Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-02

conversations with me, but Gen. Arthur is
now president of the United States, SEN
ator Conkling is IN New York city, and
Gorhan Is editor of the administration pa
per III this city, and what have stated
Will be verified by each and every one of
them. James and Macyeagh pledged
there word to Col. Ingersoll and myself,
that any statement I might make would
be solely for the president and cabinet, but
Notwithstanding this pledge, within TWEEN
ty-tour hours after these two men received
| the statement, every detective employed
| IN their department was furnished with a
printed copy of it with instructions to
discover in it if possible some variation
from the facts as shown by the records.
. Not one has been foaud as
yet. MacVeagh's pledge to Col.
IngersoH that the statement made by
me should be seen only by the president
and cabinet was a professional pledge OF
one LAWYER to another, and the honor of a
high official to a citizen, and he violated
both with a characteristic bad faith within
a few hours.
For year and half after this state
ment was made, every means that maligni-
| ty united with power could employ, was
employed to discover some discrepancy.
| some mistake, or some suspicious omission
in what I had voluntarily said. Vast sums
of public funds have been suuandered to
attain this end, but, when the trial came,
| this voluntary statement of mine, acknowl-
edged and well known, was not produced
as evidence against me. II there
had been a word in that statement
| that malice could have twisted or
misconstrued into damaging untruth. if
there was thing that the army of witness
ses brought here by the government could
disprove, how swiftly these swift prosecut-
ors would have seized and used it to nv
disadvantage. That statement was never
offered as evidence by the prosecution,
never referred to, and never contradicted.
I challenge the attorney general or the
person who is the real attorney general
and master in that Office to give this state
ment of mine to the public, or to show
| that any evidence given on trial has con-
troverted Or disproved one single word
| in it. I know I stated the truth then to
President Garfield, and know that I will
state the truth now. for, urged by wilful
| Misrepresentation of the prosecutors in
this case who have used their position and
all the great powers of the govern
AAiSAo W OO1dAO NE, propose
t. state facts as 1 know them
to be, and as these prosecutors know them
to be, and can say in the language of
one speaking to the prototype of these
liars, except as to disposition mark how
| plain tale shall put him down. 1 say
this much in the presence of new trial,
and defy all the power and money of the
government to terrorize and bride jurors
and witnesses, as they did at the last trial,
to dlsprove single statement I have
made Or shall make in regard to this mat
ter.
One charge against me is that I con-
spired with Brady to defraud the United
States. Another charge is that I en-
| ployed as my tools Col. John NJ. Peck,
John W. Dorsey and John r. Miner. It is
further charged that each one of these
persons was absolutely under my control,
and that none Of them had any experience
IN mail contracts, Or knew anything about
them. My answer is that Col. Peck
had been for years largely interested in
mail contracts, and that at the time of the
! mail letting in 1878, he was large con-
tractor, as the records of the postofice de-
partment show. Col. Peck determined to
/ make bids for large number of contracts
offered in 1878 if he could furnish the nee
essay bonds and certified checks. He
requested j. W. Dorsey to join him in
making such proposals. told my brother
and Col. Peck that it would be very en-
barrassing to me to have them engage in a
business Of this sort with the government
while 1 remained in the senate; that the
charge would be made at once that was
interested, directly or Indirectly, with
everything they did, and that thought
they ought not put such embarrassment
upon me in the last days of my service in
congress. These gentlemen, being of
age and acting for themselves, saw fit to
take different view of the subject, and
they put in great number of bids. They
were the lowest bidders on 1874 routes,
which were awarded to them out of the
1000 let. A large proportion of these
contracts were given away without pay by
them by assignment long before the con-
tract term began to ether contractors who
afterwards had them increased as the
growth of the country through which they
ran justified. J. W. Dorsey and Col. Peck
never received one penny from increase of
mail service. They never had route in
creased to the extent of one cent, and they
lost almost every dollar they possessed
in their efforts to carry out
the contracts that they had
undertaken. j. W. Dorsey was my brother,
COL Peck was my brother-in-law. After
they had determined to bid the ordinary
obligations that attach to such relation
ship attached to me. After they had failed
elsewhere they requested me to aid in Sc
curing them bondsmen, and I did every
thing knew how to do in that behalf. All
this testified to nearly i've years ago be-
fore congressional committee, and take
this occasion to say that as I was re-
quested to furnish certificate checks, did
SO according to my best recollection to the
extent of $4,000, fact which thus far
seems to have escaped the prosecution.
Dorsey, Peck and Miner had their CON
tracts. They also had the bitter personal
enmity of every other contractor for the
reason that they were intruders on an old
and we'll occupied field. Moreover they
did not have the assistance or good will
of anybody in the postoffice department
On the contrary they had the i'll will of all
those who could control or might have
aided them in carrying out their con-
tracts. Some time in August Miner
was on the point of being de-
clared failing contractor, which, of
course. included Peck and Dorsey. Such
on nj box Al IN