The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-03-20

| The Hon. James Brooks has sent out the
! following address to his constituents:
Enemies have taken advantage OF nv
physical prostration TO offer up Cakes Ames
| and myself as sacrifices TO public clamor in
| which two Vice-Presidents of the United
States, several members of the Senate, and
| eight other members of the House were
| more involved than myself The sacrifice OF
a Democrat was deemed indispensable to
offset, il not to protect, and hence early in
December Committee was organized on
purpose to bring in IN name with theirs
so as to make me responsible for 100 shares
of stock of Credit Mobilier owned by G. H.
Nelson. Certificates of this stock were no.
toriously in the full possession of Nelson, as
long ago as Dec. II, 1867 (see evidence, page
59); but of these certificates the Committee.
in January. 1873. choose to make me owner,
upon the pretence that he, being my sonin-
law, was only the apparent owner. The
Committee was thus organized, | say, for
there were put upon such men as Gen.
Banks, a chevalier d'industrie for years,
living in chateaux en- Espagne, because of
his known hostility to Ames, who. when
asked. refused to subscribe with certain rich
Bostonians % free his Waltham house from
a heavy mortgage. and Merrick, of Mary
land. an ex-rebel, Judge of this district at the
opening of the civil war, whose Court Con-
gress had to eXtirDate to be rid of him, and
who, therefore, sore and sour, now more
than ever. hates the whole human race, be-
cause of the defeat of his aspirations to re-
election to Congress; with Niblack, very,
very small man in the plastic fingers of
such a sly. sleek, and crafty chairman as
Poland, of Vermont, whose antecedents in
railroads at home ale worse than anything
alleged against the Gre lit Mobiier. This
Committee, after sitting two months and
half pUrposely neglecting the exploration
of many rich mines OF testimony, ticrcely
fell upon me in eleven different sittings
when my physical prostration was such
that the newspapers daily reported me dy-
ing, and and at last, after refusing me a
hearing, which | earnestly demanded.-a
fact which they suppressed in the first re-
port of 523 pages, which no member OF Con-
grcsS could find time to read so late in the
session,-when it was made, coupled me.
Democrat, with Ames, a Republican for ex-i
pulsion, while they let of thirteen other
Republicans, who all but one, had handled
Credit Mobilier, when not share had even
come into my hands. The House and the
country from the start secuted such an alb
surd report the moment they could get at it
by refusing 70 vote on expulsion at all.
They did not censure Ames or myself
They only condemned an act as old as 1857.
in order thus to carry of, as on lightniIg
rod, the electricity that had been generated
by the batteries of the press upon Congress
and country. But even in this, the House
did me injustice, because 1 was not in Con-
gress when it was alleged, my interest be-
gan in Credit Mobilier. or, il as alleged. |
had any interestit was fully disposed of be- |
fore went into the directory Some Dem |
ocratic members of Congress assented to
this injustice in the belief that they could |
tLen condemn such leading Republicans as |
Dawes, Garfield, Bingham, Kelly, Schofield |
and Hooper; but In this they were greatly |
fooled, because the great Intelligence high |
character ant well known antecedentS of /
these men are such as TO make ridiculous |
the charge that Cakes Ames had brlhed |
them, or that they were his dupes, az the
Poland Committee reasons, and did not
know what they were about.