Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1867-05-08
A Congressman on the Make.

Dlniel J. Morrell the individual who
misrepresents this district in Congress by
virtue of money lavishingly expended in
colonlzIng and cOrrupting voters, as we'll
as sundry other Yankee tricks which we
can and will at the proper time expose,
cannot, it seems, rise above the propensi-
ty of his race, TO turn an honest ~ pen
ny, when the opportunity occurs. He
having failed to secure the appointment
of a Radical postmaster at Huntingdon.
endeavOred to sell his influence with the
Radical Senate to the Democratic aspi-
rant willing to pay the highest price for
that position, and on his return from
Washington, last Thursday, left a letter
for one Of his friends in town, which read
a follows:
On Tram, April 2lst, 1867.
Make the best arrangement you can with Miller.
frmed.
DANIEL ]. NoRRELL
The aforesaid friend fixed the price of
confirmation at $500 and set to work
diligently to do his masters bidding and
earn his reward, but the thing wouldn't
work. Democrats didn't bite, and Con-
gresham MOrrell's attempt at blackmail-
ing entirely failed.
Our readers will be gratified to learn that
G. Ashman Miller, who fatty refused to
come down with the coveted $500 was
confirmed as postmaster on the very day
the above note was written, notwithstand-
ing his refusal to "give the corner Of q
three cent postage stamp" for the said
Hon. d. J. NJ. IS influence
1t is certainly very humiliating to be
represented in Congress by man who is
always on the make; so much so, that
little post office cannot pass through his
mill without paying toll. But when we
inform our readers that the Hon. Daniel
is held in leading strings by one Billy
Shaw-whO is well, if not favorably
known in this county-his character will
be at once understood and fully appreci-
ated.
We copy the above TRADE of copperhead
malice and lying from the Huntingdon
Monitor, a joint stock concern established
during the war to decry the administra-
ton of Abraham Lincoln and so far as it
dared uphold and justify the rebellion of
JET Davis and his cutthroat associates-a
character it sustained throughout that
terrible period of our history, as every
Union soldier from this region we'll
knows.
The article bears unmistakeable evidence
on its face that the note is FORGERY, the
probable production of disappointed of
fice-hunter who having found Mr.. Nor
rell stumbling block in his expectations
Of political preferment, now vents his
spleen against him by an impotent at
tempt at defamation. In the first place
We have good reasons for knowing that Mt
the very time the Monitor alleges this
note was written and left off at Hunting
don, Mr.. Morrell was on his return home
from Washington, previous to leaving
which, he had tacitly acquiesced in the
confirmation of G. Ashman Miller as p.
M. at Huntingdon, because Mr.. Rose was
at the same time confirmed as Collector of
this congressional district This fact ia
sufficient to show he could have written
no such note, and stamps the author of
the above as an unblushing faIsifier of
everything pertaining to truth.
There is also another phase of this mat
ter which is worthy OF attention. Sup
pose note of this kind had been written by
Mr.. Morrell or any other person, addressed
10 private individual, it must either have
been STOLEN or otherwise diShonestEv or
dishonOrdbIy obtained-for we think all
will admit that no honest person would
for moment use or retain a private note.
even if found, and pervert it to defama-
tion and scurrility.
To talk of Mr.. MorreIl being in the
leading strings of any person, may do
among the admirers of the "stern states
nsa,s" who is painting eopperhead democ-
racy in Fortress Monroe, yet comes with
a bad grace from those who epdeavored to