The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-07-23
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HE IEiTERATEs FORMER STATEMENTS, AND IS
READY TO PROVE his CHARGES.
Correspondence OF the Sun and fress.]
SANFORD, FLA, July 81 was pleased at
the manner in which you alluded to the teS-
timony Of General Noyes before the Potter
committee, when he spoke OF the charges L
made against him before the subcommittee
as being false.
This question Of veracity between Gen.
eraI Moves and myself, as far rs I am con-
cerned, will become entirely one-sided.
have the evidence, and will prove the truth
OF my testimony before the subcommittee,
and show all the truth on my side, and
all the falsehood on the side Of Minis
ter Noyes--so well rewarded for his want
OF principle ia sustaining what he must
have known were frauds, and known it at the
time, but was trying to avail himself OF them
for the purpose OF placing Mr.. Hayes in the
presidential chair-and he the friend CT
Hayes, the advocate OF fraud in his present
distinguished but to himself not honor
able position OF Minister TO the French
court, under the suspicious position he oc-
-cupied during his mission as "yiSiting
statesman y to the Returning Board.
/ did not expect Mr.. Noyes to acknowl-
edge his pertidy, but like most accused per-
sons, even on trial, to plead "not guilty.;
and as most of them do, even after verdict
by the Jury, still declare their innocence.
I have no harsh terms to apply 10 Mr.
Noyes. He has placed himself where the
truth of history will fasten on him his de-
served condemnation. / am willing to meet
him with testimony, the truth Of which he
dare not deny, unless he is becoming less
and less human the longer he enjoys the
fruit of his fraud-the friendship Of the
President.
The object Of my addressing you is not
to indulge in violent language. Such is not
always the strongest But to use the calm,
cool, fearless attitude Of truth, and to show
the American people that. Mr.. Hayes was
not elected President Of the United States;
that in Florida many of the Republicans
knew it; that, as my protest asserted, it
was known to the Returning Board at
Tallahassee. so stated to my fellow
members of the Board. have no fur
tner cause OF complaint against them. Sub
sequent confessions show what they
knew at the. time, and that General
Moves was an advocate OF the frauds as
adopted by the majority OF the Board; the
testimony in relation TO which General
Moves considered sufficient to carry the
State for Hayes, Stearns. and Montgomery.
General Noyes, why did you not act hon
estly at tine time, or why do you not deny
the testimony OF the Florida "confes.
sions"? l will seek, through the commit
Tee at Washington, to meet General Noyes
face to face, eye to eye, and will crush
him in the estimation OF honest men
with the mildest, the gentlest, yet the
most potent:and irresistible weapon known
among educated, enlightened, and virtuouss
peopIe-simple, unvarpished truth. Let
Mr. Haye remain President until his term
expires, but let it be written in American
history and on the hearts Of the American
peopls that elections must not only be nom
est but above suspicion, and that ofhciais,
domestic and foreign, should preserve az
home or carry to the most distant courts
the insignia Of honesty. u. O..