The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-29

ginning Of the war, lives In marble palace which
whose owners acquired the wealth TO erect them
after long years OF honest and bold enterprise and
% sea- and land Have ~e m
management OF the finances OF New York city
than the Camerons have done in the mani
control Of the the treasury Of Pennsylvania
In 1890 Donald Camer0n's recorded real
ssse IN nara IN s s
now the owner OF real estate In that city and Dau-
phin county valued at from six to seven hundred
thousand dollars. He and his father own from three
TO four thousand acres Of the best tanning land in
Lebanon, Lancaster and Dauphin counties, almost
called Lochiel, was purchased from 1850 to 1867 and
during the same time that family managed to get
control Of sufficient stock in the Northern Central
Railroad to elect Donald Cameron Its president, so
that that concern Is now run In their interests.
WHY TIE REPUBLICAN, PARTY IS DEMORALIxED.
Now put that and M. this together and you win see
MIA is demoralzed. The Camerons are known TO
the people as having become rich out OF their NAL
the nation poured out its richest blood and gather
Ing wealth IN the enjoyment OF contracts which
were marked BY frauds such as have sent the Tam.
many Ring Of New York into criminal exile. And
the hold these men have on the anairs OF the State
OF Pennsylvania can only be broken by taking the
out OF their hands. Why is the elder Cameron SO
anxious to secure Hartranft's electiOnf Why Is he
so solictous to keep the Treasury Of Pennsyl-
tranft's term IA Auditor General extended;
and why are the Camerons so determined
the vaults OF Pennsylvana's state Treasury, or OF
bringing to the public view the archives OF her Audit
Ing Department answer, because such intelli-
gence, like the investigation into the AFFAIRS OF
Tammany, would result in prosecutions against
the Cameron ring similar to those now pending
against Tweed and his associate thieves General
Cameron, in connection with his son Donald his
brother William, and "a few choice spirits OF like
qualities, now own or control some nine banks,
every one OF which is carried on by deposits from
the State Treasurer. The Cameron banks at Harris
burg and Middlet0wn have the larger portion of
these deposits, and by which the CamerOns make
enormous sums in shaving notes. In addition to
this it is well known at Harrisburg that Mr.. Mackay
lost at least by the ainre OF ms paoSer IN
comparatively poor man, ana this loss can only
be made up by the Camerons, who will never re-
fund the money, but who are now striving TO elect
an Auditor General to settle Mackay's accounts
covering up this frightful loss and relieving the
Remember, am only giving you hurried state
ment of facts an ANALYSIS OF local political history
to prove to the country how mistaken General
Cameron Is in reference to the condition OF Penn
sylvania politics. He says there is no trouble in
that State i answer that there IL. The trouble
being that he purchased and packed the last Re-
publican State Convention there, to make nOmina-
tons for officers whom he expects to use, when
COVER UP HIS OWN HIGH CRIMES
and misdemeaIOrs, and save the desperate scOun-
drels who compose the ring which he heads from
who are dissatisfied with this personal rule, ana
these acts Of plumber, but the better part of the
republican party OF PENNSYLVANIA is moved
to unrest, and the best men OF the State are blush
ing with shame, Inundated to find that they have
been so fearfully cheated, disgraced and mis-
this disgrace for eighteen years in the United
States Senate, where she has had but half the voice
which her sister States enjoy while her Merediths,
her Cnrtins, her Brewsters, her Franklins, her
MoOrheads her Keeys her PollOcks, and other
men of mighty intellect and grand attainments
would not outbid simon Cameron for a seat there:
because they would not do as he has donebarter in
her honor and huckster in the virtues OF her legs
latOrs that he might reach place to disgrace IL by
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concerning any mans public or private career.
have already said that he either bought or begged
members the manner in which he managed 90 get
into Mr. LincOln's Cabinet against the Judgment
and the wishes Of the people Of Pennsylvania. He
was accomplished quote from one OF Mr.. Lncoln's
biographers cit required hard struggle to over
come Mr.. Lincons scrupIes. and the whole force
was necessarily mustered to accomplish it.
AN that ] am in the world said Mr.. Lin
coin, the Presidency and all else, owe TO
that opinion Of me which the people express when
they call me Honest Old Abe Now what will they
think of their Honest Abe when he appoints Simon
Cameron to be his familiar adviser?'' Once in the
Cabinet. General Cameron Immediately surrounded
himself with all the plunderers ready to gorge
themselves at the public crib making in less than
leading share in every contract filed in Harris
burg, forcing another son INTO the regular
eri in in q similar position in the same
service. The manner in which the contract system
of the War Department was managed aroused and
alarmed the entire North, the fnanciers OF New
York and Boston hurrying TO Mr.. Lincoln to de-
clare that they would advance no money to the
government while Cameron had control OF its mill
tary supplies Forced by popular Indignation, and
literally appalled, by the Irresistible facts of frauds
presented to him, Mr.. Lincoln removed MI. Came
ron from the War Department i'm the following tart
note, in which he breaks the blow by sending the
deposed Secretary an exile amid the SHOWS OF Rus
sia:-
CAMERON's LETTER OF DISMISSAL.
Hon. SIMON CAMERoN, Secretary OF WAR
Stanton to be Secretary ofwar and you to be Minister
But on the heels OF this removal Congress passed
a resolution severely censuring Cameron: the first
Cabinet officer since the organization OF the gov
eminent down to the present time who has thus
been rebuked. The history OF this damning decree
is now to be told copy 1t from the Journal OF the
House OF Representatives, second Sc ,sion OF the
1852, the following resolution passed the House by
a vote OF 10 yeas to A. nays:-
by Investing AieXander Cummings with control Of large
sums OF the public money and authority % purchase
To% 'a any the faithful
Ss and y % nne n
vast number of contracts with persons not legitimacl
e Of cSnirac Especially aTs S
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Among the ayes are such names George T.
Cobb, OF New Jersey; Erastus Corning, of New
York; Henry l.. Dawes OF Massachusetts,; W. Nc
Kee Dunn, OF Indiana; Daniel W. Gooch. Of Massa-
chusetts Robert Mcknight, of Pennsylvania: Justin
s. Morrill,, Of vermont John I. Nixon and !. L. N.
Charles ns q ao mary
yerree of pennsylvania, and James F. Wilson, of
Iowa. Most OF these were republicans, and nearly
feeling that his vote for this resolution was
just. recall this dark chapter in Simon
Cameron's history, so fresh and well reu1eM-
bpred. in view of his subsequent and
efforts to disgrace and debaycb the republican
party of Pennsylvania. He who began his career
In fraud still prosecutes Ii In tyranny. He has
ever since been trying to efface this decree from
the record, but in vain He has threatened and
mportuned republican members TO vote for its re-
peal, but in vain.
CAMERON's LITERARY QUALIFICATIONS.
Is IL to be wondered at, In view OF the facts I
have given you, that the people OF Pennsylvania
fod