The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-08
BROOKS, M. c. G. M.
An Address to His Constituents in De-
fence Of His Wounded Honor.
Poland and the Members Of His Committee De.
nounced-Brooks' Record in the Past-He
Will Appeal I'M Person to His Friends
The Malice Of the Republican,.

WASHINGTON March 7, 1879
Hon. James Brooks has prepared the following
address to his constituencies
Enemies have taken advantage Of my physical
pr pro ,u from malaria contracted In Iada ana
zoo long neglected, to offer up Cakes Ames and
sayself as sacrifices to public clamOr, in which
two Vice Presidents of the United States several
members OF the Senate and eight other members
o. Ehs Aeuss were more involved than myself.
The sacrifice OF q democrat was deemed indis-
Pe ensa ea, to onset not to protect them and
ganized seemingly on purpose to bring In my name
s WIN tners 80 as to make Inc responsible for $50
by Q. Il. Nelson. The certificates OF this stock
were VIGOROUSLY in the full possession of Nelson
page 5sl, but Of those certidcates the com.
mittee. IN January, 1873, chose to make me
pS the that ne being
lnittee was thus organized, say, for there were
put upon 1t such men as
GENERAL BANKS, A CHEvALIER D'INDUsrRIE
LOT years living in ch1tedur Espagne because of
his known hostility to Ames, who. when added. re-
fused to subscribe, with certain rich Bostonians'
to free his Waitham house from 2 heavxs
mortgage; and Merrick, OF Maryland, an exrebet
Judge Of this district at the opening Of the civil war.
whose court Congress had to eXtirpate to be rid OF
him, and who therefore, sore ard sour now more
than ever, hates the whole human race because OF
gress; with Niback very, very small man in the
plastic fingers of such sly, sleek and crafty chair
man as roland, OF Vermont, whose antecedents in
railroads. az nome are worse than anything alleged
against the Credit Mobilier.
THIRTEEN REPUBLICANS LET OFF.
rms committee, after sitting two months and q
half, purposey neglecting the exploitation of many
rich mines OF testimony, fercely fell upon me III
ton was such that the newspapers daily reported
me Dying and at last, after refusing me q
nearlng NV which earnestly demanded fact
pages, which no member OF Congress could find
y Itn ,eos TO read so late in the session. when
Ames, q republican, for expulsion, while they LED
on thirteen other republicans who, all but one.
even come into my hands. The House and the
country from the start secuted such an absurd re-
vote shey gss at ala by
Mr.. Ames or myself; only condemned an act as
old as 1867, in order thus to carry or as on light
nhg rod the electricity that had been generated by
THE BATTERIES OF THE PRESS
upon Congress and the country. But even in this
the House did me injustice, because was not in
Congress when it was alleged my interest began
IN the Credit Mobilier, or it, as alleged had anyin
.srest, it was fully disposed Of before went into
the directory. Some democratic members of Con-
gress assented to this injustice in the belief
that they could then condemn such lead
ham, Kelley Scofeld and Hooper,; but Ia
this they were Justly fooled, because the great
cedents Of these men are such as to make ridcu-
lous the charge that Cakes Ames had bribed them
or that they were his dupes, as the Poland commit
tee reasons and did not knew what they were
about. To you, my old constituents, who have
stood by me for twenty-five years and over, both
as an old line wing and democrat, who have seen
me whether as member OF the Legislature in
Maine or as your own representative in Albany,
both in the Legislature and Constitutional Conven.
ton, and who now see me in my eighth Congress
sional term, hitherto unspotted and unsupported
In every public station
! SHALL APPEAL IN PERSON,
If the good God restores me to health aud life asn
think he will l shall demonstrate to you that
neither myself nor Mr.. Nelson, IRON New York
city family OF over hundred years OF stainless an.
tecedents, was guilty Of perjury, as Poland
charges, and that both Of US told the truth when
testifying that | had no hand in the Credit
Mobilier dividends, allotments or profits in any
FORM shall satisfy you that the James Brooks
whom you adopted In 1896. and to whom the Old wing
aud democratic parties have often given thehighest
honOrs OF the city, and whom Congress has hon
0red on its most important cOmmittees-Lands,
Post Offices Pacific Railroad, Reconstruction and
more especially the Ways and Means and twelve
years there, at times appropriating millions and
millions Of dollars and at other times levying with
others OF the committee the vast revenues OF the
country-is the same James Brooks, now in his
ripening old age, that he was when you first
adopted him and ever since yeu thus honored him.
ours truly, JAMES BROOKS