East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1864-07-06
yDgY CURIOUS REVELATIONS.
Tblriow Weed on Republican Ras-
cality.
Inside View Of Radical Roguory.


Inside View of Radical Roguery.
From the Albany Evening Journal, June H.
The Evening Post attempts to re-
verse our positions, making itself the
assailed, instead Of the assailing party.
That journal went out OF its way to
stigmatize me as ''fellow" of whom
the President should keep clear. Of
the "coarseness of this gratuitous as
sault, compared with the terms OF my
reply, / shall leave others to jndge.-
1t will be found that the Post was
more disturbed by the exposure Of its
mediated treaehery than by any ques-
ton Of temper or manners. The Post,
however, only indulgesits poetic ''gen-
eralities," rs an army throws forward
its skirmishers preliminary to an en-
gagement. Whenever the Post, It's
sa;rh bo,. ~ o. n ,f--.--y 49, Or
dyke, get into a tight place, they re-
sort to the steamer Cataline." In AL
emergencies they play that card. The
alleged frauds in the "charter" of the
Cataline have covered up and shield
ed -ascalites and corruptions enough
to sink q nation.
Under the auspices of the Van
Wyck Investigating Committee whose
chairman sought TO avenge himself
upon me because j had declined TO
demand from the Board OF State Can
vassers a certificate of his election TO
Congress without regard to the ques-
ton Of whether he was or was not le-
gally chosen, stimulated by the Tribune
prominent members of the "Union
Defense Committee Collector Bar
ney and Mr.. Opdyke, singled out the
" Cataline charter" rs fraudulent,
though hundreds of steamers, before
and since, had and have been charter
ed at much higher rates. 1t was not
that too much had been B, elRsaes Rsaia ssort rtgth the
tlemen whose honesty bears even date
with some disappointed aspiration),
supposed that l was connected with
that charter. This supposition, and
the accusations founded upon it,
are wholly untrue and unjust, work
ing the double wrong of injuring the
parties who were concerned in tho
charter of the Cataline, and Of traduc-
ing me who was not in any way or
manner, directly or indirectly, SO con-
cerned.
The Post, after a dissertation on
'temper and Manners" proving, in
its own way, that its free epithets of
"fellow" and burglar" are not coarse
concludes
"Yet we cannot congratulate Mr..
Weed on playing very well the part
he has been forced to take. There is
enough Of his abuse, such as it is, but
it is so coarse as TO be nauoeous. He
is much more at lIOnIv Ia hio III
known capacity of father Of the lobby
at Albany. He is much more ingen-
ious and successful in manouvering a
gridiron railway through the New
York Legislature. His dexterity in
chartering the steamer Cataline for
the use of the Government at the be-
ginning of the war, was the admira-
ton of all Wall street. Mr.. Dawes,
on the floor of the House Of Repre-
sentatives at Washington, it may be
remembered, paid a handsome tribute
to his financial ability, when he spoke
of tho 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
"Thesc are imperial arts and worthy thee"
Let Mr.. Weed, then, confine him.
self to these.
However, if he chooses TO indite an
other silly article of the same sort for
the Ernmg Journal, he has our free
consent.
/ avail myself Of the courtesy of
the Post ''to indite another silly arti-
cle," romarking, by the way, that the
services of the reputed "father of tho
lobby" may be dispensed with while
an editor of the Lteni,ag Post remains
a prominent member Of that body,
passing his winters in Albany, using
the columns of that convenient journal
to oppose bills in which he is interest
ed. With this representative in the
'lobby at Albany" and another of
his associates with his arms shoulder
deep, as navy agent, into the Federal
Treasury, the Posts censorship of leg
islative purity is modest and becom-
ing. Ii by inviting "another silly ar
ticle," some of tho glass windows of
the Post get broken, it must remem-
Der who threw the first stone.
But / return to the steamer Cata-
line, in relation to whose charter ac-
cusations and aspersions have follow
cd me from my own country to Eu-
rope, for more than three years.
This allegation of abuse in Congress,
in journals while l was entirely dis
connected with the charter of that
steamer, and indeed, as ignorant OF
the fact of the charter as any man,
woman or child in the State. The
letters which follow one from Mr..
Develin, who purchased the Cataline
another from Mr.. Dawson, who be-
came interested in the purchase, and
another from Captain Comstock, who
chartered her to Colonel Tompkins,
for the Government--are submitted
in answer to the false charge of the
Erenmg Post, viz: that my "dexterity
in chartering the steamer Cataline
for the use of the Government, ut the
beginning of the war, was the admir-.
alton of all Wall street"
/
Having borne, quite long enough
the reproach consequent upon these
calumnies, take leave TO unmasl
some of my assailants. In the distri
button Of lucrative Offices at Wash
milton, q claim came up from tn,
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