The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-04
Stand by the Republican
Colors!
SPEECH OF
Hon. Henry Wilson,
OF MASSACHUSETTS.
At Great Falls, New HRmp
shire. February Fl, 1872.
CONCLUDED

At Great Falls, New HRmp
shire. February Fl, 1872.
u CONCLUDED
1 I believe a Republican thief is {
worse man than a Democratic thief
Laughter He has not had 81
many bad examples. Laughter
and applause A Republican THE
is the wickedest and meanest THE
in all the land. He joins great
party that was brought into being
to give freedom TO the slave, main
tain the unity of the country, and
preserve the life of the nation. In
the ranks of that party is a large
mass of the intelligence Of the coun'
try, of the praying men and women
of the country. A man who joins
that political organization, betrays
his trust, and steals the money OF
the Government, is a base creature,
and the penitentiary is the only
place where he should dwell.
The difference between Republi-
cans and Democrats on this question
is this; the Republicans try to dis
cover and punish their thieves; the
Democrats never punish theirs.
You cannot tell me tonight of a
man who stole from the national
Government under a Democratic
administration who was sent to the
penitentiary. Under this Admins
tration several thieves have been
sent there. Most of their stealing
was under the late administration,
for there has been little stealing
under this. Under Andrew John
sons administration mean men got
Office. He went back on his party,
on his record; upright Democrats
paid little attention to him, honest
Republicans kept away from the
White House, and mean men of
both parties sought the benefits of
his patronage. About forty cOllec-
tors of internal revenue under his
administration became defaulters for
about million and three quarters.
Under the three years of General
Grants administration four collec-
tors became defaulters, and for
amounts less than two hundred
thousand dollars.
During the war we paid through
the paymaster's department of the
Army more than a thousand million
dollars. That money was paid
sometimes when troops were on
the march, sometimes when they
were under fire, and we lost less
than quarter of a million dollars.
Never in the history of the human
family was there any higher evil
dence Of integrity. In the war of
1872, in paying out the little money
We paid during that war, we lost
about two million dollars. Since
General Spinner entered upon his
Office as Treasurer of the United
States, s55 900, ,O0O,O 900 have passed
through his Office, counted by from
three to four hundred men and wo-
men. We have lost between fifty
and sixty thousand dollars in these
eleven years, while $55, 600, 200, 900
have gone through the Office. We
punished one man, fined him, and
he is now trying to get back s., 900,
for he says we made him pay S., 900
more than he stole. Laughter
We have sent to prison three trust
ed clerks, men of capacity and abil-
ity, whom everybody trusted and
respected. That is the way we
have served our thieves. We have
sent two men who stole under An
drew Johnson's Administration,
and were prosecuted under this Ad-
ministration in Baltimore, TO the
penitentiary.
We had paymaster in the Army;
he was not a Republican; his father
was not a Republican, but an old
Whig, and an Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury under Thomas Cor
win. This young man was college
graduate, inherited 100000, was a
member of a Christian church, had
noble wife and three beautiful
children, lived within his income,
got a passion for stock gambling,
lost his 500, 900, and then took
100000 of the money of the Gov
eminent. He was arrested when
he might have run away. He was
sent to the penitentiary at Albany
for ten years. About the same
time the discovery was made of the
boldest and most gigantic robbery
of the people ever perpetrated in
ancient or modern times. Bill
Tweed-"Boss Tweed"-a MAI
who, a few years ago, went through
bankruptcy, and who is said to have
boasted, within q year, that he hat
S18,00O,0OO and, with him, th'
tribe of Tammany Hall, have beer
discovered and exposed. Some o
these thieves have gone to Europe
some of them are enjoying the pleas
ures of the healthful breezes ant
snow drifts of Canada, some of then
are in one part of the country ant