The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-23
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CHOPS AND TOMATO SAUCE

CHOPS AND TOMATO SAUCE
From the NJ u. Tribune.
The anti-adminstration newspapers, in
their anxiety either TO injure Gen. Grant per-
sonally. or to affect the November elections,
are making use of the developments of the
gold conspiracy which long ago passed the
limits of propriety and is now becoming
ridiculous. What may have been the schemes
of Messrs. Fisk, Gould and Corbin for
creating corner in the gold market interests
the Grand Jury just now rather more than it
does anybody else and we hope if the con-
spirators can be reached by the law, the law
will make an example of them. If General
Butterield has been in league with them-of
which we may await profit will not be
difficult to say what ought to be done with
him, and we shall certainly not be his apollo
eists But as for President Grant, it seems
t. US more and more clear every day that his
hands are entirely clean of this matter. Out
of the facts thus far brought to light, Sergeant
Buzfuz himself would hardly try to make
case against him.
OF course. if Gram was in the ring, the
conspirators could have the market all their
own way There would be no need of buying
ND other officers, corrupting General Butter
field corrupting General Porter, tapping
TELEGRAPH wires, or persuading the President
to increase the volume of currency, on the
pretext that it was needed for the movement
of the crops Yet what was their course (?
1t is said they schemed with Mr.. Corbin to
secure the appointment Of Treasurer in
New York whom they supposed they could
trust; what did they want of him if they had
the President a.? 1t is said they offered a
bribe to General Porter, who refused it, what
need of bibing Grants Secretary, if they
had Grant himself They resorted to extra
ordinary means for getting the earliest intel
igence of the action of the Government in
relation to sales of gold; why should they, if
the head of the administration was in league
with them? They represented to the Presi-
dent that selling gold Just now would be the
ruin Of the farmers, and disastrous to the
Erie Railroad; why on earth should they dc
that, if Grant was in the plot for keeping
gold locked up?
The testimony upon which these extra
ordinary accusations against the Presidents
integrity are based is like nothing in history
or fiction, except the celebrated letters put in
evidence by the counsel for the plaintiff in
the suit of Bardell VS.. Pickwick, Mr.. Corbir
is a member of the ring, and General Grant
has the misfortune to be his brother-in-law
Gracious heavens gentlemen, are the liber.
ties of our country and the property of oul
fellow-citizens to be trihed away by such
shallow articles as these? Mrs. Grant writes
to Mr. Corbin about the children, and adds:
"My husband is very much annoyed at youl
does this mean? ''This is not an open.
fervent, eloquent epistle, breathing nothing
but the language of affectionate at
tachment, but covert, sly, under.
handed communication. Are ''the chill.
dren" nothing but synonym for 'the
bonds?" When this monster, bearing the
outward form and semblance of man, bids
his wife write that he is annoyed, is it un
derstood by his confederates in iniquity that
he means lit is all right?" Mr. Corbin begs
the President to forbid further sales of gold
and is told in reply that the President is very
much annoyed by his speculations; fears tC
be unconsciously influenced; insists that his
schemes shall be brought to an end. Ah
gentlemen, this letter must be viewed with
cautious and suspicious eye. There is hid
den meaning under every word, a secret
known only to the initiated, an Interpretation
at which we can only arrive by taking every
part of it in a sense exactly contrary to thai
which is expressed. Chops! Gracious
heavens! And tomato sauce!
There is one part in the confession of Mr.
Jay Gould which deserves, perhaps, another
word. He says that Mr.. Corbin represented
the profits on a certain transaction in gold tc
be for the benefit of Mrs. Grant. In the frs
place, if Mr.. Corbin did say SO, there is NJ
evidence that he told the truth-no reason
why he may not have been STRIKER Of the
lobby" In the second place, if Mrs. Gran
did speculate, there is no evidence that sh,
did so with the knowledge or consent of he
husband, or that she knew any more about tn,
Intentions of the Government than was known
by all the world. She would not have beer
the first woman who ever speculated in Wal
street without her husbands knowledge. Ii
the third place, whether Corbn invested fo
Mrs. Grant OF not, the Presidents innocenc
is evident from his action, which was directl
against tie interests Of lie Ring; for whe
the conspiracy had got headway, and ther
was every prospect that gold would rise t
200, he didwhat all their pipe-laying had bee
intended to prevent his doing; he did inter
fere; he did cause the Treasury gold to l.
thrown upon the market; and he did seattle
their combination to the winds.