The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-10-16
Sweet williams Secret.

Sweet WILLIAM HARDING. of the Philn-
dclphia inquirer, insists that Bon MICKEY
is n model citizen and an excellent Trea-
surcr: that lie never received Il penny
of interest on the public money and has
been all along singularly pure and deficient.
These facts sweet WILLIAM. with that nice
regard for the truth which distinguishes
every statement of the Christian editor.
admits are known only TO Il select few;
they are d" well known to Mr.. MACKEY's per
sonal friends, though unknown to the
public"
Sweet WILLIAM. we are TO infer, Is one
Of that interesting Cotelie OF Treasury i'll
timatcs, since he possesses this exclusive
information, which he must have received
from MACkEY himself, under Circum-
stance, Of the strictest and dearest conf
d.uce. But how could he permit MACKEY
TO he So long and 50 terribly misunder-
stoodf how could he-weeplug and
mouI ming rs ha : continually over tho
cruel receptions of the world-suffer this
guilcless brother to be bufTeiea by an un-
feeling public, to be cited into courts, TO
be investigated by committees, to be
cruelty denounced in newspapers and
generally regarded as no better than one
% the wicked, when he was in truth
saint after ths order of HARDING, OF whom
the treasury was not worthy
Brother HARDING, alas thai &c should
say il, has been very remiss. He has seen
this innocent man prosecuted even unto
the strange city of New York, aud has
withheld the testimony that should have
preserved his precious character whole
aud fragrant. We fear, indeed, that
Brother HARDING has engaged too ardent
ly in secret meditations. or too devoutly
in counting his godly gains in that swamp
transaction with the city of the per-
verse, to discharge the more obvious
Christian duty of rescuing this good man
from the malice and uncharitableness Of
this unrecking world
Brother HARDING admits that the facts
were well known" to that little circle Of
,jiIitTe and iisintefe-ted friends who have
clustered around Mr.. MACKEY during his
| Christian administration of the treasury,
aud we imagine Brother HARDING means
10 imply that his peculiar knowledge of
them is quite rs old as it is trustworthy.
He had it, doubtless, from MORRIS, his
|
spirit, who must have enjoyed many re-
freshing seasons with Mr. MAcKEY in his
annual sojOurns mt Harrisburg. Theli
business, their tastes, their fine spiritual
natures. would inevitably lead thcin tC
coalcscc A private transaction IN assort
ed charters Is not so essentially different
from q private transaction in public
money as to prevent cordial agreement
between the parties concerned, provided
they belong to that class of Christian mel
of which the late MIR. CoLFAx was the typ,
among statesmen, and this very Swce
WILLIAM HARDING is the type among
editors.
But if Sweet WILLIAMS present state
ment he correct his tardy PRONUNCIATION
of the truth is no atonement 10 the ma
ligned and prosecuted MAcKEY for the Sc
rious injuries he has sun Tered at the hand
of a misjudging people. On the whole, W
incline to think that Mr.. MACKEY must il
some moment of mutual religious eXalta
ton have communicated the exact trutl
with respect to his general character, AM
especially with respect 10 his supposed II
ceipt of interest upon the public money
to HARDING alone, but with strict miunt
tons of secrecy, which that scrupulou
person has observed only too well.
Ii was not "well known TO the othe
friends, rs Sweet WILLIAM in the simpl
city of his conliding heart vainly suppose
JoNEs, for instance, had no knowledge {
il, or JONES never would have gone int
| court and sworn that he paid this nobl
man Il brbe of $4,000 IN the second NOR
= gage bonds OF tho South pennsylvani
iron and Railroad Company. STEnMA'
} CLARKsON \ Co. could not have known i
or they would have had some better el
PLANTATION Of that little word "int' il
3 scribed in their books in strange bl
1 clear aud legible handwriting, and upo
: which their bookkeeper put the interpTe
/ alton of the carnAl minded when he swOi
o that il meant four per cent. interest pan
} TO the Treasurer. The committee of il
! vcstlgation at Harrisburg certainly ney'
- suspected il, OF they would not have r.
| ported upon mere documentary evidenc
{ and in the face of the Treasnrer's VirtuOl
= determination not to be Investigated at al
: | that MAClIEY and his immpdiutp prpIlnpp