Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-10-12
An Honest and Independent Office
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The following correspondence, which has
been sent us, will attract general attention.
1t is refreshing in these times of subser-
viency to the ''powers that be-" to find an
Office-holder under the General Govern
ment who has the courage to speak his
honest sentiments not with bated breath,
but with the bold and manly tones OF a
freeman. The Collector of the Fifth Con-
gressional District of Ohio, Mr.. c. B. Will
son-and his name is worthy of uniyersakI
honor and respect-does not allow the
official robes OF Office to conceal his innate
dignity as man, or to hide his political
principles and conscientious convictions.
He gives fitting rebuke to the minions of
power, who thought through his Office
they could control him, and make his
manhood subservient to the few
dollars which he received for his Off
cial labor. The insolence and impudence
OF the Republican Committee, in their eff
forts to procure money by black-mailing
process, is answered in the indignant man
ner in which it should be treated by all
honest men. tits good sign when the at
tempted dictation of power is thus spurned
with detestation and contempt. Mr.. Will
son may lose his office, but he will retain
what is far more valuable, his own sell res
pect and his personal honor. Retaining
these, he will have the good will and con-
sideration of his fellow citizens generally,
which, in time, will far more than compen-
safe for any personal loss which he may
sustain by his vindication of his indepen-
dence as man, and his dignity as a citi-
zen: ..s
ANSWER OF THE COLLECTOR OF THE FIFTH
DISTRICT OF OHIO WHEN CALLED ON TO
CONTRIBUTE FUNDS TO THE SINKING CAUSE
OF THE RADICALS.
FINDLAY, OHIO, Oct. 6, 1868.
To o. Grant, Schuyler Colfax, VIM. ClaAin, A.
b. Buttles or any other man:
SIRs Permit me to acknowledge the
receipt of the following note which came
by this days mail:
For President, For Vice President,
U. S. GRANT, SCHUYLER CoLFAx. .H
Rooms OF THE UNION REPUBLIcAN)
CONGRESSIONAL Committee, :
WASHINGTON, D. c.. July 81, 1868. }
Clogs B. Wilson. Esq. Collector internal Revenue,
Findlay. Ohio:
SIR:-The Republican National Com
mittee, and the Union Republican Con-
gressional Committee, being profoundly
impressed with the Importance of vigor-
ously prosecuting the ensuing political
campaign, apply to you for an immediate
contribution of one hundred dollars, and
such further sums as you may be willing
to collect and remit.
All in sympathy with the purpose of the
Republican party will readily understand
that expenses must be incurred for organi-
zation, documents and speakers, in success
fully conducting Presidential Campaign.
The funds contributed will be judiciously
expended.
The remittance should be addressed to
and will be promptly acknowledged.
p A. B. BUTTLES,
l-ei Columbus, Ohio.
WILLIAM CJ4AFLIN, Chairman
WILLIAM E. CHANDLER, Secreta-
ry, Republican National Committee.
EDWIN D. Morgan, Chairman,
Union Republican Cong. Committee.
ROBERT G.. SCHENCK, Chairman,
THOMAS L. TULLOCK, Secretary,
Union Republican Cong. Ex. Committee.
not in such "sore Distress" and were it not
that the "hour of your calamity cometh''
very soon, l would laugh. "Oniy one
hundred dollars and such further sums"
&c. Now, gentlemen, ''you are off your
legs" .you are reckoning without your
host" / have voted and worked with the
Democratic party for twenty-five years
ed ticket and / must confess that am
most ''cussedly" and amusingly impress
sed with your id impudence, in enter
tanning, for one moment, the thought that
/ would contribute even one single, solitary
cent to save you from political perdition,
whittier you and your Radical crew are
fast Fastening, and would drag honest and
better men than yourselves with you.
You want money, do you, to corrupt the
honest men of the country-yOu and your
coadjutors being already as corrupt as rot
ten eggs2
Why don't you call on Ben Butler or
"Bill." Gibson, or the scores of ''shOddy
contractors" 'cotton thieves, army specu-
laGors, and bounty jumpers" whose noses
you have kept at the public crib until the
people are stolen poor?
Why don't you call on those white liver
ed rascals of your party whom Dawes, OF
Massachusetts,, on the floor of Congress,
said stole more money from the Public
Treasury during the first year of Lincoln's
administration than was expended during
Buchanan's entire term, and make them
shell out?
Permit me, gentlemen, to inform you
that fail to see the sympathy" &c. The
people here begin to see that your sympa-
thies, and the purposes of your party
would be fifty and appropriately represent
ed by white man lying PROSTATE, bound
hand and foot, negro standing on his
neck thrusting bayonet at his breast
with the Goddess of Liberty" in the back
ground, outraged, and her garments, with
the "Star Spangled Banner" bedraggled in
the dust.
AS to the money being 'judiciously ex-
pended" I reckon it eoiU be aohen you get it
Your corrupt party is noted for that. You
have bought Grant, and paid more than he
is worth. Your sinking party, in its dying
throes, grasped him on account OF his mill
tary fame. If he should be elected-which
God forbid-the only difference in price
between him and JUDAS will be that oi
$4,000 per year for the one, and thirty
pieces of silver for the other.
The man who would betray his country
into the hands of such party as yours
would sell his Savior for less than "thirty
pieces of silver" did the opportunity offer
No, gentlemen, your actions belle your
words, and can't come down with the
stamps. know that you are hard up, that
your waning cause imperatively demands
that you must ''make raise" "by fail
means or foul" and most pathetically do
sympathize with you, and hope you'll find
your man, or somebody else.
In conclusion, gentlemen, l will say
very respectfully, that | am most PRO
foundly and cussedly" not your "best
hold.'' G. B. WILSON,
Collector Fifth District Ohio
Strike My Name from the Not
tingham List !''-AnOther ImPor.
tant Change.