Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-10-19
Fac Story about President EincoEn's
Drawing l.s@ Salary in ssoIG---An Oh
fetal Denial Of it!

Eiic Story about President LIncoEE.s
Bra wing his Salary in ssoIa---An Or
fetal Denial Of it!
During the last four or five weeks the
Copperhead press. have paraded the fol
lowing paragraphs prominently in their
columns, ~and their contents have been
industriously Y, circulated by many of the
Copperheads of this city as well as else
where:
jeff Davis salary IS nominally S25 900
a year; but by the depreciation OF the
Confederate money is equal to hut 81 800;
and on this practical " he has to live.
Abraham Linco MS salary is legally
so. 900 Il year: but his legal tender
money having deprecated to less than
ha its nominal value, be refuses to take
it and demands and receives his paw in
gold or gold certificates, while the SO diers
Of his armies have to take their paw in
greenhacks. Isn't this patriotic and hon
est in Old A~e? and oughtn't he to be re
elected to another four years hard money
for himself, and of large deprecated
money for the people?'
The President did not notice such a
pa pably false assertion, but the other day
It came to the notice of the Hon. L. z
Chit'enden, Register of the Treasury up
to the 18th Of August last-the man who
has direct charge of all such salaries
and this is the manner in which he bavo-
nets the wicked story:
To the Editors Of tie Free Press:
GENTLENEN = My attention has been
called to an editorial article in the Bur
lington Sentinel Of the 30th ult, containing
statement that President Lincoln de
| mauds and recei es bis pay (salarv) in
gold or gold certificates, while the soldiers
in his armies have to take their nav in
greenbacks, &c The editor Of the Sen.
fiHel has been made the =, ictim of a very
idle imposition, and it appears singular to
me that he should have hazarded such an
assertion. when, with. very little Trouble.
he could have ascertained whether it was
true or false
It Is false IN ereyy particular The
salary of President Lincoin, like those of
! all other officers on the CT il list, is paid
/ by warrants, regularly entered in the Re
gistcr Office. whore all these accounts
arc kept Neither himself nor anv other
officer Of the Government (except thoss
actually employed on foreign service. Tor
which special provision is made by law
has been made in coin since the passa te
Of the act authorizing the issue Of LEGAL
tender notes. The Presidents salary has
been regularly paid by draft on the Treas
ury in legal tender notes, with the regular
deduction of the tax on salaries Such
was certainly the case up to the 18th Of
August last, the date Of my resignation As
Register of the Tree surv 1t may not be
Irrelevant to state in this connection. a
fact we known to many officers of the
Treasury, that upon the passage Of the act
imposing tax upon salaries, n question was
made whether it applied to the President
and his Cabinet. and that Mr. Lincoln
peremptorily refused to have any excep-
ton made in his Casa determination in
which the Cabinet agreed with him. and
the reduction in these salaries has ever
since been made. Very tru V yours.
l. +. CHfTTENDEN
Darlington. Vt, Oct t
CONNECTICUT TowS ELECrIoxs. Tho
Little Mac organs have been shouting Ius-
tily over the resu of the town elections
in Connecticut, and say that State has
ready repudiated Lincoln. The Hart
ford c, urGlt! gives returns from eighty
four towns. ffty-two Union and thirty-two
copperhead. and says the "returns from
the town elections indica-e most indispu-