Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1882-03-20
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is probable the mystery which en-
shrouds the authorship Of the infamous
Morey letter will now DO solved. A
Washington dispatch states that Abram
s. Hewitt Is anxious to have the forgery
exposed. and to that end will DO glad TO
reveal all no knows about 1t IL Congress
will undertake m investigation. There
should DO no objection to giving Mr..
Hewitt the opportunity no seeks. He
was instrumental in giving tia vide cir
culation. by supplying stereotype plates
for its reproduction in Democratic pa
psrs. He long since became convinced
the letter was . forgery, and IL he can
now give . clue to its authorship he
owes II to himself. to the honest men Of
his own party. and to the people, to re-
move at least one blot from the sullied
character Of the Democracy. and place
the psrpetrator OF the outrage within
the reach Of the law. He claims to have
been imposed upon BY members Of his
own party. and induced to use the letter
- genuine BY persons who knew it to
be forgery. aud who knew the guilty
parties. 1t can only be proven to the
people that he is innocent Of intended
wrong BY his exposing the villainy and
lending his efforts to the ~punishmsni Of
the forgsrs.
The connection Of Charles A. Dana
with the Morsy letter will be more difi-
cult to satisfactorily explain. It is
charged by members Of his wi party
that in refusing to publish the letter.
knowing 1t to be q forgery. he also knew
the guilty parties. but to defeat the ends
Of justice he allowed innocent men 10
30 indicted when he could have inter.
vsned to prevent it. This 10 q grave
charge to be made against o man OF Mr..
Dana's standing. His acknowledged in
telligencs and supposed integrity should
place him above suspicion ; but the
charge is made in good faith by equally
prominent men in his party. and unless
he can give most conclusive evidence Of
being himself imposed upon. the infer
sncs will be drawn that he Is scarcely
less guilty than the man who wrote the
letter 1t will also show that the honor.
able position he holds in the estimation
Of the people Is valued by him less than
party success.
Some OF the Democratic papers which
published the fac-simile and at the time
we're most positive in their assertions Of
Its genuineness are COW seeking to shirk
the responsibility by making the novel
defense that IL Garfield did not write the
letter it '.lost him NO votes that he
ought not to have Lost. for II did no
more than give expression to the views
which by voice and vote be had main
tanned in Congress-" Such arguments
are refreshing. What q howl would be
raised were the Republicans to charge
the Democrats with being forsers. and
what . novel defense for the Rspubli.
cans to claim that the inference was just,
~ q letter had been forged, and eircu-
lated when known 70 be u forgery, and
the act was but in conformity with their
ideas Of political warfarel
Garfield lost the State Of California
by the Morey letter forgery. II happily
made NO material difference in the re-
suit Of the national election; but the
mode OF warfare adopted by the Demo
cratic party 10 most psrnicious. and IL
not rspudistsd by the voters Of that
party will work greater injury to them
than to the Republicans. The people
will be slow to credit Democratic ''sen'
sAtions" in the future. and different
ANN Of conducting campaigns will
have to be adopted by them.