The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-09-12

irgtCn, Ger. Gl,AST UoUlG take tic present
opportunity TO bring Great Britain to nc
count for her depicdati7us upon our COM
mcrce during the vehollcrs' rebellion.
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Garcrofl Davis and the Tammlny Ring.
We have received letter from an admirar,
md We know that he is such by the sigma.
Iure which he oppcnls to his epstle. In
order that our readers may understand the
nature and the IDEAS Of our correspondent, we
mbjoin the following extract from his com
ruuicatiUn:
Don't Won 20 li'tle too far IN your arrar.
Emily vinlictive lolnNiuc Of the sen Of honc.t
ions DAVIS u oil ia : -'e rcnOwuY VITA hy.
GEtlGEY I do ro, uiuk your quoted vro,'s OF hs
dishonesty sustain Your cH1rErs. l. read them
correctly, thcy 10 not Sustain you. NoN you cou.1
cyitnd ,uur alni.-cd yigpr oI inv,ct,ye In cses "
nor. grant viDi cluc-- Il tonit, Hni receive m,
rlaulus O. ten hoas' i ut yIur 'c.oT clt
rcns, by foloNn-, ~ WE'D swErNY oHhLL,
Of ace 800 hgu- u ed b., IiLt lwrrp last winner
IN tie Lc-i-l.tut 10 hu up damned N!'airs 70 vote
LIN into e a.t &c ucc- ,cs c'eI this great city
Our corr, pondcnt VIC ar, sorry to say.
docs not sccM to be 4 person OF much clear
ness of mind or It may be that h. has not at.
tontiyely read the evidence published by tie
Legislature Of Massachusetts, in the case #
JonN BANCROFT DAVIS and lis sixty thou.
sand dollar bride. Accorl Nc to that cvi.
dcncc one JonS 6 Ed. IHGE, President Of
the Boston, Hartford and Eric Railroad. d.
sired Ia obtain irm the Erie Hallway Com
rany certain contracts The majority Of
the Erie Railway Directors would no;
make these contracts. l., puInGH accorlirp
lV act Ia tpntl or1 1xs1 -.
kindred operations caused lims.lf and q
numlcr of his fellow ccnspirators to lie
elected as Directors Of the Erie COMPANY in
the place Of those who refused To connivc I'm
his schemes. Among those who were not
turned out Of the Eric direction by this coup
d'ttat JouN BANCroFT DAVIS was one.
Next it appears that DAVIS was paid the
rum Of sixty thousand dollars by the Dos.
ton, Hartford md Ere concern. This fact
appears upon the account books Of that com
parry, and EiDpIDGE sworc TO it before the
Joint Committee on Railways appointed by
the two Houses of the Massachusetts, Leg $
lature. After ills sum of sixty thousand
dollars was handed TO DAVIS, he aided in
carrying through the contracts which Ell
BRIDGE and his fellow cohspirators desired
They were made 10y the new direction of tie
Erie Railway, DAVIS being both one of lis
members and one of iis legal advisers. Ii
appears that no drew these contract or, "a
Mr.. ELDRDGE says fixed them up" The
result of this transaction is loss to the Erie
Company of over two million and half of
dollars.
These arc the facts which the Lcgis
lnture of Massachusetts, have proved and
published We say they demonstrate that
DAVIS was bribed with sixty thousand dol.
lars TO betray his constituents and defraud
his clients; and we are confident that when
our admiring correspondent has carefully
studied the testimony, hc VIII be precisely Of
the same opinion. But this is not the most
startling feature Of DAVIES case. If It was
merely an ordinary instance of bribery
and fraud, we should content ourselves with
exposing his offence, and should there leave
him but he occupies most elevated public
position. President GRANT has appointed
him Acting Secretary of State, and has put
him in charge of tho foreign relations of the
United States. This is one of the highest
places Of power and honor in the American
Government and we say that to commit
1t TO the keeping Of n man covered all
over az DAVIS is with the shame Of bribery
and of fraud, is nm offence against good morals
and common decency which ought to over.
whelm Gen. GRANT himself with n storm
Of public reprobation. This is the reason
why we discuss the subject with what our
correspondent describes az an apparently
vindctivc following" Whatever politicians
office seekers, ard party Organs may do, Tnr
Sun will never consent that a man guilty o.
bribery shall be rewarded by promotion t.
high Office, o. '"' ''ose who arc proved tc
have deiTauicJ J.. private clients shall D.,
put into places where they can def,oud tho
people the United States
As for the Tnmmany leaders whom our
correspondent calls upon us to overhaul, j,
must be n very careless reader ofour column
If Ia isnot aware that We have never spare,
any act Of theirs tLat has mcr,cd pull.
condemnation. Their purchase Of III
Republican minority of the Legislature las
winter we visited ut the time with jus
dcnuncintion, But there is this great din1I
encc between thcm and DAVIS: lis Lr!brr,
and fraud have been proved by the invest
CATION OF an impartial legislative COR
nitteo. Whatever wrong deeds they ar
charged with may BIO matters of rumor an
belief, but no public investigation has eve
demonstrated them. Besides, they have ne
heen selected b' the President of the Unite