The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-10-22
Pension Office.
To the Editor Of the Republic

To the Editor Of the Republic:
SIs: have observed in the columns Of the Union
for some ten days past sundry communications from
correspondents Of that paper mostly in the form OF
interrogatorics, and manifesty designed to excite
odium against the Pension Office and the officer
having charge of that bureau. The form of inter.
rogatory lie frequently resorted to by anonymous
scribbers for the purpose of concealing their own
eowardly guilt-skulking in the dark and shun-
ming responsibility for their caumnes They
make no direct charges, but only insinnats them.
And the same individual often puts tortE queries
which he himself answers with the aid of rumor or
hearsay picked up from every filthy kennel. In the
to which refer the low trickery to which these
scavengers resort would have been pointless and
contemplate if not seemingly countenanced by
the Union newspaper, which on the eve of a
great national election thinks it no crime TO manu-
facture what it calls public opinion from the lips
of such misc
As from certain marks have a we'll grounded
suspicion who these miscreants are, have deter
mined to try my own skill in the game of inter-
rogatory, and so, for a beginning, venture the fol
lowing queries, which those acquainted with the
facts at liberty to answer
|. Is not one Of these quersts claim agent and
the same individual who for come time past has
made vigorous efforts 10 obtain the opening of a
half pay claim long since settled, adducing in sup
port Of his application false certificate or docu-
ment upon which he expected to realize a con
siderable sum if successful, but in which he wa 8
detected and exposed? Has not this exposure in
| famed his disappointed rage. and made him part-
cuarly sensitive to the abuses of the Pension Office,
especially the monstrous abuse OF detecting villains
in their and corrupt designsi Other queries
may be put reference to this individual, in order
to commemorate similar efforts made by him un-
der the former Commissioner of Pensions, to OBJ
tain false and fraudulent claims upon the Govern
ment.
Ia not another of these querists the same in =
dividunl who was in the beat possible humor with
| the Pension Office long certain false and
groundless half-pay claims were pending before
the present Commissioner, but soon a. the same
were decided and disallowed, vented his insane
malevolence upon that officer because another
claim which he had previously prosecuted was
more fortunate in receiving favorable judgment.
which favorable judgment has been revised and
affirmed by the highest authority in the nation'
Nothing daunted, has not this same crazy indi-
vidual continued his envenomed assaults through
the party press; and is he not the same man who
made 4 corrupt proposal to a rival claimant in
another half-pay claim, and boasted that unless
the said corrupt proposal was acceded to. he would
| exercise his influence with high officer of the
| treasury to prevent the payment Of the samoa
| boast which that officer knew nothing of al the
time, and which. together with its author. he
| viewed with scorn and disgust when subsequently,
| il reached his ears?
| If Unnecessary, other queries will be propounded.
and at the proper time will assume more specific
| FORM and names be given to the public. r.