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 In these pages, for the benefit of those who are not thor- 
 oughly acquainted with the leading characteristics of Corne- 
 lius Cole, United States Senator from California, we make 
 publication, not as politicians, but as members of the Eepub- 
 lican part}^ of certain facts, as a warning to those who inno- 
 cently put faith or confidence in him, that he is wholly 
 unworthy of their esteem, and entirely unfit for their coun- 
 tenance. 
 
 Many Citizens. 
 
A HUMAN FKAUD. 
 
 U. S. SENATOR CORNELIUS COLE, OF CALIFORNIA, 
 
 ^'- 1 judge him as I judge other men, hi/ what they do; and I 
 judge the Commissioner in the same luay. I do not care who he 
 may be or what his reputation may be ; his actions are the crite- 
 rion by which to determine lohethcr he has acted properly or vot." — 
 [Extract from speech of Cornelius Cole, in the Senate of the 
 United States, January 14, 1870. 
 
 As the Senator from California has seen fit to throw the 
 gauntlet down, we propose to take it up, not with a reckless 
 purpose of bravado, but in sober earnest to judge Cornelius 
 Cole by the standard which he himself sets up as his medium 
 of passing judgment upon otliers — bv his actions. We might 
 hunt up the musty pages of his earlier history, and perchance 
 find a rusty peg or so upon which to hang an argument of 
 how obscurity can be brought into the light of da^-, and 
 when so brought, to chans^e i daces, deemins; the li2:ht of dav 
 obscuritv, so doth vaulting ambition o'erleap itself. But 
 neither time nor our inchnatioii will permit such a research, 
 and tlierefore we will simply claim Cornelius Cole for our 
 
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 subject of review, from that period when the representatives 
 ot the people, in Legislature assembled, disgraced the State 
 of California, by iniiicting his presence upon the Senate of 
 the United States, by electing him to a seat in that body. 
 Let us stop for a moment and glance at his cai'ecr fr(;m the 
 time he was nominated in caucus for the high position which 
 he unfortunately occupies, and contrast it witli his entree 
 into that chamber where the great intellectual lights of the 
 jSTation — dead and li^'inghave shone with brilliancy and glory. 
 Tremblingly he came before the caucus which nominated 
 him ; confused in his utterances, modest and downcast in his 
 looks ; fearful yet willing, he stumbled throuij::h a few com- 
 monplace sentences, and so far as that power could make him 
 so, before wliieh he bowed in such humble meekness, a very 
 living representative of tJriah Ileep, who was "so ver^' 
 'umble," he was a Senator of the United States. 
 
 As an ilhistration : He went to Washin<i'ton, with his 
 blushing honors thick upon him, and was sworn into office, 
 for instance to-day. AYas he overwlielmed with the great- 
 ness of the honor, the sublimity of the position he occujiied, 
 as a Senator of a sovereign State ; or awed at the weight of 
 the responsibility which he had incurred? Did he commune 
 with himself and mentally declare and resolve that he would 
 faithfully, lionestly serve his constituency, without any regard 
 to self-aggrandizement, but with an eye single to their in- 
 terests ? Did he resolve to bide his time in commencing his 
 Legislative duties, and closely Avatching and studying the 
 bearing and demeanor of older Senators, become more pro- 
 ficient in the higher walks of jiarliamentary action? We 
 answer, to all this, emphatically in the negative ; but, on the 
 contrary, before he had been a Senator fully twenty-four 
 hours, he introduced a resolution into the Senate, which prac- 
 tically wrested from the Government, without equivalent, a 
 block of land in San Francisco, which he designed for the 
 use and benefit of his own relatives, and in the profits of 
 which he Avas to be a participant. We are to judge Jtim, (here- 
 fore, as he judges o(hr men : bg.2(:hat he did in this particular. 
 Upon this same land, which Cornelius Cole desired to grasp 
 from the Government and give to his own relatives — gratis — 
 two hundred and twenty of the leading business firms of San 
 Francisco have j-etitioned the General Govci-mncnt to erect a 
 building for the accommodation of the civil, judicial and 
 military departments now scattered throughout the city, thus 
 saving an annual rental of seventy thousand dollars in gold. 
 
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 Now, let us take a glance at the recreant Senator in another 
 light, that ot" a man holdl}^ and nnblushingly attera}:ting by 
 lying, hypocrisy and deceit, to detrand another out of prop- 
 erty, to which he (Cole) had no shadow of right. We refer 
 to the attemjit of the Senator to rob Alfred 0. Loud of his 
 right and interest in a patent for an improvement to propel- 
 lers. Loud was the original inventor, and, deeming a patent 
 for the improvement would be valuable, proceeded to Wash- 
 ington, armed with letters of introduction to Senator Cole. 
 The latter became interested in the invention and personally 
 introduced Loud to the Commissioner of Patents, and has- 
 tened the issuance of the patent in every way possible. 
 Being procured. Loud made ready to proceed to New York, 
 to put his im[)rovement into effect. Cole insisfed upon ac- 
 companying Loud to New York, offering as an inducement 
 that his position as a Senator of the United States would give 
 him (Loud) an entree to all the capitalists, wealthy men, and 
 leading steamboat men of New York. Loud reluctantly 
 consented, and finally took Cole along with him. They put 
 up at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Loud desired to rccomjiense 
 Cole for the trouble he had taken in the matter, and offered 
 him an amount equivalent thereto. Cole magnanimously 
 declined ; was only too glad to serve one of his constituents, 
 and particularly one wlio had shown such inventive and me- 
 chanical skill as Mr. Loud. Finally, however, the Senator 
 overcame his scrn])les, and entered into an agreement with 
 Loud to accept a quarter interest in the patent, he (Cole) to 
 expend a certain amount of money in bringing it to perfec- 
 tion, as well as Loud. The latter asked Cole if he desired 
 any writings in conclusion of the partnership. Cole did not 
 think it necessary. Loud did ; and, at Cole's request, he 
 wrote him (Cole) a letter, offering the quarter interest, and 
 in return. Cole wrote a letter accepting. Loud being com- 
 pelled to return to California, Cole immediately laid his plans 
 to rob Loud of his patent ; which fact coming to the knowl- 
 edge of Loud, he, after a stoji of five days in California, left 
 for the East, and, to the astonishment of his fraudulent part- 
 ner (Cole), he appeared in Washington. In the attempt 
 made by Loud to re-possess himself of what Cole had at- 
 tempted to rob him of. Cole testified under the solemnity of 
 an oath, "that he had no interest in the patent whatever ; 
 
 THAT he only REMAINED IN NeW YoRK ONE OR TWO DAYS WITH 
 
 Mr. Loud, instead of a month." La this, he (Cole) was 
 guilty of loilful and delibe7;aic perjury^ as the letter written by 
 
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 Loud to Cole, offering him an interest in the patent, and 
 Cole's letter acee|iting the same, and other letters and dis- 
 patches, are on file in the proper office at Washington taking 
 cognizance of the matter ; and any gentleman desiring to 
 assure himself on the sul)ject need only to step to tlie Patent 
 Office, and see how far we are borne out in the charge we 
 make against Cole of wilful and deliberate perjury — which 
 perjury he committed, supposing that all his papers and dis- 
 23atches to Loud had been destroyed ; but these very letters 
 and dispatches, being put on file by Loud, as we have before 
 stated, show that they contain statements directly antagonistic 
 to the testimony sworn to by him. In addition to which, he 
 made solemn oath that he was inventor of the paddle-wheel 
 improvement, when he had already assisted to secure a 
 patent for Mr. Loud, for an improvement upon the same 
 principle. We judge him, iJterefore, as he jiuiges other men: 
 h/ -what he did in this particidar. lie is still fighting for 
 this patent, and is prostituting his power, as a United IStates 
 Senator, to gain possession of Mr. Loud's property, to secure 
 a reward of fifty thousand dollars which he has been [)rom- 
 ised, if he deprives Loud of his claim to the invention, and 
 throws it into the hands of wealthy men in iSTew York. 
 And yet this man, when he stealthily visited California last 
 fall, took every precaution to impress upon the minds of the 
 community, and particularly Loud's friends, that he had no 
 interest in the patent, did not desire any, and would do all 
 in his power to* secure and retain it for Loud. His persist- 
 ency and animi^sity in the contest shows how truthful a 
 man Cornelius Cole is. 
 
 Let us ring up the curtain again and present this begrimed 
 and degraded Senator in a spiritual light. Let us look at 
 him, not through a glass darkly, but as through a barrel of 
 whisk}', seized for a pretended violation of the Revenue 
 Law, sweetly. Let us look at him in the attitude, on the 
 floor of the United States Senate, as the pdid- advocate of the 
 whisky shar{)S of the Internal Revenue Department of San 
 Francisco. Let us look at him, as he tears the Senatorial 
 toga from his shoulders, tramples it into the whisky barrel, 
 and casting off all restraint, throws the dirt and sediment of 
 the still over all those who dare to sup]iort the right against 
 the wrong of the Senator. Let us look at him, as he en- 
 deavors to save the informer a per centage, in which he 
 (Cole) is interested, and then say if he is not a model of a 
 Senator. Let us listen to him, as he charges that Samuel 
 
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 Purdy was sent to California, under Johnson's administration, 
 to make up charges against faithful officers there, who did 
 not agree Avith that administration, when it is a fact patent to 
 all those who know anything at all ahout the matter, that 
 Samuel Furdy was sent to California on his mission of inves- 
 tigation, by and with the advice and consent of Senator Cor- 
 nelius Cole. We judge him, therefore, as he judges other men : 
 by what he did in these partieulars. Let us listen to him, as he 
 pleads in a strain that would do unbounded credit to the 
 meanest Tombs shyster, for those lievenue officers in San 
 Francisco who have at all times and on all occasions supplied 
 his wants, even to the extent of thousands, to aid counsel in 
 a murder case at Albany ; or, to speak plainer, it is reported 
 and believed that ten thousand dollars was forwarded to Cole 
 by Lucien Curtis, to pay the counsel of Cole's brother, who 
 murdered Hiscock in Albany. Hear him plead for those 
 who offered to make the oftice of Collector pay twenty-four 
 thousand, dollars per annum, when the salary was only four 
 thousand, and the amount so offered to be over and above the 
 amount of salary named. Let us listen to his tirade against 
 Commissioner Delano — as honest and upright a man as ever 
 held public position — and tell us in how much the State of 
 California is dignified by Cole's presence in the Senate. 
 Was he not sent there, as George Seacoal was made constable, 
 being the most disheartless, senseless and fit man for the po- 
 sition ; no other reason could have actuated those who did so 
 send him. We judge him, therefore, as he judges other men : by 
 what he does. 
 
 Says Cole, in his celebrated whisky speech, delivered in 
 the Senate, January 14th, 1870 : 
 
 "MilUons of dollars have been made by sending untaxed 
 " whisky to California, and the business must not be inter- 
 "rupted. The Government has been defrauded out of these 
 "millions, and tliis cheating must be continued. To accom- 
 " plish these ends the whisky thieves, the defrauders of Gov- 
 " ernment, must have the selection of their own agents to fill 
 "the offices in California : and before the death of the late 
 "lamented Collector Rawlins — as honest a man as his most 
 " excellent brother, the late Secretary of War — it was deter- 
 " mined by Fulton and Cowan to remove him and put in his 
 "place one who could more easily be handled for their in- 
 " terests. ' ' 
 
 Cornelius Cole knew when he made th at statement, he 
 gave utterance to that which he knew to b e false, because he 
 
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 remove!] Jn/^?"* "'' "," *'''<* *:'""' '"^**'^<' ''^ R''"''"^ bein? 
 removed and any one else put in liis j.lace, tliat lonn- bcfbr? 
 
 Cowan and Fulton came to San Frand.co/it was deVermined 
 
 that rw h„s should resign ; that ten thousand dollars w s t 
 
 paZer LuILTFr "'''' '"'J '" ^ «'■'="' man/believ-e.Z 
 parfBcr J^ucien Curtis, was to succeed him. The fii-st act 
 
 mels death .td 1!''^''' !" ^ '^"-'"^" ^^^^^''^''^' ^"^^ ^^^^'^ ^^^ 
 dci as CoJe s pJay turned into a trai^edy 
 
 . Ihis defense bj Cole of tlie Wliiskv Rhm in San Fran 
 of tLT^r' '^''^ g'-tuitously, as a cirtain^NotaTrPubl" 
 of that city procured the greenbacks wherewith to hibricatc 
 
 hat gent eman. The Notary Public in question rZ^^^ 
 
 take tliem to his own ofhce, then circuitouslv placed them in 
 possession of Lucien Curtis'sson, wlio placed tl.em in charge 
 TU^^Ii '""'''^^'S^l'^f^o conveyed ^hem to Washingto^i 
 r IS was done as set forth to j.revent disco^'erv, as when 
 Curtis sent a draft of ten thousand dollars to Cole in order 
 to secure the release of his brother who was on trial for mm' 
 der, the circumstance became known 
 
 atoT^CoTe'^fn 'f^' "^"^^^^^ "^ ^^S^rd to the opi,o«ition of Sen- 
 o Revenue *^^;,^^"^"^;f «" ^^ ^^^rge Oulton for Collector 
 ot Kevenue. This gentleman was the predecessor of the 
 present incumbent as Controller of the State of Califbrn a 
 and no man who ever held the position up to that tin Hs 
 80 successfu m the discharge of its duties as Mr. Oulto 
 
 h s offittfi Vr^" ^'' 'r^'-^^'^^l'"^S- in connection wHh 
 his ottice which has never been excelled, and the style neat- 
 ness, and correctness of their detail received the liighest en- 
 
 Is'strs '? "'" ^^^ ""'' '^^^^ fortune to inspect tt^. 
 frolW n ^,^!^^^;^-;?Pi'e^e"ting Siskiyou countj, as State Con- 
 troJ ei, and in fact in eveiy position he has held in California, 
 he las alwaj-s maintained the reputation of being a hiH 
 tT/e"snn' ^^'^'^'^ ^^"^1 "I'ri.?l^t man, honest and a? truck's 
 the sun. Ihese very qualifications and attributes, however 
 
 iZf'^ tn'^'^l}'- ^^""'^^ ^« ^«^^'« ^^^-or. Cornelius Col^,' 
 United States Senator fi-om California, does vol wish an honest 
 rmn in the position of Collector of the Internal Revenue at San 
 frmcisco. If such a man were cliosen, Cole would be ousted 
 fiom his seat in the Senate, which he has disgraced ever 
 
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 mncehheniree there And why? By a technicality in the 
 Jaw, a Deputy or Acting Collector cannot be removed or 
 suspended by either the Commissioner or Supervisor of Rev- 
 enue oi the district where such officers are located. This 
 CoJe IS well aware of; therefore he endeavors to beat Oulton 
 ^mvin?/fT?'^'"'?T ''' ^''^'^^^ ^^"t lor the purpose of 
 las been run, by Cole s partner, Lucien Curtis. Cole does 
 aL 1 v"" Collector appointed under any circumstances. 
 And ^vhy .^ Because the moment such a one is selected Su- 
 pervisor Fu ton will turn over to him information, testimonv 
 tacts and charges, that upon investigation by a Collector 
 would damn Cole, Curtis, and their pals to all etirnitv: Such 
 an inquiry cannot be instituted nor carried on by anv other 
 
 .tcft i't^ciS"^^'*T'/"?^' 'T' '' ^^' - -^ 1-r^i-dy 
 
 said, that Cole does not desire the appointment of a Collector 
 un ess he be a dishonest knave or a pliable individual he 
 ca mould to his own purposes. We charge boldlv that 
 Cole s connedion with Lucien Curtis in the management of 
 the Internal Revenue collections on this coast wiff not bear 
 .Jvest.gation ; that it ha. been infamously corrupt and Z 
 
 Cu tT^l.o'' nTi™^^^^ r Y^^' 1'^'°^** ^^ '^ t^^'^^^ t^' e f^^'t that 
 Cuiti. has not dared to deny or contradict a single char^re 
 
 TthSoTl'"" ''' ^"T ""^ ^^"^^^" ^" ^^- report Se 
 by them to the proper authorities at AVashiuoton. Let us 
 
 Zu V!:^ ""^T'^' ^'^''y '^ ^''^^"^y f«^' the Post Office of 
 
 ban J^iancisco-Coey, who fought so honorably and bravelv 
 
 cau'e^^Co^ T' /^^^' ^"^^^^^" ^-^ '^^^y 'Answered B^- 
 caii.e Coey when he was appointed Collector of Liternal 
 Revenue believing Lucien Curtis to be a dishonest m-m re 
 « hm^s Deput,^ Collector. This encom ^SecT Coe^ 
 lowntall. He held the position two davs-just lono- enough 
 to prevent Curtis from becoming Acting Collector, wX?k 
 
 rrmov^d^iv ' r '" '^'1 '^ oomn.ission. ^Had Curtis not been 
 lemoned by Coe}-, when Rawfins died, Curtis vvonld have 
 been Acting Collector, and Cole never would h u^ Imed 
 C2^ if • "7 '' '^^^^^"-^^^ ^--^^ the position of Colle t^! 
 
 San ivf '" I''' 1'T'^ ^^^'^ ""^''"^y h^^^^ '^een coming into 
 San Francisco fraudulently for the last seven years. ^Such 
 be ng the case, v.l was Lucien Curtis (who was runnin.^ tl e 
 
 he con d no/'r''l";-''^^"f ^^^' '''''' " ^^^"^'>^^' partn^er,that 
 he could not find time to pay attention to such matters v 
 
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 Let a Collector who is not a knave or a ««ound e be ap 
 i30inted and we think that the facts will show that Cuitis 
 r'elf has had a distillery of his own in operation for years, 
 cl i the la.t man in tl/e world who desires these matters 
 ventilated, and if he can prevent inqu.ry by the free use of 
 his Senatorial power, he will do so to the best of hi. abihtj. 
 Le us ask why Cole suspended his fight against Gorham 
 the present Secretarv of the Umted States Senate We 
 wm answer: On account of his (Cole's) vulnerability, and 
 Sm xbiect fear. It is well known in San Francisco that 
 ^Cn Go'tm was there last fall, in the reading room of the 
 Ocddental Hotel, he denounced Cole in -ost unmeasu^ec^^^^ 
 vindictive terms, applying such opprobrious ad o scene 
 IShets to the Senator'that Governor Low and o her friend, 
 o Gorham who were present, remonstrated with him This 
 still more excited the ire and indignation of the becretary of 
 t e Semite and he again repeated, with more vehemence and 
 S^r^c ^on that ^^^ich hi had olready given utterance o ; 
 Swhen told that Cole would seek his removal from the 
 Secretarvship of the Senate for his action, replied by snap- 
 phlgts'fJn^rs and saying tluit he had the ^^^^^-^ ^ - 
 the Senator and that it would be more than his (Cole s) seat 
 'swTthin^^^^^ bimto raise his fii^ger against 
 
 imISo lulm). C<)le did make a show while ^^ere to i^^o^ 
 cure evidence in regard to the matter, tbreatening to maU 
 a bitter fight against Gorham ; but when ^^Xf^^^f^ 
 ino-ton, hi^ anti-Gorham courage oozed out ^^' ,the end. of Ins 
 fiirgers, and he never piped_ a note, because George Goiham 
 Ivifl the " deiidwood " on him. ,^ , 
 
 A more marketable article of " Cole ' ' has seldom been in 
 
 Wt^gton than Cornelius ; every one f->^^ f^^ 
 
 with him are loud in proclaiming that, ^f ^^'-^^^l,,^;^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 he may be in the estimation of those who do not know him, 
 
 e Ts by no means " priceless." We might go on and pre- 
 
 ^fanl^l^y of facts ^sufhciebt to occupy the a^. on of^^e 
 
 reader to an indefinite period, by a recital of ^^^^^ ^'^^^ f^ 
 
 practices simply during his ^"cumbency as a I mt^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 Senator, but we have more sympatny for ^j^^ "^ ^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 is already heir to, in the infliction of his P^c^" c at the seat 
 
 of Government, to add to them by a ^^^^';^.^'^ ^^' 
 
 infamy and knavishness. He is a Senator without a pa it. , 
 
 a man without an honorable impulse; %.^f J f^j;^\;^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 leo'islatincr for his own personal aggnindizement a mei a 
 
 oidy of cfrcumstances-or, in other words, when a friendship 
 
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 can be turned into a sure and pecuniary channel to himself. 
 Raised from obscurity, he brings to his place all the ai'oma 
 of obscurity ; Jean Valjeau, when he perambulated the sew- 
 ers of Paris, was no more obscure than Cole, and fitter to be 
 a Senator, because he was possessed of warm impulses, and 
 was not actuated by the fishlike qualities of Cole. 
 
 But here let us part with our subject of review. Let him 
 float along on the tide of his corruption, until Public Opinion 
 drowns him in his degradation, or let him live on, an exam- 
 ple to be shunned. 
 
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