Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-08-07

lican State Convention there, TO make
nominations for officers whom he ex-
poets to use, when elected, TO cover
up his own high crimes and misde-
meanUs, and save the desperate scoun-
dres who compose tho Ring which he
heads from the whip Of Justice.
1t is not alone the "Forneys" who
arc dissatisfied with this personal rule,
and these acts of plunder, but the bet.
ter part Of the Republican party OF
tPcnnsylvania is moved to unrest, and
the best men of the State arc blushing
with shame; humiliated TO find that
they have been SO fearfully cheated,
disgraced, and misrepresented by this
faction. .. ...
Pennsylvania has felt this disgrace
for eighteen years in the United States
Senate, where she has had but half
the voice which her sister States en-
Joy, while her Merediths, her Curtins,
her Brewsters, her Franklins, her
Moreheads, her Kellcys, her Pollocks,
and other men Of mighty intellect and
grand attainments have been kept out
Of that body because they would not
outbid Simon Cameron for scat
there; because they would not, as he
has done, barter in her honor, and
huckster in the virtues of her legisla-
tors that he might reach place TO
disgrace it by his inability anc stainit
with his foul acts.
General Cameron ought to have
been the last to make a personal at
tack upon another, or talk glibly con-
cerning any mans public or private
career. have already said that he
either bought or begged every position
he has ever held, The country re-
members tho manner in which he
managed to get into Mr.. Lincoln's
Cabinet against the judgment and the
wishes Of the people Of Pennsylvania /;
he was forced upon Old Abe, and
7 to show how this was accomplished, {,
quote from one of Mr.. Lincoln's
biographers
alt required hard struggle to over
, come Mr.. Lncoln's scruples, and the
, whole force was necessarily mustered
, to accomplish it. 'All that am in
, the world said Mr.. Lincoln, 'the Pres
, idency and all else, owe to that opin-
/ ion of me which the people express
) when they call me honest Old Abo.-
|. Now, what will they think of their
! honest Abe when he appoints Simon
r Cameron to be his familiar adviser 7
o Once in the Cabinet, General Cam.
( cron Immediately surrounded himself
4 with all the plunderers, ready to gorge
!. themselves at the public crib, making
: in less than year u millionaire OF bis
:, Oldest son, who had u leading share in
4 every contract filled in Harrisburg
h forcing another son into the regular
G army as a paymaster, and placing 0
y brother in.law in similar position in
d tho same service. The manner in
O which the contract system of the Wal
!. Department was managed aroused and
!. alarmed the entire North, the finan
k cers of New York and Boston hurry
n ing to Mr.. Lincoln to declare they
l. would advance no money to the Gov
!. ernment while Cameron had contro
!. of its military supplies Forced by
y popular indignation, and literally aP
o palled by the irresistible facts OF irauu
n presented to him, Mr. Lincoln removed
'r Mr.. Cameron from .ne war p.P'r.
n ment in the following tart note, II
N which he breaks the blow by sending
ID The deposeu o1cretary p u" 'NV ""'''
'r tho SHOWS VI nuss"
"a cAMERoS's LETTER OF DISMISSAL, . -. )
IN Hon. Simon Cameron, Secretdryof War
h, prAn STA, I have this day nominated nOr
ID Edwin NJ stanton to be Secretary Of War aud 70
10 to be minister P''n'pO''n'iA' " Nus, A. iNeo,s
At .. Aha h,o,s Of his removo
II, pus .S" y" s"0 o"sod = resolu,;on severeI
al oons,,0' oonasr,Og % %C,ameron~the first Cabinc
S .s oe;ccr since The organization Of th
!" vernment down TO the present tim
!, wbo bas inns been rebuked.
~ y, Tbe history of this damning deere
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