Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-09-01
THE SIS. c." CHECK.
LETTER FROM MR.. COLFAx.-MINIsTER
wAsHBURNE sUBsTANTIATEs MR..
nREw's STATEMENTS. E.

LITTER FROM Mk. COLFAA.-MlNlSTEk |
wAsHBURNE sUBsTANTIATEs MR.
pREw's STATEMENTS.
Mr.. Drew has handed us the follow
ing letter from Mr. Colfax! 1t will be seen
that Mr.. Washburne, our minister to
France, fully substantiates Mr.. Drew's
statement that he was in Paris last win
ter, while the investigation into Credit
was gong on in Washington,
and stated to Mr.. Washburne that Col
fax never received the IS. G. or Bearer"
check. This also shows that Mr.. Drew
did not wait for Mr.. Ames' death before
making known Mr. Colfax's innocence
in the matter. -Bmlington Free Press
and Times.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. Aug. 20, 1873.
My DEAR SIR-Just returned from
Minnesota, | find amongst my letters
the following from Hon. E. B. Wash
burne, U. S. Minister to France:
PARIS, July 81, 1873.
"Hon. Schuyler Colfa1:
DEAR STR have duly received your
favor of the 18th inst. | have seen the
statement of Mr.. Drew. It is true that
he was at this legation pending the Cred
it Mobilier investigation before the Po-
land committee at Washington last win
ter. | well recollect our conversation
on the subject of the ''S. G. or bearer
check, and his statement that he had
reason to know that you did not get the
money. My recollection of the CONVEX
sation is confirmed by one of my secre-
taries who was present and heard it |
understood from Mr.. Drew that he was
abroad for the purpose of making certain
investigations in regard to frauds COM
mitted on the revenues of the United
States.
Yours very truly,
E. B. WAsHBURNE.
l am even more rejoiced, my dear sir,
than you can be at this emphatic con-
frmation of your statement. You de-
clared in your letter to Judge Poland,
that, when you first heard Of this $1,000
check (Which was first presented to the
committee January 22nd, 1879 you
were at the American Legation at Paris,
and told Mr.. Washburne at the time
that you knew Colfax never got thai
money. The New York World, whose
malignant perversions and falsifcation'
in this matter have been as brutal il
their language as they have been infa.
nous in their spirit, determined to dis
honor you also, because you had dared
to tell the truth on matter in which
you had no interest whatever. 1t has
therefore, over and over again asserted
that your statement must be false becaus
you had been seen in Washington il
my company at the time you said yo1
were in Paris. Knowing this to be
falsehood, as had not the slightest rec
election Of having seen you at all 70
more than year, 1 wrote to Mr.. Wash
burne and. as you will see, out of tn
tavuOaas '.U.aOssvs--u vv-vnry II.
Washburne himself but his Secretar
also-is your truthfulness doubly cor
frmed and the lie of the World news
paper doubly refuted.
Let me thank you personally for dal
ing, for the sake of truth and justice,
encounter all the villifcation to whic
you have been subjected. He VIII
knoweth. all things, knows that | nevt
r received from Cakes Ames any stock {
! bonds of the Credit Mobilier or th
: Union Pacific Railroad, nor any dividen
: thereon, in cash or check or stock
bonds. And [ consider it but little les
: than providential that you happened
I see Mr.. Ames himself draw the none
on this very rs. G. or bearer" checl
l thus confirming Mr.. billions testimon,
but also that you saw him pay the S. 20
e he received at the Sergeant-at-arm
counter to stranger who had been tall
5 ing to him on New Orleans matters.
= know this confirmation of your statemel
a against the aspersions of your calumn
: ators will be gratifying to Ex-Governo
: Underwood and Stewart, Lieut. Cove
: nor Taft, Generals Barstow, Wells al
: Henry, Judge Wales, President Buckha
: of the University of Vermont, Messr
+ Benedict and Huntington, and 9th
: prominent citizens of Vermont, wi
: have borne such strong testimony
t your reliability and your unimpeachab
# character.
It With grateful regards, yours truly,
It SCHUYLER CoLFAx.
: JOHN T. DREW, ESQ.
II The oil dealers last year attemptt
= to get up combination for the purpo
of checking the yield of petroleum, al
! in this way pushing up the price. Lii
!, most other selfish combinations of t
] kind, this fell through without ACHE
ing any very marked results SO far
bene6ting the conspirators was concer
cd Ono dicactrn1,c offoot uuao hro,,1.