The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-03-14

q something which his perverted sci
q conceit causes him to believe is
Z good. The world has seen to
z many OF such persons. Nay, we al
Z Told that Mr. York is a churc
member, and that in planning t
deceive, to cheat, and to betra
!, Dir. Pomeroy, he proceeded prayer
: fully. That may be. His salIo'
complexion, his sunken eyes, hi
e hollow cheeks, his sombre air an
L manner, the act which he professe
e to have done, the show of martyr
: dom that he puts on, the intriDsi
] and loathsome infamv Of the act
: which he pretends to have done
4 all these things bring US at ono
; into the contemplation of thos
e men-and they abound in histor,
who set up for heroes on tn
stock Ia trade of the preparation
: of some abominable crime. AND
, many Of these monster mock he
1roes were very prayerful ones
Such was Clement, who assassin
ated Henry III; such was Fenton
who assassinated the Duke o.
Buckingham. And much OF Thu
mock heroism, although WitIiou
the finishing touch Of prayerful
ness, was manifested in the deport
meat of Booth, the assassin o.
q Lincoln, and of Payne, the would
be ASSASSIN of Seward.
And tie remembrance OF per.
sons Of This class suggests anoth.
4 er idea. They are of the same
suspicious and credulous tempera-
ment which manifest itself in
Mr.. Yook, with the same tendency
to draw extravagant consequences
from totally inadequate premises.
In those persons there is the same
belief in the danger Of assassina-
ton, of which Mr.. York says SO
mach in a part of his testimony
there is the same exaggeration as
when Mr.. York says, 81 did not re-
gard this as an attack on Mr. Pom
eroy alone, but as an attach on
one of the most tyrranical and gi-
gantic systems that ever crushed
and bowed down any State"
Now, this whole category of per-
sons, whether they be moral assas-
sins. like Mr.. York, or corporeal
assassins, like Booth and Payne,
are very pitiful heroes anyway.
AS to the moral assassins, the
political spies, the men who worm
themselves into the confidence of
another in order to betray him,
their pretentions to heroism, are
absurd and ridiculous. The hero
ism of lying! The heroism of
cheating! The heroism of pro-
fessed friendship in order to be-
tray! Pahl ALI these persons
belong to a vocation, which Mac
| auley characterizes as ga vocation
compared with which the lite Of q
beggar, a pick-pocket, of pimp,
is honorable" God have mercy
on her if such is the timber OF
which they construct heroes in
the State of Kansas
In q word, we suppose, upon the
facts and circumstances thus far
disclosed, n jury could not fail
utterly to discredit York, and to
say in their verdict, that inasmuch
as what he processes to have done
would be an odious and atrocious
falsehood, it would be much easier
to believe that the profession is q
faisehood, and that he never re-
ceived any money from Pomeroy.
But Mr.. Pomeroy is not here
before a jury On the charge of
bribing York; he is assisting at
an investigation. which he himself
invited, before n committee of the
Senate of the United States. He
chooses, therefore, to disclose the
facts which actually occurred;
which are known to other persons;
which York himself well knows,
but misrepresented for the purpose
of defeating the election, and de-
ceiving the legislature of Kansas.
Mr.. Pomeroy did deliver $1,000
to Mr.. York, at the request Of his
fellow-townsman, Mr.. Page, who
desired York to go to him and re-
ceive it, and desired him to deliv-
er it to York, to be by him con-
veyed to Mr.. Page. Mr.. Pomeroy
had promised to loan this money
to Mr.. Page to aid him in the es-
tablishment of q national bank at
independence, in the State Of Kan
sas. The facts are proved by Mr..
Page and other witnesses examin-
ed by the committee.
Mr.. York is very bad man, but
not so bad as he pretends he is.
There is a certain fanfarronade in
villainy, which some men affect,
which is very far from constitut-
ing heroisn, although it seems to
constitute the pride of York
Mr.. York did not go to Mr..
Pomeroy at Topeka, offering him
self for sale as a vile and con-
temptible slave. Mr.. Pomcroy did
not purchase for $1,000 a piece of
ehattels which would have been
dear at 1000 cents. Mr.. Pomeroy
did receive assurances of friend
ship from York on that occasion,
which led him to suppose that he
might trust York to convey this
money to it's destination, the hands
of Mr.. Page. Mr.. Pomeroy did
trust STr. York so far, though
hesitatingly, and induced only
through apprehension that not to
do it would imply distrust of the
integrity of Mr.. York. It is true
that Mr.. Pomeroy did not take q
receipt from Mr.. York, as he should
have done, but in the hurry and
confusion of the time, there was
little opportunity to attend to
mere forms between gentlemen,
inst as Mr.. Pomerop had received
this very parcel ofmoney from Mr.
Borland, without the latter stop
ping to ask or the former
to give, a receipt for the money
But the circumstances of the hour
and the iHformality or the trans
action were contrivances of Yorl
to give plausibility to his intended
fiction. And Mr.. York, instead OF
having been guilty of the mean
ness of selling himself for bride
rs he pretends, or the criminality
of accepting bride, is simply
guilty of a breach of trust and o
falsehood, in misappropriating the
: money, and misrepresenting the
circumstances under which it wai
received, in order to defame Mr.
Pomeroy and defraud Mr.. Page.
Will it be asked why Mr.. PomeroJ
did not make public the true facts
at an earlier day? For many rea
sons. Immediately on the occur
t renee Of the events of Wednesday
: shocked, indignant. Inundated
. not only on the imposture practic
|, ed on the convention, but by tn