The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-02-06

tirle for publication pressing ON the assembly the Isy
ment of the registered State debt Gov. Anthony then
said Then you go for the pay eht OF this debt The gen
tean answered Certainly do II justly due from the
State and advocated the payment Of 1t IN the general as
sembly when wGs member several years since Gov
Anthony replied, aIF You PAY THAT DEBT YOU
WILL BLOW TEE WING PARTY TO THE DEVIL
This his direct aud prompt reply II was spoken un
der the influence OF he moment and under such influence
the truth generally bolts out showing beyond controversy
that every claim against the State must be sacrificed to
serve the base purposes of party Much more
might be here added but the reader referred to the His
tory of Reputation, page ia to l33
William Spragne another repudstor lie he'd been
governor of the State SENATOR and representative in Con-
gress. January, ls47, he member Of the Rhode
Island legislature and then called Samuel Dexter who
was chairman of committee on State claims requesting
him mot to make any report that you'd bring ON any &C
oH Of The house for II he did vSuld break doDH The whig
parry Subsequently made against him, in presence OF
the then attorney general charge oflnquy in attempting
an over The committee when he replied III made
e request Politician then replied The act was
violation of your oath base corruption II Is we'll
known fact that the money power Of William Sprague for
the fifteen years has controlled the politics of the State
the Of that power regulated only by the
| needed to effect the desired purpose.
Personally Sylvester G. Sherman would be unnoced
in this communication bat be has by State authority
been placed in responsible positions pass him
by in silence We have the affidavit Of intelligent
Der Of the house of which he has times been speaker in
which he says II heard eongesaoa eh Sylvester g.
Shezrman took part the subject being The Justice and propri
Of paying The registered State debt and in the conversation
The said Shedrmdn expressed his opinion that something
due The claims b such the feelings Of the people IN
hs vicinity that rould be disadUdnageous any 10 Gd
roeae them" Yet this man. in violation of bis du-
ties voted for reputation Nothing mere need be said on
his moral end political integrity.
We close this communication by referring to that por
ton of tie Rhode Island delegation in Congress who have
BEEN are holders Of State securities leaving
remarks other experts rqpudiation to next and
last appeal 10 public opinion.
/ Hon. Philip Allen and Zachariah Allen esq, inherited
large property from their father and bis brother Their
claims against the State carried in January 1885,
$2S6i co. They received funded stock 1884 "a, and
balance certificates $476 %. Two years interest was
subsequently, paid them Their balance-oertfcaes
redeemed in 1890. like train Of facts recorded
4 the Claims of Jeremiah Therston father of Hon b.
| Thurston of the House The father of Hon. N.
Duree in like manner carried in claims in 1895 also
did the heirs If Benjamin Greene, portion of whose
tate descends the wife of Hon. Mr. Duree. Payments
Of funded stock paid them and balaneecerthcates
given These balances unpaid and that given David
Duree handed the undersigned by the Hon N B. Dur
fee and it believed that also in possession OF tina
given Benjamin Greene; and impression is that tht
Hon. N. D. Durfee Joined with in petition for pay
Of The unpaid debt Of the State. We, however
hesangy assert that he has always advocated that
ment An adverse would have been direct i'm
parchment of his fathers integrityan that b.
had rauduleny abstract money from, the State asury
4 .,a.ns JOHN w. RICHMOND.