Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1864-10-07
4 CoPPerhead Lie Nailed.


To ire Editors Of the Free Press;
Gsutlemen-Nly attention has been
called 10 an editorial article in the Burlington
Sentinel Of the Goth ul,, containing statement
that President Lincoln demands and receives
his pay (saiary) in gold or gold certificates,
while the soldiers Of his armies have to take
their pay in green-backs," sc. The Editor Of
the Sentinel has been made the victim Of very
idle imposition, and it appears singular to me
that he should have haaricd such an assertion,
when, with a very little trouble, he could have
ascertained whether it was true or false
It sJaise in ercry particular The salary of
President Lincoln, ike those Of all other officers
on the civil list, is pad by warrants, regularly
entered in the Registers Office, where all these
accounts are kept. Neither himself nor any
other officer Of the Government Except those
actually employed on foreign ssrrice, for which
special provision is made by law) has been paid
IN coin since the passage CT the act authorizing
the issue Of legal tender notes. The Presidents
salary has been regularly paid by a draft on the
Treasury in legal tender notes, with the regular
deduction Of the tax on salaries. Such was GER
tainly the case up 10 the 18th Of August last.
the date Of my resignation as Register Of the
Treasury. 1t may not be irrelevant to STATE in
this connection, fact well known 10 many Off
GERS Of the Treasury, that upon the passage Of
the act imposing a tax upon salaries. question
was made whether it applied to the President
and Cabinet, and that Mr.. Lincoln peremptorily
refused to have any exception made in his case
determination in which the Cabinet agreed
with him, and the deduction from all these sala-
ries has ever since been made.
Very truly yours.
L. I. CHrTrESnrN :
Burlington. Tuesday morning, Oct. ith.
The article of the Sentinel to which Mr..
Chittenden, late L. $ Register OF toe Treas
ury, alludes, is the following
"Jen Dayis's salary is no1inaIly sa5ooo ysar,but
by the depreciation Of the Confederate money. is
equal 10 but $3.50; and this practically be has .
10 live.-Erc1aHge
Abraham Lncoln's salary is legally $4,000
a year; but his " legal tender money havin.,
deprecated 10 less than halt H. ,.oIn'nal value.
he refuses 10 take Il, and demands ami receive
his pay in gold or gold certificate. xhiic th
soldiers # his armies have to take tisir pay IA
greenbacks. Isn't this patriotic aui honest in
Old Abe aud ought'nt he 90 bt reelected L.
another four years hard money for aimself, and
of largely deprecated money for the people"
Burlington Senhael, Sept. Both
We give the two paragraphs, just as they
stand in the Sentinel. The object Is apraren;
enough, riz to disparage in the mind Of the
credulous reader, the President OF the United
States in comparison with the President Of
the rebel Contederacy. We place the patri-
otism which aimed to produce such an effect
at very low mark. at any rate; and still
more 50 when il /, dome at the expense Of
truth. Whether the statement about JEFF.
DAVIS salary l. true or false. we do not
know-nor is it Of any consequence to know.
The iglsehood Of the .Sent,reis statement
about President Lhnooln's salary. 80 eiaph,