The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-07-29
..xvuYc FRAUD AND FoRGERY.p

,1wHT6s FRAUD AND F0RGERYso
Ir,der this caption the Republican of Thurs
last is making attempt to nd tho federal
destructive Senator from Ohio, oBsnj. TappGn,"
Of the charge of advocating the reduction of the
wages # labor.
It appears that through some misapprehension
it was alleged that he had made>a ''Speech II,
Congress-" advocating those doctrines, so per-
nicious to all the producing classes in the coun-
try, instead Of which the declarations were ut
tered, personally, to an enterprising manufactu-
rer at Steubcnville, in Okio. Hence the fact is
not, as declared by the Republican, ga sheer
fabrication," but an absolute truth, which has
not been, and will not be denied by Mr.. Tappan,
for he has been challenged and declined to
meet the issue, by the Wheeling Times, which
offered to prove it upon him, ''to the satisfaction
even of destructive jury"
The denial at Govanstown, of his having
made such speech in Congress-" was made
upon the authority of one of our old 9S federal
representatives, Jas. Carroll, which, not having
been considered satisfactory, the following eva
sive letter from himself was then written TO
''preclude every thing like bubble or cavii," as
the Republican alleges
Mr. TAPPAN'S LETTER to a Gentleman Of
this City.
WASHINGTON, July 18th, 1910.
SIR: | enclose you a slip from Ohio paper,
to show YOU how those who have long known
me, treat the VILE FORGERY you speak of.
No man in Ohio asks me if I deferred such
speech; for although the Wing papers publish
it, there is not Wing in Ohio who believes it
- i
rate on Democrats; among themselves, it is full
" understood-but the end with that party JUS
titles the means, however immoral and fla gitious
those means | know this by long expert
ence, and you are at liberty to use this in any
way you please,
Respectfully, yours,
BENZ. TAPPAN.n
CHOW let us look a little further into this mat
tor, as the Republican says Tappan states, in
the preceding letter, s'that no man in Ohio asks
me if delivered such ''speech," for the simple
reason that every "man in Ohio' is perfectly sat
isfied that he publicly avowed those sentiments
they know them to be his legitimate opinions
not made in 'fspeech in Congress" but openly
admitted before the manufacturers, to induce
them,by false appeals, to their interest in getting
labor done by the poor operatives at halt price,
to become the friends of the sub-treasury scheme,
which is destined to effect the object.
A hand-bill, containing these openly avowed
sentiments were forwarded to Tappan from Pitts
burg, requesting him to state whether it was true
hat he had ''used such language'" Did he deny
It No. Did he give such 'Fevidence of its fall
'ity as to preclude every thing like bubble or
a~.1 No On La
he NEST disreputable subterfuge, the true char
lcteristic of cornered federal destructive, as
will appear to the most superficial observer,
rom the following extract of his consequential
md inflated reply:
s'Why, then, waste your time in coatradicting !
such prolific liars If yeu put down one lie, |
they have hundred more ready to take its place |
NV rule is to disregard them. Meier contra |
dict them; they have certain stock stories about
me, which, if they believe, no Democrat will, |
their authority, when nine hundred banks, with |
their immense means, are openly at work to es- |
tablish in power the old Federal party, when we
are contending for great principles against those
who dare not avow theirs. The John ID. Davis
fabrcators endorsers of SANDER of such men as
Me, [Beni. Tappan, the noted abolitIonist, ] |
should not divert you for moment from moro
important labcrs."
Here we have his own authority that che never
and he is cautious in avowing
An honest, ingenious man, and
as a venerable Senator, on being
asked the question, (even as it was put to him.
if he had not been guilty, would frankly have
replied to his friend in Pittsburg and the s'gentle
man in Baltimore" that he had neUer deliUered
such a 'sspeech,' nor used that language inn
ptited to him, on any language Of that import
on the floor Of Congress, or any uohere else;-
such disavowal, and such alone, would have
eSprecluded every thing like bubble or caviln-
and any thing less than that, must be viewed by
every man of the least share of common sense,
as Hagrant and disgraceful subterfuge, ex-
pressly intended to deceive.
But Tappan has not dared, nor ,rM he risk a
denial. He has been Hippant in the use of such
gentlemanly terms as "vile forgery"-''proliic
lars sc. and many time to exhibit brazen
front-but the denial of having used the Ian
guage imputed to him, not in 'specch in Con-
gress,n but in s'speech," conversation and
with manufacturer, would, if it has
not already been accomplished, overwhelm him
with disgrace; for the proof is at hand.
In connection with the public avowal of Tap
pan in favor Of reducing the wages of labor,
we have presented to us the argument used by
Buchanan, federal colleague IN the United
States Senate, made at Reading, Pa. on the 9TH
Of July, that it will be no disadvantage to the
vrorkingman, to have his wages reduced so per
cent.
[See Pilot of 23d inst.
After the preceding remarks had been prepar-
ed for the press, the following documentary tes-
timony made its appearance, which we recon-
mend to the special attention of the mechanics
and working men and the hardy TILES Of the
sell. If they desire ful6lment of the projects