The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-19

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and joiner, which he followed for some years there
after, marrying in due season. and buying tract OF
wild land, which he proceeded to clear and till At
length he pulled up stakes and struck for Mauch
Chunk the heart Of the Lehlgh coal region, whence
he coal boat to Philadelphia then started n store
and soon engaged extensively in buying coal lands,
building railroads etc, etc, whereby he grew rapidly
twenty millions Of dollars, and we believe he came
honestly by them. Though we do not belong to his
men, and believe the world is better for their ex-
istence."
Though clumsily told, this brief story of
the facts of Asa Packers life-to which, it
will be seen, it does insufficient Justice
contains yet enough to demonstrate the mould
and mettle of the man, and that ability and
integrity in the discharge of his own affairs
which will guarantee his worthy oversight
of those of his adopted State.
Nevertheless, in what follows this reluctant
summary of Asa Packers career the COM
ments are so double-edged as to wound the
hand that wrote them In his feeble effort
to break the force of his own statement, the
IT5bune proceeds to remark don't like
the idea of making Governor out of one
whose chief distinction is the ownership of
twenty rSillions of dollars" Nor does the
Democratic party like or propose to enter
tain any such idea, Mr.. Greeley. The
''chief distinction" of Asa Packers life is
far from the accident of his wealth. 1t rests
in the sagaclty and honor and honesty
with which he attained this wealth, and
upon the noble philanthropy with which
he has dispensed it. Yet there is ''an
idea," there is 'chief distinction"
the embodiment and possession of which he
bases his personal esteem, respect, and
friendship" The man who slurs Asa Packer
slavers Daniel L. Sickles. The one is in his
view unfit to be Governor. The other is
proper to be Minister to Spain and the reci-
pient of praise in the Tribune and of the
greeting and praise of its editor. For the
gentleman, Christian, and philanthropist, Mr..
Greeley has suspicion, sneers, and abuse.
For the libertine, mail-rObber, pimp,
panderer, adulterer murderer, defaulter,
and mutineer, Mr.. Greeley has personal
esteem, respect, and friendship"
Mark the difference Asa Packer left home
and embarked in life with his entire youthful
savings netting seventeen dollars. Daniel e.
Sickles began at about the same age with
800 extorted from the credulous gene
roslty OF Peter Cooper. This generosity he
abused by squandering the money, which was
a loan, in such licentious courses as led the
man of whom he had borrowed it, and who
would have willingly doubled the amount to
an honest debtor, to cut him off forever. At
the period when Asa Packer was ''apprenticed
to a carpenter and joiner, Daniel Z. Sickles
was budding burglar of the mortgage of a
trust estate, for the theft of which he stands
indicted at the bar of his native city to-day.
When Asa Packer ''had married in due sea-
son" Daniel E. Sickles was living in open
commerce with a public prostitute, and is
credibly reported to have solicited for her
from others such attentions as he gave her
himself. At this stage, it was Packer the me-
chanic and SicBles the pimp.
While Asa Packer was clearing wild land
and tilling it." Daniel e. Sickles was robbing
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| by-jowl with his and the public's trull in the
| Assembly Chamber at Albany.
While Asa Packer was amassing wealth and
| distributing it with q discrimination and
abundance to which the benefactions of Mr.,
! Peabody alone are equal Daniel e. Sickles,
having been pimp, burglar. mail robber bal
lot-box suffer and defaulter, became in quick
and suitable succession adulterer and muir
derer and Radical.
Among the acts which Asa Packer has done
to attract the distrust of Mr.. Greeley, has
been the endowment with half O million dol
lars q university in which the youth of his
State are gratuitously educated in all the
practical Sciences and in the principles anC
practices of a business career AS the out
come of his magnificent bounty, the Lehigh
valley is filed with happy homes to-day
| homes whose heads or whose sons he has
educated, and to whose success in life, and tc
whose standing and eminence in this age, his
benevolence has chiefly contributed. I'm
poverished men and women, destitute orphan
children, deserving and struggling charities,
needy churches of all Christian faiths, know
the name of Asa Packer only to bless it. He
has maintained them from the riches which
Heaven has rewarded his honorable and in
dustrious labor, and ten thousand subjects o.
his lavish generosity to-day rise up ant
call him blessed from all parts of the Key
stone State.
Among the acts which Daniel e. Sickle
has done to win "the personal esteem, re
spect, and friendship" of Mr. Greeley are tn,
robbery OF his patron, the burglary OF
mortgage, the pillage of the mails, the opel
endearment and companionship of a wanton
the adultery of decades, murder, and the re
consecration of a dlshonored m lrriiage bed.
1t is fit that Mr.. Greeley should contemn
Packer with the same lips with which h
caresses Sickles.