Whatever legislation of the ses
sion of lHIJS-O that was corrupt we
join men of all parties in condemn
ing. W allow none to go before us
id denunciation, of fraud wherever
and whenever found. Ollicial venal
ity and spi-aMilation should be expos
ed, censured aud puurfhed. There
port of the Bragg Committee and
also that of the Fraud Commission
brought to the light an enormous
quantity of vicious and dishonest
legislation covering the period of in
vestigation. 1SC.S (J!) and 1S70. lri-
" er '
right men every whe', deplored
these iniquities at the time, have de
plored them since, and do now de
plore them. 1'iut we must not for
get, as certain partizan newspapers
would have us do, that all of this
wrong-doing was not confined to the
Republican majority in the (leneral
Assembly. The truth is, there were
two sides to these transactions; one,
the unworthy legislators, the other,
the active ard willing beneficiaries
of the sins of the first named. Upon
full investigation of he
matters brought out in the
above mentioned publications, it will
be seen that, while many individual
legislators betrayed their tiusts (and
in many instances for paltry consid
erations, the booty was, ns a rule,
carried into the ca:np of men promi
nont in Democratic circles. Another
thing, it is proper to say right here:
That is, that the plundering of the
State at the times above mentioned
could never have taken place but for
the active aid and suggestions of
numbers of the most influential men,
'native here and to the manner
born,'T:of the Democratic party, in
urer with their value, aud the divis-
1 ion, afterwards of the profits arising
! from a sale of the bonds between the
I pool and the Treasurer, is another
instance of good Democratic finan
ciering. But enough for today.
