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GENTLEMEN: My attention has just been calle
to two late numbers Of the "Union" in which tn
editor has devoted ten columns, with the promis
OF more, to the examination Of my late speech
relation to Gen. Cass's extra pay. This IS a com
/, piment hardly expected from the editor OF IN
Union, and am exceedingly sorry that have givei
him SO much trouble and uneasiness.
have not time just now to read, much less Il
comment on these ten columns Of editorial abuse
| but, since MIR. Richie questions the truth of my
statements in regard to Mr.. Cass's extra pay,
will refer him to an authority, of which he seems
10 be ignorant, but will not dare to controvert.
refer him to President Folks message Of the | tn
Of August last, (Execuiive document No. S6,)
printed since the adjournment. Now, / charged
Gen. Cass with taking, while Governor Of Mchi-
gan and ex oflico Superintendent of Indian Affairs,
sol, S65 46 extra pay, over and above tho amount
Of his legal and fixed salary of $4,000 a year-
Now assert that this message sent in by President
Polk in obedience to n resolution of the House, with
the documents appended, sustain and establish ev-
cry dollar aud every cent have charged against
Gen. Cass. They do more they show that Gen.
Csss received as Marshal of Ohio and Minister to
France $26,7 0S So, over and above the amount of
his salaries and his outfit and return, which regard
ed as eriTd, will make his extra pay S9l ,574 IL,
and his regular and extra pay, together, 1924, 23l
So4, 4b extra pay is justly denounced by Mr..
Richie and his other venal followers "vifca-
ton and SANDER" of Mr.. Cass, what will they now
say Of MIR. Polk, who makes it much worse than
did /! What will they say of Gov Marcy, Secre-
tary of War; ID. Graham Register of the Treasu-
ry. p. Hagner and John M. McCalla, Second and
Third Auditors, who sustain by their official sigma
lures these statements thus "vfying and SANDER
ing" MIR. Cass, and rendering him, if true Gas has
been said by his friends,) "unworhy the support
of any honest man. % These Outrageous" charg-
es being established by has o,cn friends, what will
my vilifers and slanderers now say2 We shall
see.
The Presidents message and documents sustain
ing these charges are in the hands of every member
OF Congress, where they may be and, TO facil-
itate the examination, will refer the inquirer to
pages 2, 3, 5, 46, At, so, l59, 100, $685. and 234.
1t furthermore appears by these official documents
that Gen. Cass charged aud received as Governor
of Michigan more than double the amount of extra
pay received by all the ether Governors of all the
Territories of the United States, from the founda
ton OF the Government up 10 the year lS43 This
remarkable fact is established by these records
Can this be right? Can Mr.. Richie satisfy the
people of this country that Lewis Cass, while Gov
ernor of Michigan, was justly entitled 10 double
much as all the rest of the Governors Of all the
other twelve or fifteen territories of the United
States! And it also appears that a great part OF
the extra pay allowed to the other Governors was
allowed by Gen. Cass himself, while he was Sec
rotary Of War, and based upon his own ertra allo1o
ance.
These documents show also that Lewis Cass re-
ceved in addition to his regular salary of $4,000
year, S 500 year for fuel, Office rent, Sc, ST.,
500 year for services beyond the territorial lines
of Michigan, and also. at the same time, S. per
day and forty cents per mile for making treaties
with the Indians, amounting alone, for part of the
time. to S3 600 year, and making, with his regu
lar 81, all, in
stead of So. O00-rnore than 800 day, when the
law gave him less than So But, not satisfied with
all this, it appears that Gen. Cas' charged and re-
ceived for several years, while Governor of Michi-
gan, the pay and emouments Of captain and quar-
iermaster in the regular army, amounting 10 up
wards of 5000 per year more, and charged and re-
ceived at one time S6,6l0 for rations, well as
several thousand dollars for settling his accounts
and assisting TO form Indian code. while in the
receipt of all his salaries, regular and erfd, above
mentioned. And, what is worse than all this, in
July, 1882, year after Gen. Cass was appointed
Secretrry of War, he produced an account against
the Government, amounting to $53, 1886, for al
legged over payments, running back ten or twelve
years; S5,3l7.I5 in 1920 for Indian annuities
l0,lS36l. an indefinite charge "for Indian De-
partment prior to 1890" which, if right, he could
have retained in any of his quarterly settlements
made during these ten or twelve years, producing
a balance in his favor of S35,O75. For this alleged
balance 4 TeQUlSltIOH WAS uIaWH t4NO. S0OO| ny
John Robb, acting Secretary Of War, in favor of
Lewis Cas-, then himself Secretary ofWar, on the
Treasury, and the money being paid the settlement
stood suspended till 1887, when it was closed by
VIM. b. Lewis.-(See pages 232 and233) Worse
still An allowance appears to have been made,
while Gov. Cass was Secretary Of War, TO VIM.
Woodbridge, Secretary of the Territory, acting as
Governor Of Michigan, of 81 800 year for three
years and twenty five days, the time Gov. Cass
was employed in negotiating treaties, amounting to
81 6O2.74, for fuel, office rent, SC. between the
years 1915 and 1927. So that the Government
was thus made to pay $4,000 year extra for fuel,
Office rent Sc. for The Territory OF Michigan 81 >
500 to Governor Glass; and 81 800 to acting Gov
ernor Woodbridge at the same time. fMr. Wood
bridge entitled to this additional extra allow
ance of 81 500 year. why did he rot apply for
and receive it at the time? Because Gov. Cas-
received it. Why wait twelve or fifteen years,
till Gov. Cass is Secretary Of War? And why is
this allowed by "John Robb, acting Secretary OF
War" while the allowance Of $i,376.6l immedi-
ately preceding to G. b. Porter, Governor Of Mich
igan. and Of ST 600 to s. Il. Mason, acting Cover
nor of Michigan, Immediately following. are "made
| by Gen. Cass, Secretary Of War ?"-OFor this
charge see page 50) When Mr.. Richie explains
these mysteries, he will perhaps hear from again.
| In conclusion, let me suggest 10 Mr. Richie tho
propriety Of now turning his battery Of bngsgato
and abuse from me upon President Polk and the of
! fcers Of the Treasury and War Departments, who
have taken the task Of sustaining these charges
against Gen. Cass off my shoulders. Will he do
il? venture the prediction that he will hereafter
be silent this subject. ".NouS uerrons."
A. STEWART.
! DErINIYo MS PosirioN.-''Get up--get upl"
! said a Waterman to a chap who had fallen a grade
below the door step sleepers, and who had taken a
| Judgment in the gutter. "You must not lie here
"Liel you're another you lie yourself! Nm
not lie here! tell you wh-what old fellow. tina