The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-09-19
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i'll decency. Not even the stern lessons Of
Vermont and Maine, have taught them that
fellows of the fitzpatrick breed do them inf
nitely more harm than good. The truth is
they altogether underestimate the manliness
and honor of the American people. They
forget that every attribute of magnanimity in
human nature revolts against low assaults
upon the personal Character of the Chief Mag
istrate OF the nation. And the public pa
tience soon gets exhausted, when these base
inventions are hunted down one by one and
found to be as false as they are mean. When
the end comes aud these co-laborers in n had
cause are buried beneath the avalanche of
popular Indignation which they are invoking
upon their own heads, they will begin to real
ize that the base slanderers of our able. upright
and excellent President have really helped to
precipitate their political doom.
Mr.. Grecley's organs are in deep distress
because Messrs. Boutwell,, Dawes, Colfax,
Garfield and Others do not make public proc
lamation that they were not bribed by the
Union Pacific Railway Company or its adj
junct, the Credit Mobilier If they were mod
erately enterprising in the pursuit of facts,
they would apply to the officers of the COM
pany. They could then and there ascertain
that not one the gentlemen named in Nc
Combs tnot Ames' mind you'll peneiled men,
orandum erer otcned or receired a dollar, of
the stock in question. am neither a Jour
nalst, nor newspaper reporter and yet OBJ
tained that information long ago and without
the smallest difficulty But am rather in
clined to believe that it suits your 'Iiberal''
editor better to keep in ignorance of the
facts, and to harp day by day on the Cakes
Ames Bribery" 1 sincerely hope that not
one of the dozen men who form the subj ects
of this insinuation win take any N office of it,
while it stauds in its present shape. At least
seven of them are of such distinguished and
recognized probity, that they haven't the
smallest occasion for defending their good
name. Indeed, not one of the number except
Fowler of Tennessee, has ever to my knowl-
edge, been an object of reproach. 1 believe
Mr. Greeley did cast some reflections upon
him in connection with the Impeachment
trial. Whenever the newspapers, in Mr..
Greeley's interest wish to relieve their anx-
iety in regard to the integrity Of the Vice
President, the Secretary of the Treasury,
Senator Patterson, Senator Wilson or any
other of the public men who have been
named in this latest of the numerous, lawful
disclosures" of the N. Y. Sun, let them apply
to Hon. Oakes Ames, NJ. c., North Easton,
Mass, and he will not send them away un-
enlightened. And if they should affect to dis
trust his statements, dare say he will sub
stantiate them by the evidence ofthe officers
of the company, and the records in their
books. s'
Gov. Jewell took occasion on the evening
of the 11th inst, in Cooper Institute to make
an authoritative refutation of the various cal
umnies which have been circulated against
Gen. Grant The audience was very large
and of the best class and the vindication of
the President was complete.
Gov. Hawley, of Conn, in recent speech
at Sufield, said clever thing: ''They talk
about horses" said he; ''well the General is
good judge Of horse, and likes the animal.
| 1t is creditabe to hin. He detests dogs new
er owned one in his life. And yet the Demo-
cratic party have more to say about bull-pups
than they do about emancipation or universal
suffragep'. YARMOUTH.
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