Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1852-10-12

my hand. and Will read from, che records |
Of Congress- II any gentleman questions
The correctness Of what read, desire him
10 make II known.
This, sir, is tho second volume Of the re.
ports Of The third session Of the Twenty
fifth Congress. I, exposes more glaring cor.
TupEon, and more bare.faced frauds upon
the rights Of the people, during q few years
Of Democratic reign, than are 10 he found
In lhr entire annals Of the Government.
cannot 20 into them in detail but call the
auentioa of the House and The country 10
enc S, ccinen Of The kind OF practical Re.
form" shrse Democratic leaders, who prom.
Use so much no0. gave us then. From this,
an homes, people may judge what they may
expeci from them in future. Ii is the case
between Messrs. Taney and Woodbury.,
Democratic Secretaries of the Treasury,
and the Democratic receiver Of public mon.
eys q, Columbus, Mississippi. For want Of
time 10 read The whole, read extracts from
the correspondence
Secretary Taney to w. P. Harris, February 7,
1884 "Receivers have been engaged in trading
with the Government money. Such conduct
would be regarded as gross violation Of official
duty."-page 1863.
TO this charge Harris pleads guilty
Page 1863.
Taney to Harris, March 6. 1884 "In regard
TO the returns which are required to be rendered,
it becomes my duty to advise you, that those for
the months Of November, December, and Janu
airy, are in arrear, and to say that strict and
punctual observance Of this duty is indispensa-
ble.',--Page 1859.
which is received MUST be DEPosIrED."-Page So.
Taney to Harris, March 25 1884: "The De-
partment has received no monthly returns, show
ing the transactions of your Office from the month
Of October last."-Page 1863.
Taney to Harris, May 10, 1884: EncloSeS copy
of last letter, and says 81 again call your at
tontion to its requirements. Page 1863.
Woodbury. to Harris, February 6, 1885: al
REGRET that there should be occasion for again
calling your attention to your omission to pay
over the public funds. Page 10
Woodbury. to Harris, February %, 1885, al
cannot omit the occasion to impress upon you the
necessity of strict attention to, and punctual
compliance with, the duties required of you in
regard to the prompt deposit Of the public mon
eys."-Page 10
Woodbury. to Harris, March II, 1885: "Hav-
ing received no monthly duplicate returns of the
transactions of your office since that for the
month of October, last, it becomes my UNPLEASANT
DUTY to call your immed ate attention to the ON
mission. Al Low ME to express HOPE that there
may be no further occasion to remind you of the
Importance of punctuality in the transmission of
these returns"
Here is beautiful specimen Of Democrat.
ic honesty, and its efficiency in guarding our
Treasury. A public officer, known ai the
Treasury Department. for thirteen months TO
have plundered the people, is addressed by
the Secretary in the cringing style of "al.
loo me 10 cypress hope!" The Secretary
was truly confding man 10 indulge in a
"hope' when there was no longer even "a
loop whereon 10 hang hope" Blu, pro.
coed with This iacy correspondence. Har.
ris replies TO the last polite epis,le, that he
could not fork ouer The dollars, because he
had no "blanks" 10 make Out his returns
upon. This most po.en. excuse seemed
for while, 10 be entirely satisfactory.
Woodbury. to Harris, June 25, 1895. after reci-
ting that he had often written to him to pay up,
says at becomes my unpleasant duty to say
to you that if the moneys in arrear are not trans
mitted by return of mall shall be constrained
to report your neglect for the action Of the Exec
utive."-Page 172.
Harris To Woodbury., July 10, 1885: "En.
closed you will receive my monthly account cur
rent for the month Of December, 1884, showing
"a balance of three hundred and eighty-fve
thousand and sixty-seven dollars and eighty-three
cents."-Page l72.
Woodbury. TO Harris; August %, 1895: at
has come my DIsAGREEABLE DUTY livery "disagree-
able" of course, Mr.. Chairman to report your
continued neglect to the President, who has in
sructed me to say to you, that If the monthly re-
turns required from you by the regulations of the
k.al.. I
at the Department on or before the 10th day
of October next, you will then be dismissed
from office."-Page 172.
Harris to Woodbury., September IA, 1885 :
al ask of the President suspension of my re-
moval," &c.-Page 172.
Woodburyto to Harris, September %, 1885 CAL
Low NE To INQUIRE why your deposits are not
made" &c.-Page l72.
Woodbury. to Harris, September %, 1885: "a
regret to say that the reasons assigned in your
letter of the 14th instant for Withholding your
monthly returns, cannot hereafter be deemed sat-
iSfactory."-Page l73.
About This time matters were coming 10
focus. The delaulter had exhausted all his
own personal powers with the Adminsira.
tion, and therefore brings 10 bear a sort ol
'ouIside pressure" in behalf Of his plunder.
jngs Of The people.
September 10, 1835-John F. H. Cldi.
borne, former member of Congress, believe,
from Mississippi, writes 10 The President as
follows:
"Many of the early and constant friends of the
Administration in this State have heard with
much regret and sorrow, that the present receiver
of public moneys at this place is to consider him
self dismissed, unless his returns are made by the
1St of October" "Nothing would rejoice
him Poindexter) more than the expulsion OF
General Harris, whom he knows to be one of the
main pillars of the democratic cause, and one oi
the earliest and most distinguished friends of the
Administration in Mississippi. His family and
connections are extremely influential, and all ol
them are cooperating with US in the ardent Strug-
gle which we are now making. They are true
Democrats" "We are now in the midst
of an electioneerng campaign" at will
be q close contest. St."-Page ia.
And he might have added, Harris, with
tho peoples dollars, will do good service ~
This appeal produced its effect upon the
model Democratic administration, and tar.
ris, the receiver, known by the Democrats
in power 10 have been plundering The Treas.
ury for twenty months was retained in Of
fee. But LEI us examine further, TO see
how they managed the peoples affairs
afterwards
Woodbury. to Harris, October 26, 1885: al
can perceive no reason why each deposit IN past
months should not have embraced the whole