The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-04-21
GARIBALDI OBJECTS TO sc ARDS
STEALING IN HE NAHB.f

GARIBALDI OBJECTS TO 0GWARDo
STEALING IN HIS HAAB.
To POLITICAL tergissrAfoa and tricEery,
thevensrsble EscsetAzy Of. Stass. desnoral-
lied by Andrew johnson and other Demo-
cratic association. 10 himself manufacturing
evidence Of knayery Of more direct kind.
Some time ago Mr.. Seward submitted, for
the approval and allowance of Congress,
a bill amounting to 81, 1913, TO pay twenty
two persons for special secret service rem
dered at the instance Of the Department Of
Stste since 1861. And Mr.Sswsrd specially,
named General Garibsldi as one Of these
special saviors Of The country who had ren-.
dered service to the Government At M. Sew
ards instance, and for which the venerable
Secretary wanted special appropriations.
But now, forsooth, General Garibaldi comes
out and denies having done anything - BY
the Secretary stated denies that any money
10 due him. The venerable Secretary hasn't
explained. He didn't eyince his usual di.
plomatic adroitness therein, didn't the Secs
Rotary. General Garibaldi is pretty extern.
siysly known. he is . positive, honest, de-
cided, truthful man, with very undiplomat-
ic-wsy of telling the truth, and doing it
plumpiy and roundly. Thereby he differs
from the very diplomatic and venerable Sec.
Rotary of State. 1t wasn't polite to fasten
the bill ON Garibaldi. Mr.. Seward might
have known that the direct and red-shirted
old hero would deny it. The services we're
very probably rendered by smelling
committee, by the very patriotic and high
toned chaps who acted as Mr.. Stewards and
A. Us spies to ascertain whether the Amer
lean ministers and consuls abroad were the
disciples of my Policy" The services
we're Ia McCracken. Why didn't Mr..
Seward claim the sum directly for the dis
tnguished services of that valuable ally Of
the venerable Secretary? And McCracken
would never have had the ill-taste to do a.
General Garibaldi has doue-deny the ser.
vices and refuse the money therefor. Betsy
Prig, it is true, was such "bage creetur''
as to say of Mrs. Harris, the bosom friend
Of Mrs. Camp, of Mrs. Harris "as had one
sweet infant Though ehe do not wish it
known in her own family by the me theirs
aide KEEP in spirits in bottIe''-Betsy Prig
had the hardihood to say of that Mrs. Har-
ris: 81 don't believe there's no SIGH q per-
son, and to say it to the very face Of Nm
Camp. But Betsy was under the influence
of the teapot and the absent "cowcumber,s
and her skepticism was clearly owing TO this.
There are, il Is also true, great many Der
sons, not by any means "bage creeturs,'
who look upon the venerable Secretary %
masculine humbug of the genus Camp, and
are ready to be sworn to it that there isn't
now, that there never was any veritable Nc
Crecken. And such is their confident skep-
,icism on this score that they prophetieslly
avow that when, in the day of Judgment, Nc
Cracker is called to come into court, the only
appearance that can possibly be made must
be his attorney, the venerable Secretary him
self.
But it is very modest sum, only forty>one
thousand dollars, for the valuable services Of
twenty-five sasiors Of the country. Why,
Mccracken would be cheap at that price, if
we could only buy out from our history the
infamy of the Motley affair. II the curiosi-
ties Of Literature are valuable, why not the
curiosities Of diplomacy? If Il ia we'll for
the world that it has that literary nut to crack,
Who was Junius9 or that other, Who struck
Billy Patterson why should We not be thank
full to Mr.. Seward for giving US that other nut,
Who was McCracken?
The country will not be disposed to be se-
we're upon the venerable Secretary, but il viii
ask, il Gen. Garibaldi wasn't the savior, who
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