Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-05-03
NUMBER 265.

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this Congress or not, there will be Con-
gress that will do 1t. And MI. Onasc s cai-
not escape. He is sure to answer, ana now
ever deeply the committee may lay tne
whitewash on, it cannot conceal the dark
background However he may nndertako
to persecute and drag down men who speak
of these nefarious transactions, say that
the time will come when he will be held 70
Just accountability, when he viii be calleu
before the bar to answer lot all ne mas uVne,
and all the efforts made by his friends thus
indirectly to shield him from the charges
made against him will not serve their pur-
pose. 4, -..4-.s.,s, .
Mr.. Speaker, / have deemed it due to my
self since was not allowed a commlttee
by which to prove the allegations that
made here, to say this much In jnsuncatioh
of my action in the city oi st. iouls' III
speech which / made there, and also III
speech which made ON this floor in regard
twill be recollected that when first
offered this resolution, it was couched IN
plain, simple language, without any assault
on the Secretary OF the Treasury; and 1t
was not until one Of his friends on the other
side rose and assailed me for attacking Mr..
Chase, by offering the resolution, that | rose
and gave my reasons for so doing. Then,
sir. this affair was sought to be turned into
q personal matter; and an attempt made to
drag me down by engaging me in contro-
versy with Chase's umlerstrappers, conf
menced by the agents of Mr.. Chase In St.
Louis, is brought into this House. -
A judicial investigation has recently been
held, i'm which it was proved that jay
Cooke & Co., who figure so largely and dis
gracefully in these letters in connection
with the eleven millions excess of five-twen-
ty bonds, are the principal owners of the
Philadelphia Inquirer. | should have guess
ed as much from the fact of the abuse heap
ed upon me by this Treasury organ about
this liquor speculation. Mr.. Chase's
banking agents. as well as his Treasury
agents and special and supervising special
agents. have all been brought into requisi-
tion to forge and counterfeit and tell lies to
break me down for exposing and holding
up to public contempt and scorn their en-
ployer and master.
In addition to the profits realized by Jay
Cooke g. Co. on the fraudulent subscription
for the eleven millions excess OF hye-twen-
ty bonds, which, as the bonds were twelve
per cent above par at the time of their is
sue, the profits on them must have exceeded
/ a million and quarter of dollars, this firm
has also made profits on the negotiation OF
the five-twenty loan, and other brokerage
business tor the Treasury Department. ac-
cording to the statement of Secretary Chase,
by himself transmitted officially to this
House, the sum of $45O,000, as near as I
recollect, not having the Secretary's COM
munication before me. A million and three
quarters of dollars realized by a banking
firm in less than nine months is comforta-
BILE competency for two or three private
gentlemen, and would aid in the establish
ment of a good many newspapers in the
interest of Mr.. Chase by these men, who are
shown to be banking on political capital to
greater extent than upon their money
Accordingly, we find great many newspa-
pers i'm favor of Chase for President, and
very few people.
Nobody is simple enough to believe that
the distinguished Secretary has really re-
tired from the canvass for the nomination
to the Presidency, although he has written
u letter declining to be a candidate. That
letter was written because the ''strictly pri-
vate" circular of the Pomeroy committee
unearthed his underground and underhand
intrigue against the President. 1t was such
a disgraceful and disgusting sight to make
use of the patronage and power given him
by the President against his chief that even
Chase got ashamed to occupy such posi-
ton publicly. For that reason his letter
was written; he wanted to get down under
the ground and work there in the dark as
he is now doing, and running the Pomeroy
machine on the public money as vigorously
as ever. III .ss...... .,,s5 .H
The work is now being done in Fremont's
Hdulc, anu UIldJ pour CTedUuIe Is uIlCOuo' lOus
of being made catspaw to accomplish the
objects of his intriguing rival. His plan is
to hold a convention of Jacobins and Red
Republican revolutionary Germans at
Cleveland, Ohio, precisely as Calhoun used
poor John Tyler to hold a side convention
in 1874 to force the Democrats to drop Dlr.
Van Buren,. The Cleveland convention is
a whip convention which will say to the
Union convention to be held at Baltimore,
IF you insist on the nomination of Lincoln
we will nominate Fremont against him as
an independent candidate" In this way,it
the delegates who have been instructed to
vote for Lincoln can be bought with green
backs or frightened by the Jacobin hob
goblin, it is expected that Chase who has so
n,agaanin,ousy declined to be a candidate,
viii then be taken up as compromise can
didate. This is the programme of the Sec
retary and the Pomeroy committee. 1t em-
braces the tactics the intrigue, the corrup-
tion, and fraud of Calhoun and Biddle COM
bined 'iiig3 aF'3 Ail
Here the hammer fell ]s'ii~ s-gH~o0