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The act 50 much desired by the ''inside
ring" was passed by Congress, us every
body very well knows. An act twice as
iniquitois could have been pulled through
when Wilson and Patterson in the Senate,
and the Speaker of the House, Mr.. Col
fax, and Mcssrs. Blaine, Scofeld, Kelley,
Dawes. Eliot, Boutwell,, Bingham and
Garfield had been bribcd, us Ames de-
clarcs they were. They were the most
prominent and influential men on the Re-
publican side Of the House, Dawes being
the Chairman of the Committee on Flee
mittee on Revised and Unfinished Busi-
ness. boutwell, was on the Judiciary
Committee, bingham and Blaine promi-
nent members Of the Committee on Mill
tary affairs, and Kelley and Garfield held
equally important positions.
From the same source we also learn
that Ames pursued the following sifgular
course in bribing some of these men: He
wonld first hand the Member ex-senator
certificate OF stock, and tell him it was
a good thing. 1t asked how u och money
was required. he would say 'Not a cent
at present" Then in ~ weeks he
would again pan U visit aY hand the gen
teman check pwn the Treasurer
Of the Credit MOI and say Here
is yonr first dividend Sfhe first dividend
was sufficient to p ~ the stock at its
nominal value. Fat the dividends were
sufficient to do tlE. is shoNp by the fol-
n',, lowing extract fl lh" Col M'Ngmb's tes'i-
''Q. What dividend was DECLARED on
the Credit Mohiler stock after thd%lelivery
of the Ames contract? A. MN books
show that | received Jan 4. 1868, 90 per
cent. Union Pacific Railroad stock, 3.} 4
per cent. Union Pacific Railroad stock,
so per cent. Union Pacific Railroad bonds
Above dividend was on $50 shares Feb
ruarv Sth. | got from it in dividends so
shares of stock of Credit Mobilier June
18th received 40 per cent. in Union Pa
cfic Railroad stock, with so per cent in
cash, on $50 shares. July 3. 1868, Is
per cent. in stock and 75 per cent. in
Union Pacific Railroad bonds, on $50
shares. September Sd, Is per cent. in
bonds and 100 per cent. in stock. De-
cembcr 19th, POO per cent. in stock. In
addition to tbs there was II l2 per cent.
in gold, paid in January, 1868, Credit
Moblicr stock and II per cent in gold
for each dividends" J."
The above extract also gives some idea
of the real value of the stock Senator Will
son, speaker Blaine. and their associates
received. But we do not need r. enter
into any calcuiationsTo arrive y rs value.
Col. McComb on thisA point 81 cars that it
was worth not less thaAS21a share.
Mr.. Blaine has publis IA card stating
that he never ownSa hhV the Credit
Mobiicr stock, la ne is 81 Vlarly rcti-
cent as to what 5M knows Of transae-
ton. The Cy'le would like q e more
light on lhFs"hieet. u
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A Western Hermit-Tom keIIy's

| There is a shade of romance connected
with Il lead ore cave near Dubuque, Iowa.
There poor Tom Kelly lived and died;
poor. though rich. Tom was IN unedu-
Gated Irishman. and when he had dis
covered his cave kept the fact to himself
| lie melted his own ore and carried his
! lead down to the river bank. secretly,
until he had hidden in the bank about
$4,000 worth Of lead. This he shipped
and went with ikdown the river. rcShip-
PING it at New ORLEANS and going with it
to New l"rk. whet he sold it, taking his
pay in gold. Pcrhap5khe gold was heavier
than the lead At II events poor Tom
sat down with his nj -hagiFo rest,
and Us he was d1ry-lS, king d fellow,
some boys collected ard| nd IN and be
gan poking fun at him. great fear
seized Tom n fear for money bags.
lie snatchcd them mp any s. rted to run
for the dock where hi boa vas lying.
The boys followed, ,hoot .. To- stumbled
and fell. One of tlI IFboys, an ad of the
rest. came upon hiH Tom Dire "a knife
and stabbed the /foy through heart.
At the trial VIII lfh ensued it waA hown
that Tom KellysWasmore than half 4 azed,
and he was acquitted, bnt kept in col me
mcnt rs n lunaic. Here his Instincts AS
q miner stood him in gooll stead he Bur
| roWed out and escaped. Before long,
| Tom was at work in his mine again, but
| he was now more Sccrctve than ever.
| He built himself 4 stone house, where
each window was an cmbrasure pointing
out Of which was fixed Il loaded muSket,
and the only man who ever got into Toms
confidence to examine the house, says that
| there was also n fixed musket enfladno
| the doorway. He told this person that he
| was having an iron house made for him
self that he thought would be much more
secure. In general it was but little, and
only to mere children, that Tom ever
| spoke. And there came day, some two
years ago, when Tom found it necessary
TO prepare TO 90 TO a house where he was
likely to be permanently safe. Two
brothers, almost as uncouth us Tom HIM
self, came hoverng about the dying man.
He asked the priest to bring u lawyer;
and when this WAS effected said: 'It
You will send them out" pointing to his
brothers, 81 will tell ALL" Bnt the brothers
would not 90 out of the house, and Tom
| died rs mute rs he had lived Applica-
ton to the proper authorities in New
| York recovered Toms gold which he had
been too much frightened to apply for
after his escape. The brothers left not
one stone of the house upon another, and
they found about S2O, 900 in gold hidden
in and around it. Out of Toms cave they
took, in addition, it is believed, ore To a
value Of not less than 800, 900. They
divided their treasures rs they found gold
or sold ore, by dealing out coin or bills
rs if they were cards ut poker, one to each
alternately. What there is left Of Tom
kclly's real estate looks like the debris of
IN earthquake.
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TO he HnnoyoJle the .Saprc0e JudjcjA
Con't Rcft 70 he holden a BeIfaM rim.
and for the Cont1ty Of lV0lojo m HE mira
Tueslay Of OctOber. 1872.
CUSAN N TRIM of Scarsmont, in said County,
- respectfully libels and gives the CouIt to be in-
formed that she was lawfully married to Joseph O..
Trim, formerly of said Sesrsmont and residin g
i'll Lawrence, Mass, on the 18th day of April lo66,
at said Scarsmont; that your llbellant has always
conducted herself towards said lbcllcc as cFiaslc
and atfectionate wife, but that said bcllcc for moro
than five years now last part has neglected and failed
to properly provide for your bcllant; and has at
many times cruelty treated your bellant, repeatedly
threatening her with personal violence; that on ac-
count of such conduct the part of said libellee
your libellant left him in December last and has
since lived apart from him.
Wherefore believing that she can never again live
with said bellee, your libelant prays that she may
be divorced from the bonds of matrimony between
her and her said husband. SUSAN N. TRIM.
Belfast, Me-, July rs, 1872.
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Special Notice!
Maine Central
II \ L l. II @ A ID.
Belfast Savings Bank.
NOW is THE TIME TO DEPOSIT
Penny Saved is Penny Earned.n

hEPOSlTS made on before the lst of any
- month, will be placed upon interest every
month, except May and November) and interest
computed upon the same in June and December.
Deposits received daily at the Banking Room,
from to II A. M, and to4P. NJ. Saturdays from
9to II AM.
JOHN II. H.QUIMBY, Treas. ASA FAUNCE, Prest
Belfast, July 13. 1870.
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Cooper Brothers

Have just finished fine lot of CARRIAGES, BUG
GIES, TOP BUGGIES, Portland and Grocery
WAGONS, which for style and durability are not
excelled. Those wishing to purchase would do well
to examine their work before buying elsewhere, as
their work Is warranted. They also have on hand
SECONDHAND WAGONS.
North Searsmont, June II, 1872.
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II
-, pL;I.l,,t,.bi., :, rn.r.,d f., tl,o p,oi6,.
r;,IrotH. me ,redu Mohiier and the dis
1rihulinn ol stock t., Members of CONGRESS
lhr Phiadnhhm correspondent of the
sun explains aS follows.
,...
J.. ,.
ny '''lp' ms i"ii% hhoWh, IN a vague
''ii "i way mat me lnlon Pacific rail
l''t' was i Gi9ailtic steal Inc subsidies
'n ""h"~ alone gwen II by the government
were Nulliclent To blnld and equip the
'"'". le'' III addition to this, Congress
PASSED IN aci allowing the company to IS
-'ie hrSi m"r'gae" bonds, and compelling
'h" government I" accept \ second mort
"H''" aS security ini The millions OF bonds
Guaranteed ny IT, Nor was tins all Tens
2" hIiii"hN OF acres Of the public domain
We're thrown III As another nice bequest
u" ms r"rp"l "lall"h. The evidence printed
'"l"W Shows INTO whose hands all this
PhInd'f iril; how II enriched II favored
l"w' who Nlll continue 10 grow richer
'hd richer as the valuable lands lying
along The line OF road are thrown upon
lh" market.
4 halt dozen men, by buying up u
PrnnSN INlna corporation known as the
frnnN\ lvanla Fiscal Agency, and chang
lng IT. name to the Credit Mobiler of
America, GOT control of the Union Pacific
railroad, and made millions upon mil
mons of dollars in building and equippin@
They Still control if. as Mr.. McComb
-'ys below, the stockholders outside the
'"dll Mobiller OF America 'have not and
never will receive Il cent of DIVIDEND"
ihe history OF the suit which is the means
Of Oily mo this rXUosurp to thp Ouhlic is
somewhat curi"us, 1t seems that Henry
:. MrComb, who has filed bill in equity
IN ihc Supreme Court of PENNSYLVANIA
against the Credit Mobilier, was one OF
the original corporators of the Union Pa
citlc Railroad Company. rs well as one of
'h" favored few who got into the inside
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4fA5@N T IT 2 INI'VONTI, Q UUENs
A true copy Attest-B. 2 FIELD, Register.

TINH subscriber hereby gives public notice to all
l. concerned, that he has been duly appointed
and taken upon himself the trust of Administrator
of the estate of Simeon Boulter, late of Knox,
in the County of Waldo, deceased, by giving
bond the law directs; he therefore requests all
persons who indebted to said deceaseds estate to
make immediate payment, and those who have amy
demands thereon, TO exhibit the for settlement
to him. IL j. d. LAMSON.
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WALDO, SS.-SUr. JUD. COURT,

NHED0, III. V7rTf,
In vacation Sept. 1d 1872.
Upon the foregoing libel Ordered, That notice
thereof be given to the lbellee by publishing at
tested copy of the same, together with this order
thereon three weeks successfully in the Republican
Journal, newspaper published at Belfast, in sait
County OF Waldo, the first publication to be twent,
days at least before the next term of this Court tc
be holden at Belfast within and for the County o
Waldo on the third Tuesday of October next, that
the ibelee may then and there appear and to
said libel if he shall see cause.
j. q. DlCKERSON, J. S. DE- G.
true copy of libel and order thereon.
3W11 AtteSt-W, G. FRYE. CLERK,
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Oakcs Ames' list of names as shown to-
lay to me for Credit MobiIier is:

IndorsCd: OAKEs AMEs, January, 80, 1868.
On Jan. %, 1868, Ames had written to
McComb rs follows about bribng MEM
hers of Congress:
WAsHINGToN, Jan. %, 1868.
~. s. Ne Co1nh, Esq
DEAR SIR:-Yours of the 23d is at hand. in
which you say Senator Bayard and Fowler
have written You in relation to their stock.
have spoken to Fowler but not to Ravarl
have never been introduced to Bayard, hut will
see him soon. You say | must not put too
much in one locality. | have assigned as far
AS ! have gwen to-four from Massachusetts !;
one from New Hampshire; one, Delaware; one,
Tennessee; e-haf, Ohio; two. Pennsylvania
one, Indiana; one. Maine; and have three to
place. which shall put where they will do the
most good to us. ! am here on the spot and
can better Judge where they should 60 | think
after this dividend is paid we should make our
capital ~ ,oo0.000 and distribute the new stock
where it will protect us. Let them have the
stock at par and profits made in the future. The
30 per cent. increase on the old stock want
for distribution here, and soon. Alley is op-
posed to the division of the bonds, says we will
| need them, etc., etc. | should think that we
! ought to be able to spare them with Alley and
Cisco on the Finance Committee We used tn
| he able to borrow when we had no credit and
| debts pressing; we are now ont of debt. and in
good credit. What say you about the bond
| dividend? A part of the purchasers here are
poor, and want their bonds to sell to enable
them to meet their payment on the stock in the
C. NJ. | have told them what they would get
as dividends, and they expect think-when
the bonds the parties received rs the 80 per cent
dividend, we better give them the bonds. 1t will
not amount to ANYTHING with us. Some of the
large holders will not care whether they have
the bonds or certificates, or they will lend their
bonds to the company, AS they have done be.
fore, or lend them money. Qugev has been
here. and we have got that onc-tenth that was
UnderwOOd's. / have taken a half, Quigley q
quarter, and you a quarter.
Judge Carpenter wants part of it. Al
some future day we are to surrender part tC
Ihm. Yours truly. OAKES AMEs."
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Special Notice.
TO shippers of Freight 10y Sanford.
independents Line Steamers

All persons shipping Freight by this Line are re-
quested to have Steamers receipts in dupIicatr
name of Consignee in full on the margin.
Shippers that are using old Boxes Barrels and
Bags, are requested to erase all old marks Any
Boxes, Barrels or Bags that have more than one
mark thereon, will not be received or shipped.
All Freight must be properly marked only to the
Consignec. Positively freight received unless
conformable to rules as above.
Belfast. Jan. Is, 1872. tfps
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TEsTIMONIAIs.

TESTIMONIALS.
81 regard Mr.. Eddy one of the most capable and
successful practitioners with whom have had Off
cial intercourse CHARLES MASON Commits
sioner of Patents"
~ have no hesitation in assuring inventors that
they cannot employ man more competent and
trustworthy, and more capable of putting their ap-
plicatIons in 4 form to secure from them an early
and favorable consideration at the Patent Office.
EDMUND BURKE.
Late Commissioner of Patents" ("
"Mr. II. II. EDDY has made for me overEHIRTY
applications for PatentsNlayng been 1sdccessful in
almost every case. Such proof of great
ALL inventors to apply to hiule6\h hrocure their pa
tents, as they may be sure o1having most faith
full attention bestowed 01ftheir cascsSqnd at very
reasonable charges. JOHN TA1GARTn
Boston, Jan. l, 197E-ly26
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rI,HE UNDERSIGNED, My defers Of this citv
l. recommend to farmers VIII. Propose to market
pressed hay hereafter, that NiB press it in bales
fastened with hoops instead of1fithes. Our reasons
for this advise are as follows i
1st. Bales put up wit0fodps look better and
are more closely slowed
ID. The hoops are Comparatively cheap and the
bundles are easily handled.
I'd. The hay put up with hooLA AWll sell readily
and command higher price in all markets.
sections of the laws of State in relation to
pressed hay, and advise that it be strictly carried out
as compliance with its requirements and may save
not little expense end trouble.
Chapter 49, Section 52 r. s.. All hay pressed
and put up in bundles for sale in this State shall be
branded on the boards or bands enclosing it, with
the first letter of the christian and the whole of the
surname of the person putting up the same, and
with the name of the State and OF the place where
such persons live; and all pressed hay offered for
sale or shipping not thus branded shall be forfeited
one half to the of the town where the offence is
committed, and the other half the person ibeling
the same.
Section 3d. Every bale of screwed or pressed
more than four inches wide one inch thick to
keep the hay in place. one of which or en- one of
the boards shall be marked the weight and tare Of the
bale and such tare exceeding twelve pounds shall be
deducted when the hay is sold in bundles, +
WIN. PITCHER & Son,
WOODS, MATTHEWS & BAKER
SAMUEL OTIS & Co.
u. LANE.
W. Il, SWAN & Co,
A. GAMMoNDS & Co,
BINS ROBERT PATTERSON,
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A FTER an extensive practice OF upwards of thir-
~ ty years, continues to Patents in the
United States; also in Great Britain. France and
other foreign countries. Caveats Specifications,
Assignments, and all papers for Patents, executed
made to determine the validity and utility of Patents
of Inventions, and legal and other advice rendered
in all matters touching the same Copies of the
claims of any patent furnished by remtting one dol
lar. Assignments recorded in Washington.
No Agency in the United States possesses superior
patent ability of Inventions
All necessity of a journey to Washington to pro-
cure Patent, and the usual great delay there, are
here savedinventors.
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The Great Pjunder

The New York sun OF Sept. tth, has L
columns ut evidence taken before a Cour
IN Philadelphia, in regard Ia the Pacific
FtIr"td. thr 'rcdH Mobilier and the dis
il1hnlIon oi stock t, Members of Congress
Fine Philadelphia correspondent of the
sun explains as follows:
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American Lloyd's Notice

,~I-4 Capt. f. If. HARTMAN of Belfast,
@aA4A being appointed surveyor for the Ameri-
TsFi4N can Lloyd's Register, for the district
seas11a4gS - from Rockland to Machias. Parties
s1-.a&s2 wishing their vessels classed in Ameri-
l.oyd's Register and supplements will please
apply to him for inspection of their vesBeS.
BY Order HAKTSH0RN K KING.
Per II. HARTMAN, Surveyor General for Maine.
june 5, 1S12.-tt3S
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AT 4 Court of Probate held at Belfast, within and
for the County of Waldo, on the second Tuesday
ofScptelnOrr, A. ID. lS72.
INREDERICK W. RICHIE, Administrator of
IL the estate of Harriet h. Clark late of Winter
port, i'll said County OF Waldo, deceased having
presented his first and final account Of Admnstra-
tion said estate for allowance.
Ordered, That the said Administrator give notice
to al persons interested by causing copy Of this
order to be published hrc" weeks successyely in the
Republican journal, printed 1T Belfast, that they
may appear at Probate Court, to be held at Belfast
within and for said County, on the second Tuesday
of October next at ten of the clock before and
shew cause, ii any they have, why the same should
not be allowed.
ASA I'll HUl;LOUGu, Judge.
A true copy, Attest-B. r. FIELD, Register.
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examiner in the aforementioned case
had Il meeting at his Office, 24l South
Third street, in the city of Philadelphia,
ON Monday, the 18th day OF June, ISL, ,
where he was attended 10y James T.. Cow
en- and Samuel &. Thompson, Es1s., for
complainant, Richard McMurtre for de
PENDANTS.
The sun, of Sept. 9TH, yivcs 4 synopsis
of the sworn evidence. with comments as
follows:
The Republican journal., 1872-09-26

"In addition 10 this. we can draw Govern
mcnt bonds for two-thirls of the work done in
advance of the track, if we desire it,"
The following is in pencil on the Ames
The Republican journal., 1872-09-26
THE M'CoME REVELATIONS.

The ull import Of the revelations con
tanned in thn letter from onr Philadelphia
correspondent, published in yesterday 's
sun, can only he appreciated by care
inl reading of the testimony of Col. Me
Comb. The main points Of this expose
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-10-17
Personal.

/ Ezra NJ. Carr, formerly of Castleton,
Is professor of Agriculture. Chemistry
and Horticulture IN the University at
Oakland, California. of which Prof. D.
c. Gilman has just been elected Presi-
dent. DR.. Carr is also President of the
Oakland Social Farmers Club. one OF
the most vigorous associations If the
kind in California,
Rev Il =. Cutting. formerly of
Oastieton. contributes a scholarly and
chaste article in the Religious Monthly
for October, entitled. :. The Character
istics Of the Scholar and the Preacher.
Rev. George c. Baldwin, D. D. OF
Troy, has been compelled by TIE state
of his health, to decline ais selection as
preacher of tho annual sermon before
the New York Baptist State Convention.
Hon. James W. Patterson. United
States Senator from New Hampshire,
has boon elected President Of the Indus
trial and Mechanical College, al Column
bus, Ohio.
Albert II. Dow of Burlington. a
graduate Of the University of Vermont,
has been appointed as assistent Superin-
tendent of Construction in the Light
House Department. and ordered to duty
on Lake Champlain. @
Miss Lillian S. Edgerton of Boston,
is lecturing this season, on Gossip, its
Cause and Cure, a subject very appro-
pirate 10 the times.
DR.. VIM. H. Miller, formerly of
Poultney, has been elected Vice-Presi-
dent Of the First National Bank of San
dy Hill, Ny.
Rev. Mr.. Landrum, Baptist min
lister, dropped dead in his pulwit at Ro-
yer, Bedford county. Tennessee, Sunday
before last.
Col. w. G. veasey and Col. Albert
Clark, of ST. Adams, addressed the
Grant and Wilson Club of Chateauqay,
N. Y, on Thursday evening of last
week.
IS. n. Stockwell, Esq, the labori-
Gus managing Editor of the Boston
Journal, has broken down in health
again, and gone off for three months
rest to the woods of Wisconsin,
Abel Thayer. ESQ, the Liberal Dem
ocratic candidate for Congress in the
Rensselaer, and Saratoga District, is a
native Of Nottingham, Windham county
Capt Sidney ~ Southland Of Yer
gennes, is prominently mentioned as a
candidate for Judge Advocate General
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senator Summer in Europe,
MS MOVEMENTS IN LONDON.

Moncure D. Conway, in a gossipy
London letter, gives the following pleas
ant paragraphs about Senator Summers
sojourn in the English metropolis :
"a few days ago an elderly gentle
man alighted at the door of Maurigy's
Hotel, ard entering, stood for 81 moment
exchanging steady look with the vet
eran proprietor of the establishment.
The newly arrived guest spoke to him in
French, the hotel proprietor's native
tongue. M, Maurigy, you do not know
me- Il know you perfectly responded
the old man. You are Senator Sumner.
Fifteen years have passed, and where
now are the men who used to gather
round You them Where is Lord
brougnam, and where Is Lord Gran
moath9 And Lord Palmerston-yes
he used to come and sec you too. They
are gone. Then Maurigy invites the
Senator in, and proceeds to treat him as
if he were the last of his famous patrons.
But the old hotel proprietor is about the
only one of Charles Summers former
friends who was here to welcome him.
Not, indeed, because they have gone the
way of Maurigys list, for many remain :;
but chiefly because the Senator has hit
the dead season straight on the head.
No member of the aristocracy less Dem
ocratIc than Sir Charles Dixie could be
found in London in September without
raising suspicious as to the condition of
his estates; and | need hardly say that
Sir Charles Immediately paid his re-
spects to the senator, and enjoyed his
company at dinner. 1t was with pleas
ure that he received telegram from
these who were his dearest friends here
the Duke and Duchess of Argyle
conveying a most cordial invitation to
him 10 visit them at Inverary Castle,
where they now are. A similar tele-
gram came from John Bright, inviting
him to Rochdale. Mr.
Sumner has devoted his time since he
has been in London chiefly to visiting
the galleries of art He is not only a
passionate admirer of works of art (of
which, as is well known, he has a good
collection in Washington, but he IS. so
far as the Venetian and Dutch schools
are concerned, a connoisseur. He sat
for long time each day gazing upon the
Turner'S and Claudes in the National
Gallery, but his chief enthusiasm was for
AIRY Scheffer's Francisco de Rimini. in
the Bethnel Green Marquis of Hartford
collection. This he seemed to think as
grand picture was ever paint
ed. But as / walked with
him amid great works OF art, the yeter-
an Senator's mind again and again wan
dered to the American struggle, and no
one who had seen him then could have
any doubt that he has come to this conn
try with heavy heart"