Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-12-02

false from beginning to end. The afidavit Of
Taylor may be divided into two parts; first, a. to
what took place between him and mysslf; escQnd,
As to What took place between me and soms third L
person whom he does not In the present aaldAVlt
name, but whom he has repeatedly aindleatsd at |
other times upon the fcrm1r, I would RilIlngN
place my own denal against TayIoF'6 oath, and /
Leave the result to the public, but have fortunate
evidence from the very records Of the court that
ha statement is false. There teaS Hsvey anu sstch
g0ncher required as that which Taylor swears |
eheIed him money for. My charges were taxed
lowed at WHahins slon Is iegnI. Surely / did not
offer hia1 Ate dollars for that which did not re-
quiEe; second, as to the third person who a. Tay-
loE has repeatedly stated, signed voucher OF the
kind OF which he alleges. ThS sAid third poESOn |
has made an affidavit, which Is on ale at Waah- |
ingtOn, stating the fact that he never signed such
voucher and Waa never asked TO Do 20; the sl0- |
~ in regard to him being also false. Why IL it |
that after lapse OF four years, according to bis
own statement, MIR. Taylor now comes forward In
the interest OF public Vlrtue2 10 use q current I
phFase, IL Is rather thin. The above charges, aud
Others, was made under oath last April to the De
Partment at Washington. The charges were ex-
amined, their talsity asceTtained, and they were
dismissed. Ny accounts were approved aud were
PAID, and they are on record in the U. s. Court
here and at Washington, open to any name in
i spoCtloni defy any succsssful Impeachment Of
| their regularity aud correctness.
And now to your several personal attackS-
First, you bring out the wel-Wor slander about
repeaterS. and support it by an aHidAvis from
Humphrey Morrow, which you denOminate proof
y might be enough to say in regard to it that
Humphreys affidavit will not be regarded in this
tcomm unity. or any other where he IS well known
as proving anything. II Is q fact too that he be-
came seized with desire to make AfidaVts against
nae just affer removed him from the poatIon OF
BaiM IN the United States Court; had retained
him there think he never would have imagined
, any such thing as he now sWears to. His various
ahAdaVits and anonymous aud other letters max
ing attacks on the U. 8. officials in this State are
10 bo found in several n rot eli OF the DeDaFt-
! ments at Washington, and havo. coma 70 be re-
| garded with tho eminent contempt which they
deserve. II you, Mr.. Harrington, had Glanced to
be responsible in any way TO the General Govern.
: meut, Humphrey would doubtless have had be-
lore this an aiadaV't hled against you at Wash
2 ingtOn.
? But beyond this Iesre noio aud aQaia 10 once
more explicitly deny that T. elLler at Ns election
Of 1870, or at any other tame, brought from PhiI
Gae1phiG or IRON any otAsT place, repeatsrS iSto
i this State; as to me the charge is GalSei
AL shall refrain hele from IetortlnR upOn YOU an
analysis Of your political eouTses It has long been
an open secret, and relate nothing not already
lr well known when recall to your now ViFtuous
4 mind that the chief method upon which YOU de-
: pended for success in your 6GSco Of 1885 was
l. systematic effort to dabaueh siaFge numbOrs oi
electors by the direct purchase Of their votes the
2, means for which you procured in amounts there
tolore and since unequalad In the AIatorV oa Da
4 tieI which proved to be In the end alAoRuShsa
ar without foundation. In fact had you auccsaaa q
b your schene OF Wholesale bribery yOa vOAlt
hRvo justly earned the dlstinstien Of being thG
.e most eminent eerruptioAist who ever poisoned
: the ballot boz in Delaware, and in eompariaou
" with your acts, all of them capable Of proof il
81 the form have stated, by hundreds Of witnesses
e The charge you bring against me unsustGinsd eK
m cspt by one incredible affidavit, sinks into insiR
"A nreance, and would still do so even II it contain
az ed sciRtIla OF truth, That you did not succesi
was due not to any virtue OF your own, but TO tn
IL Illustration OF your wholesale efforts at brhesJ
,R and when, therefore. you appear public csnsoI
81 with not merely taint OF political fraud upo
IN your hands, but covered with II from head to foo
IA tbs comparison between the cOrFuptionlst Whic
ID you are and that which your VahILy attemPtsd &
at prove me, ought to overWhelm you with shame
all Fdlowing the repeater starry, you quote In
a the report OF q committee appointed TO nvestiRat
m the vote In the 3rd Ward at the Fsk nomination
Il for Mayor in 1872. That commiitse, as you We
"a know, was created to convict, aud with the eI
no eeptisn of one member its report was q iOregou
~ coaclusOn from the moment 0t 10 apPoIntmsn
TIE character OF the testimony in the did n
affect its deeisiOu in the smallest degree, and
- thou the subcommittee was thus packed again
he ma in a manner and to a degree which your nil
n conscience would certainly revolt at IL you col
ho OoiVed that your interests were In the most r
m mote degree threatened, yet the vote Of the eli
N committee In acting upon the report contained
lse large minogity In my favor, and the eforts
q
ms we're almost entirely unsuccessful. You knot
M Harrington, whom you Takod up these o
stories with the hope to injuFe me parsonAll
~ since you had failed to successfully impeaeh 4
~ official conduct, that net only have haretolo
answered to them but they have been passed uI
vs. on, adjudieatsd and diamisssd, They have on
the lived and have since died. You are Qul
~ aware too that after your efforts to prejudice
ans standing with the Attorney General Of the UE
% ted States yOa asceFtaned there that thess Vene
in able hbels upon me which you again pablish =
ult regarded in his Department only stals stoFi
20: haiched by political Animosity. do not thin
~ sir that y0u expect them TO be iJFavsr avallah
Vsr fOg my injury. Are they not like that which
the ioag shadOWed you for the final burial Of Viii
did yoH co aid only depend upon the lapse OF Ii
,ase aud the outward appeaFance Of PEAR ahssqas
not liis. am not doubtless free from ell changes
"A. ereor; are your ee
y ms Have you warrant thus fOr seeking my
a.. jury and expecting that no ono viii look ba
-. upon your own record. The remark M
~. % Sherih Armstrong relative tOlhe treatme
80 OF persons confined under his charge, wa
- mere casual suggestion and that you shOV
,rse dstOrt Il into . pretended evidence Of c0ns0
-, - ing with criminals aud magnify the imp
- tahce Of q charge against ne. Il meann
eeS and pettiness. OF which, confess did I
49, suppose you capable. IL Kindness ShoWei
az. By friends upon persons confined N nat /
one uhder the charge OF crime, les alene the sim
lin0l suggestion OF . stranger as b the names
an3 caring for their physical wants, had alWI
're subjected such frieHds to bitter assaults IN
-. public press certainly some kind friends
-. yours at q trying tlme In your life We
ter. have also been held Up 70 public odlum,
whvI In your conclusion you threaten mo.
inst not retOTt any threat. an ready . anaWe
dsA they need o. deserve reply, WhateTer o.
peT. slAndags you may direct against me I q
s6f- your attacks. SAaks HOar qhtg1rss u ]