Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-16

the days OF the bank OF the United States,
and it was more audacious assault upon
individual integrity than that great cor
pOration. 1t was more formidable temp
tation to parties and to the press, in pro-
portion as the money John Welsh mar
shalled against General Hancock was a
thousand times more than that organized
against General Jackson, fifty years ago,
by the bank Of the United States.
And SO, long before the day of election,
John Welsh became the text of sectional
hatred on the one side and sectional hu-
initiation ON the other. The money he
raised was the open treasury from which
desperate men could draw at ad E6itum,
and last November the states bought by
that money were handed over, like man
the rescued Office holders and their chief at
Mentor.
Was to stand silent before such an oc
casion as this j.? Was l remain muzzled
before the exposure of the dark secret !?
Had consented to such shame I would
have been a partner in the conspiracy it.
self.
Now, lest you may not have seen this
most shameful circular, reprint it as fol-
lows:
September 18th, 1850. :
At meeting of a number of the bust
ness men Of Philadelphia. held Thursday,
September 9th. Hon. John Welsh was
chosen chairman, and Cyrus Elder secre-
tary. The undersigned were appointed q
committee to procure funds for the use of
the Republican party in the present cam
paign.
You know that Oh the result Of the No
vember election depend the prosperity of
our manufacturers, the existence, probably
Of our national banking system, and the
safety of our national finances.
You knoc that the inevitable and legiti-
mate expenses Of such q campaign arc large,
and that in some Of the doubtful states, cherc
success Is absolutely necessary to our cause,
the needful funds cannot be procured. Seven
weeks from this day the great battle will
be fought and, if the present apathy con-
tinues-lost
LARGE SUMS ARE NEEDED IN
STANTLY, and to you, as one of the
moderate number to whom such an ap-
peal can be made, the committee look for
prompt and liberal contribution. This
note and your dns,oer or contribution are
to be held confidential.
Payments are to be made to Wharton
Baker, Treasurer, No. % South Third
street.
You will perceive, Mr.. GOshOrn, that
do not stop to discuss the sincerity Of the
excuses of John Welsh for this corruption
fund. If did, might say that there is
not an honest man between the two oceans
who believes that if General Hancock had
been elected president last November he
would have destroyed our manufactures,
impaired our national banking system, or
interfered with the safety Of our Ameri-
can finances. Hancock's whole life is a
protest against the scandalOus assumption.
He is a citizen of Pennsylvania, known to
John Welsh, far better known to John
Welsh than John Welsh is known to you
or by you. Hancock was born in Mont
gomery county, almost within sound of the
bell of Independence hall, and yet, be-
cause man whose whole life heretofore
has been a single illustration of purity of
ch ,racter." alleges all these things against
General Hancock Il will not insult John
Welsh by the intimation that he believes
what he wrote and signed), but because
he alleges such things against General
Hancock, he did not hesitate to recon-
mend the purchase of great states, and to
take the lead in a crusade against the con.
ScleuceS Vi JnOuSanOS OF poor WORKING
men who had to vote against General
Hancock on the threat Of being turned
into the streets, or being made beggars
and paupers.
Together with thousands of others de-
nounced this most cruel, unprOvOked and
dangerous proceeding, and l am convinced
that the American people will never forget
the means by which, under the name of a
man boasting of his purity Of life." a
brave soldier has been deprived of his
electoral majority.
Under the rule of the British House Of
Commons, the practice of government to
which John Welsh was the accredited Am
erican minister, a member of Parliament,
elected by the processes recommended by
himself in regard to the choice of the pres
ident of the United States, would have been
unseated almost without a vote !; the very
petition stating tho fact that he had pur-
chased the ballot, would have left him
without case.
l am glad that you have done me the
honor to strike your name from my list of
subscribers, because should feel degraded
in taking the money ofa man who at
tempts surreptitiously to prescribe an in
dependent American editor for denOunc-
ing practices which if done by an ordi-
nary citizen would consign that citizen to
deserved contempt and shame.
JOHN w. FoRNEY.