its flag." A SINECURE OFFICIAL. While this paper is in process of preparation, Sfr. Secretary of the Treasury Boutwell, is again in Massachusetts, where he intends to spend the protracted term of near two months, (his salary going on meantime, when that of clerks, females particularly, is frequently docked for slight irregularities.) Mr. Boutwell is much engaged in making electioneering speeches in the interests of the class monopolies of that section of the country, which has been enriched by the legislation of Congress, stimulated by his favorite, fostering, and sustaining authority. In the protracted absence of Mr. Boutwell, his place is supplied by Mr. Richardson, whose office is a mere sinecure, he being in Washington not above a fourth of the time, while at the same time he is the incumbent of a valuable office in Massachusetts. This Mr. Ricliardson is not the only example of favoritism of the President and Mr. Boutwell, for at the very la-«t session of Congress, when no inanij true objects of public expenditure were po!:tponed or defeated by the pretentious econonjy of Mr. Dawes, Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, an appropriation of $20,000, was slyly secured by the infiuenctr of said Dawes and Boui.well for distribution (as additional to their already large salaries) among a few pampered clerks of the Secretary's office, which clerks are no more entitled to such extravagant gratuity than other clerks of the Treasury Depart- ment, or of other branches of the public service. Concerning the favoritism of Jlr. Bout- well in profligate squandf^ring of public mone}' in lil;e mauntr last year, Gen. Morgan of Ohio, in hi.s address to his constituents thus speaks: " In consequence of an anonymous letter received by me, on the iVth of January last, I offered a resolution, which passed the House, embracing five interrogatories, calling upon Mr. Boutwell for certain information, and on the 22d of February it was replied to by Executive Document No. 188, which I liold in my hand. The third question called on Mr. Boutwell for " A statement embracing the names of the clerks now in this depart- ment other than chief clerks, who receive more than eighteen hundred dollars salary." And I will read from page G of Secretary Boutweli's answer, as follows: "A I'st of the clerks and their names now (.lanuary 17, 1S70,) receiving more than at the ra'e of $1,800 per annum, other than chief clerks of the bureaus of the Treasury Department." And here follow the names of fifty-nine clerks who receive illegal salaries, varying in amounts from two thousand to five thousand dollars ; and the Secretary does not deign to apologize for, or excuse this p.-ilpabie violation of law, and he continues to pay jujt such salaries as he chooses and to whom he chooses, and then coolly certifies that he does so." /^' it not a grave question, which icrong the better deserves impeachment, unlawful bestoval of public money upon favorites, or continutd and constant absence from ; osts of duly for any purpose of t'lfshnec.s whatever? G But >norc of lliefausriiism of the Treasury Department: While email accounts and claim?, under instructions, are kept bacl^ from pa^ymenf, fas tke}' are also in ail other Department,) vast aeconnts of that mammoth swindle upon the Government, as filoher of iiublic lands with mines^ tioiber lands, &f! , of r,~'';:''d vahie,„ore being pushed with indeceVit haste through the forms of allowance and after iFi'e same ftyle that favored parties were served during the war, bj- which fo many officials acquired floods of money through the preferring one claimant over many, or by taking cases out of their turn in respect to the time of their being filed and allowed. FKAUDS AT THE NEW YOKK CUSTOM HOUSE. It is notorious that the main reason for changing from New York to the other cities of the country, the transaction of what of custom-house business related to imports for said cities, in respect to to appraisals, collections, (^ Radical cliicnnc and opproanion i>i the form of Suiidpy lawa, prohibitory 8 liquor laws, and the like legiulation of a sumptuary character to infract and sfanjp out tbc habits and customs of a people. "To maintain habits and customs, says a great publicist, a ])eople will rouse themselves to greater acts of resistance to what infracts them, than they will against what assails political institutions or forms of government, and even the secu- rity of property itself." The German element'of population cannot therefore be diverted by the hypocritical cant of Radical demae^o^ues about political affairs in Europe, from thafe well founded and constantly augmenting feeling of distrust and dislike which is rapidly leading them to an entire estrantrement and separation from the Radical psrty. They, in the coming elections, cannot fail to regard our home issues, or whatinvolves the threshold nnd the fireside, rather than foreign wars, unless indeed republican iuatttutious shall spring from existing complications. THE KU-KLUX KAW HEAD AND BLOODT BONE'S. But it is principally in the revival, on the eve of the election, of stories abo'ut alleged Ku-Klux outrages in the South that the Radical shoal of public plunderers rely "to fire the Northern heart," and turn public attention from them and their astounding in-famies- But this game is essentially " played out." It has created so many mischiefs to the busi- ness of the country, by keeping up resentments between sections, that even Mr. Akerman, the Attorney General of tlie United States, and many of the leading Republican presses of the North, liave come out in utter i-epudiation of a further persistence in the base series of falsehoods of carpetbaggers and scallawags, which are almost their entire capital. On this bead the New York Tribune speaks as follaws : "We have a word for Governor Holden and Senator Abbot. Jnst before the North Carolina election we printed a letter from Judge Touigtie concerning the Ku-Klux out- rages in that State. Certain very startling statements were made in it, which, but for the respectable signature, would have been universally scouted. Judge Tourgee promptly wrote us, complaining that the figur<:'S he had given, in enumerating cases of outrage, had been increased tenfold by the addition of a cypher to each, converting ten into a hundred, etc. Now, we printed the letter precisely as Governor Holden in person delivered it to our correspondent, and as the correspondent understood that Governor Holden had re- ceived it from Senator Abbott, to whom it was addreosed. We submit to these gentlemen that they have allowed too long a time to elapse without explaining to us how the dis-' graceful garbling occurred. We should have e:£pected them to be us indignant as we were ourselves at the fraud practiced upon us. and to be prompt in exposing the forger who abused their trust (in copying the letter) by putting into Judge Tourgee's mouth mon- strous assertions which he never dreamed of uttering. Governor Holden, who garbled the letter which you gave our correspondent? " The Nation [Republican] also writes as follows : "The Northern people are begitining to understand the carpet-bagger tolerably well, and he is on his last legs, no doubt, but every month by which his final end can be hastened is precious; aiid it is to be hoped that light from all sources may be thrown on his figure till there may not be a man in the Republican paity who does not justify the S nth in its hatred of him, and see why the South is to be partly e.^cused for hating ua. A'^typical carpet-bagger may actually have been afew years ago a bankrupt salooL-keeper, of the ability usual with his class, whose saloon decayed because of a vehement suspicion th at it was a house of assignation, and an absolute certainty that it was a very unsatisfac" tory place in which to eat and drink ; he may have been more than half believed to have set his saloon on fire for the sake of getting the insurance money ; he may then have been' a soldier, known for currying favor, and a petty officer hated for snnll tyrannies; he may ajways have been innoct-ut of more education than goes to the reading of the Ledger ; and y et to-day he may be lieutenant governor of a State, with a prosperous 'ring;' and he may be a Congressman, and a seller of cadetships; or — and here is a chief concern of ours with him — he may be a representative of Northern civilization, an instiuctor of the negro- voter, making him rotten in legislative rascality before he is ripe for suffrage; an agent in jecoDstruction. and a fruitful source of the hearty hatred for the North, which has so long delayed the peace that is essential. And worse cases than this could be cited. Every Southern State has had it share of them, and the Republican party has suffered in conse- quence abc'jt as al'jcb es it is -v'm to attempt bearing." 9 A precicns exposure of th.? 'R.'t^lical crew c^t.tio? from tbe Wa3hington correspondent of ttiG Cincinnati Commercial, or Gazette, [Radical] as follows: "It sesms st.range that 30 little should be known here concernir;g t.he renl condition of affairs in North Carolina. There is more than a suspicion that but little cause exists for the extraordinary course taken by Governor Ilolden. One fact, known here to most of the ])ress, has done nuire than any of the stories from either side on the field of action to throw enspicion upon llolden's mov.'ments and creale the belief that he ha^; acted otdy to fur- ther the interests of local political factions. And that fact is this: .\ few weeks before ad- journment S.->nator Pool came to the reporter."!' j^allery and called out a gentleman he sup- posed to be connected with the Wtishingtun Chronicle. [.Mr. Forney's papei'.] He then showed hi(n a North Carolina newspaper, in which there was a collection of Ka Klux out- rages, murders, and robbings drawn out at great Ifngth. The Senator wenn on 10 Faj quitt confidently that it was desirable the Chronicle should at once begin the publication of this colleciion, and keep it up until the stitements made should be well disseminated in the North. He ifurther explained the need of this by saying that to carry ths State nCxt fall it would be necessary to u?e the militia extensively, and if this collection of outrages could be well circulated beforehand it would justify the step in tlie eyes of Northern K»;- publicans. Mr. Pool made the mistake of communicating all this to tbe wrong man. However, he must have ascertained his mistake afterward, and remedied it, as accounts of dire outrage in North Carolina began to appear the second day after this Conversation, and iu due time the State militia has appeared upon tlie scene." EXPENDITURES OF THE GOVEPvNMFNT IN LAND. Mr. Dawes, of Massachusetts, Chairman of the Committee of Appropriations in thf> Souse of Representatives, made a speech at the beginning of the last session of Congress, in which he charged hin, tbe Grant administration with the commission of greater extrava- gance and proflio-aey of expenditure, than that of the previous administration. This otatement was ba^ed upon the appropriations of the previous session of Congress, and tbe estimates of heads uf departments for the late one. This exposure created a great /jzror against Mr. Dawes; but it served to terrorize tbe unscrupulous element to some extent, and prevented the passage of ^onie schemes of a plundering character. This was from fear of the people at the fall elections. But it is well understood that at the next i^e.^niori the flood-gates of profligacy are to be opened, when a perfect coup de grace to the best remaining portions of the public lands !■» contemplated. That which a few years ago was supposed to be the almost boundles-i and endless inheritance of poor labor — the public lands which under the homestead and preemption policy of the old statesmen assured millions small farms and livings to the "-plain jyeople," (Mr. Lincoln's phrase) in nearly alt tbe portion of the country west of the Oliio river to the stream — " Whose sands are amber And \'rhose pebblei gold." All euch Iraluable public lands, it is repeated, have either passed irito the hands 01 ''railroad rings" or are fast tending in that fatal direction. Trunk lines ann( lateral lines of r.-iilway, bringing on all sorts of Indian ditlieuUies, will soon absorb all the best public lands into the hands of great railway specuUtors and operate'rs, and the day of cheap lands ti' poor labor will be gone forever. The vast possessions of new millionaires, and ten-millionHires, or fifty-millionaires, who, alone or combined, ^n. all-grasping and cruci- fying corporations, will monopolize the public lands and shut out— " A brave yeomani'y, their country's pride. Which once destroyed, can never be supplied." There are now on tbe House Calendar, waiting action by that body next winter, bills asking for new grants of lands amounting to considerably more than one hundred million acres. These bills have passed the Senate. In that body bill? are pending which ask for nearly two hundred millions more. It is esfimaied that, exclusive of Alaska, the water and mountain surfaces, there does not remain within the public land area more than seven h\mdred million acres of land available for settlement. So it. is proposed to give ont-half of this away, and to whom? Why, corporations, the very creation of which, in their present unrestricted form, are but monopolies of the most powerful character, sure, if left to themselves, to control legislation in the support of privileges dangerous in re.iults. It is to be remembered, also, that of the f'J '2,000, 000 000 at which the real estate of the country is now valued, it is estimated that at least ^18,000,000,000 is the result merely of speculation. Fro n such causes grow the raonstrods disproportions of wealth and poverty from Ti-hich o^ir comm-'jici-al c-ivi'izuticn groan-:. 10 Tiiegeneral publicai'e little aware of the enormous subsidies that harebeen g ivcn to moneyed corporaiions in the shape of land grants within the last eighth-ears. From a careful inspection and compilation, it is found that thej amount to 173,274,158 acres, as follows : ' ' ■■ . c: . M V 1 VJ862.> Acres. July 5— Chicago and Northwestern 375,680 April 22-^Chicago and Noi thwestern .'., 1,800,000 July 12 — St. l^aul and Pacitic 725 000 Total 2,900,680 18G3-4. Mqrch 3— ,Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galraston ") July 1— Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe \ 2,500,000 " Union Pacitio and Southern Branch j May 5— Toneah and I ake Superior 675,000 " St. Croix and Lake Superior 350,000 " Branch to Haytield 215, OOn June 7— Grand Rapids and Indiana 631,200 July 2,— Sioux City and Pacific 580,000 Aiay 12— Minnesota Vallev 150,000 " McGregor and Sioux City 1,636,000 " Sioux City and St. Paul." '. 255,000 June 2— Burlington and Missouri 191,110 " Mississippi and Missouri 116,275 " Ceder Kapids and Missouri 123,370 Total 7,222,955 18G7. May 26— Xorthcin Pacific 20,000,000 Total 20,000,000 1868. Fort Dodge and Sioux City 1,226,163 1869. War. 3— Chicago and Xorthwostern 188,800 " Ray de Xorquet and Marquette '. 128,000 " Marquette and Ontonagon 243,200 " St. Paul and Pacific 500,000 " Branch St. Paul and Pacific 750,000 " Minnesota Central 290,000 " Winona and St. Peter 690,000 July 28— Memphis and Little Hock 365,539 " Cairo aud Fulton 966.721 " Little Rock aud Fort Smith 458,771 July 4— Iron Mountain Railroad 864,000 July 28— Cairo aud Fulton 182,718 .luly 4— Ircn Mountain 1,400,000 July 3— Jackson, I ansing and Saginaw .'....." ".'.'.".' ."„'...,' l,052,46.t» •' Flint and Poramarquette.. 586,822 July 13— Lake Superior and Mississippi 800,000 Minnesota Southern 735,000 " Hastings and Dacotah 550,00 July ^3— St. Jos.z'ph and Denver Citj- 1.700,000 July 25— Kansas and Keosho Vallev 2.350,000 •'" .V 26— Southern Branch Union facific 1.203,000 / ,^ o,'~~'^'''*'^'^'"^i"e -I'ld Sacramento 200,000 Juy 2o— California and Oregon 1,540,000 July 27— Atlantic and l^icifi'c ," .'.'...'.." 42,000,000 Total. 69,605.010 11 1^70. Mar. 2.— Stockton aud Copperopolis 320;COo MISCELtANEOUS SUBSIDIES. By the acis of Congress of July, 18C2, July 2,1864, July 3, 18CG, July 2G, 1860, and joint resolutions of March 10, 18G9, there were granted to the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific, and their branches 7. 35,000,000 By the acts of Congress July 2, 18G4, and joint resolutions of May, 1866, and April "10, 18G9, were granted to the Northern Pacific 47,000,000 Total 82,000,000 TOTALS. ]S62 - , 2,800,000 1SG3-4 7,222,953 1S67 20,00,0000 1868 - 1,226,163 1869 59,605,040 1S70 320,000 Miscellaneous 82,000,000 Grand Total , 173,274,158 "There i"," saj^s a leading press of the country, "about four times aa much land in the above as there is embraced within the limits of the Slate of Pennsylvania, and if divided into homesteads of one hundred and sixty neres each, would furnish homes for more than one njillion af families, giving them not only an opportunity to make an honest living, but a chance to accumulate a competence. These lands, too, are the most valuable of all the public domain, and being placed, as the}' are, in the hands of powerful corporations, will continue to be worthless, so far as the augmentation of the national wealth is concerned, until they are sold at exorbitant prices to actual, settlers, without any benefit to the Government. Now, if these lands were to be absolutely given away, would it not have Vieea infinitely better to have given them to the crowded populations of the cities and F.uropeau emigrants coming hither, to enrich the nation with their labor? Undoubtedly it would, but there would have been no speculation in this for the lobby at Washington, the spoils of which v/ere shared by Congressmen." THE PEOPLE AFTER THE ROBBERS. The constituents of Hon. Sidney Clarke, of Kansas, are after him -with a multiplicity of very sharp sticks. At a meeting the other day, a committee was appointed to invite his attendance at Olathe on the 27th, where and when an t)pportanity will be aflorded him to render an account of his stewardship. .In discharging this duty the committee rather pointedly indicate the nature of the accusations against their Representative. They say : "You are aware that serious opoosition^^ill be made to your re-election to Congress hy all the settlers on the Black Bob R-serve. on the grounds, as they allege and believe, that you have betrayed their interests into the hands of i-peculators ; and you have used your iillicial position to defeat ihem in their eft'orts to secure titles to their lands, except through the hands of speculators, and that you are generally mixed up in what is termed through- out the State "The Black Bob swindle." After presenting such an indictment, it seems a Ifttle strange that the committee should add, " It is unnecesfary for us to say that we will extend to you the courtesies due to all gentlemen." DEFALCATIONS. Gen. Geo. Tf. Morgan has opened the campaign in the Thiiteeiitli Congressional Di.-trict of Ohio. In a speech of marked power on Tuesday last he made the following statetcenta ba^ed upi">n f:>?(s, which w'llbc of service in this locality: 12 tSREE HUNDRED AND FORTY INTERNAL REVENUE DEFAULTERS. "vV'hen T tell ycti that there has been three hundred and fort.)' defaulters amdng the cdU lectors of Internal Revenue, you look surprised an(5 ask one another, "Why have we not been told of this before ? " For the simple reason, my friends, because the facts have been Concealed, atid had to be dug out. On the 2Ut of March last it was resolved by the House that "The Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby directed to furnish this House a etatement of balances due from collectors of Internal Revenue, not now in office, &c. And I invir.e your attention to Executive Document No. 267, being the reply of the Hon. George S. Boutwell, in answer to that resolution. Look at it yourselves. Here are eight eolid pages of the na-nes of three hundred afid forti/ defaulters ! I have not time to read them all, but will call off ten, and you may form an idea of what the remaining three hundred and thirty amount to. Names of clcfanltersi Am'ts of Defalcations. Frank Soule. ; $1,543,719 Sh -ridan Shook 1,043.547 Alexander Spaulding i ... i ..... . 439,489 M. B. Field .' J 632,879 Lewis Collins 652 305 John H. Bryant 435,000 W. C. Flagg 227.307 W. T. Cunningham. ; ; 292,4()0 T) B. Bonfoly 536,000 F. T. Hunt,. .".....; 250,407 Loss by ten defaulters $5,933,113 There is within a fr'iction of six million dollars of taxes gobbled up by ten defaulters, hot one of whom has bf en prospcnted, or ordered to be ]irosecutpd. In all these three hundred and forty defulcations, civil suits have only been ordered in thirty cases, and not one criminal prosecution. But this is not wor.-ie than the defaults of army and navy paymasters during the war. They number in all ahove a hundred. Their responsibilities are millions upon millions, and no sureties have been called upon and so the defalcations are total loss, because the statute of limitations has now run against the prosecution of the cases. All this from the political influence of corrupt radical jobbers. INDEFINITE APPROPRIATIONS. Passing from tlie point of Radical profligacy of t'ae public lands for the benefit of shoals of speculators and soulless corporations, it should be stated that the appropriations of the last Congress have only been indicated in any quarter by the adding up the sums named in the several bills or laws rlpprdpriating public money. There were at the late session (as th-ere ever is at any session) very numerous indefinite appropriations, or those which prov de for objects, not in figures, or fixed sums, but for taking money from the Treasury that ie not otherwise appropriated. These indefinite appropriations amount always to tens of millions of dollars, and if the value of the public lands given by this Congress at the late session hf coinpnted as of the same class, the indefinite appropi'iatinns amount to a hundred inilfion. of dollars. So frightened Wf-re Dawes and other Radical leaders at the great extravagatjce and profligncy of Congress that they resorted to the wicked plan of suspending the regubir appropriations of two years back, a large part of which were yet tinexpended, and as a consequence of this wretched and unheard of trick of political schemers, great numbers of accounts and claims, and necf ssary objects of expenditure, were altOLjethel" slopped. A great number of things which should have been appropriated for were not, and deep itijury has supervened to the business of the country. The re- sult will be seen ea»ly in the next session, by the passage of deficiency hills, or like remedial tneaE'jrc!?, which v.'ill amount to fifty or even « hundred mHliom; of dollars. PLUNDEKS OF THE INDIAN KING. So much having been stated concerning public expenditures, including the rapacity and robbery of the infamous railway rings, it ia proposed next to refer to the indescribable official scoundrelism that not only plunders the Indians, but thereby brings ou the wars with these poor creatures which cost the Goveitiiiieiit and people millions aud tens of mil- lions of dollars. With the advent of Radical rule, in 18(31, commenced the most stupendous sj-stem of frauds and peculations, the half of which if written would fill a volume larger than the Congressional Globe, therefore a brief allusion to a few of these frauds inflst suffice. During the administration of Usher as Secretary of the Interior, and Dole as Commissioner of In- dian Affairs, continued by Harlan as iSecretar}-, and Cooley as Commissioner, more than $5,000,000 were appropriated by Congress to feed and clothe refugees — Southern Indians in Kansas. This vast sum was expended by the Indian Department, under the direction of well known officials; but it is a faut well known that while the poor In- dians received but very little relief from these munificent appropriations, the members of the [iidiaa ring, before poverty stricken enoui^h, suddenly bdOi^nu the owners of magnifi- cent mansions, splendid equipages, lines of railroads, nationnl banks, stocks, and untold thousands of broad acres of lands. Under the management of this infamous Indian ring over 100,000,000 acres of fraudulent half breed Chippewa Indian scrip was issued, mostly, as is believed, to fictitious names, wiiioh was made locatable upon the most valuable of our Government lands. This scrip, though issued to Indians, has been in every instance located by white speculators, aud in no instance has a piece of it ever been located by aa Indian. This Indian ring negotiated numerous Indian treaties — all gross frauds — by which the Indians were swindled and the Government robbed of vast amounts of money. In these last swindles Jim Lane, Pomeroy. and Claike, of Kansas, figured extensively as copartners in this Indian ring. The Sac aud Fox, the Kansas, the Kickapoo, ihe Delaware, and the Pottawatomie Indian treaties may be named as instances of these notorious frauds and swindles. The infamous contract system, inaugurated by the Indian ring for purchasing Indian goods, is another of their means for eniieliing themselves and impoverishing the Indians and the Government. Every year these Indians get poor goods at high prices, while the ring divides a large percentage — thdr profits out of the swindling transaction?. These con- tracts amount to many millions of dollars each 3-ear. The fact is susceptible of proof that the Indian ring, not content with the swindles and Tobberies aforesaid, has by misapplica- tion, ard other corrupt practices, robbed the vested funds of Indian tribes of enormous amounts; but why continue the subject, wliich everybody knows is a mass of rottenness and corruption, which a Radical C.Migross will not and dares not investigate, for the simple reason that such an investigation would bring to light dark and damning transactions, which wovdd cover the perpetrators with infamy and prove luinous to the Radical party. It is believed that the swiudles of the Indiau ring amount to over §50,000,000. HOW NON-RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENT FEEDS THE CORRUPT RINGS, Salient, first and foremost, and above all other things which feed, nourish, and sustain the corrupt Congress and extravagant rings is the failure of tlie government and of Con- gress to do what is necessary and was right as to the resumption of specie payments. This is the initial point and leading thing in the great public outrage that stains the powers that be. That public oflfeuce is as well known to the guilty offenders themselves as to those others who are intelligent in such matters, bnt they have become brazen, and their consciences are seared as with a hot iron. Gov. Morton, of Indiana, seeks to ex- tenuate and palliate this great wrong and outrage, but like the ghost of Banquo, the wickedness of rulers in this respect, will not down at any bidding. Let us look at this thing. There are always upon the average, some $70,000,000 or $80,000 000 of gold in the treasury. It is much of the time nearly double that sum, but it is subjrct to large reductions twice a year to pay that enormous interest on llie p\iblic debt, which Senator Sherman proposed thiee years t.go to reduce to S.tJO upon along bond consolidating all others — a bond which public policy under action of Congress shouid enforce, and which position of Senator Sherman was supported by General Butler, aud M T-liaJdeua Steveii?, the latter saying that if a reduction of the interest was not insisted iipon and adopted he would go over to the Deraoenitie party. The poiioy of immediate lesumption was urged by thti JVeio Yoi'k Tribune, when gold commanded more than double present rates. It was also urged by Ex Secretary' Chase, now Chief Justice of the United States; his view waj tiuis laconically expressed, " the only way to resume specie payments ij to resume;" of course the pretense used by Grant of the impolicy of resumpliou because of fear of harm to indebted classes, had no weight with him or .anybody else, because th^re is no indebtedness in the sense of deb's in other days, but what exists is secured by collat- erals in some form. What of debts exists generally has set ofFs. There may be isolated cases of private indebtedness for which the Radical Congress party has provided a bankrupt, law. Why sliould not then the government have resumed specie payments when gold was down to 10 per cent. ? If the gold would have commanded that figure — some seven or eight millions in greenbacks — tlie money whicli the people are obliged to use by reason of the government hoarditig of gold, might have been made by the sales. But no, it could not, because if the government had thrown that a»iount, or half, or a quarter of it on the raaiket, specie payments would have been resumed at once, just upon the same principal that the menace of putting only $4,000,000 upoii the market, reduced the specu- lative specie premium from 60 per cent ti> 15 per cent, and even a less sum afterwards. If the governuieat had resumed and infused the precious metals once more into the channels of business, more than $100,000,000 of gold hoarded in private hands would have come out of hiding places, and sought investment. What of benefit would not tiiis accession of real money, (not paper promises of bank^, ) have been to every form of business? The goveriimeut would liave ceased to be the loser of say $3,000,000 a year in llie form of interest, on gold. Tiie like would be true as to private hoardei's. They Would be no longer losing interest on the money. The government and the banks have *i twice resumed specie payments within a generation when gold was at an infinitely higher premium tlian now. Then why not have resumed when gold was at but 10 percent, prem- ium or rather greenbacks were but at 10 per cent, discount. And here lies all the law and the prophecy of governmental and Congressional wrongfulness, in this respect. NATIONAL BANKS. The reason why the government has not resumed specie payments and thus brought out two or three hundred millions of the precious metais in the country, is because the premium upon gold as compared with greenbacks or the money that the the people use, is the pabu- lum and foundation stone of the leading class interests, which being fostered by the gov- ernment are eating out the substance, and draining the life blopd of the people. It keeps up the National Banking Radical policy — keeps up National biiiks without reform or pretence of one, upon their extraordinary or unprecedented privilege?, and whose power it was sought in vain by iVIr. Treasurer Spinner to abridge, and which has sucli extraordinary hold in the House of Represetatives as to have elicited remarks to that effect in Senate proceedings from Senator Slierman of Ohio. It is not proposed in thi.s argument to assail all and several of National banks, many of •which are managed by most reptitable men, but the sys'eni by which, in tlie interest of Eastern monetary interests they are run and being multiplied like the frogs of Egypt to flood the country with paper money, for which they have nr> basis of specie, and wiiich never redeem their notes, and in fact have little or no specie in their vaults on bank account, and only as special de(>osit of private parties who us? ih< m for purposes of luiarding as security. The theory has been advocated by even the more honest cbiss of Republicans, with iVlr. Treasurer Spiniitr at (heir head, that tlie ca|)ital and number of National banks should not be extended, and that theii' privileges should be abridged in the public interest, or in other words, that there should be reform in respect to their control of the currency of the people, and that more greenbacks or government money should be issued to supply the currency wants of the people. The shoddy contractors who hold government bonds, •which were obtained for 40 or .50 per cent, on their face, are authorized under the rule of Radicalism to hold them as bank capital, just the same as if they were money. The National banks issue notes to nearly the amount ef paid bonds and get interest on said notes. Thus it will he seen that the National bank ring gets two interests, one on the bon-ds and another on the notes that represent such bonds. iS^ow, if these shoddy people who desire to go into the busi- ness of banking had to get specie or government moniy [greenbacks] to bank upon, it would call for greeuback'i to the extent of about ,<;30b,0()0,000, on which the interest would be ?!l 8,000,000. This •would he saved in taxes upon the people every year. Now i: it 1-- tluort'u by the government and congressional corruptionis!ri into tlie lianJa of capi- talists, whose moaey is in bonds, who in reality do not invest a dollar in money in their banking business. So much ior the pluiult-iing of the Public by the National bankipg. With such vast aecumaiaiion at the expense of the public, is it any wonder that said banks should have immense power in the House of liepiesentalives as was said by Senator Shormau. What is not the consideration for the exercise of such power? now NOX-RESUMPTIOX 07 SPECIR PAYMENT FEEDS THE PROTECTED MONOPOLY INTERESTS. It is a principle of the common law, thai no man shall take advantarje of hi.i own wrong. I But the Radical party has done just this thing, by the criminal neglect of its Executive I government and by Congress to resume specie payments, and itself force National banks j to resume, instead of enforcing it in respect to revenues, so as to add more to the burdens of the people at large. By ihe criminal failure or neglect in question, (frecnhacks are kept at a diicowd, and then the political shysters or swindlers who enforce tliii state of things or depreciation of greenbacks, turn about and say that such depreciated paper, which the people have to take for money, shall not be legally reeeivaVile by that bond holding inteiest, whose bonds, not providing for interest in gold, caused by tlie pa}'tnent of the in- terest on them ia greenbacks, would save to the over taxed people tens ol millions of dollars yearly. Governor Morton says, in his speech at Lafayette, that he himself was for pay- ing the interest on such bonds by greenbacks issued previously to the negotiating of the bonds, but Coueresiwas not with him even to that extent. Well, if they were not with him, but r'jcctrd his partially remedial policy, by which he says the people would have saved in taxes many millions of dollars a year, does it not show that Ids party, in such monftrous majtiity in Congress, did wrong, gross wrong, foul and wicked wrong in thus deciding to "gild the refined gold" of the purchaser of bonds which pur- chasers were, to a great extent, shoddy contraciors, who had superadded the crime of making vast fui tunes, which " no rnan can number" out of the people in the hour of th.at extremity which called for the life blood of poor men of all parties, though the richs hoddy contractors could easily part with their money to buy negro substitutes for the military service. THE NATIONAL DEUT. These very bondholders refuse to take the money which the people have to take and use, as interest on the paper or bonds of the people, which were procured by usurious and extor- tionate acts in a dire and distressful hour, but demand gold; and in this they are sustained by a corrupt Congress and I'^xecutive Government. A higher, deeper,fouler jiolitieal crime in rapacity, robbery and swindling could not possibly be commited by tiie tnercenurv, venal and corrupt political schemers that are respotitible for this unneeessai'v form of additional and most grinding taxation upon the people. Nor can it be gainsaid by any citizen or tax-payer tliat they should — every man of them — be driven from power, and that the high places that now know them shall know them no more forever. The form of (jiov. Morton's defense of the bondholders is ill and wrong, which asserts that greenbucks, or a currency which is dep»'eciated — say now lU per cent. — fiom the specie standard, can- not justly be paid as interest on bonds if issued since tlie issue of said bonds. That de- fense of the grasping and avaricious and extortionate bondholders is the same as saving that they bought bonds when greeidiacks were fearfully depreciated, as compared with present values, yet they must have higher values now than at the date of the original usurious transaction. An idea so foreign to "right and reason," as is said by Blackstone, an idea so hurtful to the public, and of such extreme favoritism to the rich shoddy coptrac- tors who purchased the bonds witli depreciated pai)er, is wholly and tolall\' indefensible. EASTERN MONOPOLIES. The refusal of the Government and Congress to declare for specie payment, by which, as has been shown, the National banks and the bondholders get wrongfully tens upon tens of millions of dollars out of the over taxed people, ha^ also the effect to pour other tens of millions of dollars into the coffers of the mammoth manufacturing monopolies of the East. This huge outrage is effected by the fact that all revenue or tariff receipts must be IG paid in golJ, (so to make eui'e that ihe bondliolilers sliall get tlieir ititereiit iu gold, wliieh is a sixth mors in value than greeabacks,) and thus the artioles imported are enhan';ed iu price to the people who consume the imports by the amount of the difference between gold and paper values. Thus, with a revenue in gold of .$160,000,000, or near that figure, a year, greenbacks at, 15 per cent., which is about the present figure, would be required to the amount of $2o, 000,000 additional, or about $190,000,000 is the amount in currency that the people have to pay for imported articles, and. of course, as before siid. the difference of value between gold and greenbacks (notes of National banks being included) is so much added to the profit of Eastern manufacturers through the additional protection that is afforded them by the effect of the requirement of gold upon the tariff or revenue from tax- ation. THE LATE CONGRESS. Governor Morton's speech at Lafxyette, Indiana, claims credit to the administration for paying off, at the rate of about $100,000,000 of dollars a year, on the National debt. Why is this the policy of the Radical party ? The answer is obvious. It is to keep up the value of the bonds to the bondholders, who now receive 1 per cent, in greenbacks on the 6 per cent bonds, ^.n.\ also to justify aa enormous taxation iu the form of revenues or tariffs, ao that the Eistern manufacturing monopolies may be protected by a literal pil- lage of the people. The average protection on gold values is from 40 per cent, to 50 per cent., and in greenbacks by a sixth more than these figures. The Eastern manufacturing monopolies liave been served to the extent of tens of mil- lions of dollars by the late reduction of the tariff, which was largely upon the articles that are imported for manufacturing uses, and which, on account of the quasi pro- hibitory nature of the present protective tariff system is so much added to the profits of the Eastern mann.faeturies which cannot be competed with (excej't upon paying enormous duties) by the foreign manufactured articles. Some forms of taxation have been reduced by Congress, and the aggregate of appropiations have been somewhat lower, but the charge is, and it cannot be repelUd or rightly defended, that the taxes were not enough lowered and in the right direction, and that the figure of atigregate appropriations has been but a little lowered by the wicked acts of not making some appropriations that ought to have been made, and which the tricksters promise shall be at the next session; and by that most foul form of outrage aud wrong of shutting down upou appropriations made at the two last sessions of Congress upon allowed claims and allowed balances, as well as many others, definite or indefinite, for the current public purposes. As a conse- quence great numbers of public <:reditors (in other ways than bond holders) are all thrown on their beam's ends and failures are taking place oh every hand. Of course the Congressional tiicksters say this shall be remedied as soon as Congress meets again. 6 J This sneaking way of paying so much of the national debt, which ought not, to be paid \ I except bv future generations, but only the interest upon it, at 3.G0. is very coitly to the \ • people, who cannot afl'ord to have business interests or public needs badgered, hampered * and impeded for the benefit of political tricksters, in forms of the worst scheming ch.^racter, to enrich the class monetary interests to the exttnt under all heads, as has been shown of at least a hundred millions of dollars yearlj% which are literally forced from labor, or the agricultural and mechanical classes as by the agency of a bloody sweat. Id the views presented, of the profligacy of the people's money for the class interest?, can Governor iVlortou, or any other lUdical polit:(;ian say justly, as did the former, that tiie taxes on the neces.sariea of life could not be tnken off, or can they say that the gen- eral taxation ought not to have been reduced to a far lower figure than its present form of execrable proportions. To conclude: perhaps the most shallow and transparent of frauds or trick.s is the idea of borrowiut; money to pay the national debt, of Euro[)ean nations that have no money to lend, but are borrowing themselves to put np stupendous armies in a terrific war of ambition and conquest of rival nations or monarchies, with their e operors or kings, and crafty ministers and other paraphernalia, imperial pomp and ciroums'tance, aud all to grind the people to the very dust. There is but a word to add in summing up this ])aper, namely, that the hordes who are inflicting such hideous outrage and wrong upon the people should be one and all hurled from power and place, and men of sound ami just principles, in hostility to the course of the above named public enemies, should be inttulled iu all leading places of public honor and trust. Published by tbe Nrttioual Democratic Executive Resident Committe?, Washington, D. C.