The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-03-10
Mr.. Ii, 90 ass Address.
James Brooks has prepared the fol
lowing address to his constituents

Mr. Ii, 90 ass Address
james Brooks has prepared the 70
lowing address to his constituents
| Enemies have taken advantage Of m
physical pro-tratIon from malaris
contracted IN ludi-, and too long neg lee
ed.to Offer up OAke- Ames and myself a
sacrifices to the pubic clam II in whic
two Vice Presidents OF the Unite
States, several IN .mbers Of the S-ntte
and eight other members OF the Hou"
were more involved than myself Tn
sacrifice OF a Democrat was deeme
indispensable to offset, if NOT to protec
them, and hence ear Y in D zee mher
committee was organized, seemingl y OF
purpose.to bring in my name with their
80 as to make me responsible or ID
shares OF the Credit Mobile
owned by G.. II. NelIsou.-
The certificates of this stock were no
toriousIy IN the iulI prs'esIOn p ot Neil,
son as losg ago as D cember y 1856,
(see evidence, page 5l, hnt OF thes
c .rt' ficates the Conmlttee in January
1873, cnose 10 make me the owner upor
the pretense th At he, being my sDn-in
law, was oHly the apptre II owner Th'
Committee was thus organ zei. | say
for there w're put upon 1t such mer
as General Banks a cnev ,lier d indus
ire, tor years living in Cnate'u d E|
pagne, because Of his known hostility
10 Anes, who. when asked refused L
subsrr be with certain rich Bosron'an
to tree his Wsltl an house rom {
heavy mortgage; and Merrlck, o
Maryland, an ex rebel ia iEe OF TIM
district at the opening o. the civil war
wnose court Congress had to eutlrpst,
10 hp r,d o. him and who therefore, ,s0r'
and sour now more than ever, hates The
whole human race bee lnse o the dtfea
OF his aspiration to re-rircuon tOCongres'
With Niblack, very, small man in the
plastic fingers ofsucr 81 y sleek am
crafty Chairman a. Poland, OF Vermont
whose anteceieuis in raiIro !ds at hpm
are worse than anything alIrged agalns
the Credit MObllier. Ih s 60 n.mIttee
after sitting two months and bal.
purposely neglecting the exploitation o
manv rich mines OF test'm ,uy. Il rcelN
ell upon me in eleven dItf.rent = tiny
when my phys'c i prOstrs ion wa sue
that the newspapers daily reIOr Ell M,
diving, and at last, alter reiu-l Z me Z
hearlug, which earnestly dem ,ndrd
q fact which they suppressed 10 the E
re port OF 523 p1Ges-which no member
OF Cong ress could fed time to read sC
late in the sessiDn-when il wa- m4 /,
coupled me, a Democrat, with Mr.. A .e
Republican, Tor expulsion, while the,
let oil thirteen other Repuh' "s' who
all but oLe had hand ed Cred
1t Mobiier when not sbar,
bad come into my hands -
The House and the country from the
start C III ed such An ab ,urI report tn
moment they could get at II by refusing
to vote on expus sion at tall. They dIu
not censure Mr. Ames or mysel only
condemned an act az Old as 1867, il
order thus 10 carry # as on lighni"g
rod the elec ricity t,at had been genrr.
attd by the batteries OF he press upon
Congres- and the counry. But even
tn this the H,use did me injustice
because | wa- not in Congress when
1t WAS allie ed my interest brgan in the
Credit MoblIer, or il, as alleged,
| had any interest, II was fully Opposed
Of befre | went INTO the d re tory
Some Democratic mem hers OF Congress
a-seuled TO this injustice IN the belrel
that tnev could then condemn s"ch
men as Dawes. Garfield, BIrgnam, X !
ley, Schofeld and Hooper; OutIn tnis
they were fooled, brcau-e the gren,
INTEL g.uce, high cha acter and well
know auttcedents these men are
such as O make ridiculous the charge
that Oakes Ames had Lribed item or
that they were ms duves, as the Poland
| CommitIee reason, aud did not klOw
what tney were about. TDyuu, my old
constituents who have stood 10y me Tor
twenty five years and over, both as 81
Old line Wing and DemoCra', who bsvr
seen me whether as a member OF the
Legislature IN Name, and H. your own
representative in A banv, hotn in thr
Legislature and IN the Constitutional
Convention, and who now See me in
my eig -th Congressional term, hitherto
unepotre ed and unsuspectrd in every
pubic station, ! shall appeal IN person
il the gooi God restores me TO heath
| shall demonstrate To YOU that
nei her m,selt nor Mr.. Neilson, from n
New York city family OF over 100
wears of Stainless snrecedents wa
guilty Of perjury, as PJlsnd Charge,
aud that bJtn OF Us tod the trutr.
~hen testiiyrng that had no nand il
Credit MobiIier div dends, silotmeDI-
or prof s in any form. |
shall SATISFY you that the James
Brooks whom you ioptrd in lS3 }, aud
10 whom the Old Wing and DemOcraIlc
parties have often given the hiEhrer
nonors OF the city, and whom COugre-s
has honored on it, most In
portant commi,tees-Lard-, P's..
offices, Pac 6; Railroads, R
Construction, aid more espec' tiiH
the Ways sni Means, aud twelve year
tuere-st lines spprDpr sun9 mII'lon-
ami millions Of dollar. and at other
times levyirg with others O. the Con-
mIttee the vast reVenu-s OF the country
is the same James Brooks, now II
hs ripenrng old age, that be wss "hen
you first al opted him aud ever sDce
You thus honored him.
Yours truly, JAMss BROOKS.
Mas. HARRIET BLLcHgR STowg spesks
OF motherhood 10 pretty way when