Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1840-10-28

under MS own hands, admits 70 ~, taat OlentWoVh
came upon expectation to sell disclosures for the
purchase and reward of Office; they well knew the
character and standing Of those whom he was to
assail.
They cannot expect us to believe that they were
unacquanted with the pretended secrets of Steven
son, and yet do they repe the informerl Do thy
take FIRE at the insult of being applied to. to sell
their influence, their recommendation TO Office, IN
return for the accusation Of their fesw citizens!
Can be that the frequent prostitution of that nu-
ence, the habit Of rewarding party services with
the spoils of Office had deadensd the sense of insult
at being applied to for such purpose! Certain 1t
is that the man, coming informer, asking to be
suborRed, was not neglected
The powers of persuasion Of Mr.. Butler were, as
he says, used to rspel the idea of an official reward
and him the whole of this service appears to have
devolved But it did not to those men, at that
interview, that the very proposal made to them
showed that they must be dealing, their own state
ment be true, with who was unworthy of be-
lie, and unfit associate; that their duty to their
neighbours good name, well as to truth and honor,
required them to have communication with what
must have seemed to them so polluted source! But
they held to the man; tried to persuade him to-
their service; and finding themselves unable, they
fall back upon the retailed hcarsay of the original
Stevenson.
This it is which they have spread abroad in order
to divert from public questions the attention Of an
intelligent and honest people to divert from official
misconduct and bad government, the indignation Of
an awakened nation.
Upon this plot, base in all its aspects and upon its
authors, invoke your just sentence. Shall this
abortive tampering ripen into a successful fraud
This question: my fellow citizens, is for you to de-.
eide.
The extent to which dependents upon the public
treasury have interfered with elections is already
shameless in its character as it is dangerous in its
tendency. Their interference to its present extent
in our elections is a most formidable evil, always
operating to shelter Official misconduct, and to OPP
pose salutary reforms Opposition to this system is
of the principles of the party with which act
But how is this danger increased when the officers
Of the Federal Gov eminent convene as body of in
quisitors, and seek to procure from q appearing
before them, as they themselves say, without any
credibility, and with the avowed purpose of being
suborned charges OF fraud upon their fellow citiz
charges against men whom they assail for opposing
their opinions and jsopardng their oicesl My fell
low citizens, is for you to say whether such sys-
tenn shall receive your sanction.
TO me personally, your service in Congress now
will be most costly sacrifice of time, of private in
offering to sacrifice them, do bat discharge duty
both to you and myself; to you as presenting the
question: not merely whether you will sanction the
general measures or the present Administration, but
whether you will permit the Offices which wholly
your gift to be thus prostituted and abused; duty
to myself, as throwing myself upon your sense Of
justice, as we'll your hatred Of fraud and trick,
for triumph over such combination.
Ny fellsw.citizens, those who are the actors in
this attempt at operating upon election Of chief
| magistrate, have shown how unscrupulous they are
ofpublic wrong and private injury. 1t will be most
extraordinary, if, with the stake before then, they
shall omit any effort which may proaiss ssseesa
SANDER and flseheod they readily WELD; that they
are not shocked at subornation, their tampering
with Glentwor,h fully shows. That they will at
tempt to cover me with SANDERS, that they WILL in
some other mode, seek to Impose other falsehoods,
at atime too la'e for contradiction, I am not to
doubt: fearlessly encounter them all.
bare myself to their attacks. Upon your intell-
gence, your aversion TO such principles Of manage.
ment, upon your fixed determination for reform,
rely for your sufrages. Upon your care for your
own honor, your sentiments as honest men, and
your general intelligence, rely for protection Of
my good name against persecution and calamny.
MosEs II. GRrSSrLL.
NEW YORK, Oct. 20, 1910.