The Report Deals Manfully With Mr. Morgan, Showing That For Five
Months' Work - Which Work He Did Not Do And Did Not Know How To Do -
He Received As Large A Sum As The President's Salary For The Whole
Presidential Term Of Four Years.
So much better is it to be an
agent of government than simply an officer!
And the committee adds,
that they "do not find in this transaction the less to censure in
the fact that this arrangement between the Secretary of the Navy and
Mr. Morgan was one between brothers-in-law." After that who will
believe that Mr. Morgan had the whole of that 20,000l. for himself?
And yet Mr. Welles still remains Secretary of the Navy, and has
justified the whole transaction in an explanation admitting
everything, and which is considered by his friends to be an able
State paper. "It behoves a man to be smart, sir." Mr. Morgan and
Secretary Welles will no doubt be considered by their own party to
have done their duty well as high-trading public functionaries. The
faults of Mr. Morgan and of Secretary Welles are nothing to us in
England; but the light in which such faults may be regarded by the
American people is much to us.
I will now go on to the case of a Mr. Cummings. Mr. Cummings, it
appears, had been for many years the editor of a newspaper in
Philadelphia, and had been an intimate political friend and ally of
Mr. Cameron.
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