North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-06-29

Thurlow Weed On Political Rascality.-In
sido View Of Radical Roguery,
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! whom the President should s'Kcep clearn-
! OF the ''courseness" Of this gra tuitous as
sanlt compared with the terms of my reply
| shall leave others to judge, 1t will be found
that The Post was more disturbed by the ex
posure Of its medltated treachery than by
any question of"tcmper or manners.'' The
Post, however, only indulges its poetic "gen.
eralities" as an army throws forward it.
! skirmishers preliminary to an engagement,-
| Whenever The Post, its neighbor, The Tri-
bisne or Mayor Opdyke, get into eight
! place." they resort to the "steamer Cataline"
Ia all emergencies they play that card. The
alleged 'frands' in the "charter'' of the
"CataGne" have covered TIP and shielded
! rascalities and corruptions enough to sink
nation. Under the auspices of the Van Wyck
| Investigating Committee (whose chairman
sought TO avenge himself upon me because
! had declined TO demand from the Board of
State Canvassors q certificate of his election
to Congress without regard to the question
of whether he was or was not legally chosen,
stimulated by The Tribune, prominent mem
bers of the "Union Defense Committee" Col.
/ lector Barney and Mr.. Opdyke, singled out
the 'CataIine charter" as fraudulent though
hundreds of steamers, before and since, had
and have been chartered at much higher
rates. 1t was not that too much paid for
the Cataline, but that my enemies (gentlo-
men whose hostility bears date with some
disappointed aspiraton) Supposed was con
nected with that charter This suppostion
and the accusations founded upon it, are
wholly untrue ard unjust, working the
double wrong of injuring the parties who !
were concerned in the charter of the Cataline, |
and Of traducing me, who was not in any
way or manner, directly or indirectly. so
concerned.
The Post, aftera dissertation on 'temper
and manners, proving, in it's own way, that
its free epthets Of "fellow" and "burglar"
are not "coarse," concludes:
Yet we canhCt congratulate Mr. Weed on
playing very we'll the part he has been forced |
to take. There is enough OF his abuse, such |
as 1t is but is so coarse as to be uauseous.-
lie is much more at home in his well known |
capacity of father of the lobby at Albany I
He is much more ingenious and successful in /
maneuvriDg q grdirln railway through the |
New York Legislature. His iexterity in |
cbartering the steamer Catalire for the use
Of the Government in the beg inning of the |
war, was the admiration of all Wall street -
Mr.. DAVIS, on the floor Of the House of Rep
resentatlves at Washing ton, it may be re
mem5ered, paid handsome tribute to his
financial ability, when he spoke of the liberal
percentage secured by him on contracts given
out at the opening of our civil war. Here
his genius shines almost without peer
These" as Virgil said of another person in
Dryden's translation Pc.
These are imperial arts and worthy the "
Let Mr.. Weed then confne himself to these.
However, if he chooses TO iniitc another
silly article of the same sort for The Erening
Journal, he has our free consent.
avail myself of the courtesy Of The Post
''to indite another silly article, remarkine,
by the way, that the services Of the reputed
':father of the lobby" may be dspsn sed with
while an editor of The Ereaiag Post remains
a prominent member of that body, passing
his winters in Albany, using the columns Of
that convenient journal to support or oppose
bills in whlbh he is Interested. With this
4 the "lobby at Albany" and
another Of It's associates with his arms sboul
der deep, as navy agent, into the Federal
Treasury, The Posts censorship of legislative
purity is modest and becoming If By invit
ing another silly article" some of the glass
windows Of The Post get broken, it must be
remembered who threw tae first stone -
But return to the steamer Cataline, in rela
ton to whose charter accusations and asper-
sions have followed me, from my own coun
try tG Europe, for more than three years
This allegation has been the basis of assault
and the theme of abuse in Congress, in Jour
mails, upon the stump, ana by individuals,
while was entirely disconnected with the
charter Of that steamer, and, indeed as igno
rant of the fact Of the charter as any man
woman or child in the State.
Here follows copy of the correspondence
connected with the purchase of the CataliRe,
concluding with q letter from Capt. Comstock
who, with Col. Tompkins, claim tn be alone
responsible for the charter-Eds Journal of
Commerce I
Having borne quite long enough, the re-
Woach consequent upon these calumnies, I
take leave to unmask some of my assaiants
In the distribution Of lucrative Offices at
Washington, a claim came up from The Eren-
ing Post, One Of its prrprietors, Mr., Hen
ders"n,) asked for, and received the Office of
Navy Agent. Even in times oil peace that
office, according to The Post enjoyed an un-
enusable notroity connected with the Gun.
clean drippings." The Erening Post incum-
bent, it is alleged, has swelled these e.sdrip
pings" enormously, Some weeks since, its
neighbor, The Commercial 4dperiiser, sub
mItted the following charges against the Ma
Wy Agency -.e s