The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-08-08

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1Ee7 ii.,.nAc.tolt which she Star
router Dorsey threatened to launch in
revenge for his Indictment and trial for
completely .in r1bbing the Public Treas
ury, has prose,l a 6rutaBl fulspsn. 1t
will not injure the charater of Mr. Gar
field, though he Is not living to disprove
Dorsey's shameful allegations. Un-
questionably, however there viii be
those of his friends who will do that
service, and do it so thoroughly that
they will sink this defamer of the dead
still lower in, the estimation of the peo-
pie. if that be possible. q. -.
Assuming that not many people cared
to read his long and infamous docu-
ment. we may state its purport in few
words. Its allegations may be summed
up under three general heads, as fol-
lows; ID that General Garfield, after
promising to defend the Star-route sys-
tenn, failed to do so; (2) that as re-
ward for his (Dorsey's) services in car
rying Indiana he was offered place in
the Cabinet, which he declined =
statement which, if il be true, win
cause feeling of gratitude among the
people that they escaped the calamity
of having him in Cabinet position;
and (31 that General Garfield was faith
less to certain promises made to the
New York Stalwarts at a conference
with them in the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
At the very outset 1t Is'to be taken
into account that this statement is not
made by Dorsey personally or over his
signature, and that it is not confirmed
by single letter, memorandum or
document of any kind. 1t is related by
another person of Dorsey and the
others mentioned, and as such it has no
more value than mere hearsay. No
one is responsible for such statement
as this, 1t is bold, reckless, ire
sponsible story, sent out anonymously,
the party behind it not caring or dar
ing to sign his name to it. y srT
If Dorsey shall announce that he is
responsible for it, it viii not alter the
case, since no one will believe, him.
He is not a competent, candid, nor
trustworthy witness. He occupies too
equivocaf position before the Ameri-
can people to be believed by them even
living person. That in the meanness
and brutality of his malice and petty
revenge he should stoop so low as to
seek to assa;l the, character of the great
and good President who was murdered
at the very moment the whole country,
North and South, had turned to
him with hope and gratitude for
the work he g, was doing, will
not only make that people incredulous
but ablaze with Indignation at
the rancor and uneasiness of this cor
rupt politician. To have uttered such
statements required a degree of audac-
ity that shows he is sunk below all feel
ings of ordinary shame. He has just
emerged from trial for conspiracy in
seeking to defraud the Public Treasury
by corrupt expeditions of the mail serv-
ice. He was acquitted by yenal and
ignorant Jury, but he stands convicted
in the opinion of almost every reputa-
bic newspaper in the land and the i'm
smense majority of the American people,
without regard to party. The word of
/ such man, especially when he is sctu-
ated by revenge, is not to be trusted,
and no one who has read the statement
could have failed to feel its mendacity
in every line and sentence.
Assuming the violent and absurd sup
position that these statements are cor
rect. the conduct of Dorsey stands in
even worse light, for he would then be
guilty of betraying confidence and re-
vealing secrets which any man possess
ing the Sti0lOcSJ PARK Ot HOuOT "OuiOl
have kept to himself. 1t is charity to
Dorsey to contend that all he has said
is untrue, for if it be true he is ineffably
the meanest man living, and has for
feited the confidence even of men of his
own sort.
No one, however, will put any Gre
dence in it, but the weight of popular
condemnation will not be any the lighter
on that account. He has placed him.
self outside the pale of honor and de
cency. he has damned himself forever
in the estimation of all honest people.
He has not only lost caste with respect
able people, but he has placed himself
in position where even the most venal
and corrupt of politicians would be
ashamed OF his association. There is
not a politician in whose behalf he has
drawn his false sword but must despise
his advocate. If by this shameless,
brutal and cowardly assault upon the
dead President he expects to make cap
ital for the Democrats, in this, too, he
will find himself mistaken. 1t will only
serve to revive and arouse the regard
the people had for Garfield QsscagO
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