[Homer_J_Simpson]

The Democratic Convention – 1-2, 8, 14
On the Way to Charleston, No. IV – 1, 3
Editorials – 3-4
Correspondence – 4
The Lounger – 4-5
Humors of the Day – 5-6
The “S.R. Spaulding” – 7-
Captain Brand of the Schooner “Centipede,” by Lieut. Henry A. Wise, U.S.N. (Harry Gringo). Part I, Chapter VIII-IX – 9-12
Literary – 12
Domestic Intelligence – 12-13
Foreign News – 14
La Mode-The Zouave Jacket – 14
Lost and Found in the Woods – 16-17
The Uncommercial Traveler, by Charles Dickens, No. VI – 17-18
Canadian Testimonial to General Codrington – 18
The Clay Statue at New Orleans – 18-19
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins, Mister Fairlie’s Narrative Concluded – 20-22
The Narrative of Eliza Michelson, Housekeeper at Blackwater Park – 22-23

[BroJoeK]

"Editorials – 3-4"

Ever "fair and balanced" Harpers decries corruption in Albany, NY, noting first that Republicans generally seem more corrupt than Democrats, then remembering that's because Republicans have been in charge in Albany and further, that some of the most corrupt politicians they know are, indeed, Democrats.

Harper's suggests two possible solutions -- 1) more voter participation to elect more honest politicians and 2) revolution to replace a corrupt legislature with a Bonaparte-type demagogue.

160 years later neither alternative seems to have happened, and politicians are still routinely accused of corruption.
But in the interim many new laws & rules were passed to prevent the most blatant forms of corruption, plus agencies (i.e., FBI) powerful enough to enforce them.
The result is a good many corrupt politicians have gone to jail, but also, sadly, politically tainted "enforcement" has sometimes jailed men who's real crime was being on the wrong side of a political divide.

Can anyone say, "Russia, Russia, Russia..."?