Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-10-04

having only been a member Of It, but never
its Chairman. In the same paragraph he
says: "Ames carried through Congress q
scaudalous proposition by which the Gov.
ernment abandoned Its first mortgage OF
this highway, and allowed the private mort
gage bonds Of the railroad to take preced.
ence." And this is repeated editorially In
the Chicago Tribune Of last Wednesday.
The falsehoods as to the abandonment OF
Government mortgages have already shown
you from Mr.. Bowles' letter of August, 1866
that this was already the law before capital.
lists were induced by the influence OF the
representatives of the New York and Chi.
cago Tribunes and myself TO accept this
very proposition Of Congress, and to risk,
IN what many then deemed an impossible
work, the "millionsn Mr.. Bowles appealed
to them to invest. And this very proposl
tlon which Gath denounces as "scandalous, "
and the Chicago Tribune denounces editorial.
", was supported, when passed, by Messrs
sumner, Trumbull and Julian, As well as by
Mr.. Ames and an Overwhelming majority Of
Congress. Nor did Mr.. Anes invest dollar
In the Pacific Railroad I'LL after the letters OF
Governor Bross TO the Chicago Tribune, OF
Mr.. Bowles to the Springfield Republican
and Of Mr.. Richardson to the New York
Tribune, had been published, more than q
Rssz.. Ysss. too ''' tbs enactment BY Congress n
Gath says in this same paragraph OF his
letter that Games was able, with the help o1
the most eminent men in the Republican
party, to collect from the United States the
gross sum for carrying the mails over this
road, while, at the same time, he never paid
the interest on the Government bonds as II
accrued"
The facts, so utterly at war with this
charge, are that the railroad has never re-
ceived nor ever claimed but half of "thC
gross sum for carrying the. mails" the other
half having dtWdyS been retained and applied
on the interest of the bonds-that Secretary
Boutwell, desired, in 1870, to retain the
whole, but the Senate judiciary Committee
having been instructed TO examine the aues
tion, decided that the Congressional charter
authorized only half to be thus retained, anC
Congress so re enacted. After twelve pageG
of debate in the Globe, the Senate so decided
by thirty-six to eighteen, Senators Trumbul
and Thurman both speaking and voting il
its favor.
This correspondent concludes this para
graph thus
"In short, the Union Pacific Railroad frs
begged loan from the United States Of from six
teen TO sixty thousand dollars mile, and theI
robbed 1t OF the interest on the loan, forced thu
loan itself back to contingent place, and pasteC
1t over with another and private loan Of It's own
and then swinded it out Of the whole gross sun
for the mail service"
These charges are very grave, and If true
would blast forever the character of men ca
pable of such conduct, and give color ant
confirmation to the original charge of bribery
and corruption. The only answer necessar!
to them is that not only does the COngresSiO1i
al Globe prove, as | have shown, their entir,
falsitY beyond all contradiction, but the edi
tors and proprletors or the Chicago T'-i1'ts'
know, of their own knowledge, that there il
not particle of truth in any one of thes'
sweeping falsifcations of their correspon
dent. What could have induced them t.
print them, even amid all the excit sment O
a political canvass, Is mystery to me.
Let me ask you, now, if the public hav,
not right to demand from the editors anC
proprietors of these two great newspapers
the New York and Chicago TiibuneS, som
personal explanations. Day after day thei
papers have been filed with inuendoes ant
charges, some of which they happened tt
know, better than all other men, could no
possibly be true, and nearly all the rest o
which they well knew their own files ex
planned or disproved. Day after day the.
have sought to make the people of tn
United States suspect number of thei
prominent public men, and the builders o
the Union Pacific Railroad generally, bant
of thieves, scoundrels and swindlers, AM
they have demanded that those thus assaile
"should be heard from" Well, they hav
heard now a calm, dispassionate statemen
| from one of those whom one OF the Tribune
stigmatihed as the twelve apostles VII n
sold out to the Credit Mobilier at $4,000
| apiece" l submit, in sorrow for those VIII
thus "bear false witness against thei
neighbor," that clearing their own skirt
| from the "scandal" of their course is tn
next thing now in order.
After Mr.. Colfax was through, Gov
ernor Hawley addressed the audience fo
over two hours in his characteristic man
nor,