Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1866-06-07
G, Y, Culver.

This great bogus financier, this builder
of cities-on paper, this Republican Rep
resentative in Congress, Tin horn) this
collapsed fellow, is still attracting consid-
cradle attention in the papers. The Mead
vile Democrat asks several important
questions in regard to the failure, which
occurred on the 9th Of March, about two
months since. The Dem0crat says that a
gentleman of more than ordinary infOrma-
ton in such matters, states that Culver's
liabilities would probably approximate sic
millions Of dollars. April 9th meeting
of creditors was held in Meadville, where
a committee was appointed, and that COM
mittee reported their full faith in Culyer's
ability to pay. The people would ike to
see a realization Of that expressed conf
dence. Since the meeting at which Cul
yer asserted his ability and intention to
pay, there has been a dOgged silence on
the part of Culver & Co. The creditors
are no wiser than they were on the 9th
of March, and no richer, and no ikeli-
hoods of being. The amount Of Culver's
Indebtedness may be 100000 900, more or
less for the Democrat says:
number of moneyed institutions he has
had the treasure of churches, of colleges,
Of guardians, of trust funds, of preachers,
and lawyers and doctors, of merchants
and mechanics and laboreIs, of rich and
poor, of high and low, and, in short, all
classes and conditions Of individuals, pour
ed into his capacious pockets without stint
or measure. Yes, even the rag money
machines of the Government appeared to
be at his command. He had the ''the full, -
the unbounded Econ tilence' of Church and
State, of society in the aggregate.
Culver was a benevolent man, took to
church lberality, gave to churches and
borrowed from them; kept what he bor-
| rowed, and tialed to pay ,ctat he gaze. He
was elected Representative on the Repub-
lican platform, and never took his seat
but once. He talked good Papublicanism
and borrowed large sums from his political
brothers, and never paid them. He is a
brilliant. a diamond of the first water, III
Republican ranks, on the ground that the
more of a scoundrel and humbug he is,
the better Republican. What good, faith
/ ful. honest Democrat or Republican could
| have been elected in opposition to him.
! He filled all Republicans eyes and hearts.
/ They looked on. Culver and were satisfied,
! But while he held them bound in adora-
ton he was cody taking their money.
! 1t is often the case-most always, IN fact,
that the greatest humbugs and villains
command the situation in preference to
known and tried men. But they come tc
an end His politics, craftsmanship, fl
nancial honesty, his honor as man Is
lost. And yet he is no more OF scoun-
drel now than when he was worshlppec
as the greatest and best in ten thousand
1t is almost certain failure to belong tc
the Republican party. We have never
determined whether the scoundrels all &C
to that party, or whether that party
makes scounCrels. But it is a fact be-
vond contradiction that the greatest hum
bugs and defaulters came out of that par
tv Culver shaved his own party th'
worst, borrowed the most money OF then
and cheated them out of the most. While
his political friends and financial sufferers
are twisting like eels on hot griddle, a
general thing Democrats view the scen'
with comparative stoicism.- Warren Led
ger.
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