The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-02-21

ward to do him honor. In due time he
will reach the capital-take the oath of
office and deliver his inaugural address.
Then, will true men rejoice, and traitors
hang their heads in shame. In Abra-
ham Lincoln, the country will have a
President true to the principles upon
which he was elected-true to his coun-
try, its Constitution and laws, and true
to the cause Of Freedom. sdT
The Great Democratic RObbery..-Over
Six Million of Dollars stolen
The report of the special committee,
appointed by the House of Represen-
tatives to Investigate the abstraction of
bonds belonging to the Indian Trust
fund, reveals the most astounding and
gigantic fraud ever perpetrated on this
continent 1t shows that ex-Secretary
Floyd, the late Secretary of War, and
a trusted leader and representative of
the Democratic party, has issued lille
gal acceptances to the amount of
OVER SIX MILLIONS OF DOL
LARS that these acceptances were
crowded upon the market whenever a
purchaser could be found, and that
nearly the whole amount of the obliga-
tons thus given is now afloat! A suns
mary of this immense swindle is thus
given in the New York Times: 81. s.ii
"The committee report that of un-
conditional acceptances issued by John
B. Floyd, the great criminal of our
Cabinet history, there are now afloat
and in the hands of innocent holders
an amount certainly not less than S5,-
500, 295-whilc of aceeptances, condi-
tional on the performance of contract
work by Messrs. Russell, Majors and
Wendell, the total is not less than $780,
oOo-thus showing an aggregate of &c.
l37, 1895, either to be assumed by the
national government or to fall as an un.
relieved loss on the private holders.
All the specious pleadings heretofore
advanced by Mr.. Russell in behalf. Of
his own innocence are swept to the
winds by the testimony taken before
the committee,-his position now be
ing clearly as the chief outside agen,
employed by ex-Secretary Floyd in The
task of putting spurious acceptances
into circulation, and tempting the clerk
GODDARD Bailey, to the theft of the
bonds placed under his charge. We
find him in company with one Luke
Lea, formerly a commissioner of Indian
Affairs, proceeding to Washington will
the deliberate purpose of enticing Bal
ley to mmit the theft we find Lea
opening the proposition to Bailey
bankrupt in fortune, and political ad
venturer,' who had, nevertheless, beer
placed in charge Of more than $4,000,
900 worth of bonds, though only hav
ing given S., 900 as security for his goot
behavior; we find Lea arranging an in
terview between Bailey and Russell
which takes place at the War Depart
ment, where they are introduced t,
each other for the first time by Col. w
B. Drinkard, chief clerk of the Depart
ment, and Secretary Floyd's most in
innate friend;' and it is at this inter
view that Col. Drinkard reaffirms wha
Lea had before represented to Bale,
to wit, that Floyd's illegal acceptance
were in dangerof going to protest, an
that by any such disgrace the sensitiv
criminal swould be greatly agonize
and disturbed a sane lsas
Tho roll ~, =, =, or,
between Lea, Drinkard, Russell an
Bailey-the two latter, as the partie
now mainly in interest, retire and hol
a private interview in room on th
third story of the War Department., :
the result being that. within a fel
hours thereafter Mr.. Bailey had stole
bonds to the amount of $l5O,0OO froI
the safe under his charge, and with thl
amount of booty as the product of tn
first attempt, Mr.. Russell returned
New York. Two subsequent robberie
, were committed by Bailey at the inst
cation of Russell, acting as the repre-
sentative of John B. Floyd's necess
ties: one of these in September, amount
ing to 1887 600, and the third in d.
comber. amounting to 33,000-an ag
gregate of $4,000 stolen by Bailey
in order to save the sensitive ex-Secrf
tary from being sagonized and dis
7 turbed' by the detection and exposur
, of his infamies. For $735, 900 of tn
amounts so stolen, DIR. Russell had d.
posted Mr. Floyd's unconditional az
ceptances as sort of poultice, to g
much Of conscience as Mr.. Bale
might have; had remaining ;-but as /.
to prove beyond any shadow of quel
ton the completely of Mr.. Floyd in th
robbery, we find that on the 18th day {
last December-the date of the las
} theft-the ex-Secretary gives anothe
J acceptance for Sl35, O0O,s the precis
J sum needed to make up the differenc
between the acceptances given by Ru
sell to Bailey and the bonds stolen b
Bailey and handed to Russell. i4
That allitheSe thefts and sfroudnlo,