Our readers may remember that when Mr. Trumbull, some weeks
ago, made his severe summing up of the "Georgia difficulty," he
hinted in very plain terms that the patriots of the Bullock
faction had been guilty of both corruption and intimidation in
trying to get their "Reconstruction" bill through, installing
them in office for two years. By many people this charge was
ascribed partly to Mr. Trumbull's hatred of the black man, and
partly to his hostility to the pure and good of all colors, and
doubtless some asked themselves, as they asked themselves when
the Traitor Ross refused to give up his chair to Senator
Revels, for the sake of the dramatic unities: "What else can we
expect of a man who voted No on the Eleventh Article?"
[A committee of the Senate, appointed to look into the matter,
had taken a mass of testimony and submitted a report.] Their
finding is--and we blush to write it--that Bullock and his
friends have been for a long time in Washington, complaining of
the Ku-Klux Klan, and asking fresh guarantees for "the
persecuted Unionists" of Georgia; that somehow or other, while
there, they have had a great deal of money and railroad bonds,
which they seemed to have no particular use for, themselves;
that they tried unsuccessfully to purchase the votes of
Senators Carpenter and Tipton against the Bingham amendments;
that harrowing reports of "outrages" in Georgia were actually
prepared to order, like boots or dinners, furnished to them and
paid for; that the writing of threatening letters to Senators
was procured in the same manner; that $4000 was paid to that
good and great man, Colonel Forney, of the Washington
_Chronicle_, for "advertising and printing speeches and
documents," the Colonel's editorial denunciations of the
opponents of the Georgia Bill, we suppose, being thrown into
the bargain. The Washington correspondent of the Boston
_Advertiser_--a wicked fellow--adds that some of the witnesses
when first examined "were very loath to tell what they knew,
and indulged in the tallest kind of lying." The report of the
committee is unanimous.
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