p. 77 | THE CARNIVAL OF CRIME by Uriah Smith

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 9, 1876

THE CARNIVAL OF CRIME.

By Uriah Smith

REVELATIONS are continually coming to light, going beyond the worst fears of those who are even the most apprehensive of wrongs committed among all classes of society at the present time. The nation stands aghast to-day at the evidence of corruption in high places, which is thrust before its face. Yet a popular ministry in their softest and most soothing tones declare that the world is growing better, and sing of a good time coming. The Detroit Evening News of March 4, referring to Secretary Belknap's fall, says:—

“The revelations of corruption in connection with the administration of the Federal government have gone further than anybody's worst fears, in the humiliating intelligence of Secretary Belknap's disgrace. That among the underlings there were to be found rascals might have been expected in such times as these, but that a minister of the cabinet should have turned out to be nothing better than a vulgar thief is something which must fill this nation with dismay, and the civilized world with contempt. Where is all this to stop? Are we so utterly rotten as a people that nothing but vileness can come uppermost, that we cannot preserve even the great offices of the cabinet from the possession of rascals?”

Again it says:—

“Washington seems to be ingulfed in iniquity and steeped in corruption. Disclosures of fraud in high places are pushing one another toward the light. Belknap, Logan, Delano, Ingalls, and where the black list will stop Heaven only knows.”

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