, 1869-03-30
Senator Ecuton.

Frosn The Strr York Erraino Ihat, March q.
Among the persons who arc reported In tho
newspaper to be exercising good deal. OF in
nnence In Washington In securing appointments
particularly u the revenue service Is Senator Fen
ton Of this StAte.
While Ar, Fcntoa WIS Governor Of New York,
ne WAS accused IN The public prtnts Of numerous
Hch ol Eross corruption. While he wAs canat-
11t e!ore The Legislature, for the ONCE or United
EuAteh SenAtor, these ciasEes we're Reiterated IN
.sAi4NtAnse lonIhalt, ant 1ter the names Of peT-
eoiie Gfcunla1lly Responsible, WIN dctrd him, In
int public rr1nts, to call them brfore q court o!
actet. - ~
Damaging To his character as these rh.,rr,
were, M kenton did not REPLY to them, nor In any
the courts Or before The reorlc- We wrote al the
tine on this subject: .tCharrrs Of Innss ac.o1 e
nature have been brought aeslust exI;uvr4noe
Fcnton late1J elected By The Lextla,urr ~ Svra-
tor from this Stale They amount 10 thts ,hai BE-
wa8 Eul1fy OF practices. while Governor Of this
STATE such a. an homes: administrator ut thr laws
would look upon With horror, aud thu vcry sus.
pclon Of which he would Erirl with tatitgnas,on.
THESE chhsHtA hate heep male frutD day u day In
The Gn'ae7rsal AtFetisT Of this city. 10th during
The progress Of The election By the State Lesisa-
ture and since: In fact, they have been pcrAsted
N up 10 the present time and the Governor has
neea p. n ,sAin and aEa,n eaed TO submit the matter
= i,upossiblc for any public man to slt stlent
a.A E'ahktse under such charges without serious
ioss l o. caasae.sE y b Impossible that accuss-
douA 20 grave should h hurled from day 10 day
nEatnst man In the high position occupied hy Nj.
Fcnto1, and never answered, without creating =
peue1 !n many quarters that he accusations arc
True But The tnatter does not concern the &C
cuscd only. He should Justify himself, II be Is
mile, Is duty he owes to The State he Is to renr
sent In Congress- lie should show tho world tnss
the State haa not iset liz e!tt tnc n M
very highest of1ce which Stale can couIeT, man
boldly and repeatedly nas:AIesl with eharrrs Of IN
famous practices. 10 which no reply Is nlalle
"Thls is his dntJ-s,ut The question what the
Senatc ought to do II be urx1ceth It, Is oae on
which We DO not Al present propose to enter. We
presume that the Ex-Governor has frteads who NIL
IL bencrc IN his Innocence anl It is for them IN
consider neither they ought TO urge him u make
It clear For ourselves NC know nothing OF the
truth or falBehood Of the charges brought against
him II he were FttS1te man We should not
think Of even aludiEg 10 the subject hut the char
acser Of q Senator In Congress Is matter Of pao-
uc concern and every citizen Of this State has nn
interest In being rtputahly represented"
Within few days the testimony taken before =
committee Of the State Senntc on the use Of f1tl-
fpAd money tn Albany has teen Printed Tn our
INST page to-day will be found soNe extracts from
that testimony. which show on the positive af1ida-
Wit Of = former Senator OF this State, Mr Thomas
Murphy, and BY other testimony which We print,
that twenty Thousand dollars we're paid to friend
OF Governor Feuton on IN agreement that the Erie
Railroad bill shunld bc tignet the same tAT-
which WAS done Mt. Alalrhy swore that IT.
THOMPSON told him that he saw two checks OF tea
thousand dollars each paid over 10 Mr.. Hamilton
IlAYI1a the Governor friend, under agreement
fhat on that same day the Governors signature
Thompsop added, within three hours-
Mr. THOMPSON being caI1ed before the commit
Ice and nhEed 1lJout tho matter, refused 70 An-
sWer, rs viii be seen n bis evidence WHICH NC
quote.
" MURPHY slso sHose thst, haI1ng ssse1ws1da