L K T T K R 
 
 OF 
 
 :^. G. OEDWAY 
 
 TO THE 
 
 NEW HAMPSHIRE REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE 
 
 RELATIVE TO THE FALSEHOODS OF 
 
 GEORGE G. FOGG, 
 
 AND AN 
 
 Exposure of the Latter 
 
 AS-A 
 
 BLACK MAILER, COMMON LIBELLER, and TRAITOR 
 TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. 
 
 WAS H I N G T O N 
 
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To the Neio Hampshire Republican State Central Conmnittee : 
 
 G-ENTLEMEN ! Gcorgc G. Fogg, formerly a incraber of the 
 Kepublican i)art3-, after a five years' chase of {\\q golden fleece 
 over tlie mountains of {Switzerland, has become rabid. His 
 symptoms, at lirst, were only those usual to a snarling, ugly 
 cur, who, having gorged himself like the dog in the man- 
 ger, will neither eat himself nor let the horse eat. Within 
 the last few months, however, the foam, froth, and poison- 
 ous venom which lie has belched forth prove beyond dispute 
 that Fogg's case is political lujdrophohia in its ivorst form. 
 
 In view, therefore, of the fact that at the sight of rae or 
 of my name Fogg raves like a mad dog at the sight of 
 water, I feel it to be my duty to ask the Republican State 
 Central Committee, or those members living in Merrimack 
 county, Ayhere Fogg and myself are well known, to examine 
 certain important facts, which may account for his ravings, 
 and to render an impartial judgment between him and me. 
 
 In the last number of the Independent JDemocrat, issued 
 since my re-election as Sergeaut-at-x4rms of the United States 
 House of Representatives, for a fourth term, by the votes of 
 members upon whom Fogg had forced his venomous, dirty 
 sheet, teeming with falsehoods concerning me day after day, 
 week after week, and montli after month, he renews his 
 ravings and charges in 
 
 Falsehood No. 1, — "That by the letter of the law and 
 uniform practice the Sergeant-at-Arms is entitled to but 
 two dollars for each arrest," &c. — while he says that I 
 
charged, on a certain occasion, $5.20, in defiance of law and 
 usage. The tacts are, that by the 24th Rule of the House 
 of Representatives it is provided that the 'Mees of the 
 Sergeant-at-Arnis shall be, for every arrest, .§2 ; for eacli 
 day's custody and releasement, $1 ;" to whicli should be 
 added ten cents per mile for two miles, or each fraction of a 
 mile, travel, making the legal fees, without extra expense, 
 $3.20 in each case of arrest. In the case referred to, on ac- 
 count of the extra expense of procuring nearly half of the 
 members, scattered all over this city of '^ magnificent dis- 
 tances," tlie House voted me double the usual fees, which I 
 did not accept, but simply added the cost of a dozen messen- 
 srers and hacks, which were on dutv all night and until 
 nearly noon the next day, making the sum charged $5.20 
 each, or $1.20 less than I was entitled to by the vote of the 
 House. So much for the false charge of taking §5.20 where 
 the law allowed but §2. 
 
 Falsehood No. 2 says : •' Mr. Ordway has been allowed 
 thousands of dollars for constructive mileage by Mr. Rollins." 
 
 The fact has been published over and over again that my 
 bills have all been examined and approved by the committee 
 for wliich the work was performed before going to the com- 
 mittee of which Mr Rollins was a member, and that no bill 
 of mine was ever signed by Mr. Rollins until a majority of 
 the rnembei's of the Committee on Accounts had examined 
 and approved it. 
 
 In regard to tlie amount charged for mileage. I state that 
 I made my bills exactly in accordance with the custom and 
 usage under the law of 1859, and all my charges were 
 deemed equitable and legal .by the committees for which I 
 perfoniU'(l the service, as appears by the following statement: 
 
 To the C/tairnian af the Committci'. on Accounts : 
 
 The uiKlersigned, ( "hairmen of Committees authorized by the House 
 of Representatives to s«'Md for persons and pa])ers, examine witnesses, 
 &c., would Bay (if our testimony is wanted) that we have full confi- 
 dence in the iiitcfrrity and faithfulness of Col. X. G. Ordway, Ser- 
 jreant-nt-Arms : and will add that, when extra compensation has been 
 
allowed him, it was done to enable him to facilitate the investigations 
 of such matters as were committed to us, and in our judgment such 
 expenditures were made for the best interests of the Government 
 
 (Signed) C. T. HULBURD, 
 
 Chairman Commiltce on Public Expenditures. 
 
 J AS. F. WILSON, 
 Chairman Committee on Judiciary.. 
 
 W. S. LINCOLN, 
 Chairman Committee to investigate Pay Department. 
 
 JNO. P. C. SHANKS, 
 Chairman Committee to investigate cruelty to JJnioii Prisoners. 
 
 J. W. McCLURG, 
 Chairman Committee on Southern Railroads. 
 
 H. L. DAWES, 
 Chairman Committee on Elections. 
 WILLIAM WINDOM, 
 
 Chairman Committer on Indian Affairs. 
 B. F. BUTLER, 
 Chmrman Committee 07i Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. 
 
 H. D. WASHBURN, 
 
 Chairman Committee on Bounty. 
 
 THOS. D. ELIOT, 
 Chairman Committee on Neio Orleans Riots. 
 
 To create a false impression as to the fees received by me, 
 Fogg further says that Ordway has received $47,815 in fees, 
 which is, in fact, more than I received during the past six 
 years ; and, following " Manker's " precedent, he tells how 
 many trips that sum would make around the globe. It is 
 said that '^ liars should have good memories," but Fogg 
 seems to have had a bad one, for in his last week's issue he 
 puts my fees at $20,000 a year — while according to these 
 figures of $47,815 for six years, the gross receipts could not 
 vary much from $8,000 a year. The truth is that they have 
 been much less than even that sum, as will be shown by the 
 following certificate of the Clerk of the Committee on Ac- 
 counts : 
 
 Committee on Accounts, 
 House of Representatives, February 8, 1869. 
 N. G. Ordwav, Sergeant-cU-Arms : 
 
 Sir : In compliance with your request I have to state that the 
 amount of money allowed you by this committee for fees, cash paid 
 on account of investigating committees, horse hire and emoluments 
 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1868, and up to January, 1869, 
 was $19,865.08. Of this sum S 10,477.09 was paid for expenses, 
 
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 fees and emoluments which accrued previous to December, 18G7, 
 leaving $9,387.99 as the whole amount for expenses and emoluments 
 of all kinds for which payment was made which accrued in the lii^cal 
 year. Of this amount (S9,387 99) $1,713.19 was for expenses of 
 committees and cash paid, leaving the total amount of fees for sum- 
 moning witnesses, &c., -$7,647.80, as appears from the books of this 
 
 office. 
 
 Yours truly, &c., 
 
 J. W. CLARK, 
 
 Clerk Committee on Accounts, Ilouse of Representaiu'e". 
 
 The above is a true copy of a letter written and sent Mr. Ordway 
 
 by me, February 8, 1869. 
 
 J. W. CLARK, 
 
 C/erk of Committee. 
 
 Thus it will be seen that the total amount received by the 
 Sergeant-at Arms for fees and services of process during the 
 year 1868, or the impeachment year, was but seven thousand 
 six hundred and seventy-four dollars and eighty cents, and 
 before charging me with even that amount as net profit, the 
 cost of sending messengers all over the country must be 
 deducted, which was not less than fifty per cent, of the 
 whole sum, leaving the actual emoluments for fees not over 
 S3, 837. 40, or just about one half w^hat Fogg received for his 
 two months' services releasing rebel cotton at New Orleans, 
 which resulted in a loss to the Government of more than a 
 million of dollars. Now add to the sum of |3,83T.40 my 
 salary of twenty-five hundred dollars, which includes the 
 twenty per cent, recently voted, and we have the astoundirig 
 fact that I have been i^aid about $6,000 a year, during 
 the most expensive or impeachment year, for disbursing 
 and becoming responsible for one million and a half dollars 
 annually, besides all my other duties. Will any man who 
 knows the expenses incident to the support of a family in 
 Washington pretend that the tax-payers- are unnecessarily 
 burdened on my account? 
 
 As to Fogg's si)y, Wilkinson, whose charges against me 
 were ])rinted in Fogg's ofiice, I will only say that he was 
 contradicted by every witness whom he himself called to 
 sustain his infamous allegations, as is shown by thefollowin^r 
 
extract from the report of the committee to which his black- 
 mailing circular was referred : 
 
 *' The testimony of Mr. Wilkinson was rendered of very little ac- 
 count, in the estimation of the committee, by the fact that it is in con- 
 flict with almost all the other testimony in the case. He swears to 
 certain alteration in papers which, upon examination, prove to be 
 wholly untrue. He swears to conversations with other witnesses 
 which the other witnesses not only do not remember, but positively 
 deny having- occurred. He is contradicted in several material and 
 distinct matters by the testimony of his own witnesses, Messrs. Conn 
 and Dillon, and also by Messrs. Hulburd, Rollins, Lloyd, and 
 Cheney. 
 
 " Upon the whole matter, the committee find none of the charges 
 
 sustained by the evidence, as far as. they impute fraud to the Sergeant- 
 
 at-Arms. They therefore recommend the passage of the following 
 
 resolution : 
 
 ^^ Resolved, That the Committee be discharged from the farther consideration of 
 the subject. 
 
 " J. M. BROOMALL, Chairman. 
 "E. R. ECKLEY, 
 '•^YILLIAMC. F1ELD8. 
 "8. M. ARNELL." 
 
 Falsehood No. 3 states that " Mr. Orel way has drawn $75 
 per month for a horse and carriage which he does not use, 
 has no use for, and for which there is no authority of law or 
 custom." The pay for a horse and carriage has been allowed 
 to the office of the Sergeant-at-Arms for more than twenty 
 years, which ought to establish a custom. I purchased a 
 horse and carriage immediately after my first election, and 
 have used up one carriage entirely, and smashed another 
 badly since I have been in office. I am obliged to send to 
 the Treasury Department from one to six or eight times a 
 day for money and drafts for members, and if that does not 
 constitute use for a team, no officer of the Government does 
 need one. But since Fogg is on the hunt for abuses, I would 
 advise him to overhaul the contingent expenses of the House, 
 while his ''pal," Geo. Marston, now of the black-mailing 
 firm of Fogg, Marston & Co., was doorkeeper, and he will 
 find not only a one-horse swindle, but that immaculate in- 
 
dividual drew pay for two horses, which he probably never 
 kept or used, and also examine his pay-roll to see what 
 New Hampshire men drew pay without performing service. 
 
 Falsehood No. 4 says that Mr. Ordway "draws §70 a 
 month for his ' little boy,' and has done so all the time he 
 has been in office," &c. Now Mr. Ordway has not drawn 
 pay for his "little boy " all the time since he has been in 
 office, nor even half the time. The law which was passed 
 some ten or fifteen years ago, when the labor devolving upon 
 the office of the Sergeant-at-Arms was not one half what it is 
 now, provides for one cashier, one messenger, and during the 
 session a page to do errands and take charge of the mace. 
 When I came into office, I happened to have a son about ten 
 years old, whom I immediately put into the harness, and 
 who, owing to the increasing duties of my office, has labored 
 faithfully and earned every dollar which he has received 
 from the Government, and a great deal more. During the 
 last two years, having grown nearly to manhood, he has 
 performed labor for the Government at $2.40 per day which 
 would otherwise have cost 81,500 or 81,800 a year, although 
 lie has never received pay for a single da}^ when Congress 
 was not in session, and the whole sum so received would not 
 more than pay his board and other expenses in 'Washington. 
 
 Falsehood No. 5, and Others. — The series of falsehoods 
 contained in the fifth charge were originally copied by Fogg 
 from the Democratic papers, revamped and brought out 
 again just before my re-election as something new, and are 
 now again paraded to make the public believe that I had 
 charged 8762 for gloves and $300 for crape, where my pre- 
 decessor charged but Si") ibr gloves and 880 for crape. The 
 lactR are that when a member of Congress dies and is carried 
 home for burial, a committee of five members is usually sent 
 to accomi)any the remains, whicli requires but five pairs of 
 gloves, (for wliicli my predecessor and probably myself in 
 all sufh cases cluirged about $15,) and crape and other em- 
 blems of mourninir, amounting to about 880 in each case. 
 
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 But when a deceased member is buried by Congress, and a 
 State funeral is held in the Capitol, and the President^ 
 Judges of the Supreme Court, heads of departments, and 
 both Houses of Congress attend, it requires instead of five 
 pairs of gloves about three hundred pairs, and instead of 
 $80 worth of crape it requires three hundred crape scarfs, 
 taking a yard and a quarter to a yard and a half for each 
 scarf. It has cost for gloves on an average about two dollars 
 and a half a pair, when purchased in large numbers, instead 
 of three dollars, when purchased for a committee ; and the 
 crape lias cost one dollar to one dollar and a half for each 
 sash, making the amount named. 
 
 The bills for the three State funerals, paraded by Fogg, 
 show just what I have stated ; and I charge Fogg with delib- 
 erately attempting to deceive the public, knowing as he did — 
 if he examined the bills — that in one case only gloves for a 
 committee were charged for, but in the other for about thxee 
 hundred persons, with a like difterence in reference to crape. 
 I only wonder that even his malice has induced him to attempt 
 to deceive the public in a matter that is so easy of explanation, 
 and, the truth of which is apparent to any person of common 
 sense examining the printed records of the contingent ex- 
 penses of the House, which are always open to public inspec- 
 tion. 
 
 In only three cases since I have been in office have State 
 funerals occurred, or have gloves and crape been furnished, 
 although the practice has prevailed since the foundation ol' 
 the Government. So much vv^as said with reference to these 
 matters that I determined to put a stop to the whole system, 
 and notified the Committee on Accounts that I should decline 
 to furnish any more crape or gloves while I remained in office, 
 and I have taken the responsibility to discontinue the prac- 
 tice, which I hope will never again be revived. 
 
 During the late Presidential election it was thought ad- 
 visable by the Democrats, as a party measure, to charge all 
 the officers of the House with malfeasance, and a book, sio-ned 
 by one Manker, made its appearance, and wasbrouoht to the 
 
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 notice of the House and referred to a committee, which re- 
 ported as follows : 
 
 Extract from Rqwrt of Committee. 
 
 " The Skrgeant-at-Arms. — The charges made iu the book against 
 the Sergeant-at-Arms consist almost altogether of those investigated 
 bv the committee in the early part of this session, and tlie report in 
 that case is referred to as a full answer to them. It is sufficient to 
 say, in short, that after full investigation the committee ascertained 
 the amounts awarded him since the commencement of the Thirty- 
 ninth Congress to he in strict accordance with laio and precedent. 
 
 " Take a single case complained of by Manker, (that of the Xew 
 Orleans investigation.) The Sergeant-at-Arms is charged truly with 
 having received $2,392.40 for summoning 301 witnesses— that is, 
 S7.94 each. During the last Democratic Congress — the Thirty-fifth — 
 the Sergeant-at-Arms charged and received iu the Fort Snelling in- 
 vestigation $4,408 for summoning 48 witnesses, making S100.17 each. 
 Ofeher comparisons between 1867 and 1858 show similar results. Tlie 
 parties who have purchased the book will hardly profit by contrasting 
 the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-ninth Congresses." 
 
 The above majority report, made by the Chairman, Hon. 
 John M. Broomall, of Pennsylvania, than whom a more 
 honest and upright man does not live, and concurred in by 
 Hon. Samuel M. Aruell, of Tennessee, Judge Fields, of New 
 York, and that gallant soldier, Gen. Ephraim E. Eckley, of 
 Ohio, ought to silence forever these slanderers who have been 
 barking and snarling after me ever since I came to Wash- 
 ington. 
 
 But my vindication does not rest entirely with these gen- 
 tlemen. The Democrats determined that Mr. McCullough, 
 the Democratic member of the committee, should make a 
 minority report, which he did ; and I have no doubt he did 
 the very best he could for liis party with the material at his 
 command after the investigation. But he could not report 
 a ialsehood even to injure so obnoxious a Badical officer as I 
 
 a///, and was compelled to say — I use his own words "I 
 
 make no charge against this officer (the Sergeant-at-Arms) 
 
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 that he has charged or received more than he is entitled to 
 by law." 
 
 Such exaggerated statements had been published with ref- 
 erence to the fees and emoluments of my office, that I wrote 
 the following letter to the Committee on Accounts, request- 
 ing them to strike the entire fees from the office, preferring 
 to serve for even a small salary rather than to be continually 
 misrepresented : 
 
 Offitk of Serge ant-at-Arms, H. of R., 
 
 Washington, D. C, Sept. 21, 1868. 
 Hon. J. M. Broomall, 
 
 House of Representatives of the United States : 
 Dear Sir: Certain newspapers, for political eft'ect, have been cir- 
 culating the most extravagant and false statements in relation to the 
 fees received by mc as Sergeant-at-Arms for summoning witnesses. 
 In order therefore to put a stop to these wholesale misrepresentations, 
 and to satisfy the House and the country that witnesses are hereafter 
 to be secured at the lowest possible expense, (if any more investiga- 
 tions are ordered,) I have to request that you will introduce a resolu- 
 tion taking away all allowance for mileage which has heretofore been 
 allowed the Sergeant-at-Arms, and in lieu thereof provide that the 
 Sergeant-at-Arms or his messenger shall only be allowed the actual 
 expenses incurred in securing the attendance of any witness ; and 
 that all such bills for expenses paid to secure Avitnesses shall be accom- 
 panied by an affidavit signed by the person who expended the money. 
 Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 N. G. ORDWAY, 
 
 Sergeant-at-Arms^ H. R. 
 
 CoiMMiTTEE ON ACCOUNTS, Fehruary 8, 1869. 
 I certify that the above is a true copy of a letter received at this 
 room on the day of the date thereof by the chairman to whom it was 
 addressed. 
 
 J. W. CLARK, 
 Olerk Committee on Accounts^ II. R. 
 
 The closing portion of lie No. 5 is more infamous and 
 wicked, if possible, than anything that Fogg's fertile brain 
 had hitherto invented, especially that portion which says — 
 
 "Ordway is not only officially corrupt, but his office room is the 
 headquarters of the most corrupt lobbyists," &;c. 
 
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 This statement is such a barefaced falsehood that it would 
 not need contradiction in Washington, as everybody knows 
 that my office is the only one about the Capitol that the 
 public, including lobbyists, are excluded from, all the other 
 offices being open and free to the public. 
 
 And whoever says that I ever approached a member of 
 Congress or of the New Hampshire legislature with a cor- 
 rupt proposition, I will prove to be a wilful and malicious 
 liar. If I have so approached any man, let him stand forth 
 and proclaim it. If I have sold offices, let the man Avho ever 
 paid me one dollar publish it in Fogg's paper, over his own 
 signature, instead of having that paper filled, as it recently 
 has been, with bogies letters, purporting to come from the 
 people, which have all been manufactured in Fogg's office. 
 
 With the exception of the Flint letter advocating re- 
 pudiation, I do not believe he has received a single endorse- 
 ment of his infamous course— certainly not from any Repub- 
 lican who fully understands the motives which have con- 
 trolled his actions. 
 
 The false suggestion that the New Hampshire delegation 
 were opposed to my re-election is best answered by the fact 
 that a friend of mine presented the resolution to allow them 
 to vote in caucus, and they were only prevented from voting 
 for me by the ruling of the chairman, that none but mem- 
 bers having a right to vote in- the House for officers nomi- 
 nated could be admitted to vote in caucus. Therefore, if 
 Fogg thinks his threats moved either the members of the 
 House or Senators he is very much mistaken. They have 
 not forgotten his efforts to belittle the whole delegation by 
 comparing them with those who had preceded them, and 
 whom he wo?^?'/^////?// alleged had been driven out of office by 
 ]\Ir. Chandler and myself. 
 
 Having borne in silence for months past the oft-repeated 
 attacks maliciously made against me by Fogg and his tools, 
 yet having been vindicated by the Kepublicans of Warner, 
 where I was born, and have lived nearly all my life ; by the 
 Republicans of Merrimack county, who selected me to preside 
 
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 over the county convention, held the same week that Fogg 
 published Wilkinson's circular ; by having been made pres- 
 ident of. the electoral convention which nominated Hon. Ma- 
 son W, Tappan for elector in the 2d Congressional district, 
 although Fogg's dirty sheet Avas daily filled with abuse of 
 me ; and, finally, by having received a renomination and 
 re-election as Sergeant-at-Arms of the U. S. House of Rep- 
 resentatives for the fourth term, by the votes of men who 
 have entrusted hundreds of thousands of dollars in my hands 
 for safe keeping without even taking a receipt for the same, 
 yet never having a dollar in dispute between myself and 
 them or the Government during the whole time I have been 
 in office, I feel that now, when our State election is over, 
 I cannot be charged with a want of forbearance if I lay 
 before the State Committee and the people of New Hamp- 
 shire the true character of this man Fogg, however sickening 
 and disgusting may be the details of the operations of this 
 political black-mailer, office-broker, and traitor to the Re- 
 publican party. In doing so, however, I shall not descend to 
 the low personal abuse with which I have been assailed 
 because when a poor boy I commenced life's struggles with- 
 out an early education or powerful friends, but shall at this 
 time only refer to his public conduct. 
 
 GEORGE G. FOGG AN OFFICE-BROKER AND BLACK-MAILER. 
 
 It is always unpleasant to be obliged to drag before the 
 public personal difficulties, and to expose the private malice 
 that has instigated personal attacks ; but when a coarse, bru- 
 tal slanderer sets himself up as a censor upon the motives 
 and actions of others whose service to the Republican cause 
 has been valuable, then it becomes necessary to strip off the 
 ''sheepskin" and expose the ravenous wolf. In order to 
 do this, I shall be obliged to refer somewhat to my personal 
 relations with this political highwayman and black-mailer. 
 
 In March ^. 1861, I visited Washington for the first time, 
 and wdiile stopping at the National Hotel w-as informed by 
 Hon. A. H. Crao-in that the Postmaster General w^anted to 
 
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 secure the services of an active, energetic special agent Ic 
 take charge of the mail service in the New EogUind States. 
 Hon. E. H. Rollins, who had then just been elected to Con- 
 gress, advised me to apply for the position, and offered to 
 accompany me to the Postmaster General. Fogg, and sev- 
 eral other New Hampshire men, went along Avith us. 
 
 Judge Blair said he had scores of applicants for the place, 
 but had not found the man he wanted. After a short con- 
 versation, and ascertaining that I had had considerable ex- 
 perience as sheriff, city marshal, and in other detective 
 service, Mr. Blair said he thought I was just the man lie 
 wanted, and tendered me the appointment, saying I need 
 not consider it a political favor, as he should put the whole 
 district under my control, and hold me responsible for the 
 efficiency of the mail service in those States. I thanked 
 him, and said I thought I v»^ould accept the position, al- 
 thouo"h my five vears' commission as sheriff of Merrimack 
 county, N. H., had another year to run. 
 
 Having left home hastily, I desired to return at once and 
 arrange my business so as to enter upon the duties of the 
 office. I applied at the Post Office Department for the com- 
 mission, but it was not delivered to me, and I was told I liad 
 better see the New^ Hampshire men about it. 
 
 I called upon Hon. E. H. Rollins, the member from my 
 district, and asked him what the delay meant. 
 
 He said he did not know, but would see Fogg. A short 
 time after, Mr. Rollins informed me that to his surprise 
 Fogg demanded money before I could have my commission, 
 and said to him (Rollins) that he (Fogg) had put Blair in 
 Postmaster General, and that he might go away, and this 
 and tlie Concord post office would be all he (Fogg) would get 
 anything out (jf. 
 
 I was indignant, and reminded Mr. Rollins that I had 
 organized and uniformed political clubs, expending money 
 and incurring obligations to the amount of some twelve 
 hundred dollars during the Lincoln campaign, w^hile Fogg, 
 as the nominal secretary of of the National Committee, had 
 
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 been luxuriating at tlie Astor House upon tlie i'unds raised 
 by contributions, and had actually carried away a valuable 
 desk, used and paid for by the committee, to adorn his bachelor 
 den in New Hampshire ; that under these circumstances for 
 him to demand money ol' me would be an outrage to which 
 I would not submit. 
 
 Mr. Rollins admitted the force of what I had stated, and 
 said he had no doubt I had contributed more time and money 
 towards the election of Abraham Lincoln than almost any 
 one man in New Hampshire, but said he feared that Fogg 
 had more power with Blair than the whole New Hampshire 
 delegation — Representatives and Senators — who had endorsed 
 me, and as Fogg had finally concluded to take a hundred 
 dollars, he had rather pay it himself than have a fight 
 with him, just as he (Rollins) was commencing his Congres- 
 sional career. I repeated that it was an outrage for Fogg to 
 demand money of me, and was nothing less tban black-mail 
 on his part, as he had done nothing for me, and was in 
 Washington securing a fat ofiice for himself. H', however, 
 any one must pay him money on account of the commission, 
 I should do it myself. 
 
 After I passed out of Mr. Rollins' room I met Fogg. He 
 asked if I had seen Rollins. I said '' Yes ; and Rollins says 
 you w^ant money from me ;" and I went on to repeat to him 
 what I had said to Mr. Rollins, thinking j^erhaps I could 
 shame him out of demanding it. Fogg replied that it was 
 a great place, and the sum a small one ; that as Maryland 
 was to have the Postmaster Generalship, and Mr. Lincoln 
 was evenly balanced between Winter Davis and Judge Blair, 
 he, (Fogg,) being secretary of the National Committee, had 
 come to Washington and turned the scale in favor of Blaif. 
 In fact, lie said, (I use his exact words,) '' I took Montgom- 
 ery Blair by the collar and breeches, and made him Post- 
 master General, and this and the Concord post office is all 
 I shall get out of him." 
 
 I saw it was useless to appeal further to such a Shylock, 
 and took out one hundred dollars, ($100,) and reached it 
 towards him, saying, '' Take it if you can afford to." 
 
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 E^ogg grabbed it, and tbriist it into his vest pocket as 
 glibly as a gambler would sweep the board at a roulette- 
 table, and went off, I doubt not, to black-mail some one else 
 whom he had learned expected an bftice. In fact^ 1 am 
 credibly informed that Fogg bagged several thousand dollais 
 about that time in a similar manner. 
 
 In making the above statement, I wish it distinctly under- 
 stood, tliat the only reasons why I consented to pay the money 
 was because I had received the appointment and was entitled 
 to receive my comn?ission, and Fogg stood in the attitude of 
 a highwayman, leaving me only the alternative of being 
 robbed of a hundred dollars, or of losing my office, and be- 
 cause notice of my appointment had been published in the 
 newspapers and copied in New Hampshire, and a failure to 
 receive my commission would have placed me in an 
 awkward position ; and I further wish it to be distinctly 
 understood that I never employed Fogg nor any other 
 person to procure that or any other office for me, and, 
 in fact, I did not know, until Mr. Cragin informed me, 
 that there was any such position as that to which I was 
 appointed ; therefore, Fogg cannot set up the plea (so often 
 made by black-mailers) that he demanded the money for 
 expenses in procuring the office, as he had been in Wash- 
 ington a long time before I reached there, intriguing to 
 secure a " soft place " for himself, which, finally, he procured 
 by following up President Lincoln in an overbearing man- 
 ner, demanding to be made Commissioner of Patents, until, 
 worn out and disgusted^ Mr. Lincoln sent him to Switzerland 
 to get rid of him, where he remained five years, during the 
 late terrible conflict, hobnobbing and wine-bibbing with such 
 as he could quarter himself upon, and hoarding up his $7,500 
 a year, which he wrung from the depleted treasury of his 
 country in gold, under the ])retence of spending it in en- 
 tertaining his countrymen. Returning home v^rith a baggage 
 train of Swiss watches, music boxeSj jewelry, &c., he arrived 
 just in time to become a favorite of Andrew Johnson, and 
 was sent to New Orleans, where he surrendered millions of 
 dollars' worth of cotton, which the Government had seized 
 
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 to be confiscated, to the then defeated and hungry rebels, for 
 which he charged and received six thousand dollars from 
 the Government ; reaching New Hampshire in season to en- 
 gineer a furious contest over the Senatorship, hoping to slip 
 in while the other candidates were wrangling. Defeated in 
 this by the candidate he most hated, Fogg next sought, and 
 by the aid of his friend, Andrew Johnson, secured a three- 
 montlis' appointment in the Senate, for th purpose, as he 
 stated to me '' to warm Patterson's seat for him," and make 
 him (Patterson) '' roost lower;" or, in other words, to pour his 
 slanderous venom in the ears of Senators, to poison their minds 
 against Senator Patterson in advance. From the moment Fogg 
 secured this temporary prize_, he commenced intriguing 
 against Mr. Chandler and myself, and every other New 
 Hampshire man whom lie could not use. I was specially 
 selected for the slaughter which he had arranged, because, 
 having wronged and black-mailed me, he thought I might 
 expose him and thereby induce others to expose the larger 
 sums which he had pocketed from them, and for the further 
 reason that he knew I had carefully watched his intrigues 
 with Johnson, and would probably expose him when he 
 came to pay up foi* his appointment by voting with Doolittle, 
 Dixon and other renegades, to deprive of the right of suf- 
 frage, in the District of Columbia, better men than he, whose 
 skins were nearer white than his, because they had lived 
 in a community whose l^ws made it a crime to acquaint 
 them with books, and consequently could not read and write 
 when just emancipated from slavery. Yes ; this blatant, loud- 
 mouthed, pretended abolitionist, (when that hobby gained 
 him contributions to start and keep alive a newspaper,) got 
 down on his knees to Andrew Johnson, and gave his vote 
 as before stated, and had it recorded on page 32 of the Senate 
 Journal, (2d Session, 39tli Congress,) with Doolittle, Dixon, 
 Buckalew% Hendricks, Riddle, and Andrew Johnson's son- 
 in-law, Patterson, of Tennessee, thus betraying libert)' 
 almost the first day he was placed upon the watch-tower of 
 freedom. I call upon the '^ Old Guard," if any of them are 
 yet clin*ging to the polluted skirts of this apostate, to exam- 
 
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 ine the Senate Journal on the page before named, and satisfy 
 themselves of his apostacy; and also to examine the journal 
 of the Senate during his brief and disgraceful career in that 
 body, and they will find that out of 198 votes that were 
 taken by yeas and nays, Fogg either dodged or voted with 
 the Democrats over fifty times, and that he voted for every 
 railroad, river, and harbor plunder bill, including the Niag- 
 ara ship canal, the Des Moines Rapids appropriation, cl'c. 
 
 FOGG A TRAITOR TO GENERAL GRANT AND THE REPUBLTCAX PARTY. 
 
 But til is is only a tithe of his treachery to the Republican 
 party, and the fulfilment of his pledges to Andrew Johnson 
 to sustain him as a reward for his appointment, for, just be- 
 fore the Philadelphia convention, Fogg dined and wined 
 with Postmaster General Randall and Edmund Cooper, 
 (Johnson's private secretary,) at the place where they 
 were drilling their ''-bread-and-butter brigade"' for the 
 mongrel Philadelphia convention^ hoping it would succeed 
 in breaking uj) the Republican party. That he has been 
 the sworn friend of Chief Justice Chase, and a traitor to 
 General Grant, there is the most abundant evidence. His 
 attacks upon the '-Statesman." when it first proposed the 
 name of General Grant for the Presidency ; his quarrel 
 with Mr. Chandler on the night before the State convention, 
 when he knew that Mr. Chandler, as chairman of the com- 
 mittee on resolutions, was going to report a resolution pledg- 
 ing New Hampshire to General Grant ; his subsequent in- 
 trigues with Sinclair, the Democratic candidate for Governor, 
 while in Washington to raise funds to defeat Gov. Harriman, 
 all g<» tn kIiow that he was working with Mr. Chase for a 
 Copperhead victory in the first State to vote in the Presiden- 
 tial year ])ecause that State had spoken for General Grant. 
 ( )f his duplicity and treachery in relation to the Chicago con- 
 vention, Mr. Chandler has told the public. But the crowning 
 act of hi.s treachery, which occurred long after Gen. Grant was 
 nominated, remains to be recorded. A few days before the Dem- 
 ocratic convention met in New York, this Georo-e *G Foo-o". 
 
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 editor of* a nominally Republican paper, whose columns were 
 then teeming with fulsome praises of General Grant and Hon. 
 E. B. Washburne, went to the room of John G. Sinclair, in the 
 Eagle Hotel, in the city of Concord, the headquarters of the 
 delegation to the New York convention, and then and there, 
 with malice aforethought, deliberately conspired with the 
 aforesaid delegates to try to induce them to bring forward 
 Mr. Chase at 'their national convention in order to defeat 
 General Grant and destroy the Republican party. The pre- 
 cise language that he used on that occasion was taken down 
 by true and faithful hands upon the spot, and is ready to be 
 verified by two unimpeachable witnesses when this double- 
 dyed traitor to liberty, to party, and to General Grant shall 
 come ftiwning around the incoming administration, asking 
 patronage and favors. 
 
 But it is useless to accumulate evidence of Fogg's treach- 
 ery and apostacy ; he has recently given notice through the 
 columns of his low, blackguard sheet that he shall not here- 
 after be bound by regular Republican nominations^ unless 
 they happen to suit him, and has openly advised bolting. 
 
 FOGG A POLITICAL PAUPER AND BEGGAR. 
 
 A word, therefore, in relation to his newspapers will not 
 be out of place. When the Independent Democrat was started 
 the money for that purpose was begged or borrowed, but 
 never repaid, and subsequently, I am informed, he begged 
 twenty-five hundred dollars at one time^ and^ in fact, he has 
 always been a political pauper upon the hands of the Repub- 
 lican party, until he gobbled up nearly/o>'f?/ thousand dol- 
 lars in gold, and had his friend and broker, Collector Smy the 
 sell it for him at from fl.TS to $2.80, while the soldiers were 
 glad to get greenbacks. 
 
 If any one doubts the correctness of what I have stated, 
 let him ask Hon. A. F. Pike, of Franklin ; George Folsom, 
 Esq., of Dover ; W. W. George, Esq., of Canaan ; Lemuel 
 Cooper and Ruel Durkee, of Craydon, and scores of others, 
 all over the State, as to how much money they have paid 
 into the concern. 
 
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 I assert, and challenge successful contradiction, tliat Fogg 
 and his associates have begged and borrowed and received 
 more money, which they never intend to pay, than their 
 whole mongrel newspaper concern would bring under the 
 hammer, while I am not aware that any other Concord news- 
 paper has ever asked or received a dollar. 
 
 As to his dirty paper, tlie '' Monitor,"' everybody in New 
 Hampshire know\s that the money to start .it was swindled 
 out of men under false pretences, and that it lias been kept 
 alive and supported as the paid organ of the Concord rail- 
 .road. It was started to break down the Republican party, 
 and it has been true to its mission ; but as yet it has met 
 with poor success. When Mr. Gilmore controlled it, his 
 orders to his managers were to attack me every time I should 
 come into the city of Concord, and the same course has been 
 pursued since it came under Fogg's control. Governor Gil- 
 more is dead, and I shall not bravely kick his coffin as Fogg 
 has recently done, after riding on his free passes all over the 
 country, and for years using his paper to promote Gilmore's 
 schemes. I opposed ^fr. Gilmore's nomination, and his wild 
 and wricked schemes while Governor. I fought him and his 
 railroads when at the zenith of his power, but I shall not 
 needlessly imitate Fogg's example, and assail his memory 
 now he is dead. 
 
 In conclusion, I have to say with reference to Fogg's reck- 
 less lies about the large amount of money that I have gained 
 and hoarded up, that I make this proposition : The State 
 Committee may appoint a committee of three of its members, 
 who shall put me upon oath and examine my books ond 
 papers, and I will pledge myself to turn over to Fogg every 
 dollar I have saved from money received from or through the 
 Government in any form for two-thirds the amount Fogg has 
 hoarded from the proceeds of the gold he extorted from the 
 Government during the five years he misrepresented and 
 disgraced the country abroad and at New Orleans, and has 
 now invested in such a way as to shield it from taxation. 
 
 In order to carry out this proposition in good faith, I will 
 o^ive a bond for ton thousand dollars, with good and sufficient 
 
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 sureties, to stand by this uii'cr— a like bond to be executed 
 by Fogg. 
 
 Unless this oit'er is accepted, no fair-minded man ought 
 hereafter to allow Fogg's lying paper in or around his dwel- 
 liniir. 
 
 If fourteen years service in the Republican party, during 
 seven of which 1 expended one half of my income to i)ro- 
 mote its success — in the critical campaign of 1863 serving as 
 chairman of the New Hampshire State Committee, receiv- 
 ing the advice and constantly in communication with Presi- 
 dent Lincoln, with whose friendship and confidence I was 
 honored to the day of his death — is to be overbalanced by 
 the lying and cowardly attacks of an overgrown, pom})ous 
 renegade, then has justice and honor fled from the breast of 
 man. 
 
 N. G. ORDWAY. 
 
 Wa6HL\(jto.\ 1). C, March IS, 1SG9. 
 
APPEND! 
 
The following extracts from the oldest and most reliable 
 Kepublican papers in New Hampshire show how the conduct 
 of Geo. G. Fogg is regarded by the disinterested and respec- 
 table portion of the community. 
 
 The Keene Sentinel, of a late date, has the following : 
 
 "Private QiARRKLS.— We are not disposed to meddle with the 
 private fpiarrel.s of any one, nor are they generally of interest in 
 others than the parties concerned ; bnt when an editor of a Republi- 
 can paper so far degrades liimself and disgusts his friends as to devote 
 a half column or more space, week after week, to the abuse and slander 
 of prominent and trustworthy members of tlie party to which he pro- 
 fesses to belong, then we feel justified in protesting against it. The 
 (juarrel between the editor of the Independent Democrat and certain 
 leading men in the Republican party is the one referred to, and it is 
 generally understood to be a personal and private affair, in which the 
 public have no interest whatever, and having its origin in disappointed 
 ambition and jealousy on the part of the editor. Jt has been a one- 
 sided affair for a long time, the subjects of the editor's peculiar venom 
 wisely disdaining to notice the oft-repeated charges made against 
 them, and which have no effect whatever upon the minds of the people 
 except to create a feeling of disgust and contempt for the man who 
 persists in thrusting his private grievances upon the notice of the 
 public. We hope the editor of the Independent Democrat may yet, 
 see himself as others see him,' and hereafter devote the space so long 
 given to vituperation and abuse to the interests of the party for which 
 he has diligently and faithfully labored for a quarter of a century, and 
 we might add, at whose hands he has been placed in offices of honor 
 and emolument whereby his doubtful fame and princely fortune were 
 established. 
 
 [From the Nashua (N. H.) Telegraph, January 2o, 18ti9.] 
 A MATTER OF NO PUBLIC INTEREST. 
 Mr. George G. Fogg, ex-State Secretary, State Reporter, State 
 Printer, Minister to Switzerland, agent of the Treasury Department, 
 United States Senator, and present custodian of all the virtue and 
 
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 honesty belouging to the Republican party, makes our recent refer- 
 ence to the organization of the Republican State Committee an occa- 
 sion to indulge in a characteristic attack on Mr. Rollins through the 
 columns of the Monitor. That paper's supercilious allusion to our- 
 sclf is of no consequence to us or to our readers. When a man is 
 paying out rope with wliich to hang himself, as the Monitor editor 
 has been doing since his exit from the United States Senate, we think 
 it his privilege to say Avhat he pleases ; and what he does say deserves 
 only so much attention as should be given to the slanders of a knave 
 or the gibes of a fool. 
 
 We say that the editor of the Concord MouHor is preparing to 
 hang himself. He has been at it for quite two years. He will suc- 
 ceed soon. Retiring, with great unwillingness, from his mission to 
 Switzerland, which was as soft as it was fat, he secured a seat in the 
 United States Senate, on the resignation of Mr. Clark, by a hocus- 
 pocus that we could never understand. His services in the Senate, 
 if they were remarkable for anything, were remarkable for nothing, 
 Did he then, as now, raise his voice in furious denunciation of the 
 thieves, robbers, and plunderers that abound in Washington ? He 
 opened not his mouth against them. Did he then, as now, oppose the 
 long-established policy of giving alternate sections of the public lands 
 to aid in the construction of railroads in the extreme Western States ? 
 Not at all. On the contrary, he voted for all the grants that were 
 made while he was in the Senate, including those to the California 
 Pacific and the Stockton and Copperopolis railroads. Did he then, 
 as now, brand the Union Pacilic Railroad corporation as a huge swind- 
 ling concern " which is corrupting and debauching our national poli- 
 tics, adding tens of millions to our national debt, and swelling by 
 more tiian a thousand dollars a day the indebtedness of the people of 
 New Hampshire ?" Did he bring in a bill for the repeal of the char- 
 ter of that corporation, to cut oft its subsidies, or to revoke its land 
 grants ? He did nothing of the sort. He had a rare, a golden op- 
 portunity to serve his constituents and save them " a thousand dol- 
 lars a day," but he let it slip. Probably he never thought of it. His 
 virtuous indignation is all an afterthought. 
 
 Since Mr. Fogg ceased to fill a large seat in the Senate, he has de- 
 voted his energies, time, money, and pen to defaming the characters 
 and ruining the prospects of several well-known New Hampshire Re- 
 publican politicians. He has not succeeded, although he has pursued 
 his object with a relentless enmity and a foolish recklessness entirely 
 
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 characteristic of the man. Hitherto Mr. Rollins has been exempted, 
 save by innuendo, from his attacks. Now he comes in for a share. He 
 came in for it at the organization of the State Committee, when the 
 members were told that, if they re-elected Mr. Rollins, somebod}- 
 (well known to be Mr. Fogg) would "smash the machine." Never- 
 theless Mr. Rollins was re-elected, receiving 34 votes to ]3 for all 
 others. With that endorsement we hardly think he will either die or 
 resign, as the Monitor kindly wishes he would. 
 
 Among all the attributes of character we think sincerity the rarest 
 and best. If Mr. Fogg is honest and earnest in his course, we must 
 say that he is in very suspicious company — that of himself. ^Ir. 
 George G. Fogg compelling Mr. Ordway to pay him one hundred 
 dollars for his influence in getting him a petty appointment under Mr 
 Lincoln ; Mr. George G. Fogg receiving six thousand dollars for a few 
 months' service in New Orleans ; Mr. George G. Fogg disowning the 
 Independent to secure the favor of Andrew Johnson; Mr. George G. 
 Fogg raising no voice and giving no vote against the swindlers when 
 he sat in the United States Senate ; Mr. George G. Fogg conspiring 
 with leading Democrats to secure the nomination of Salmon P. Chase 
 by the rebel convention in New York ; Mr. George G. Fogg vindic- 
 tively and falsely assailing his neighbors as thieves and plunderers 
 when he knows they are infinitely cleaner than himself ; Mr. George 
 G. Fogg threatening ruin to the Republican party if it does not join in 
 his villanous and contemptible crusade — that Mr. George G. Fogg is 
 damaging company for anybody, and we earnestly advise our " big 
 brother " of the Monitor to give him quits at once. In that way only 
 can he escape death by hanging. He is now nearly at the end of his 
 rope. He has little time left for repentance. Soon it will be too late, 
 and then we shall be reluctantly obliged to publish an obituary, some- 
 thing as follows : 
 
 •'Died at Concord, Mr. George (i. Fogg, ii pugnacious member of the " Old 
 Republican Guard," Avho was Minister to Switzerland, Envoy to New Orleans, 
 and a member of Andrew Johnson's Kitchen Cabinet; who grew rich, f\it, and 
 foolish at the public crib, and who died of a disease not common among men — too 
 great an opinion of himself, and too mean an opinion of his friends. Peace to 
 his dust/' 
 
 [From the Nashua Telegraph, January oO, 1869.] 
 
 A DUTY DONE. 
 
 The plain little pill which we administered to Mr. George G. Fogg 
 last week operated both as au emetic and purgative on the sick man 
 
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 fi'oti) Switzerland, and in thirf week's J/uiepcmlcnt he relieves himself 
 of a good deal of " rile " and nastiness. Our duty is now done. We 
 took it up with a good deal of reluctance, knowing full well that the 
 patient was generally regarded as past hope and past praying for. 
 But we took courage, knowing that 
 
 •• While the lamp holds uuL lu Iniiii. 
 The vilest sinner \i\nx return." 
 
 It is not a pleasant duty to warn sinners of the fate of Judas, who 
 in disgust went out and hanged himself. And yet Judas had been one 
 of the most faithful of the twelve. Before Mr. Fogg went abroad, for 
 his country's good, as it proved, he had done yeoman service in the 
 anti-slavery cause, for all which, however, he has been amply paid out 
 of the plethoric pocket of Uncle Samuel, and of course is no longer a 
 " poor devil." But office and wealth had their baneful influence on 
 this yeoman thus suddenly raised to afHuence and eminence. He be- 
 came puffed up with his own greatness, and because his neighbors did 
 not hasten to bow down and worship at his shrine on his return, and 
 yield precedence to his Alpine genius in all tilings, he turned into a 
 gorilla, and for two years has been " roaming the forest " seeking whom 
 he.might crush, crunch and devour. It is no wonder that the roar of 
 this wild beast has carried terror among our quiet New Hampshire 
 hills. It is no wonder that the stories of his rampage, as they have 
 been told in bated breath, have made fair women shudder and brave 
 men grow pale with fear. It is no wonder tliat the Republicans of 
 New Hampshire have kept aloof from his track and allowed him to 
 range at will. But it is a v/onder that the incjuiry has not heretofore 
 been pushed to ascertain whether this wild beast, which roars so loudly 
 and tramps so heavily, is really a gorilla or — something else. On this 
 point we have long been satisfied. We have seen the beast in the 
 Monitor for a whole year. We have seen and heard him on more 
 than one occasion at the meetings of the Republican State Committee. 
 We have him this week at full length in the liideptndtnt — not a hair, 
 not a look, not a roar, not anything missing. There he is. Look, 
 Republicans of New Hampshire ! you who have fretted and frightened 
 vourselves over this ** roarin*;: lion." The ears, the maw, the " excre- 
 ment," the roar, are unmistakable. Behold — an .ass. 
 
 Gem. Steve.xs, the Representative from this district, made a speech 
 some two weeks ago in favor of granting a subsidy and lands to the 
 Denver Pacific railway. With our well-known views in opposition 
 
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 To all railway subsidies, we. of course fail to agree with the argu- 
 ments or conclur^ions of our representalive. There is but one safe 
 rule in relation to every such project to take money from the Na- 
 tional Treasury. That is, to vote against them every time. And 
 only by so doing can our delegation in Congress carry out tlie wishes 
 of the people of New Hampshire. — Indeiieiulent Democrat. 
 
 The cool impudence displayed in the above paragraph is well illus- 
 trated by the fact that the writer thereof, Mr. George Gr. Fogg, voted 
 for every railroad bill that passed the Senate while he was an acci- 
 dental member of that body two years ago. '' Ovr well-known views 
 in opposition to all railroad subsidies," indeed ! Either the writer 
 must think his readers have very short memories, or else he justly con- 
 cludes that his Senatorial career was too insignificant to be remem- 
 bered at all. It would be easier to find a needle in a hay-mow than 
 any "views" of Mr. Cleorge (^j^. Fogg against railway subsidies or land 
 grants while he was in (*ongress. 
 
 [From the Republican Statesman, Concord, N.H.] 
 
 IfOMINATION OF COL. ORDWAY. 
 
 l^he telegraph on Tuesday evening announced that the Republican 
 caucus of the House of Representatives, nominating Mr. Blaine for 
 Speaker, Mr. McPherson for ( Jlerk, and Mr. Buxton for Door-keeper, 
 had also re-nominated (*ol. N. CI. Ordway for Sergeant at- Arms. CoL 
 Ordway received 75 votes against oT for General AVashburn. It is 
 well known that as late as one year ago Colonel Ordway had no in- 
 tention or expectation of becoming a candidate for re-election ; and 
 had nothing unusual happened, he would now have stood aside from 
 all. competition, that the office might be rotated. But the persistent 
 slanderous attacks upon him made his re-nomination a simple act of 
 justice by the House, the great majority, if not every one, of whose 
 membeis is convinced of his innocence of the libellous charges, 
 (^opies of every abusive article on the Sergeant-at-Arms which has 
 been published, have been freely distributed among members of the 
 House, and every device of malice has been resorted to for the pur- 
 pose of damaging his reputation with the body he has served for six 
 years past. Yet he received 75 out of 132 votes, though General 
 Washburn was his competitor ; and on mofion of Mr. Orth, of In- 
 diana, who had introduced the name of Gen. W., the nomination was 
 made unanimous. If his slanderers were not men utterly without 
 
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 character, this would be a triumph of which Colonel Ordway might 
 well be proud. 
 
 It is unnecessary for us to state our entire confidence in Mr. Ord- 
 way 's personal and official integrity. He is a man of great energy of 
 character, of earnest and positive opinions, who, since 1855, has taken 
 an active part in New Hampshire politics, and has been highly hon- 
 ored by the Republican party at home, and also at Washington by the 
 Representatives of the Republican party of the nation. He possesses 
 the confidence and earnest friendship of Governor Harriman, of Mr. 
 Stearns, our nominee for Governor, and of all our Senators and Rep- 
 resentatives in Congress. 
 
 A man of Mr. Ordway's pronounced character and bold action will 
 of course make enemies, not only among his political opponents, but 
 in his own party, i^ut we believe that no issue can be made against 
 him hi which he will not be sustained by the Republicans of his 
 native town of Warner, of Merrimack county, and of the State. 
 Thus supported by the people nearest home, who best know him, and 
 whose opinion is of the most value, and by the leading Republicans of 
 the State, (with insignificant exceptions,) we think he can afi'ord to 
 take no notice of the exploded charges of J. H. Wilkinson and Geo 
 Alfred Townsend, or of the secret instigators of their malice. 
 

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