Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-03-28
J. w. VAIL
Charge of Corruption.
Miss. Ag't. Am. S. S. Union.

A few days ago, when the bill appropriating
S3,l8O,000 for the payment of the last install
ment TO Mexico, was under consideration in the
House of Representatives, Mr.. ALLEN of Mass
aChusetts, directly charged that when Mr.. Web
ster was called to take the office Of Secretary of
| State he wrote TO his friends in New York and
Boston declaring that he could not accept the Of
flee unless they raise fifty thousand dolIa RS for
him, the salary of six thousand dollars a year
being insufficient for his support The result
was that he received twenty-five thousand dol
lars from Wall stIeet and large amount from
State street.
Of course, this charge brought out the friends
of Mr.. WEBSTER, who, instead Of denying the
charge, attempted to divert the attention of the
House by characteriZlng the exposition of Mr..
ALLEN as disgraceful. To this Mr. ALLEN re-
piled
"If my colleague denies the charge, | am ready
to meet the issue, whenever and wherever it may
be presented All ask is, that the Secretary
of State, or his friends, will give me an opper-
tunity to call for evidence, and pledge myself
Notwithstanding the denial, to substantate the
| charge-that can state, before he accepted the
office, he wrote 10 his friends to raise him money
| The entire twenty-five thousand was raised in
| New York, but only nineteen Thousand six hun
dred in Boston-the gentleman there having
been so freely bled, that it was with difficulty
they could be brought to the point. He stands
in office under these arrangements with business
men and bankers, and is the most unfit person to
have the management of the pecuniary negocia
tons of the government. A man of indepen-
dence, instead of seeking, ought TO have spurn-
ed the gift"
We hope the matter will be investigated and
the truth shown. We have no doubt that the
charge of Mr.. ALLEN can be fully sustained. -.
| In the meantime it may be well to state that the
| friends of Mr.. WEBSTER substantially admit its
truth. The Boston Advertiser lustifies the pre-
ceeding and the New York Herald thus gives
what it understands TO be the facts
"The fact appear to be that Mr. Webster
wrote to the SubTreasurer, Mr.. Ravens, that he
had been offered the State Department but could
not accept it unless his friends would make up
what he would sacr fee pecunarily by accept
! ing Mr. Ravens showed the letter to Collect
or Greedy, who at the time, told its contents TO
Mr. Oiis, member from Maine, who was pres
ent. Dir. Otis has divulgod the matter to Con-
gress men. 1t is whispered that Peter Harvey
brought on the Boston fund, and A. G.. Benson
! the New York fund"
| This is not the first time Daniel Webster has
held office as the paid agent of the wealthy
classes Bankers, Stockholders and manufac-
turers have kept his purse full for he last twen-
ty years, for which he has advocated their
schemes. The opportunity is now offered OF
proving the fact and we hope it will be improved
Our laws punish the ignorant and degraded men,
who takes money for his vote on election day,
but DANIEL WEBSTER pockets bride with i'm
punity Buffalo Rep.