M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1857-07-09
SwindIing ExPOsed---InteTesung
DEVELOPMENTS.

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Developments.
1t is we'll known that for the last
year or two Black Republican dema-
gogues and agitators have contrived,
by appealing to the sympathies of the
public, to obtain considerable dona-
tons in clothing for the benefit of the
poor and destitute in BLEEDING Kan.
Sas." We had our suspicious at the
time that this clothing never was put
to any good use, but that it was made to
pay the expenses of the pestiferous
faction, which has, in the shape Of To-
peka Conventions and resolutions op-
posed to law and order, kept the Ter
ritory in a state of turmoil and confu-
soin. Such turns out to be the fact,
as admitted over the signature of Mr..
Army, the general agent OftLe Kansas
Committee. In a letter to Mr.. Della.
van, of Albany, who made q large do
nation in clothing, this Army writes
'BLooMNGToN, ILL.,
Feb. 20, 1857.
EDWARD G. DELAvAN--Dea Sir:
When in Kansas, Miss Pellet spoke
to me to attend to the distribution of
the clothing, &C., forwarded by you
| have just received a letter from Hor-
ace White, Esq, Secretary of our
Committee, in which he calls my at
tention to these goods. | AM engaged
in shipping from here this week one
hundred and fifty cases of clothing,
and will proceed at once to St. Louis,
and have all the goods belonging TO
our committee shipped from that
point, which, with the articles here,
will make over three hundred cases.
"By q resolution Of the National
COmm5ttee at their meeting IN New
York, the clothing Of our committee
is TO be valued and sold on time, the
proceeds to be appropriated TO tile re-
demption Of tie Protection Fund
Scrip"
Upon this development offraud up
on the charitable Of our country, the
Albany Argus makes the following
appropriate comments:
"Was there ever q more shameless
breach of trust9 In the name of
bleeding Kansas an act is here done,
which, if committed in any business
transaction, would consign its authors
to disgrace. The whole country, du-
ring the fall Of 1856, was vocal with
appeals in the name of humanity, be.
nevolence and religion, for garments
to clothe the naked in Kansas
Kind-hearted men and women, who
did not understand the hollow-heart-
edness and ~rascality of the leaders in
these Kansas operations, generously
responded. Large amounts of cloth
ing were collected. 1t is then, coolly
and deliberately, ordered to be sold,
and the proceeds are directed to beus.
ed to redeem a scrip issued to carry
on war and rebellion in Kansas and
to keep up an excitement in the coun.
try, which, it was hoped, would make
Fremont President.
"With thus much ofcensurab!e on.
duct revealed, we arc authorized to
believe there is more and more behind
the curtain. Who were the holders of
this Protection Fund Scrip'-what
did they pay for ibid they buy it
after recognizant of the plans to re-
deem it-tor what purpose had it been
used, whether in the Pennsylvania
election or elsewhere: these are ques.
tions which will never be voluntarily
answered by the actors in these be.
necotent' operations, and we can
never expect to arrive at the whole
truth, except by accident or in conse,
quence ofsome quarrel among these
brokers in philanthropy. But, enough
is already known to stamp the agita-
ton carried forward in the name of
bleeding Kansas as the most vii
famous humbug ever imposed upon
the generous impulses Of a credulous
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