Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-12-01
AsHTABULA, OHIO FRIDAY, DECEMBER /, 1876

put him in jail, but who, nevertheless, said,
'Butyou see they could do it, for they have
done IT, Don't you see they have? Don't
you see I'm here? But I'm very sure the
American government can't turn me over
to the civil authorities of New York. III
compel them to send me back Immediately
to Spain. have been taken away by force.
in violation of every principle of interna-
tiOnal law. They are taking me home in
one ship of war; they shall send me back
in another, and d-n quick, too. What
the - can Spain gain by extradition?
What object can she have? In this very
country which had selected under the best
legal advice, because most absolutely safe.
l no sooner land than l am seized as a sop
to be thrown to Cerberus. Spain is afraid
of American Intervention in Cuba, and so
am made convenience of by her. Am l
to be the football of Spanish diplomacy on
one side, and American politicians on the
other?
HE FREES HIS MIND REGARDING GOV. TILDEN.
''Tihen, " continued Tweed. wants to
make political capital and campaign bun
combe out of my.arrest and Imprisonment,
and so calls upon the government to de-
mand my extradition. The administration
sees Sammy's object, which is to make polit-
ical capital out of its refusal, and disap-
points him by making the demand, and is
as much surpris@a that the demand is COM
piled with as Tilden is that it is made.
Spain thinks it splendid opportunity to
establish a conspicuous precedent upon
which to base claims for the surrender of
Cuban refugee offenders, and so has double
motive for complying with demand which
at any other time and under other circum-
stances would be lost in pigeon-hole in
the Madrid CircumlocUtion office. Look
at the undiplomatic haste, too, with which
my case is acted on! Thus I'm made the
shuttlecock of knaves and politicians, and
the victim of circumstances
TWEED THREATENS ASTOUNDING REVELATIONS. !
''Wen," soliloquized Tweed, "the ad-
ministration has made at least as much |
political glory out of my arrest as Tilden |
has: and if it does not find reasons for my |
return, as | think it will, at least to Cuba |
if not TO Spain, or for my detention in its |
own hands until after the election. if the |
worst comes to the worst, and | am immedi- |
ately surrendered upon my arrival, then / |
will prove the sorriest campaign document |
to Tilden that ever any ambitious candi- |
date laid hands on. I've got secrets
enough of his to damn him at least as bad |
as | am damned-secrets along side of the |
blackneSs Of which fraudulent income re-
turns are white as snow. wonder if he
remembers the proposition he made to me
to bring testimony to support and establish
any statements might choose to make if l |
would only peach on Sweeney and Hall!
l can call up before him some ghOstly re-
miniseences of those old times Had / |
been left at liberty in Spain | should utter
ly have defeated every chance he ever had
of an election, and now that he calls for
my presence in order to accomplish his
political purposes, he shall find that l have
yet a power, not merely to accomplish his
defeat in this campaign, but his political
death as well. Tilden is shrewd fellow,
underestimated by his political opponents,
a man of wonderful ability and skill, but a
man whose selfish ambition overleaps all
bounds. He has overshot his mark this
time. I've heard about somebody by the
name of Brutus killing another man named
Cesar because he was ambitious; and if
Sammy is going to be Caesar he'll find that
| can be Brutus. As 1 said, l still have
hope"