North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1865-08-23

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the Philadelphia Age, has unear,hed the Hon
William D. Kelly, and in letter TO the
Union Men of the Fourth District" pub
lished on Tuesday, he makes an appalling
expose Of the ac's and doings of the ex Sem
at"r. In reajing this letter the me.ns of
obtaining a correct information possessed by
the writer must be taken into consideration
Mr., Cameron and Mr. Kelly are leading
members of the samr.p'litical party. They.
are each apostatcs from their early and hon
est c'nv'ctinns. They are both aspiring and
ambitious. Both love money, and will ven
ture neck deep into the dirty and disturbed
stream Of political management to obtain it
Thus kindred in qualities, they have hunted
over the same ground, if not in company
and hence the tracks OF the Winnebago chief
are familiar to his brother. The experienced
political manager when on the war path
might tread ON the rock or travel in the
stream ton his ide footsteps, still his younger
but not less expert associate would detect
them and follow to the end. To this way Mr..
Kelly became acquainted with the secret
history Of Simon Cameron, and that knowl-
edge is now given to the world IN the letter
which follows:
To the Union Men of the Fourth Congress-
ional District,
A long and successful Career in crime em-
bodens the guilty. A recent illustration Of
this law Of human nature impels me to VIC
latemy lifelong rule of cnnduct, and for oEce
to notice po',caI slanderer. do no; +,
however, address you for the purpose ofre-
peIing his innuendncs OF fslsenoods. My
! life has been passsd among you, and II its
record, familiar to you all, does not repel
them, have lived in vain. My object is
SIMPLY 10 pierce the mail of i'll gotten gold IN
| which the sianderer has clothed himself, and
give you glimpse OF the luathsome object it
projects
The papers of Friday announce that Simon
Cameron, OF Dauphin county, was sercnaded
| by his friends on the preceding evening at
the Glrard Hnuse in this CITY, and avalled
himself Of the occasion to vhllfy my COL
leagees and myself, "the Congressman Of
| Philadelphia" in a speech to the assembage.
was but youth, when first h. ard the
name Of Simon Cameron, and it was az the
perpetrator of great crime. He has been
made the agent of the Cover nu.ent to carry
large amount of money, due to them. to
the W Wlnnebago Indians, and had taken ad-
vantage of their ignorance AMI helplessness
to enrich himself Those of you who had
then attained to manhood, though you may
not, after the lapse Of so many years, revive
the burning Indignation with which you re
garded the infam. swindle OF the poor In
dams, will doubtless remember that instead
Of paying them the specie which the govern
| menl confided To him for that purpose, he re
| tanned it, and gave them the notes OF the
M'ddietown bark. of which he wss owner.
AT their eacanp uent in the remI Ite wilder
ness these not tes were utterly worthless
The Indians could not use them for any pur
pose there. nor cary them 10 MIddet"wn
for redemption. But what was that to ST.
mon Cameron Was not their loss his gam
and was not he so much the richer by eve
note that failed to come home for redemption
,b, ,nR II II
those of you who are MT old enough to re.
member all this, now know why this bold.
bad nan is sometimes spoken OF nv your
SENIORS as th- great Winnebago," and
sometimes as "Old Kickapoo."
For m re than thirty years have watched
the tortuuus career Of this man, and have
never seen reason to abandon my first i'm
pressiun of his character. Whether acting
| with the Democratic, the Know Nothing, or
the Republican partv-for he has in turn
d,sgracpd + em al-he has never been false
to his criminal instincts. He has endeavnred
TO turn them all to profitable account, His
ambition ia snrdid and panders to his averice,
and he measures honors by the perqu,sites
they expose to hls grasp, He has no cnnf
denee in the people. and is awsre that they
distrust him. His speech Of Thursday even
ing was moi characteristic of him. for he is
prone to the use of instruments. His ha bit
Ia to point the stilern, but to employ another
to drive it home. Though an active psrtici-
pant in the politics of his c"unty and State
for more than half century, during which
long period he has pursued the profits of
office, or jobs Of contracts. with eager and
cea>pless assidniiy, be has never dared to
permit his name 10 he presented to the peo-
pie "f his country or State as candidate for
an elective Office. He 1rawls 10 the feet cf
the appointing p"wer H. cares not who
| nav hp King So that he may "stiIl he Vicar