OR
THE ROBERT MACAIRE OF JOURNALISM. I
BEIING A NARRATIVE OF SOME OF THE
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BLACK-MAILING- OPERATIONS 
OF
CHARLES A. DANA'S "SUN."
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"We are not aware of any principle which should restrain a good citizen fiorm
exposing men who are unfaithful to a public trust."-Extract from Editorial of NEW
YORK SUN, Janua-ry 8, 1870.
WASHING-TON, D. C.
1870.
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OR
THE ROBERT MACAIRE OF JOURNALISM.
BEIAN'   A NA.RR TIVE OF SOiM  OF THE
BLACK-A ILING OPERATIONS
CHEARLES A. DANA'S "SUN."
We are not aware of any principle which should restrain a good citizen from
3sing men who are unfaithful to a public trust." —Extract from Editorial
Trw-Yonsr  Suim, January 8, 1870.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
1870.








HISTORY OF A MORAL JOURNALIST.
Some twenty years ago Mr. Charles A. Dana became an
assistant editor of the NewYork Tribune.
A few years previous he had been one of the European
correspondents of that paper. During the period of his residence in Europe the rebellions or rerolutions of 1848 were
taking place.  Mr. Dana, as they say the devil is alw<ays busy
in a gale of wind, w.as especially active during the troubled
period of 1848. Not knowing what he (lid, he had been
identified with the Radicals, or Red Republicans of FrIance,
and, coming fresh from  the theater of republicanism, from
its hot-bed in Paris, naturally commended himself to Mr.
Greeley as a patriot who had endeavored to impress upon
the political system  of the old countries the democratic
principles which were imbued in the orgamization of the
editor of the Tribune.
Mr. Greeley is naturally a radical Republican, in the broadest acceptation of the term.  He is a firm patriot, and has no
thought or utterance that is not essentially democratic.  Mr.
Greeley is sUli gen.eris.  Possessing an education that grasps
only the fundamental roots of what is popularly called "an
English education," and that acquired only by the hard study
and opportunities affordled to an apprentice in a prinlting
office, he naturally awarded to Mr. Dana the position which
he felt was due to a man who had a collegiate education, and
gave him a promi.nence in the editorial department of the
Tribune whichl he had long felt the necessity of filling.
Mr. Danla had, in addition to his collegiate education and
European experience, a. faculty which, in many cases, appears
to be alike an attribute of the human, the animal, and the
feathered creation: an attribute common to the idiot of the
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parrot or jackdaw of the feathered tribe.  lie is a splendid
ling'uist; or, in o'iler words, an exact imitator, as we commonly use the iphrase.  In the editorial room of the Tribune
he was:known1 as an accomplished collaborator; or, in other
Nwods, as, an expelrt placiarist.
lie could read a half dozen German or French newspapers,
and elab)orate therefliom an editorial that would impress you
with the incision of Carlyle, the erudition of Thiers, and the
polislh of Mazcaulay; so -i'at the reader would be puzzled to
tell where the one began or the other left off.  That ripe
schl(lar,. Mr. lipley, the book-reviewer of the Tribuane, was, as
he used to say, when reacding one of Dana's combinations,
frequently at a loss to tell where Thiers commenced, Carlyle
went on, or MaCaulay finished.
In timle Mr. Dana came to be the leading subordinate on
the T5 ibune.  Mr. Greeley, brolken down physically to  a
great extenit, by hard -labor and close application, much of
the duty of managingc the editorial columns necessarily devolved upon Mr. Dana.  The writing of the editorials (Mr.
Dana never could do that) was the work of a number of outsiders-men of culture, judgment, and experience; and un(er the guidance of a man of reasonable tact and ability, the
paper would have held its way.  But the vanity, the insolence, and the ambition of the managing editor soon produced
results so threa.tening the value of the T'ribune, as a property,
that the stockholders were at last forced to interfere.
iMr. Dana had reached the point of presumilng to deny Mr.
Gretley access to the columnls of his own paper; the jackass, as of old, had encased himself, and insisted that his
bray was superior to the roar of the true lion.  The contest
was short, sharp, and decisive.  The jackass was kicked out,
the paper restored to its former position, and its existence
thus saved..
From  New York, Mr. Dana went to Washington, and,
having an  old acquaint;ace with  Secretary Stanton, persuaded tlhat gentleman to give him a clerkship in the War
Department, styled the Fourth Assistant Secretary of War.
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him  into trouble.  tle would be President, Cabinet, and
Congress; but, as the people had chosen otherwise, his aspirations were nipped in the bud, and he was sent to the southwest, instructed to aid the various commanders in obtaining
supplies, reinforcements, etc.  "Instructed to aid" was not
a vocation suited to his tastes, or in harmony with his babits.
Instead of aiding, he begun to tear down. 
WThen not engaged in cotton speculations, and not alarmed
by the too near approach of the rebels, his congenial employment was playing the spy upon the social habits of the generals who were so inconsiderate as to invite him. to partake
of the hospitalities of their quarters.  When his true character became known to such men as Grant, Sherman, Thomas,
Rosecrans, Hooker, and Porter, they made the southwest a
little too hot for even such a devil, and forced Mr. Stanton
to recall him.to Washington, where, for a time, he kept him
immured in the fourth story, south wing, of the War Department.
When Grant commenced his "march to Riichmond," by
some "force of circumstances," Mr. Dana again caused himself to be imposed upon that army.  The "force of circumstances'" were understood to be the intense desire of the
President to get him "out of Washington," where he was
half of the time assuming to be Secretary of WVar, and the
remain;ing half assuring the foreign ministers of his "profound eonsideration, i. e., that they might " trust in him."
General' Grant recognized in Dana the man who used to
absorb most of the cotton of the southwest, and his full proportion of the ardent. General Meade, having been imrformed
ofa"'as prodigious feats of daring, in riding with his back
to the enemy, intimated to Dana that, in the event of disaster
to the army of the Potomac, he did not think the personal
safety of the Fourth Assistant Secretary of War of such consequence as to furnish him with the escort of cavalry which
he had exacted from  General Burnside in Tennessee, and
which that gallalnt officer, though sorely pressed, and needing every iian, felt obliged to give him, because nominally
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eral Me:l de, squelced he the patriotism  of the courageous Dana,
and he accordingly retur'ned to WVashington, minus his usual
cavalry body-guard of a thousand men.
So onlce more AMr. Dana resumed  his desk in the fourth
story; south wing, of the WaNr Department, where  he remained until-the war ended-Congress abolished the offices of Assistant Secretaries of WVar, and thus relieved the
country and Mr. Stanton of the incubus which Mr. Stanton's
good  nature and early a.ssociations had fastened upon the
country.  Mr. Dana ended a brilliant miilitary career, by devotintg his entire attention to the proftable business of prosecuting  a hiorcde of bounty agents, most of whom  escaped
punishment through the interposition of a notorious Tomlbs,barrister.  This precocious limb of the Tombs possessed a
mysterious influelnce  over the FounlT-1  Assistant Secretary
of Watr, and had at all timles an enirtee to  the Old  Capitol
Prison, from  which  the victims were only liberated  upon
paying  the  Tombs barrister aforesaid hea vy counsel fees,
large enough to satisfy all parties interested.
SoUR  GRAPES.
The following is an extract of an editorial whiclh appeared
in thle Chicago Repl)tice'ant newspaper March 12, 1866, when
Charles A. Dana was its Managing Editor:
The scheme to buy up the present managers of the Chicago eepubltican by
the Government collectorships is very smart, but it won't win.
And yet the following letter had been written in January,
and the demanl d it contained refused:
C IrrAGo, Oaenuaery 20, 1866.:.DEAR SIR: Some of my friends in the New York delegation in Congress
want 1mc to be collector of New York. I shall be glad to have that office, and
acc-ordingly address myself'directly to you. I have been a resident of New
York citliv for nearly twent ysears, till a few months since, wjhen I came here
on leaving the War Dep.artm-ent. ]   I know New York, its merchants, and its
poliiicianls; but, by reason of ny connection with the War Department, I have
oeen absent, so as to be free from all identification with the political factions
and per; on:l controversies by vhich the Union party there had been much
div-id-lAd. I 1 lieve that there is no person of any prominence:in the party whose
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be disposed so far to entertain the idea as to wish for information concerning my
capacity to administer the office, there is no one who can judge better as to that
than Mr. Stanton.  
Let me add, that I am myself confident of performing the duties, should they
be intrusted to me, to the advantage of the public service, and to your entire
satisfaction.
I am, with profound respect, your faithful servant,
CHARLES A. DANA.
To his Excellency the PRESIDENT.
This Dana, (the Robert Macaire of journalism,) and his
faithful Jacques, (Isaac W. England,) soon after left Chicago,
for New York, much to the relief of the stockholders of the
Republican.
What Mr. Dana's pecuniary condition was, when he returned to New York for the purpose of negotiating the purchase of the New York Sun, we cannot state with accuracy;
but certain it is, that the notorious Lafayette Baker, the
Government detective and  Dana's bosom  friend and spy
during the rebellion, whom  he retained by his side despite
the frequent remonstrances of the late Edwin M. Stanton,
died after the war, leaving behind him  $200,000.  If Baker
did so well, his master must certainly have done better.
TIIE GOLD CONSPIRACY.
The early days of the Sun Association were pregnant with
pecuniary distress, as the following  letter to A. O. Hall,
Mayor of the city of lNew York, plainly demonstrates:
From the Sun of October 2, 1869.
PUBLICATION OF   OFCE   THE SuX.
A. 0. HALL, Esq.
DEAR SIR: What may I depend upon to-morrow in relation to funds? Iam
sorely pressed, and shall deem your promised assistance a great favor.
Very truly, yours,       I. W. ENGLAND,
Publisher.
"It is an ill wind that blows nobody good," and fortunately
for this starveling journal, it found nourishment from  the
Erie gold conspirators.
While Mr. "Jacques" England was so "sorely pressed for
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some money from  the public treasury, Messrs. Fisk, Gould,
and the other adventurers, who attempted to destroy the
commerce of the country for their own profit and gain, by
conspiring to enhance the price of gold to a fabulous premium, were shut up in the Eighth Avenue Opera House, and
it was as much as their precious lives were worth to show
themselves on the public thoroughfares.
In constant dread of being visited by the summary vengeance they so richly deserved at the hands of the hundreds
who had been hopelessly ruined by the conspirators, the
"brave Admiral" Fisk, the "gallant Colonel" Fisk, the
"dashing" Jim Fisk, and'the general" Impressario Fisk,
and the other braves of the Eric tribe remained self-imprisoned within the strong portals of the Opera House, which
were guarded by a horde of deputy sheriffs, all armed to the
teeth.
The memorable gold panic occurred on Black Friday, September 24, 1869. So soon as the facts became known throughout the country, the drift of public sentiment was unanimously against all the schemers in general, and Fisk and
Gould in particular.  The latter, in this dilemma, resorted
to the only alternative left them, and that was to buy up the
metropolitan journals, and thus manufacture public opinion
in their favor.  Now, mark how it waas done.
For some days after the Black Friday, none of the many
reporters who repeatedly endeavored to gain access to either
Fisk or Gould were allowed admission by the deputy sheriffs;
but on November 30, 1869, one of the Tribune's editorial
-staff was permitted to pass the guarded portals.:A clever English Bohemian, who had formerly been employedl on the Iferald, had just preceded him.  The irrepressible Fisk and the Bohemian sneaked out of the office througrh
a private door.  The Tribune man was conducted to Jay
Gould, who thereupon immediately explained to hiim  his
theory of the panic, which was rather a queer one.
He said:'" rreret very much this depression in financial circles, but I predicted it long ago. I never wanted
gold above 1,45, but it is necessary that it should always be




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up to that premiuml in the'fall of the year, when we are exporting so much grain, a.nd have a long line of railroads
and high-priced labor.  Last season, when the Secretary
of the Treasury threw gold on the market, reducing the
price, large orders for the shipment of grain were countermanded, because, owing to the low price of gold, they could
not compete witl the Black sea and Mediterranean shippers.  I
was no way instrumental in producing this panic.  I was
selling gold at 1.45 while Speyers was buying at 1.60."
The Tribune man here inquired for Mr. Fisk. Mr. Gould
remarked that he (the Tribune man) would find Fisk at No. 37
West 27th street.
The question of the propriety of the reporter calling for
Mr. Fisk at a private residence was immediately set at rest,
the reporter being informed that Mr. Fisk wanted him to
call there.
The reporter immediately departed for 27th street, the residence of Abel Corbin, Esq.
Mr. Corbin received the gentleman kindly, and after a half
houlr's interview Mr. Fisk was inquired for.
Mr. Corbin seemed much surprised at the inquiry, and
remarked that Mr. Fisk was not there, nor had hebeen there
since the month of June precedingl, which was the occasion of
President Grant's visit to New York.
Mr. Gould hadt informed the reporter that Mr. Fisk's
carriage would be seen in fiont of the door.
No carrizage was seen wit/in the entire street.
Mr. Corbin, when informed of what Mr.. Gould had told
the reporter, seemed much chagrined at the deception he
(Gould) attempted to practice on the reporter.
The reporter returned to the Erie railway office, and on
informinng Mr. Gould that no carriage nor no Fisk were to
be seen, and that "the Admiral " had not been there, he expressed much surprise.
Soon after, Mr. Fisk entered the office and threw  off his
velvet coat, remarking that it was very hot.
Mr. Gould innocently a.ked Mr. Fisk where he had been.
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Mr. Gould said:
"I sent the Tribu)ne man to see you."
"Oh! yes," said Fisk, "I heard him speaking in the front
parlor."
During this colloquy, which took place in Mr. Gould's
office, a messenger approached Mr. Gould and informed him
that a person desired to speak to him at the door.
"Ask him his business," brusquely remarked the President
of Erie.
The messenger presently returned, and informed him that
Mr. Corbin wished to see him at his residence.
Mr. Gould arose, excused himself to the reporter, and left
the office.
At this juncture Mr. Fisk led the Tribune man, whose suspicions were already aroused, to the window which looked
out on 23d street. Mr. F isk pointed to a carriage which was
being rapidly driven up the street, and remarked that in that
carriage was Jay Gould, who was going to Corbin's, where
there was to be a secret meeting of a "Ring" from Washington, from which he had been excluded. He further said:
"Now, you follow that carriage, and you will find that it
will stop at 37 West 27th street.  Get into Gould's carriage,
while it is waiting for Gould to come out of Corbin's house
and tell him you know everything, and he will certainly explain the whole afi-ir.  It is a big thing, I assure you."
The Tribune man went to the corner of 6th avenue and
27th street, and there waited to see Mr. Gould leave the
house.
Mr. Gould remained within but a few minutes.
After leaving Mr. Corbin's house he stood upon the stoop,
evidently looking for the Tribune reporter.  Seeing his perplexity, the Tribune man emerged from  behind a grocer's
wagon, which was standing on the corner. Mr. Gould nodded
to him, and, entering his carriage, was driven back to the
Opera House.
The reporter slowly wended his way to the Opera House,
where he was again cordially received by the conspirators.
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asked the weary Tribunite if everything was not as he bad
told him.
"Yes,  remarked the Tribunite, " Gould was there."
Mr. Fisk observed, " Do you see everything now?"
The Tribunite replied that he did not.
Mr..Fisk asked why he did not.
The Tribunite responded that it was too thin.
At this point Mr. Fisk appeared somewhat disgusted, and
expressed his contempt for the entire newspaper fraternity.
The reporter returned to his office, and, believing that
Messrs. Fisk and Gould were maliciously entrapping Corbin
in order to shield themselves, he refrained from making any
reference whatever to Mr. Corbin.
Subsequently Dr. Pollard, a confidential agent of Fisk,
referring to the view the Tribune man had taken of the affair,
said:
"You are mistaken. You thought it was a put-up job.
It would have been worth your while to have had that story
told!" meaning'by this, that if he had been as "faithful" as
the Herald nman he would have been paid for it.
The English Bohemian referred to, however, who bad
once been employed by the Herald as a reporter, apparently
did not possess the entire confidence of the Managing Editor
of the lferald, for his contributions did not appear for several
days.  The Erie magnates were sorely perplexed at this,
especially as the Tribune man would not see the matter in
their light, and the Herald hung fire.
THTE MORAL SUN COMES TO THE RESCUE.
Deserted by reliable journals, the Sun newspaper was accepted as a dernier resort, in which they could readily publish
any article which would reflect discreditably on the President
or his subordinates, if "things" were made satisfactory to
the Editors.
Commencing October 2, 1869, the Sun published daily the
most scurrilous and outrageous attacks on Mr. Corbin and
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On October 7, 1869, the Sun published the following:
From the Sun of. October 7, 1869.
THE GREAT GOLD. CORNER.
1Further and Indubitable Proof of Corbin's Falsehoods.
A Herald editor with Mr. Fisk when he entered Mr. Corbin's House-Mr. Fisk
was there during the Sun reporter's interview-Mr. Corbin writes the leader
for the New York Times-Mr. Jay Gould's statement.
WHAT MR. CORBIN DID NOT TELL A SUN RE'PORTER.
As further evidence that Mr. Fisk was in Mr. Corbin's house on the afternoon
of the 30th, while the Sun reporter was conversing with Mr. Corbin, we publish the following affidavit.  Mr. Crouch is one of the editors of the New York
Herald, and a confidential agent of Mr. James Gordon Bennett;
" State of New  York, City and County of New  York, ss.-George Crouch, being duly sworn, says: I do hereby certify that on the 30th day of September
last while I was seated in Mr. James Fisk, jr.'s, carriage, in front of Mir. Abel
B. Corbin's residence, waiting for said Fisk, who was within said residence, I
saw a representative of the New York Sun paper enter and leave said residence,
and that Mr. James Fisk,jr., came out after the departure of said representative
of the Sun, and that I accompanied Mr. Fisk to his office in the Erie buildings, corner Twenty-Third street and Eighth avenue..         GE. CROUgH.
"Sworn to the 6th day of October, 1869, before me.
"MORTIMER SMITH, Notary Public, New York."
MR. CORBIN'S DENIAL.
On Tuesday morning Mr. Crouch called upon Mr. Corbin, and drew from him
the following statement:
"OCTOBEn 5, 1869.
"To the Editor of the Herald:
"I never exchanged a word on financial matters, either verbally or in writing,
with Mr. James Fisk, Jr.,. from the commencement of the gold speculation until
it broke on Friday noon; nor within that period did I ever authorize any
human being, either verbally or in writing, to buy or sell gold for me or for
any one else.                                                  A. R.CORBIN."
In order to strengthen this statement of Mr. Corbin, Mr. Crouch took Mr.
Mortimer Smith, a notary public, to Mr. Corbin's house, for the purpose of putting the denial in the form of a verified affidavit.. Mr. Corbin refused to comply with his request, saying, "I will swear to nothing."
THE STATEMENT OF MR. JAY GOULD-A TRIBUNE EDITOR DODGING AROUND THE
CORNER.
A Sun reporter yesterday called upon Mr. Jay Gould. In answer to questions,
Mr. Gould said that he had been acquainted with Mr. Corbin over a year.  He
had visited him frequently during the last few weeks.  He was at Mr. Corbin's
houseon Thursday, September 30, the day the Sunl reporter called upon Mr. Corbin.
He visited Mr. Corbin about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and saw Col. Mix, who
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as he entered the house. He had business with Mr. Corbin. Mr. Corbin was
in the gold pool. He was the chief spirit in the pool. He was the promoter
of the pool.
It will be seen that the Herald Bohemian, who the Sun
said was a HIerald Editor and Confidential Agent of James
Gordon Bennett, employed Mr. Mortimer Smith, the Erie.
Railway Company's notary, to take his affidavit.
The following day the Herald denied that Mr. Crouch was
an Editor or Confidential Agent of James Gordon Bennett.
On October 8, 1869, a Herald article appeared, and, much to
the surprise of the great Fisk, it was far from being such as
he had been induced to anticipate by the Herald Bohemian.
It was as follows:
From the Herald of October 8,1869.
"THE- GOLD 11 0-SECRET HISTORY OF THE CONSPIRACY —FIS  TRIES-TO MANIPULATE TEE PRESS-HOW HE SUCCEEDED."
"In which we give the particulars of the capture of the Great Gorilla of Wall
street, the Great Gold Gobbling Gould; the Amphibious What Is It, or RingTailed Financial Ourang Outang, otherwise known to naturalists and the world
at large as the Irrepressible Jim Fisk, jr."
This greatly vexed the Green Mountain boy, and he verted
"the vials" of his wrath on the  poor Herald Bohemian,
whom  he threatened to throw  out of the window; but on
being assured by the latter that he was not the author of
the Herald's "flattering" notice of the "irrepressible" Fisk,
Mr. Crouch, ex-reporter of the New York Herald, was given
a desk on the right hand of the Erie controller, and to this
day may be seen at his post industriously clipping newspaper
encomiums of Erie management, and wielding his paste-brush
and scrap-book.
Last winter, during the session of the Legislature, this
Crouch had the impudence to appear before the Senate committee  on Railroads as the representative  of the AngloAmerican stockholders of the Erie Railway Company, and
eloquently (so wrote the correspondents) pleaded in their
behalf, at the same time representing himself as a stockholders
while not owning one dollar of the Erie or any other stock.




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How IT WAS DONE-HOW MUCH?
On October 1, 1870, on the schedule of editorials of the
Sun for the following days, made out: by the Editor-in-chief,
Charles A. Dana, there was marked for insertion an article
entitled  Welchers in Wall Street."  It was to appear simultaneously with the great gold conspiracy article.  After the
schedule was made out, Mr. Ford C. Barksdale went to Mr.
Fisk with a proof of the " Welchers in Wall Street," and
negotiated for its suppression.
This xBarksdale was at that time a reporter of the  aun, and
had been assigned the duty of ascertaiining everything  connected with the gold conspiracy.
lie visited Fisk and Gould very often, and his reports were
always more than favorable to the cause of those gentlemen.
Within a few cays Mr. Barksdale was on the most intimate
terms with Fisk and Gould, arid it was on this account that
he was selected to negotiate with them  for the suppression
of the aforesaid  "Welchers"   article.  lie states that he did
negoticte for its suppression, and the facts, as stated below,
fully bear out the truthfulness of his assertion.
B3arksdale was furthenrmore (so he says) instructed by Fisk
to go back to the Sum  office and see that the Welchers article
was s.?uppressed, and he did so.  He remained in the iSuat office
all night long, and it was a fortunate circumstance, for, as
the sequel shows, had it been otherwise, the "Welchers"
article wou ld certainly-have appeared in the entire edition of
the Sun of October 2, 1869.
The following was the article above referred to:
WELCHERS IN WALL STREET.'On the turf, in England, men who accept, the'money they win, and then meanly
refuse to pay the, bets which they lose, are called "Wielchers," and custom
sanctions their punishment by any personal violence short of actual murder.
Our Wall street stock and gold gamblers are probably too humane ind civilized
to inflict this treatment'jn those among their number who act in a similarly dishonorable manner.
James Fisk, jr., and Jay Gould have demonstrated that, bad as the stock and
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are said to act honorably among themselves; gamblers pay those who win of them
in preference to paying their tradesmen, if they have to choose between the'two;
and:Wall-street brokers, however unscrupulous they are in making bargains,
habitually stand up to them when made. Fisk and Gould, however, leave their
accomplices in the lurch, refuse to pay their losses after pocketing their winnings, and repudiate their gambling debts with sublime indifference to the consequences.  It seems that Mr. Fisk directed certain brokers to buy gold for his
account at a high price, and now refuses to accept and pay for their purchases.
He gives as his excuse in regard to one of them, Speyers, that when he gave him
ordels to buy at 1.60, he supposed he would not get $100,000, but instead of that
he got $30,000,000. This is about the lamest excuse an unsuccessful gambler
could possibly make.
As to the firm of Smith, Martin & Co., of which Jay Gould, though a silent
partner, is the animating spirit, they have failed to take and pay for about
$10,000,000 of gold which they bought on Friday last, at prices ranging at from
1.50 to 1.60. Were they to fulfill this contract, they would lose, at present
prices, from $2,000,000 to $4,000,000. To avoid this disagreeable result,they
have resorted to the familiar legal device of procuring injunctions, and while
they have got everybody tied up from proceeding against them, they are forcing
settlements, by which they mean to avoid all, or nearly all, theii.threatened
losses. They, as well as Mr. Fisk, thus stand in the disgraceful position of taking
the money of those who owe them, while endeavoring to escape paying what
they owe in turn.
ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELTL.
At 3 o'clock in the morning the Managing Editor of the Sun
and Ford C. Barksdale and thle other attaches of the office,
having completed their task, left the editorial room and proceeded, as was customary witl th tem, to the eating saloon in
the basement of the Sun buildingo. During their meal the rattling of the presses in the adjoining room informed the early
morning banqueters that the Sni, i was beginning to defuse its
light among its hundrecd thousadcl worshipers.
Barikscdale and the MAana.ging E'dlitor hurriedly dispclosed of
their luncheon, and, leaving tLhe Assistant Editor behind to
settle the reckoning.haasteined to the publication  office and
askedr the night clerk for copies of the Sanl.  Their request
was complied witlh.  Barksldale clutched the paper convulsinvely, d and with trembbling hands imlmediately turned to the
editorial or- inside plage of the paper.  The fi-st article to
meet his eye was' Welchers in Wall street."




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" My God!" exclaimed Barksdale, his voice almost choked
for utterance, "how is this?"
"What!" replied the Managing Editor, peeping over Barksdale's shoulders.
"6 Why, here is the article on' Welchers in Wall Street.'
What will Fisk and those people say?  Well, the game is
up now,' said Barksdale.
The Managing Editor was, if anything, more chagrined
than Barksdale at seeing the appearance of the article.
After damning the Assistant Editor, who had permitted the
editorial in question to go in the paper, the Managing Editor
issued peremptory orders forthwith to stop the presses, and
close the doors, and not allow another single copy of the
edition to leave the office under any circumstances.
The messenger who carried this order to the foreman of
the press-room was also instructed to ascertain how many
copies had already beed sold.
The reply was about ten thousand.
"Well, ten thousand ain't many," said the Managing Editor
consolingly. " At any rate they won't circulate much in the
city, and probably Fisk won't see it at all."
lIe then rushed up to the composing room, and was greatly
relieved to find all the stereotypers on hand.
" Now, boys, how long will it take you to stereotype a fresh
edition?" asked the Managing Editor.
About an hour," responded one of the men.
"All right; let's to work.  That stupid blockhead the
night editor has put in an editorial he was particularly instructed to keep out, and I have stopped the edition from
being issued."
It was a fortunate circumstance that the stereotypers had
not gone home, and a still more fortunate circumstance that
the Managing Editor had been an experienced and practical
printer before he had reached his present lucrative position.
The Managing Editor, having thrown off his coat and
tucked up his shirt sleeves, wiihout delay proceeded to overhaul the galleys of the matter already in type and awaiting
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Within a very short time the "Welchers in Wall Street"an  article  so obnoxious to "Fisk and those people "-was
taken from  the form, and the following, of which there was a
number of similar import awaiting publication, substituted.
OFFICEHOLDERS EASY-THE PEOPLE OPPRESSED.
It is announced thus early from Washington that the winter is to be an unusually gay one. Secretary Fish and Senator Cameron, it is said, will give a series
of receptions of unprecedented splendor.
Meanwhile we wish that something might be done to relieve the burdens of
the people. The difference between the condition of the rich and that of the
poor, which ought always to be growing less in a free republic, is constantly
growing greater and greater.
With a President who can hardly tear himself away from the din of pleasure
long enough to bury a departed comrade-attending, as it was ostentatiously
announced, a "State dinner" on the day of the funeral-and a rollicking, luxurious cabinet, with most of its members apparently indifferent to the heavy burdens of the people, how long can the Republican party be expected to last?
A gentleman-an earnest Republican-who thoroughly understands General
Grant, remarked a few days ago that he did not know any more about politics
than a woodchuck. And certainly it looks as if this remark was true. If he
got along no better while the wise and brave Rawlins was alive, what will become of his administration now that thesalutary influence of the late Secretary
of War is withdrawn?
General Grant could have administered the Government in such a way that
the State election here this fall would have resulted in favor of the Republican
candidates. But does anybody look for such a result now?  No. It is probably true that he knows as much of politics as a woodchuck; and the party with
him at its head is foredoomed to become weaker and weaker up to its final overthrow.
Let his friends flaunt their gay colors like the gaudy butterfly, for, like him,
their lease is but for a fleeting summer day.
It was clear daylight before  the first copy of the Sun of
October 2, 1870, minus the Welcher article, appeared.
We do not presume to be able to state the precise cost of the
delay occasioned by stopping the presses and of the cost of the
stereotyping of the fresh  edition, and of the loss in circulation, and of the extra compensation of the stereotypers and
pressmen; but it can be safely asserted that the  profits derived from  that day's circulation  and advertising will never
overburden the pockets of the Sun stockholders.
On descending to the editorial rooms the Managing Editor
who had concluded the task of squelching the" Welchers"
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article, and putting in its place the scathing editorial against
the Administration, found the trusty Barksdale patiently
expecting his return.
Barksdale was intrusted with the delicate mission of calling on the terrible Fisk and explaining matters to him.
Barksdale returned in the afternoon of that very day, and
reported to the managing editor that Fisk was perfectly satisfied with the explanation.
A strange coincidence connected with this transaction is,
that immediately following the "Welchers" article is printed
the communication from "Jacques" England, Publisher of
the Sun, to Mayor Hall, stating that "he was sorely pressed
for funds."
Since the suppression of the "Welchers" article and obtaining Mr. Fisk's forgiveness for its appearance in about ten
thousand copies of the issue of October 2, the Sui has almost
daily abounded with fulsome eulogies of the irrepressible
adventurer and the Erie Railroad.
The New York public have doubtless wondered, before
they read the foregoing, why the Sun, a journal of such " correct and elevated moral principles," should devote so much
of its space to the eulogy of a man like Jim Fisk. That the
course of the moral Dana with respect to Fisk, Montaland
& Co. has excited attention is quite clear; for a few days
ago a new comic pictorial newspaper prints on its first page
a picture, which represents the moral Dana as blacking Jim
Fisk's boots, and a bystander is made to say, "Don't lay it
on too thick, Charley."
From the time Messrs. Fisk & Co. negotiatedlfor the suppression of the "Welchers" article they have virtually
owned the Sun newspaper.
Mr. Fisk is so fond of newspaper notoriety that he
insists upon having the Sun publish every act of:his life,
from the purchase of-a horse or a drive through the park
to a column description of a grand and select. reception
of "the glorious" Ninth Regiment, at which the " blonde"
Colonel Fisk is described in the Sun as wearing a magnifi.
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same journal that "a diamond winked from  an immaculate
shirt bosom worth $50,000; that his boots were ot the softest
French kid; that the Admiral smiled  most pleasantly on
everybody; that the Prince was the gayest of the gay, and
danced every set," &c.
Without proceeding further, we will finish this chapter by
publishing the following extracts from  the Sun.  The reader
can estimate the price of each:
From the New York Sun.
THE DASHING TURN-OUT OF THE COLONEL OF THE GALLANT NINTH.-Colonel
James Fisk, Jr., arrived from Boston yesterday, bringing Mrs. Fisk's famous
four-in-hand. They are powerfully built animals, two of them being coal black
horses and two dapple grays. They are named respectively, Prifice, Admiral,
Colonel, and Ralph. As the Colonel has a short loan of the turn-out and must
give it up about the 10th of'June, he is making the most of it. Yesterday he
took three gentlemen out, intending to drive toward Fordham, but the rain interfered with the programme and they returned to the city. The horses ar'e161
hands high, and are reported to be fleet-footed. They are stabled at Mr. Briggs',
in Forty-second street. Colonel Fisk has a six-in-hand turn-out preparing for
his own use, with which he intends to startle the Long Branch pleasure-seekers
during the summer. Mrs. Fisk will enjoy the summer with her four-in-hand at
her beautiful villa in Newport.
From the Sun of May 8, 1870.
A RAILROAD NOPOLEON MOVING.
What Jay Gould is doing in Cincinnati-a grand coup meditated-fighting the'
Vanderbilt monopoly-something bound to break-Admiral Fisk on a starring tour.
CINCINNATI, O., May 7.-Considerable excitement and intense curiosity prevail in commercial circles here in consequence of the unexpected arrival of the
chiefs of the rival houses of Erie and Vanderbilt-the Capulets and Mortagues
of the railway world. Two or three car-loads or the Commodore's sons-in_
law, nephews, &c., &c., together with a number of monopolists, and a large staff
of narrow-gauge directors and officials, bade us farewell yesterday, and close
upon their departure came a still greater sensation in the sudden arrival of Jay
Gould. The illustrious Gould alighted from  his perambulating palace, the
Director's saloon coach, at 9.30 last evening, and is now holding a grand levee,
attended by our principal business men, at the Burnet House.
THE RAILWAY NAPOLEON
is accompanied by a brilliant staff, composed of his favorite marshals and an
exceedingly select party of foreign shareholders of Erie. The. greater portion-of
the Erie and Atlantic and Great Western lines were traversed at the rate of a
mile a minute, and the English stockholders of Erie who are in Mr. Gould's
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peOts of the road in which they are interested, that they condemn the mischievous schemes of Mr. Burt and his fellow-conspirators in.no measured terms, and
intend taking immediate steps to secure for the present management the hearty
support they so well deserve.
After visiting all the important points on the Erie main line, President Gould
and his party made a tour of the oil regions. At Titusville the Erie chief was
welcomed and entertained by a deputation representing the wealth and business
interests of the neighborhood; and at the conference which followed the magnificent banquet given to the distinguished visitors preliminary arrangements were
entered into for giving that section of the country the improved railroad
facilities its rapidly increasing prosperity demands.
All along the line of the Erie and Atlantic and Great Western Mr. Gould has
been heartily welcomed as the
GREAT OPPONENT OF THE VANDERBILT MONOPOLY,
and has been p-omised all the support he may need if he will only continue
"fighting it out on the present line."  All the leading business men,out West
say.the independence of Erie "must and shall be maintained," and there is
not the slightest doubt but that it will be, notwithstanding the tremendous
efforts the monopolists are making to crush it out as a competing line. While it
is evident that Gould is thoroughly posted as to the plans and intentions of the
narrow-gauge extortionists who are in the New York Central combination, the
objective point of the Erie princes is yet a matter of conjecture. The opinion
prevails, however, that
A GRAND COUP
is meditated, which will completely revolutionize the railway system of this
part of the continent, break the backbone of the gigantic monopoly which now
threatens to dictate terms to producers, manufacturers, and importers, and bring
about the much-desired concentration of the trade of the West to the Empire City,
If this is really their object, the Erie managers will be as heartily supported in
the Western cities as in New York.
The Erie party proceed from  this to Louisville and St. Louis, thence to
Chicago and Detroit, returning by the Great Western of Canada to Buffalo, and
back to New York by the Erie lightning express
It is reported, on good authority, that on Mr. Gould's return, the blond Prince
of Erie will start on 
A ROYAL TRIP
to San Francisco, where he will lay the foundation stone of the grand western
terminus of the Erie line, it having already been determined not to stop short
of that point. Preparations are already on foot a different points to give the
irrepressible admiral a magnificent reception, and the utmost enthusiasm  is
manifested in anticipation of the all-conquering hero's advent.  Fisk is immensely popular with the western boys, and girls, too, for the matter of that,
and if he only yields to the repeated solicitations he has received, and starts on
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From the Sun, of October 21,1870' WHAT JAY GOULD HAS DONE WITH THE ERIE ROAD.
"From the Elmira Gazette.
4' Two years since, when Jay Gould was elected president of the Erie road,:its
track was in a dilapidated and unsafe condition; its rolling stock worn out and
used up. It had a heavy floating debt, and no money. The ties were rotten;
its rails, made originally of poor and cheap. material, were so badly worn as to
be unsafe; its depots, freight-houses, and property generally in a ruined state.
Travel on the road had run down to a mere nothing, and itsfreight business.was
reduced to a low point.
"Since the management of the road was committed to him and his associates.
a complete revolution has been effected.  The earnings of the road, which have
been large and are constantly increasing, have been devoted to the improvement
of the track; to the building of new cars, engines, and depots; to the purchase
of steel and heavy refined iron rails; to the construction of double track and
sidelines as feeders, including the short-cut branch-at Newburgh, the Paterson
and Newark road, and the Jefferson road from Carbondale to Susquehanna.
" In addition, large purchases of real estate have been made near New York,
upon which have been erected cattle-pens, oil depots, and warehouses for. the
storage of freight, at a cost of several millions of dollars.  This property is now
worth two or three times its original cost, and is indispensable to the business
of the road.  Valuable coal mines in Pennsylvania have also been secured, from
which fuel is now obtained for the use of the road, at a price nearly one-half
less than that formerly paid.
" There is now in course of construction a road from  Buffalo to Suspension.
Bridge, and this we believe will prove the most valuable feeder to the Erie, by
making a direct connection with the Michigan Central, of any branch yet constructed.  This road is not to draw upon the resources of the Erie, but is a private enterprise, as is the line of boats on Lake Erie and on the Sound, which
run in connection with trains on the Erie road, and which are generally supposed to have drawn their supplies from that source.
"The future, we confidently predict, will satisfy the worst enemies of Jay
Gould and James Fisk, jr., that the best interests of the stockholder have been
the object of their labors."
Colonel Jim Fisk, jr., will drive a six-in-hand at Long Branch this season.
Three of the six horses are snow-white stallions, and three coal-black.  The
first, or wheel-span, is to be composed of a "nigh" black horse and a white "off'
horse, the middle span a nigh white and black off, and vice versa for the leaders.
The carriage will be the handsomest ever built in this country or Europe, the
whole equipment to cost $35,000.
From the Sun of November 10, 1870.
Colonel James Fisk, jr., ordered Company F, Ninth regiment; to go to their.armory in citizens' dress, on Tuesday, and protect their property in case of a riot.
Every colonel is held responsible for the arms and accouterments of his regiment.  Knowing this, and fearing that a mob would attack an armory at the
outset for the purpose of. securing arms, Colonel Fisk took precautionary measares, and quartered fifty ununiformed men in the armory of the Ninth..These
fifty men furnished food for the False-Reporting Tribune's sensational announcement that Fisk had ordered the whole Ninth regiment under arms on election
day.  The authorities at Washington seenm to have implicitly believed the
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was held at the War Department with closed doors on receipt of the news, and
that the consultation lasted some hours. We have no particulars of the conference. The Government was needlessly alarmed. The False-Reporting Tribune
ihould dispense with the services of the imaginative reporter who trumped up
this laughable nonsense.
The above extracts and numerous others have all been
pasted by Mr. Crouch in Colonel Fisk's scrap-book or Biographical Album.
II.'MORALITY SUCCUMBS TO BRIBERY.
After the gold conspiracy and its profitable results, the Sun
next turned its attention to the Tammany ring.
For a time Mr. Dana contented himself with merely firing
an occasional random shot; but shortly after the Legislature
of 1870 convened, he'began a general attack on Governor
Hoffman, Peter B. Sweeny, William  M. Tweed, Richard B.
Connolly, Oakey Hall, and the other leading spirits of the
Tammany ring.
Perceiving an inclination on the part of Senators Genet,
Creamer, and Norton, and their political serfs, to shake
off their fetters, the Sun urged them  on to the battle, only,
as it subsequently proved, to desert them  the very instant
Tweed paid down the black-mail money.
Neither the Senators above named nor their supporters
would ever have sounded their slogans and taken the field,
had not they first ascertained that the Sun would be their
malin stay and support in the fight.  Senator Genet, who is
of a warm, impulsive nature, and who was therefore regarded
as most inclined to break out in open rebellion against the
ring, was the first man to be tapped on the back and encouraged to pitch in.
The Sun was materially aided in its efforts to heat the
Senators' blood by the circumstance that Tweed and Genet.
had had a growl in the park, in the latter part of December,
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of the  little  unpleasantness between these  two worthies,
came out in an  editorial, on January 3, 1870, and thus addressed Genet:
The Hon. Henry W. Genet has sounded his slogan, and is apparently fighting
Tammany with dash and vigor.  He has threatened to take Mr. Tweed's scalp
within the next two years. He openly asserts that he goes into this fight
because the board of supervisors, through the influence of Mr. Tweed, has
appointed a nephew of Mr. Tweed to a clerkship in the civil court in Mr. Genet's
district, and all this without Mr. Genet's consent. Why not go for Mr. Sweeny's
scalp? Mr. Tweed has only given to one of his Democratic relatives patronage
worth $10,000 a year, while Mr. Sweeny has openly thrown $50,000 into the
laps of the corrupt Republicans.
Were Mr. Genet really in earnest in this warfare, he might win fame and
name at Albany this year. The State Senate is composed of eighteen Democrats
and fourteen Republicans. If Mr. Genet will steadfastly set his face against
every corrupt job nursed by Tammany, and lay hare the designs of the conspirators, (and he is fully able todothis,) enough honest country Democrats will
follow his lead to defeat Tammany, and insure an honest State administration.
Three days later it takes up  Michael Norton and  Gen-et
jointly, and tells themSenators Norton and Genet deserve the hearty thanks of their constituents
and of all the tax-payers of this city for their indignant refusal to join Mr.
Sweeny's proposed black-mailing legislative ring. Mr Sweeny's intention wan
to bind the Democratic Senators and Assemblymen from this city to a solemn
promise not to introduce a bill of any kind into either house without the consent of a majority of the delegation in secret caucus. Had this promise been
made, the New York delegation would have divided the body, Mr. Sweeny and
his friends of course capturing the lion's share.
In transferring his headquarters to Albany and operating upon the State at
large, Mr. Sweeny is slowly but surely losing ground in this city. If he succeeds in the above-described scheme, he hopes to retain his influence in city
politics. It would be easy to do this through the control of the proposed caucuses of the New York members. He could then devote the greater part of
his time to the management of the State Democracy. His scheme is not yet
defeated. He will promise the New York members the most desirable places on
the committees, and make every effort to drive them into the proposed blackmailing ring. Let Senators Norton and Genet not relax their vigilance. The
fight has but just begun. Meanwhile, where is Senator Creamer?
Senator Creamer was in due time brought into the ranks
of the Young Democracy, as were  also  Sheriff  O'Brien,
George W. McLean, John Morrissey, John Fox, James
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less, well provided for in more ways than one. So alluring
was the prospect of overthrowing the Ring Masters, that a
coalition was formed between the leaders of the Young Democracy and the Manhattan Club politicians, prominent
among whom  was S. L. M. Barlow, Samuel J. Tilden,
George IH. Purser, and Manton Marble, of the World.
The opposition to the firm of Sweeny, Tweed & Co. was
therefore complete, and all that remained for the lattter gentlemen to do to retain their power, was simply to open their
money bags and distribute the greenbacks with a liberal
hand. But the Ring were not exactly ready to begin operations, and the Sun therefore ronewed its attacks more savagely than ever.
DANA'S FRIEND, OR THE MEPHISTOPHILES OF THE SUN.
We must now pause in our narrative to introduce an,
individual who will play an important part in this performance.
I-is name is W. O. Bartlett.
IIe is a lawyer, and finds it convenient to have his law
office in the Sun building.
His relations with Mr. Dana are the most intimate imaginable.
Bartlett spends most of his time in writing puffs for all
the judges who throw at him and his son, Willard Bartlett,
also a lawyer, the fat bones of the courts, such as references,
receiverships, and street openings, from  which Bartlett &
Co. have already amassed a fortune. The editorial and news
collumns of the Sun are open to anything Bartlett writes.
He is the author of all the Sun's sycophantic praises of Judge
Barnard.  That Mr. Dana is interested with Bartlett is of
course a thought not for a momelnt to be indulged in, (?)
especially when we consider the circumstances attending the
suppression of the "Welchers" article and the bribing business, which will be explained hereafter.
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slanderous article published in the Sun against Judge Woodruff, thus speaks of the author:
Mr. W. O Bartlett has a double existence: part of the time Mr. Bonner's
companion on the Harlem road, as the dog under the wagon; part of the time
a reporter for 2he Indecent Sun, and the sleuth-hound of Mr. Dana.  He is a
peculiar and exceptional adventurer, and has a strange, amusing history.  He
has been an editorial fag for twenty years, to run and fetch and come and go,
and do the most annoying and menial offices for editors, simply for the privilege of writing articles praising himself and slandering men who had probably offended him or failed to pay him  money.  He ran after Fremont and
wrote his life. He drifted around Mr Bennett and instilled himself into the.
Heraid; he intruded himself up')n Mr. Greeley, and took advantage of the relation to slander Mr. Greeley's friends.  He denounced Judge Barnard in the
Evening Post only to cover him with fulsome eulogy in the Sun; for to the
Sun he has come at last, and divides his time between serving Mr. Boaner as
his coach-dog and Mr. Dana as a sleuth-hound.
Mr. Bartlett finds his peculiar ways of life made easy by "practicing law'just as Mr. Wemyss Jobson teaches philosophy, and Mr. George Francis Train
military tactics.  And as a lawyer he made his appearance in court on Monday
to browbeat Judge Woodruff, who rebuked him, and compelled him  to desist,
and closed him out of the case.  But if Bartlett could not talk "law" to the
judge, he could slander him in the Sun, and he did it next morning in this
fashion:
"Judge Woodruff is new upon the United States bench.  He is new in criminal cases.  We believe thie Fullerton case was the first indictment that. he ever
tried.  That case ought to he a uarning to him.  He undertook then to reverse
and overrule the long established practice of the court in an offensive and
arbitrary manner. ln the end it proved that one of the greatest defaulters and
villains of modern times had been engaged in a conspiracy to sacrifiye the defendant, Mr. Fullerton, a distinguished lawyer and judge. Does Judge Woodruff feel that he himself is exempt from the assaults of some such scoundrel?
Judge Woodruff undoubtedly looks forward to a long career in some court
of the United States. If he perseveres in the way he has begun, it will be a
rough one, and, we apprehend, wi:l soon worry him to death or madness.  The
lawyers, much as they sometimes abuse each other, are a noble and generous
band of brothers.  They will stand by any court that treats them  properly;
but, on the other hand, the history of tyrant judges, is it not already written?
Of course Bartlett means to bully Judge Woodruff just as he has tried to
bully or coax or possess nearly every judge upon the bench.  This is what he
calls "practiding law."
The surest way with such a man is the easiest and most direct.  Mr. Bartlett
says Judge Woodruff is " new to the bench."  When Bartlett comes before him
again the judge shouldinterrogate him as to whether he considers it profes,
sional to pass from the court to the office of an indecent and disreputable journal, and there in secret to libel a judge before whom he expects soon to appear.
Otller judges have been put to this test and have surrendered.  We trust that
Judge Woodruff wllH put his hand upon Bartlett, as a man needing summary
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WIe THE SUN SHINES FOR JOHN FOLEY.
Without entering into further details concerning Bartlett's
mysterious influence over Dana, it may just as well be stated,
that Bartlett is one of Mr. William  M. Tweed's counsel, and
is also said to be one of the many "counsel" to the Erie
railroad and Jim  Fisk.
With this short preface we will now come to the particular
point to which we desre to call the attention of the public.
The Sun has always been the unswerving protector of Mr.
John Foley in his political fights and litigations.  Mr. Dana
may see much in Mr. Foley to elicit his admiration for that
gentleman's many excellent qualities both of mind and heart,
but Dana's astonishing partiality for Mr. Foley is doubtless
due to the fact that Mr. W. O. Bartlett is Foley's "couns l."
Mr. Foley, we all remember, ran for supervisor against Police Commissioner Henry Smith a year ago, and was defeated;
that is to say, Mr. Smith received a few thousand more votes
than he did.
Mr. Foley instituted legal proceedings to obtain Mr. Smith's
seat, on the ground that the law required any person holding
the office of Police Commissioner to resign thirty days before
the election, with which provision Mr. Smith had failed to
comply.
Early in the session of the last Legislature a bill was introduced in the Assembly by Hon. John H. White to legalize
the election of Mr. Smith.
The Sun comes to Mr. Foley's rescue in the following
leading editorial of January 29:
THE TYRANT HOFFMAN-ANOTHER PROPOSED OUTRAGE.
The Democrats signalize their entrance into power by showing an utter disregard of the laws of the State and the rights of the people.
Governor Hoffman began an outrageous interference with the administration
of the criminal law, threatening resistance to the mandate of the supreme court
of the State, hoping to pander to low, vulgar prejudices, and demanding the
punishment of a man merely because he had rich relatives, even if law did not
justify it.
Now, not content with their own rotten men in office, the Democrats want
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Henry Smith for supervisor. When the election took place Mr.: Smith was
ineligible. He was one of the police commissioners, and by the express words
of the statute all votes cast for him were void.
The law makes it the duty of the mayor to appoint as supervisor the candidate
receiving the largest number of votes next to the one receiving the highest
number.  This, of course, means legal votes; just as it has been decided that
when a criminal statute speaks of conviction, it means a legal conviction. Now,
the man who received the next to the highest number of votes, and who was
eligible, was John Foley. He was unquestionably entitled to the appointment.
If Mayor Hall had honestly and scrupulously performed his duty, he would
have appointed Mr. Foley.  But Mr. Hall is the twin spirit of Governor Hoff<
man, and of course he did no such thing. On the contrary, he appointed Mr,
Henry Smith, who had received none but void votes.
Everybody knows that this appointment was whol] illegal. But an attempt
is now made to legalize it. A bill for this purpose has been introduced into the
Legislature.
If the Legislature can now declare Henry Smith supervisor, it is certain that
the Republican Legislature last year might just as well have declared Griswold
Governer, and installed him in office over the head of Hoffman.
In other words, it is an assumption of absolute power on the part of the
Legislature to fill any elective offices without regard to the legal votes cast,
and by statutes having retrospective action.
Will Governor Hoffman sign this bill? Such arbitrary, illegal, and tyrannical acts will seal his doom as an aspirant to the Presidency. The eyes of the whole
people are upon him, and he cannot hope to escape the just consequences of
putting his name to a bill which is intended to reach back and pull into office
a candidate for whom not one vote was cast that was not absolutely void.
Of course we want to defeat Governor Hoffman, and we shall not object to his
making it as easy as he sees fit.
It also rebukes the Governor, in the second paragraph, for
his course in the Edward Ketchum  habeas corpus case.
Bartlett & Co. and the Sun were counsel for Ketchum.
A  multiplicity of editorials in support of Mr. Foley's claim
to a seat in the Board of Supervisors appeared in the Sln in
rapid succession.  They are too numerous to be published;
but suffice it to  say, that every public  man who  opposed
Foley's suit was blackguarded  like a felon, and  every nan
who favored Foley was lauded as "a rising statesman."
The finale of Mr. Foley's case was, that Foley  was adjudged by the court entitled to be a Supervisor, long after
the Board of Supervisors had ceased to exist.
Bartlett & Co., however, despite the marvellous honesty
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scientious scruples about accepting out of the people's pockets. and squeezed from  them  in this year's tax levy, the trifling
fee of $4,500.  How  much Foley himself paid  him  and the
Sun for editorial puffs has not been ascertained.
Before disposing of Mr. Foley, we will just conclude by
stating that his "counsel," Bartlett & Co. and the Sun, have
supported  him  for office at every election held this year.
Last spring it backed him for alderman, and this last election
it published a flattering sketch of his life, and urged him  for
the Assembly.  Mr. Foley  was, of course, defeated  both
tines, and may deem  it expedient in the future to change
his "counsel."
We will have more to say of Counsellor Bartlett by-and-by.
WAR TO THE KNIFE.
To resume the narrative of the Sun's war against Tweed,
Sweeny & Co.
On January 18, Mr. Dana, in a leading  editorial, headed
the "Foe in the Household," after pelting  a little mud at
the administration, as usual, thus arraigns the Sun's present
owiners-the Tammany ring.
The reader will please note the dference between the tone of the
succeeding editorials and those that were published in the Sun after
Mr. Tweed paid over the black-mail money on the 26th of March,
1870.
From the Sun of January 18, 1870.
On the contrary, if the infamous Tammany ring is permitted to rule in Albany, as now seems probable, the Democrats throughout the Union may at
once makeup their minds to remain in the minority so long as Sweeny & Co.
are permitted to represent them. The American people are not altogether fools;
and outside of the city of New York they are not yet prepared to yield them-,
selves up as willing victims to a mercenary band of conspirators, whose highest
ambition is to plunder the tax-payers without rendering themselves liable to
incarceration in the penitentiary.
"I know you, sir," said Dr. Johnson, in his ponderous manner, to a young
spark who was irreverently chaffing him; "I know you. sir, and I know all
about your family. Your mother, under the pretense of keeping a bad house,
is a receiver of stolen goods. So, the wire-pullers of Tammany, under the
pretense of committing frauds in the interest of the Democratic party, actually
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for, as is well known among the initiated, the Tammany ring is composed of
unscrupulous politicians, Republican as well as Democratic, who plot andl conspire together to fill their own pockets, regardless of the interests of the parties
which they severally pretend to represent.  And just so sure as the Tammany
ring are allowed to maintain the supremacy in legislation at Albany which
they seem to have secured, so surely are all hopes of Democratic ascendancy in
national politics doomed to utter annihilation.
The Albany correspondence of the Sun was no less bitter
than the above against the  "conspirators."   The Managing
Editor entitled  the articles from  Albany, "Sweeny's Death
Struggle,  "Sweeny's Last Ditch," "Convulsive Throes of
the' Ring," "Boss Tweed's Last Card, and How  he Tries to
Entrap New  York Journals," &c.
It will be seen hereafter how  Mr. Tweed spiked the Sun's
guns, and for how much!
The following  extract from  an  editorial of February 14,
laments over Governor Hoffman's connection with the ring,
and hits him again for not pardoning Ketchum, Bartlett's
client:
From the Sun of February 14, 1870.
ON SOME USES OF MEN.
Somebody has said that the worst possible use to which a man can be put
is to hang him. So far as the man is concerned, this may be so; but, regarding the interests of the public, a man might much better be hanged than used
to advance the dishonest purposes of schemers who prey upon the substance of
their fellow men.
The clique of conspirators known as the Tammany ring are not wanting in
shrewdness, and occasionally they like to put forward a man for a prominent
place who has some claims to character. If the officials elected in this city were
entirely composed of shoulder-hitters, grog-shop keepers, pick-pockets, and the
like, it would create a prejudice in the minds of the community which no amount
of repeating, ballot-box stuffing, or fraudulent counting would be entirely able
to overcome. Therefore reputable men are sometimes nominated for offices
within the gift of Tammany.
While it is not at all strange that the Tammany conspirators should endeavor
to avail themselves of the resIactability attaching to certain names, it is indeed
both strange and lamentable that men of good standing in the community, with
reputations-to say nothing of souls, to be saved or lost-should, by the cravings of avarice or a misdirected ambition, be led to sacrifice all that manhood
holds dear-name, fame, and the esteem of their fellow men-and, for a paltry
consideration of dollars or temporary political advancement, submit to present
themselves to the eyes of an astonished world in the humiliating position of
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such base uses, however, are entitled to some degree of commiseration; for no
man who has officiated in such an ignoble capacity can ever expect, under
any circumstances, to fully reinstate himself in the good opinion of his fellowcitizens.
It is a source of profound grief to the sincere friends of Gov. Hoffman that a
man of such agreeable manners and such respectable antecedents, and who had
such a glorious future before him but a few years since, should, by his unfortunate affiliations with Tammany-not to mention his blundering and tyrannical
course in the administration of criminal justice-have as completely precluded
himself from all possibility of further political advancement as did the misguided
John C. Breckinridge when he donned the gray uniform of a rebel general.
On February 18,1869, the firm  of Sweeny & Co., who were
now  in real danger of defeat, are thus spoken of:
X   ~         ~~\ ~ From the Sun of February 19, 1870.
The appeals of Sweeny & Co. to public confidence would be amusing if they
were not so pitiable. Now that the scepter is being wrested from them by the
Young Democracy, they beg personally and through their paid organs for forbearance and support. Slapping their well-filled pockets, they say, "What is
the sense of turning us out? We have made our pile, and can now afford to be
honest. Give us a show, intrust us with money power, and we will do wonders
in the way of reform. But put those hungry fellows who are barking at our
heels into our places, and they will have to get their corner lots, their diamonds,
and their millions of greenbacks; in short, there is no telling how much they
will steal." Singularly enough, these Oily Gammons have almost convinced some
very respectable people that it really is worth while to give them another trial.
This display of assurance on the part of the ringmaster and his satellites calls
to mind that cheeky railway conductor caught stealing, and about to be dismissed, who pleaded to the directors, "Gentlemen, a just sense of what is due
to your own interests impels me to suggest that in kicking me out you are acting unwisely. You observe that I have already got my gold chronometer, my
diamonds, my fast horse; and my house up town; all these things my successor
will have to get." Nevertheless, the directors thought it worth while to try fora
man who, even if he robbed them, would have grace enough not to brag about it.
Just so with Sweeny & Co. They have been tried and found wanting, and the
people have decided, in spite of all their promises, to repudiate them accordingly.
Without entering into further explanation, we give below
a few  choice extracts from  editorials published  in  the Sun
against the Tammany ring:
From the Sun of February 24, 1870.
LATEST FROM THE SEAT OF WAR! —TERMS ON WHICH THE RING WILL SURRENDER!
I. Mr. Peter Barr Sweeny is to be allowed to retire unmolested to Bouo
logne-sur-Mer, with the six millions of plunder he has obtained in his campaigns
against the city during the last six years; and inasmuch as four-fifths of th,
swag has been invested in real estate, he hopes there will be no more rings, no




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more Broadway extensions, or concrete plasters, to swell the taxes on his property.,
Should these terms not be accepted, Mr. Sweeny proposes to give back to the
city half of the above-named amount, including his $100,000 receivership fee, as
well as all the stock he and his friend Tweed received in the Albany-Erie job.
It. Mr. William  Marcy Tweed is willing to surrender upon the following
terms:
To give up all interest in the court-house swindle.
To receive no more revenue from the "department of survey and inspection
of buildings;" and he hopes the people of New York will remember his generosity in giving up this placer, inasmuch as his share amounts to over $100,000 a
year.
To give up all interest inthe chair business, and all the profits which he, being
the company in the firm of Ingersoll & Co., might naturally expect in the furnishing of the new court-house.
To return to the mayor and aldermen his appointment as street commissioner,
he supposing that by this time the people have found out to their own cost that,
he, and not George McLean, is the street commissioner.
To give back all his profits in the Harlem-bridge job, and resign his directorship in the Guardian Savings Institution and Erie railroad, upon the condition
that he shall be left, as heretofore, in the sole possession of the board of supervisors.
III. Abraham O'Hall offers to resign the mayoralty upon the understanding
that he shall be allowed to take with him the suit of clothes he wore last Patrick's day, and which he has had lately dyed into a more emerald green at an
expense of $3 50.
These proposals have been referred to Sheriff O'Brien and Senator Blood, It
s expected that their answer will be given in the Legislature at an early day.
From the Sun of February 19, 1870.
Peter Barr Sweeny has controlled Tammany Hall for six years, and during
ihat period has turned every respectable and independent Democrat out of the
organization, and filled their places with his plundering satellites, who have at
length rebelled against him.  Saturn is being devoured by his own offspring.
Mr. Sweeny is now whining, and begging the aid of respectable Democrats
to help him quell the rebellion, but they don't see it.  They are not particularly
anxious for the blessings of another six years of the Sweeny dynasty.
From the Sun of February 23, 1870.
That notorious Whig-Republican-Know-Nothing Democrat, the Hon. Abraham O'Hall, who indites his diatribes against his late political associates from
the Mayor's: office, and procures their publication in.the: Herald, yesterday philosophized:in the ring organ after this faiuion:
"Never mind the voice of the people, never mind social safety, never mind
anything but the voice of a group of men, who have been sent to the Legislature
because things are topsy-turvy here, and who, if things were otherwise, would
have been sent to the State prison or hanged for heinous crimes-a dozen years ago.
And this is the kind of Democracy that is preached up in the name of reform
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Considering that for a dozen years or so the Hon. Mr. O'Hall was the district
attorney of this county, and that the pigeon-holes in his office were filled with
untried indictments against the "dangerous classes," what shall we think of
Such death-bed confessions?
The defeated ring-leaders of Tammany are terribly frightened. Their cries
for help are really heart-rending. The Young Democracy, however, regardless
of protestations of repentance and promises of amenmknent, are marching on to
victory. They have resolved to purify the party of the conspirators who, in
furtherance of their own selfish ends, have, by corrupt Republican combinations,
done so much to bring it into disrepute. The sixth ward crowd is doomed.
Dowling has been driven out of the special sessions; Hall, deprived of his
vantage ground in the district attorneyship, is powerless, and begs leave to retire to- private life; Sweeny, misnamed Bismark, owns up dead beat, and is
bound for Boulogne instead of the United States Senate; Tweed will yield anything if he can only save his supervisorship, but even that little favor is denied
him; Connolly cries for..quarter like a very craven; Coman is ignominiously
counted out of the shrievalty which was promised him; Hoffman is ready to
humble himself in the dust, but his scalp is doomed, and Kiernan or Blood will
wear it at his belt in November next, while his Presidential aspirations are irretrievably blasted. The new regime of O'Brien, Norton, Creamer, Genet & Co.
have resolved on reform. They believe in the people, and propose to give back
to them the power which Abraham O)'Hall years ago, as a Republican trickster,
robbed them of through the agency of his Albany commissions, and now seeks
to secure for the ring through the instrumentality of his new charter. If the
new-comers honestly redeem their pledges, the State of New York is safe for
the Democracy in November next.
THE SUN GOES AFTER TWEED.
On March 2, the Sun being  short of ammunition, sent a
reporter to Mr. Tweed's stable, in east Fortieth street, and
published a glowing description of "Bill Tweed's bio barn,"
which the Sun declared surpassed Caligula's stable and Leonard Jerome's private theatre.  On  March 4, the following
editoral comments on the aforesaid barn appeared:
From the Sun of March 4, 1870.
OKE OF THE ATGEAN STABLES-Mr. TWEED'S EQUINE ESTABLISHMENT.
The Hon. William M. Tweed, more familiarly known as Tweedy, is a candidate
for the chairmanship of the Democra4c National Committee, now held by the
Hon. August Belmont. The latter gentleman has been too aristocratic in his
tastes and feelings to handle the helm of the great Democratic ship. The fighting
Democracy have been casting about for another pilot, and many of their clubs
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pretentious, hard working representative of the Democracy. But with wealth
came aristocratic tastes and feelings, until now, in point of luxurious magnificence, he outstrips even the regal style of the gorgeous Belmont.  A reporter
who has recently visited Mr. Tweed's stable in Fortieth street estimates a
follows the sumptuous paraphernalia of that institution:
Cost of the lot..............................................................................  $20,50
Cost of the edifice.........................................................................                   48,000
Two black  walnut carriiae doors..................................................                                 5
Figured  ground  glass for aoors.........................................................                       1,000
Carpets............................................   2,500
Pictures on  the walls.............................................................                              1,500
lock  in  carved  case.....................................................................        140
Large polar bear skin  robe............................................................                           504
Small polar bear skin  robe...................................                                                     200
Silver fox  skin  robe.......4................00
Wolf skin robe....................................                                            200
Raccoon  skin  robe..........................................................................                     2.
Five colored woollen robes.................                                                                        400
Two pairs of horse blankets..................................................               180
Other horse blankets.............................................100
Satin-lined  clarence........................................................................                    2,800
Two.horse caleche......................................................................                          1,500
Buggy..........................................   500
Black  walnut closet.....................................................................  250
Stoves and heaters....................................................          500
Grooms' walnut card table..............................................            75
Enormous French  marrior................................................                     1,000
Black  walnut harness cases, with  plate glass doors (very  fine)..............                                15,000
Gold-plated harness...............................................................      1,500
Set of silver-plated  harness.............................................................                       1,000
Silver speaking trumpet, with which the Hon. Big 6 gives orders to the
coachman....................................................                         750
Set of harness........................................                                                             400
Two other sets of harness......................0. 600
Two sets of light double harness.....................................         600
Two sets of single harness..................................           180
Lady's saddle.....................                                                                                 12  
Man's saddle...............................0...........................            80
Two pony saddles.....................                                         160
Bronse hooks for harness....................................                 1 50
Doll, a bay carriage mare............................    600
Dick, a sorrel pony...............................................
Fleetwing and Whalebone.........................................................                                3000
Keyser, driven  with  Doll..............0...................                                                      600
Prince and Grecian  Bend...........................................................                             1,500
Straw  mats for stalls..........................................                           75
Bronze lion  heads, with  rings in their noses....................6...0.......                                  600
Walnut case for elevator.........                                                          200
Walnut closets for sundries...................................     100
Iron  wash-basins and drinking  trough.....................................           150
Elevator for carriages.......................................................                400
Coupe, with  fine claret cloth  trimmings....................................        2,000
Lady's pony wagon....................................................        2,800
Buggy....................................................................                   00'errier dog..0...................................    10Single road  wagon......................................................           200
A large family sleigh................   1200...,,........   1 200
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A  iguht cutter.................................O......................  126
G-reen rep lounge.................................................................  50
Walnut desks and table........................... ee...............................     250
Six walnut arm  chairs..........*..........................................                95
Stove for Tweed's room........................................                       1090
Walnut bookcase, without books...................................................          200
Walnut wardrobe......................................................................   400
Bronze chandelier.......................................................o                250
White marble wash-basin.................................................  150
Furniture of the grooms' rooms.............................................    1,000
Furniture in the retiring   oom.................................             250
Billiard room, without tables........................................                 200
Pumps..............................................   250
Silver pitcher and goblets......................................................       500
Two dimond-handled whip                             s... 300
Twvo dimond-handled whip.........................................   300.
(ut-glass whiskey jugs and glasses*..........................................           150
Silver-plated champagne coolers................................................           100
Photograph of P. B........................................          4
Photo'graph of the Hon. Big 6..............................................                  15
Silver-plated sleigh bells.....................................................        5
PFour packs of cards......4.........,..................................              4
Ivory poker chips........................................................                 25
Total............. $..............................................122,48
Mr. Tweed owns another stable similarly furnished in the country, which a
San reporter proposes to visit at an early day.
The Democracy must look  elsewhere for a national pilot.  Sheriff James
O'Brien stands in striking  contrast with  the Hon. Big 6.  Though holding an
office worth over $100,000 a year, he does not even own the house in which he
lives.  All his vast receipts are spent in acts of private  benevolence  and. in
donations for the benefit of the party. A man of never-ceasing activity, of singular political reticence, and of a determined  will, he uses his income withoaut
regard to the accumulation of property for himself. True to his friends, fearless of
his  -nemies, just in his dealings, and possessing uncommon sagacity, who knows
what he might not do in Belmont's place as chairman of the National Democracy?
What Mr. Tweed's feelings must have been on perusing
this article we cannot of course know, but certain it is, that
from that day forward he determined to buy up the Sun -at
the first opportunity, and thus silence all attacks against hilmself and his colleagues from' the model moral journal.
THE CRISIS AT HAND.
The condition of political affairs at Albany were also such
that the Tammany ring finally concluded to spend their money freely, as they realized that money was their only saviour.
The Stn, foreseeing the crisis at hand, mustered up all its
forces and opened its fire along the entire lines.  On the 22d
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From the Sun of March 22,1870.
EA-SILY CONQUEED. —The Young Democracy have won the day. Their enemies have either fled from the field, or are prisoners in their hands. The battle
has been a very short one. It is true, the power arrayed against the ring was
formidable, for the Young Democracy had the Sun on their side. But we are
bound to say that the ring has made a very poor fight for men of such wealth,
experience, and pretensions. They have yielded the contest in a most inglorious
manner. Mr. Sweeny packs his trunks, and has them ready for a voyage to
Europe. Mr. Tweed retires to his luxurious palace, and amid its splendors
makes a treaty with the enemy. Mr. Connolly is a candidate for the office of
comptroller at the hands of the very braves Who so lately had their knives
ground to take his scalp. Hugh Smith hides in the obscurity that suits his nature. And only Abraham O'Hall remains, shouting senseless warwhoops over
the lost field, and writing in the He'rald those vigorous and untimely articles of
his which produce no effect whatever.
Now, let us see what the Young Democracy will do. Let them give us honest
elections, and cheap and decent city government, with a fair show for young
men of talent and character; let them furnish the Democratic party with new
ideas as well as leaders, and the Sun will never regret joining in their crusade
against the corrupt and reckless millionaires of the Tammany ring.
In another editorial of the same date the Sun charged Ben.
F. Manniere and the other members of the Excise board, with
stealing the funds of the board, and  calls upon the Young
Democracy to probe the matter, in the following paragraphFrom the Sun of March 22, 1870.
Will not the Young Democracy in the Legislature at once attend to this
important subject?  If they are fighting the ring in earnest, here is one of its
strongholds, full of corruption. Let them send down a committee that cannot;
be humbugged or bought off to explore the frauds we have now denounced.
On the same day (March 22) the Young Democracy's charter and other bills providing for a reform  government to this
city were beaten in the Assembly.
The Sun,  after bewailing the fate of the  "dashing  and
gritty set of fellows,"  conclules by saying: " The ring will
continue to rob the city, and the Republicans will cearry the State
next autumn.  In other words, the Sun threatened to supportthe Republican ticket in the fall elections.
After the defeat of their measures the Young Democracy
agreed to oust Sweeny, Tweed & Co. from  the control of the
Tammany organization.  The Sun came out in an editorials
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From the Sun of March 24, 1870O
WHiY M-OT  TAKE  AMMnANY?
The ring have opened a treacherous war on the Young Democracy, and the
champions of the people have taken up the challenge like men. The removal of
William  M. Tweed, Henry Smith, and A. D. Barber, as agents of the corrupt
Tammany ring, shows that the combat will be sharp and decisive, and without
useless parley.
Why do not the Young Democracy take possession of Tammany Hall?  They
have a vast majority of thle Democratic voters in this city.  Whynot, then, turn
out the corruptionists and traitors who occupy the ancient wigwam?  That is
the first duty. to be done. It is the only way to restore genuine democracy to
the time-honored stronghold of the party.
And again, on March 25, in the following:
From the Sun of March 25, 1870.
THE LODI OF THE YOUNG DEMOCRACY.
This is the auspicious hour for the Young Democracy.  They are right, they
desire reform, and they aim at progress. We trust they mean business. By exercising a courage that shall border on audacity, they can now take control of
the party in this city and State, and ultimately in the whole Union.  They
have learned that concessions to their enemies yield only bitter fruits. To
gratify their grasping, grumbling foes of the ring, they abandoned a good deal
of ground in framing the bills defeated on Tuesday, and all they got by it was
betrayal, desertion, and overthrow. They were sold out for money by thevery men they had tried to conciliate.  Let them shoot down the traitors.
The Young Democracy must take the lead of the party, at whatever sa-crifice
of distinguished chiefs, old associates, and even seemingly temporary success. It
is.a safe battle to fight. As the case now stands the party in the State is ruined.
It can be no more than ruined through efforts made to save it, and such efiorts
it is the duty of the Young Democracy to put forth. As to the Republicans who
belong to the ring in this city, they of course will do all they can to prevent a
reorganization and change of leadership of the Democratic party,  But they are
open enemies, and the reform. Democrats know how and where to meet them.
As to the twenty Democratic deserters who, in consideration of the money of
the ring, sold out the party in the Assembly on Tuesday, let the Young Democracy put a brand on their foreheads, and'their hay-loft and cheese-press constituents will dispose of them.  They have pocketed the bribes of the corrupt comhination of Democrats and Republicans which bought them, and they will sink
into contempt. This must be a war in earnest.  The Young Derocracy must
conquer or die. But they will not die, for the whole mass of the party is with
them. All they need do is to move right onward and grasp the standard of the
party. Don't let them listen too much to the advice of the bevy of old fogies
who want to see them triumph, but dread the fight.  Let them alone. They
mean well enough, and will count when the voting comes. along. But they are
too timid and slow to give counsel in a hand-to-hand contest like this.
The Young Democracy are situated as young Bonaparte was at the bridge of
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)kulking under cover, while whole regiments actually deserted the flag in the
red heat of the battle and refused to cross the bridge. The young leader of
twenty-six summers seized a standard, rushed upon the bridge in the face of a
tmpest of shot and shell, waved his sword and shouted, "Soldiers, follow your
general! "  The whole army, excepting a few cowards and deserters, who were
pitched into the mire of the Adda, plunged pell-mell upon the bridge and carried the Austrian position at the point of the bayonet. Lodi made Napoleon
Bonapare first consul, then emperor and ruler of France, and ultimately of
Europe.
Let the Young Democracy seize the standard, throw cowards and traitors into
the mire, move forward, dislodge the Republicans, and save the Demlocratic party
of this State, and ultimately of the nation.
On the 24th of March a call for the meeting of the Tammany Hall general committee was issued  by Mr. Tweed,
pursuant to a petition signed by the number of members required for that purpose by the constitution of the organization.  Among the signers to this petition was Judge Cardozo
and other prominent politicians.  The meeting was to take
place at Tammany Hall, on Monday, March 28, 1870.  The
greatest excitement prevailed as to the result of the attempt
of the Young Democracy to capture the organization.  The
leaders of Tammany now took prompt and decisive measures especially as Mr. Tweed had been removed fromn  the
Street Department.  They knew that the Young Democracy
were very strong  in the general committee, and might succeed by dint of hard work and promises in securing -a majority.  The Taxrmany leaders were also aware that, with the
exception of the bosses in the several wards, the nmembers of
the general committee were a mercenary class, who were
ready to link their fortunes with whatever faction displayed
the most strength.
The Stn of March 25, in: ai article headed "    ed'c^s.Ring's
Waterloo," a.nd the "H:{onest Democracy's Contest with Traitors',
proclaimed aloud that the Young Democracy held a large
majority in  the Tammany Hall General Colmmittee; that
"Tweed  must watlk  tle plancl," that "''7 weecd Vwas a traitor,'
and that he had sold out to the Republicans.
Mr. Bartlett did not fail in this emergency to render his
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of the combatant', on the  "heads I win, tail you lose" principle.
BARTLETT INTERVIEWED BARNARD
on this eventful 25th of March, thus:
From the Sun of March 25,1870.
JU)GE BARNARD'S VIEWS.
A Sun reporter called upon Judge Barnard yesterday. The judge said that
the fight would certainly entail the loss of the State to the Democracy in the
spring and fall elections. He gave O'Brien and Tweed great credit for sobriety
and ability. He said that they both had\clear heads, and few, if any, vices.
"As for Tweed," said the judge, "I have known him for twenty years. He
has had a great many tups and downs during that time, but he has invariably
turned up all right. The fight as it now stands resembles the old Barnburner
squabble. We need a city charter. I think the aldermen should be elected on
a general ticket. I also think it would be best to elect our supervisors on a
general ticket, letting one-third of them run out of office each year, if thought
proper. I think that the police commissioners should be appointed by the
mayor alone, without interference from the board of aldermen. Let the mayor
be held responsible for his appointments. Provide for his impeachmcnt by some
city body if he acts wrong. As for the Central Park commission, I should let
that, stand as it is. This is a deplorable war as it stands, and I can now see
naught but ruin to the Democratic party in the State at the next election.".'Reporter-Will you attend the meeting of the Tammany general committee
on Monday night, judge?
"Judge Barnard (smilingly)-I shall, most certainly.
".Reporter-Have you any idea how the two parties stand in that committee?
"Judge Barnard (again smiling)-Well, really, I can't tell. I heard that
there was five majority on one side or the other; I can't tell which, for I don't
remember."
The reporter then retired.
The above may have passed muster before the public had
read the foregoing exposure, but it's too thin at this time.
We now  come to the afternoon of this same Friday, the
25th of March, and transfer the reader to the Albany express
train, which was conveying from  Albany Mr. Tweed and the
Ne w  York politicians of both factions.
THE POWER OF MONY,,
It was about six  o'clock  p. mi., and a gentleman  on  the
train was informed that Mr. Tweed was in the next car, and
desired to see him  immediately.  The gentleman found Mr.
Tweed waiting for him near the door of the car     Mr. Tweed
said to him:
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it. I know that you have great influence with the MaLnaging
Editor of the Sun, and I wan't you to negotiate a little matter for me. If you succeed, I will be grateful to you for it.
You know I always remember a friend and never forget a
favor. The ASun has been pitching into rae and my friends
for some time back, and I am willing to pay the Managing
Editor a handsome price if he will do his best to change the
policy of the paper and let up on me. See him first thing
to night.  Tell him that I will give him five thousand dollars ($5,000) cash and five hundred dollars ($500) a month,
beginning from  the 1st of last January, and to continue for
a year, in all eleven thousand dollars, ($11,000,) if he agrees
to my proposition. Bring him around to my office in Duane
street to-morrow at I o'clock, andI will strike the bargain
with him."
The gentleman promised to comply with Mr. Tweed's request, and do his utmost to bring about the desired result.
That night the gentleman in question visited the Sun office
and broached the subject to the Managing Editor in Mr.
Dana's own private room.
The Managing Editor signified his willingness and readiness to accept Mr. Tweed's propositions.
The next day the gentleman called on the Managing Editor
at his residence, and both entered a carriage and drove to
the corner of Church street and Duane.
They alighted and instructed the driver of the carriage to
await their return.
They did not drive to the door of the building of Mr.
Tweed's office, because they had reason to believe that the
Young Democracy's spies were watching the premises from
a house on the opposite side of the street, and a carriage
would be certain to attract attention.
BRIBEs -$6,500.
Their suspicions proved correct, as they afterwards learned.
On reaching Mr. Tweed's law office (we say law-office, be
cause a black sign-board was posted on the front door, on,




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which was stamped in gold letters "Win. M.  Tweed, LawOffice) the Managing Editor and his comnpanion waited a few
minutes in the ante-room, anld were then ushered by. Mr.
Cornelius Corson into Mr. Tweed's private sanctum.
The Managing Editor was introduced to Mr. Tweed, and,
after the customary preliminary salutations, the conversation
turned on the business in question.
Mr. Tweed observed that he would like to see Mr. Dana
that very day and have a talk with him.
The gentleman, at the suggestion of the Managing Editor,
stepped over to the Sun office to see if Mr. Dana was in, and
arrange for an interview.
HTe returned in about ten minutes and reported that Mr.
Dana was not in the office.
During -the gentleman's absence Mr. Tweed paid the Managing Editor of the Sun six thousand five hundred dollars,
(16,500;) that is to say, the $5,000 agreed upon and three
nonth's salary, at the rate of five hundred dollars ($500) a
month.
Both the gentleman and the Managing Editor left Mr.
Tweed shortly after the first-named returned from the SVu.
office. They walked to the corner of Church and Duane
streets, entered their carriage, and ordered the hackllan to
drive to the Astor House.
On the way thither the Managihng Editor joyously pulled
out the money Tweed had given him, counted it, and found
it correct.
There were six thousand five hundred dollars ($6,500) in
one thousand and five hundred dollar bills.
The Managing Editor and his comnpanion dismissed the
carriage at the Astor House.
They walked through Ann street, and thence up Nassau
to the Park Hotel bar-room, where they took a drink and
parted.
Now, mark the tone of the S&n, and compare the articles
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DEATH  OF THE YOUNG DEMOCRACY.
On Saturday morning, March 26, the same day the iManaginq
ditor received the money from Tweed, the said Managing Editor
ihaving on the previous evening (Friday) been visited by the
gentleman Tweed  requested to  negotiate a truce, the Albany correspondence was headed by the Managing Editor
thus:  "Tweed  draws  his sword."'"The Young Democracy
c(arge upon  him  in the Senate."   "The  Republicans rush to
7weed's defence- He is victorious- The fight in the cty- Twreed
claims a majority-O'BRIEN AND MORRISSEY RAMPANT.
We may here mention  that 2Jr. Sweeny  has  over and over
again giveen pere-mptory orders to the Sun's editors and reporters
to keep Mar. Mlorrissey's name to the front of every Dem)ocraiic
faetion opposed to Tammany fHall.
Mr. SWEENY'S ORDERS HAVE BEEN  STRICTLY OBEYED IN THE
TWO PAST ELECTIONS, and will probably be in the future.
In an article of the same date, March 26, the Sun begins
to let Mr. Tweed down easy, as follows:
From the Sun of March 26, 1870.
*- ~*'  The grand sachem of Tammany proclaims himself the champion of
municipal reform! Such is the virtue of a little adversity. It has convertcd
Tweed himself. *  *  *
The opportunity of the Young Democracy is to stand by judiciously and help
tho grand sachem in this novel line of business. It matters not so much to
them what individual proposes the necessary measures, as that they should be
rdical and comprehensive. The gallant men who have so far led this memorable combat in the Legislature need not fear that they will be forgotten by the
people because they have forced the foe of all reform to corae forth as the advocato of the very changes he detests. Let Mr. Twe d hurry up his vaunted
charter, and let it he made a law as soon as it is examined and found to contain
the features he has promised.
On the Monday following, the San showed its han.d nmore
plainly.  It published. interviews with Tweed  and Sweeny,
which were in reality nothing more than manifestoes to the
public. 
When  it is considered that the Tamimany Hall General
Committee were to meet that same evening, these interviews
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be found  so deeply  interesting, especially  since the public
now know  how  much he paid for its insertion, ($6,500,) that
we republish it:
From the, Sun of March 26, 1870.
The struggle to-night.  Interesting interview with the tiger. Mleasures which
the Republicans in the Legislature will agree with Messrs. Tweed & Co.
A Sun reporter yesterday held an interview with Mr. Tweed.  The conversa.tion was nearly as follows:
"Repotter-Mr. Tweed, how do things look politically?"
" Mr. Tweed-O'Brien and Morrissey have created a big storm.  They are at
the head of the whole movement. They are endeavoring to create the impression
that I have sold out the party to the Republicans. It is false, and they know
it. I want you to deny this for me. I want the one hundred thousand Democrats
who read the Sun to understand that there is not one word of truth in these
charges made by O'Brien and Morrissey.  Their statement that I did my best to
defeat the charter and city bills last Tuesday is also false. The sheriff says that he
saw me whispering with Henry Smith in an out of the way place on Tuesday
morning.  That is a lie.  I do my business fair and above-board. The boys
wanted to do a little business on their own hook. They got up a charter, and
called on me to support it. I did so to the best of my ability.  Nobody knows
this better than O'Brien.  I offered him  $200,000 of my own money to carry that charter through the Senate.  Why didn't he take it?   Because he
thought he could carry the charter without it, and he wanted the credit of it.
And then, as soon as it was defeated through their own overweening confidence,
they screen their stupidity from  the eyes of the Democracy of this city by
abusing me and calling me a traitor.  The game won't Work.  I have not been
slapped in the face for nothing.
" Reporter-Have you called a meeting of the general committee?"
"'Mr. Tweed-One word just here.  Many men signed the call for that
meeting under a misapprehension, and some of the
WAMES WERE FORGED.
A score of men have visited my office and scratched out their names.  Judge
Cardozo told me that he signed the paper under a misapprehension, and afterward scratched out his name.  I could give the names of dozens who have done
the same thing."
O'BRIEN AND MORRI3SEY.
"Reporter -Do you think O'Brien and:Morrissey will remove you from tue
chairmanship of the Tammany general committee?'
"Mr. Tweed-That is what they are working for.' But they will fail. I have
offered to bet both of them any sum, from $1,000 to $25,000, that within thirty
days they will both be outside of the Tammany committee. They have not
seen fit to take up those bets. I know  my friends, and can trust them.  That
is more than either O'Brien or Morrissey can do."
" Reporter-What is your opinion of Morrissey and O'Brien, Mr. Tweed?"."Mr. Tweed-Thev are both desperate men.  O'Brien is ungrateful. I did my
best to give him the nomination for sheriff, and I spent thousands of dollars out.
of my own pocket to elect him. I want to ask you if the Democracy of New
York city are blind? Can't they see that the Democracy of the State will recoil from the leadership of John Morrissey, for Morrissey is the real leader in
this movement, and O'Brien is nothing but a lieutenant? Not a Democrat in
the country will trustrhimself in the hands of such a leader as Morrissey."
ASSASSINATION.
"Reporter-Do you anticipate a hot time to-morrow night?
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They will seize npon the least pretext for assassination.  For instance, suppoc
ing one of their gang should call me a damned liar, and one of my hot-headed
friends should resent it and punch his head. A general fight would be  he reSult.  Pistols would be drawn, and somebody might get hurt.  I know  that
this is their game.  Threats have been made, and O'Brien and Morrissey are
bound to have a fight if possible.  I am not afraid of these men. I shall go to
that meeting assured of victory, and if any trouble occurs, the people wiUl know
on whose shoulders to place it.
TWEED'S NEW CHARTER.
"Reporter-Have you drawn up your new charter, Mr. Tweed?'Mr. Tweed-It is not yet completed.  I will convince the tax-payersof thia
city before I get through that I am in favor of municipal reform. The new
charter will save the city millions of dollars.
"' Reporter-What are the chief features of your'charter?
"Mr. Tweed-Well, first all the restrictions and guards of the existing charter
are preserved.
"Reporter-What will you do with the board of aldermen?
"Mr. Tweed-The charter will provide for the election of fifteen aldermen
on a general ticket, and one assistant alderman from each Assembly district.
"Reporter-When are these aldermen to be elected.?
"Mr. Tweed-In the spring, at the same time as the judicial election. We intend that the new board of aldermen shall embrace the strongest men of the
Democratic party. The new board shall exercise a general control over the
government and affairs of the city.  They shall have power to impeach the
mayor. It shall require a three-quarters vote of the board for any expenditures. No appropriations for celebrations shall be made without four-fifths of
the votes of the board. No salaries shall be increased unless by a unanimous
vote, and then only on the specific request of a department.  No new ofices
shall be created except upon the request of a department, and then only by a
unanimous vote.
Reporter-So you elect these aldermen on a general ticket?
"Mr. Tweed-Yes. We do this in compliance with THE SUN'S suggestion.
THE SUN has persistently advocated the election of a board of aldermen on a
general ticket, and that clause will be inserted in the new charter. We believe
that THE SuN is right in this thing.
"Reporter-What else have you decided upon?
GOOD-BYE, M'LEAN.
"Mr. Tweed —Well, we intend to get rid of the inconsistencies and incongruities of the executive departments by abolishing the street and croton
aqueduct departments, and substituting a department of public works, with
one commission at its head.  The powers of this commission, will be harmoniously distributed in appropriate bureaus. All the veteran office-holders in the
abolished departments must give way.  They must be removed. Old abuses
will be wiped out, and a new order of things will spring up, which in their
operations will be necessarily healthful. And then the heads of every department will be grouped into a cabinet, under the mayor. The mayor shall have
power to impeach any derelict or corrupt head of a department, and bring him
before a judicial tribunal.  The latter shall summarily try him. If found
guilty, the court shall remove him.
THE rOLICOE SiPARTMENT.
"Reporter-What will you do with the police department?
"Mr. Tweed-The police department-shall consist of four commissioners, with
substantially the same powers as noW  exist. Their terms shall be for eight
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"Re porter —Do you intend to keep the present commissioners until the'eox-.
piration of their terms of office?
*'ir'. Tweed-Yes.' Reporter —And Hank Smith, do you consider him legally acting as a comiBssioner? 
"Mr. Tweed(laughing)-Well, it there is any doubt upon it, I should think
the courts would settle it.'Reporter-What will you do with the health department?
"Mr. iTweed —Well, we will have three  commissioners appointed by the
mayor, to serve for five years. The health officer of the port and the council
to the corporation shall also be members of the board.  One of the appointed
commissioners shall be a standard physician.  The new board shall have powers commensurate with those exercised by the present board.
"  ep.orter-And the fire department?"
"Mr. Tweed-Same as the health board.  Five commissioners for five years,
with the powers now enjoyed,  We will also elect the counsel to the corporation and the comptroller as now, with unchanged powers."." eorter-And the other departments?"
MORE DEPARTMENTS.
"Mr. 1Tweed-Five commissioners of charities and correction, to hold office
for five years, and existing laws retained.  Same way with the Central Park
commissioners.  And then we will have a department of docks to take control
of the wharves and piers.  We will have a board of five commissioners to be
appointed for five years. The provisions for this department shall be synonomous with these of the bill presented by the citizens' association. Then we
will have a department of buildings, with one head, and under existing laws."
"  eporter-Won't these departments increase the expenses of the city?"
"Mr. Tweed-On the contrary, the salaries are not to be higher than they a.re
stow, while the number of offices is to be substantially diminished.
THE ELECTIONS.
"Reporter —Any other reforms in your charter, Mr. Tweed?"
"Mr. Tweed-All the city officers are to be elected at general elections.  The
mayor and comptroller are to be elected next November."
* Reporter —-What else?"
" Mr. Tweed-Well, the rest of the charter consists of miscellaneous provisions, providing for sales of public property, and awarding contracts to the lowest bidders."
" Reporter-Is that all?"
" Mr. Tweed-The charter is not completed yet.  Those, however, are its salient points."
" Reporter-Why don't you take Senator Norton's hint, and provide that no
man shall hold more than one office?"
" Mr. Tweed —I want the people to distinctly understand that I am in favor
of Mr. Norton's proposition, and I shall do all I can to make it a law. Michael
Norton is thoroughly honest in his efforta at reform.  If all the men in the
party were as honest as Mike Norton, there never would have been any trouble
in the Democratic party."
"Reporter-Mr. Tweed, I see nothing in your charter about the board of
supervisors.  What do you propose to do with them?"'" Mr. Tweed-That is as yet an unsettled question."
" Reporter-Will you abolish the board?"
Mr. Tweed —I think not.  It depends upon circumstances."
M'LEAN.
" Reporter-When did you first make up you mind to fight?"
" Mr. Tweed —When I was falsely acsusea of being a traitor, and paut out of
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"Reporter —Did you put McLean in that place?"
"  r. Tweed —I did. When Cornell went out, Hoffman, then mayor, seat
ihe names of half a dozen men to the aldermen, and they refused to confirm
any. Hoffman then offered me the street commissionership. The aldermen
urged me to take it. I refused. They then asked me to nominate a man for
the place. McLean was walking around the streets, a poor, miserable devil,
hanging oI the skirts of the party. I recommended him to the aldermen, and
he was appointed and confirmed.  He has shown his gratitude by removing
me. He is not the only man now barking at my heels who owes his political
aUccess to me. I have never gone hack on my friends.  I challenge any politician in New York to point out one instance where I have broken my word.
Yret these very men whom I have befriended are covering me with filth and
howling now for my political blood. Why shouldn't I fight?"
THE LOQUACIOUS KING-PIN OF TAMMANY.
The interview  with Mr. Sweeny was stolen.  The Sun reporter chanced accidentally to be standing  " near a group of
ir. Sweeny's most trusted  friends, with Mr. Sweeny in the
center of the group, talking his mind freely, but modestly!" 
This is so like Mr. Sweeny.  He is so wont to speak out his
mind  to  groups of friends, and  the reporter of the paper
which had called him  a thief and a conspirator one of the
group!  This is highly probable.  But the $6,500 shot from
Tweed's purse was far from  having spent its force.
The following is the interview:
From the Sun of March 26, 1870.
WHAT MR. SWEENY SAYS.
Wshat he has done and not done, and what he will do.
What he thinks of the Young Democracy-Mr. Sweeny's allies-What beat the
Young Democracy-What Stewart, Astor, and other property holders of the
city have been about-Sweeny's winning points-The meeting of the Tammany
committee to-night, &c.
Mr. Peter B. Sweeny has persistently refused and still refuses to be interviewed
by or to talk with a representatiye of any newspaper whatever on the political
situation. But since the San last rose on the American continent, a reporter
for that luminary chanced to be near a group of Mr. Sweeny's most trusted
friends, with Mr. Sweeny in the center of the group,
AND SPEAKING HIS MIND
freely but modestly. Mr. Sweeny was calm, autobiographical, historical, philosophical, and prophetical.
WHAT MBR. SWEENY SAID.'Every one knows," said Mr. Sweeny, "who knows ine, that I have never
hlad anything but the public welfare and the prosperity of. my friends at heart.
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me are governed by motives less pure or public spirited than my own. It is for
the public to judge in such matters, and I am willing to abide its verdict.
MR. SWEENY'S GAME.
"I have never actively opposed the persons who are styled the Young Democracy. I have simply let them  alone. Seeing them ambitious to run the
party, I thought I would let them run it. Mr. Tweed did the same thing. Ho
simply kept quiet, and let those ambitious gentlemen try their hand at governing the great party in the ascendant in this State. We knew that they could
not succeed. We knew that they had no idea of the difference between carrying
through legislation initiated by themselves and merely opposing legislation
asked for by others; that they had no idea of the difference between being a
clog on the efforts of others and a power to carry through schemes of their own.
MB. SWEENY'S BEST ALLIES.
"The elements of the situation were my best allies. I knew that'the persons
called the Young Democracy could not overcome those elements; that, in fact,
they would be crushed by those elements. All the commissions which they
sought to abolish, and all the interests of every kind threatened by their legislation
rose against them, and dug pits for them right before their faces, and they didn't
see whiat was going on.
In order that the country Democrats may be strong in their localities, it is
necessary for the party in this city and in the State to be led by strong, rePpectable men, who have the confidence of the people. The country Democrats
understand that perfectly well, and that fact alone would be sufficient to prevent those ambitious men at Albany from carrying out their schemes.
Owing to a change in the position of the parties in the room at this juncture,
the Sun reporter was unable to hear any thing further from  Mr. Sweeny'8
own lips; but one of his confidential friends told our reporter that the propertyholders of New York were so frightened at the idea of the control of the city
passing into the hands of Morrissey and O'Brien, that they came to Mr. Sweeny
with offers of unlimited cash if he would go up to Albany, take the helm, and
save the city from the threatened calamity. Mr. Sweeny declined to take the
money or to move in the matter; but other parties did take a portion of the
money, and they also did do a portion of the work.
Then  follows a long  rigmarole of what this convenient
friend of Sweeny said.
It is not improbable that that friend may have been W. 0.
Bartlett.
So  much  for the interviews with  Mr. Tweed  and  1r.
Sweeny, published on the morning of the day when the great
and decisive battle was to be fought.
The editorial columns of the  same day were full of such
stuff as this:
From the.Sun of March 26, 1870.
How TO RECONCILE TE DEMOCRACY.-The warring factions of the New York
Democracy may be reconciled and united once more.
Let Democrats of all shades, young and old, rich and poor, rough and silkl.ocking Democrats, go in for an honest, popular, democratic charter for this
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one office; with a board of aldermen elected by general ticket; no board of
supervisors; no commissions, except that of the sinking fund and that of the
Central Park; departments responsible to the mayor; fair salaries and no stealings; no Republican ring; and then all divisions of the Democracy can once
more come together and smoke the pipe of peace, and not he afraid of the future.
Then give us a law that will secure honest elections and honest counting of the
votes, and let the Legislature go home. And after that the traitors who sold
out the Democratic party to Henry Smith and B. F. Manierre on Tuesday last
can be taken up and punished as their villainy merits.
We commend this plan to Tax-payer Tweed, to the Hon. Peter Barr Sweeny,
to Sheriff O'Brien, Michael the Thunderbolt, and all the other braves and statesmen.
"0, children, you should never let
Your angry passions rise;
Your little hands were never made
To scratch each other's eyes out!"
The poet of the Citizen has a ballad on recent events, of which the following
is a specimen:
"I think I hear the sachems sing,
I think I hear the sachems sing,
I think I hear the sachems sing,
The cusses now have had their fling,
They're beat by Peter B."
Does this mean that it was Peter B. who sold out the Democracy on Tuesday
last to Henry Smith and B. F. Manierre? We can't believe it. Peter B. would
never sell out his party to a corrupt Republican ring. He is too pure a man.
Mr. Tweed requests us to deny that he had anything to do with the defeat of
the city bills in the Legislature on Tuesday last. We have not the least doubt
that Mr. Tweed's denial is true. He is an unfortunate Victim of circumstances
over which he had no control.
And  in  order to  discourage  the  followers of Senators
Creamer and Genet, and  inform  them  that Mr. Tweed was
spending money freely, which- fact the Sun could swear to,
as it "had been there"  in the person of its Managing Editor,
such paragraphs as the following sprinkled the editorial page:
From the Sun of March 26, 1870.
Where are Harry Genet and Tom Creamer?  They are not wont to be absent
when the bugle sounds the charge.  But now neither the keen falchion of Prince
Harry nor the white plume of Thomas Jefferson can beseen along the whole line
of battle. Meanwhile Big Six swings his hatchet and pays his money like a
great chief. The Young Democracy must rally to-night, or the field is lost.
Monday evening the Tammany Hall general committee
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building  closed  in  the following  order, which was prom.gated in the afternoon:
To the Hon. W...TWEED,
Chairman of the Democratic Republican G(enerial Committee.
SiR: It becomes my duty to communicate the following proceedings of the
council of sachems of the Tammany society, taken this day:
TAMMlANY SOCIETY.
At a meeting of the council of sachems of the Tammany society, held in the
council chamber of the great wigwam this 28th day of March, 1870, James BNicholson, father of the council, presiding, and the following sachems present,
viz: Sachems Samuel B. Garvin, A. Oakey Hall, M. T. Brennan, E. B. Hart,
Peter B. Sweeny, Nathaniel Jarvis, Jr., John J. Bradley, Charles G. Cornell,
Isaac Bell, and Joseph Dowling; absent, Sachems R. B. Connolly and George
W. McLean, the following preamble and resolutions were, after mature deliberation, unanimously adopted:
" Whereas a call for a meeting of the general committee, to be held in Tammany
Hall this evening, has been issued, having for its ostensible purpose the consideral.on of measures of legislation in relation to this city, BUT IT HAS TRANSPIRED THAT THIS MOVEMENT HAS ORIGINATED WITH MR. JOHN MORIRISSY AND
IHIS PROMINENT ASSOCIATES, and has for its real object to stili further foment the
disturbances in the party which they have commenced; and threats of personal
violence are made against members of the committee who refuse to combine
with them, thus substituting physical terrorism and mob force for the regular
and orderly action of the Democracy; and it is apparent that if such meeting
is held the publie peace and safety of the property of the society will be endangered; and
" Whereas the council deem it inexpedient to surrender the use of the hall for
any such purpose, and they believe, it their duty, according to the precedents
and usages heretofore established, to adopt such meastues as will secure a just
representation to the Democracy of the city in general committee, and a harmonious organization of the party; therefore, be it
Resolved, That the use of the hall for any meeting be withheld until the further action of the council, and tha.t a committee of five sachems, including the
father of the council, be appointed to take such action as will restore union and
harmony to the Democracy of the city of New York, and a consolidated general
committee of their true representatives."
In pursuance of the foregoing resolutions, the following committee were appointed, viz:
Sachems E. B. Hart, S. B. Garvin, M. T. Brennan, Nathaniel Jarvis, Jr., James
B. Nicholson, father of the council.
Attested by the signatures of the sachems.
Sachems Samuel B. Garvin, Matthew T. Brennan, A. Oakey Hall, Nathaniel
Jarvis, Jr., E. B. Hart, John J. Bradley, Peter B. Sweeny, Charles G. Cornell,
Isaac Bell, Joseph Dowling, James B. Nicholson, father of the council.
Yours, respectfully,                 JAMES B. NIcaHOrsN,
Father of the Council.
TAMMANY HIALL, March 28, 1870.
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Therefore there was no meeting, and the Young Democracy and "Mr. John Morrissey and his prominent associates"
repaired to Irving Hall, and there indulged in hurling invectives against the Tammany Sachems. The Managing Editor of the Sun and Mr. Bartlett were at Judge Barnard's
residence, and spent part of the evening there.
Mr. Tweed was there too, and was again interviewed thus:
From the Sun of March 28,1850.
AN INTERVIEW WITH MR. TWEED.
Finding that no meeting was being held at Tammany Hall last evening, a
Sun scout was sent in search of Senator Tweed. He found him calmly reposing in the house of one of his most trusted friends. The following conversation ensued:
"RBorter-Mr. Tweed, here is a circular issued by the Tammany society, forbidding the opening of Tammany Hall to-night, and intimating the selection of
a new general committee. Have you seen a copy?
"Mr. Tweed-Oh, yes, a copy was served upon me a short time ago. I was
surprised at it. We might just as well have held a meeting to-night, and have
come to some kind of agreement. But it seems that the Tammany society think
differently.
" Reporter-What does the society intend to do?
" Mr. Tweed-You will find that out in the circular you have before you.
"Reporter-Then  the Tammany general committee has held no meeting
to-night?
"Mr. Tweed-Certainly not.
"Reporter-What do you call the meeting held in Irving Hall?
"Mr. Tweed-Ask the Democrats of New York what they call it. It was
certainly not a meeting of the Democratic general committee. It was a meeting of John Morrissey's friends.
" Reporter-The Young Democracy, however, claim to have had a majority
of the general committee present.
" Air. Tweed-It is barely possible that it is so, and'only barely possible. I
do not believe it. I know better."
Here afront-door bell rang, and Mr. Tweed was called into a private rpom.
One of Mr. Tweed's most promeinent friends and a distinguished public officer was
left with the reporter. The reporter continued the interview with Mr. Tweed's
friend:
" Reporter —What will be the result of the action of the Tammany society?' The result of the whole thing will be that a new general committee will
be elected.
" Reporter-Is that so?
"It is so. The committee will include such men as William B. Duncan, Royal
Phelps, Nelson J. Waterbury, and others of the same stamp. These men will
take the places of such men as James O'Brien, John Morrissey, and their
crowd."
We may observe right here, that Tammany Hall is everlastingly  trotting  out Wm. B. Duncan, Royal Phelps, and
other respectable merchants, whenever any thing goes wrong
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with them; but somehow  or other these gentlemen are never
run on the day of the race..                                -      -
Until Mr. Tweed's return to the room  where the Managing
Editor and Bartlett were, the interview with the distinguished
Public Oficer was continued, viz:
From the Sun of March 28, 1870.
"Reporter-How soon will this committee be in operation?" 
"Within thirty days.  This fight has been fought once before.  Fernando
Wood one thought he held the general committee, and' attempted to fight the
Tammany society; but he found himself put out of the party, and has been
compelled to run alone ever since.  O'Brien, John Morrissey, and their gang of
repeaters will follow Mr. Wood's footsteps."
"Reporter-So there is no hope for O'Brien & Co.?"
"Not the least:. We shall cut off their supplies. Thousands of O'Biien's
roughs now hold sinecures in this city. They will never be allowed to draw another cent from the city treasury."
"Reporter-How will you effect this reform?"
"'Through the board of supervisors.  They will pass s resolution prohibiting
the comptroller from paying these scoundrels their stealings.  The comptroller
will not be permitted to pay any man a salary unless he has done bona fide
work.  We want the citizens of New York to understand that. The men who
have disgraced New York and disgraced the Democratic party are now to be
thrown out of the Tammany organization."
EENRY SMITH & CO.
Here Mr. Tweed reappeared, and said to thb Sun reporter:
"I am not rightly represented in the Sun's interview this morning.  You
quote me as being in, favor of the:retention of the present police board. That
is not so. I want every Democrat in this city to know that I am in favor of filling all offices now held by Republicans in this city with Democrats.  The llepublicans must give way. I would not ask you to correct this were it'not that your
report is calculated to injure me."
"Reporter-Mr. Tweed, you seem to feel very sorry because the Tamis.ny
society have closed the hall against you."
"i'fr. Tweed-Yes, it has worried me considerably. I can't account for their.
action.  It astonished me. Why, the last thing I did was to give my friends of
the World seven entrance tickets to Tammany Hall. I suppose they will give
me a bitter dose. to-morrow morning."
Here several of Mr. Tweed's friends entered the room,
"Why, Mr. Tweed," said one of them, "you have become thin. What's the
matter with you?  You look like a living skeleton."
" Grief," answered one of Mr. Tweed's henchmen, " that's what's the matter
with the boss. He is so sorry that he wds locked out of Tammany Hall to-night.
It ain't serving an old Democrat right to lock him out of his home.  The Tammany society ought to knoiw better."  
" Mr. Tweed, have you heard of the meeting in Irving Hall?" asked another
gentleman. They say that they had a majority of the general committee in their
meeting there to-night."
"Oh, they do, do they?" replied Mr. Tweed; "well, if I am the traitor John
Morrissey has represented me to be, if I have sold.out the Democratic party,
as O'Brien says, and they had a majority of the general committee present, why
didni't they remove me from the chairmanshli of that committee? That's what I
want to know. If a man is.a traitor, he ought to be removed.. The amount of thebusiness is. that the majority, and a big majority, of the general committee know




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that the charges of treason against me are false. The Democracy of this city
know me too well to swallow any such charges, resting solely' on John Morrissey's belief."::.'," Well, this affair to-night.is certainly one of the biggest jokes of the season,"
said one of Mr. Tweed's friends.
The Sun of Tuesday, March  29, reported the closing of
Tammany Iall not as "a Barefaced  Outrage," &c., but as
"The Most Stupendous Political Joke Of The Century-The
Gathering of the Tribes at the Wigwam, but the Wigwam
Closed against the Braves-The Camp-fires Guarded by a
Regiment of Henry Smith's Policemen -The Grand Sachem
Outflanks the Enemyy-The Howlings of the Savages."
It said that everybody regarded the affair as a joke, thus:
From the Sun of March 28, 1870.
The corridors of the Fifth Avenue Hotel (said the Semn) were filled.with people
who were laughing at the joke; the haclckmen roared over it; Billy Birch took
a dash at the joke; they split their sides over it at the Blossom club, and even
the newsboys chuckled over Tweedy's joke. But joke as it was, the general
sentiment seemed to be that it was a joke that foreshadowed the inevitable triumph of the Old Guard. Many politicians shook their heads, and said that the
Young Democracy had made a great mistake in not removing Tweed while they
had the power, and that that mistake would prove their ruin. Others asserted
that the action of the Tammany society showed their confidence in Tweed, and
proved the great chiefs of the party gave not the slightest credence to the charges
of Morrissey.
Of course the Sun was constrained, for decency's sake, to
rub a little salve over its former clients, the Young  Democracy, and it did so gently.  The Young Democracy had been
defeated, the Sunt had helped to  do it, and neither Messrs.
Swreeny nor Tweed cared a fig how often the Sun called them
cowards and poltroons afterwards.  Then, again, the Stun had
to  keep  up  appearances, for otherwise the bargain  with
Tweed would have exposcd itself, and saved us the trouble.
On the 30th of March, 1870, Mr. Peter B. Sweeny,'William
M. Tweed, A. Oakey Hall, and the  entire commandery of
Taimmany Hall, having recovered fromn  the effects of their
victory, returned triumRphant to Albany, where they remained
for the balance of the session, and passed all their pet jobs
and schemes through the Legislature.  Governor I-iolfman.
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Governor only vetoed a few picayune bills, of no earthly political importance whatever.
In the Sun of April 1, 1870, the Albany correspondence
was decorated by the managing editor with the following
headings:
TEE OLD GUARD'S VICTORY.
Peter the Great a King among the Country Democrats.
He Controls the Stade Central Committee-He is in Splendid Trim-Grand
Sachem Tweed in his Glory.
And so on to the end of the session.
As our task is far from being completed, we will not trouble the public with further proofs of the Sun's morality and
purity.
Enough has already been told to convince every man who
has attentively perused the foregoing that Mr. Dana's Sun
can be eclipsed for money.
Let those whom it may concern take the hint.
III.
KICOLAS MULLER BLACKMAILED.
After the defeat of the Young Democracy, Congressman
John Fox was among those proscribed by the Tammany
Ring, and was virtually expelled from  the organization.
Kicolas Muller was chosen by the Ring to act as leader of the
first ward Tammany Democracy, vice John Fox.  It was
agreed upon by the Tammany Ring to nominate and elect Mr.
Muller for Alderman.  John Fox was at this time paying the
Managing Editor of the Sun $166 66 a month, and therefore
the Sun, the moment it heard of Mr. Muller's proposed nomination, opened its batteries on him, in obedience to Mr. Fox's
wishes.
The following are a few of the notices Mr. Muller received
from the Sun EDITORIALLY:
From the Sun of May 6,1870.
It is said that Tammany will nominate Nicholas Muller, alias Frenchy, of the
first ward, on its ticket for aldermen. This man is a notorious ticket swindler
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of special sessions, and, having been sentenced to the penitentiary, served his
whole term. Reddy the Blacksmith is a better man than Nicholas Muller.
Why doesn't Tammany nominate him? 
From the Sun of May 7, 1870.
Let Tammany understand that no respectable German in this city indorses the
nomination of Nicholas Muller for aldermian.  He has been convicted and imprisoned for swindling German emigrants. There are no respectable men in the
first ward. Let Mr. Tweed nominate one of them, if he wishes his ticket to
stand a living show. The Germans of the fifth ward repudiated Muller last
evening.
From the Sun of May 9, 1870.
Nicholas Muller is a convicted ticket swindler, who has served his time in the
penitentiary. The complaint against him and the record of his conviction appear in another column. This is the man whose name Messrs. Tweed and Sweeny
are about to place upon the Tammany aldermanic ticket. It is said that Moses
Taylor and Royal Phelps are to accept a nomination on the same ticket. Such
men as these cannot appear before the public in company with Nicholas Muller.
If Tammany must have a candidate from down town, let such a man as Terence
Duffy, of the fifth ward, be taken in the place of Muller. Mr. Duffy is a poor
man, but he bears a good reputation.  He has never been before a police court,
neither has he served three months in a penitentiary. These facts ought to count
in his favor even in a Tammany convention.
From the Sun of May 10, 1870.
Messrs. Tweed and Sweeny held their county convention yesterday. No nominations for aldermen were made. No honest delegate favored the nomination
of the convicted ticket-swindler, Nicholas Muller. The Germans of the fifth ward,
acting upon the suggestion of The Sun, have asked that Terence Duffy be placed
upon the ticket. Let Tammany nominate him in the stead of Muller. Moses
Taylor and Royal Phelps need not be ashamed of running upon the same ticket
with such a man as Terence Duffy.
If they nominate Old Nick Muller for alderman, the Tammany party will
make a mull of their whole aldermanic ticket. But it is never too late to back
out.
Captain Nicholas Muller, candidate for assistant alderman of the tenth district, (seventeenth ward,) asks that he shall not be confounded with the ticketswindler of that name, who expects to run on the Tammnany ticket for alderman.
From the Sun of May 11, 1870.
The Young Democracy. met yesterday afternoon and nominated a strong city
ticket. Among their candidates for aldermen are such men as ex-Mayors Havemeyer and Tiemann, Charles H. Marshall,iJohn S. Giles, John Foley, Nelson W.
Young, Joseph Blumenthal, and Edward J. Burke.:
Mr. Tweed's convention met last evening, and Mr. Sweeny nominated Moses
Taylor, Royal Phelps, Lawrence F. Jerome, and Oswald Ottendorfer, for aldermen, after which a committee was appointed to make such other nominations as
they pleased at some future time. The object of this movement seems to be to
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which the notorious ticket-swindler Nicholas Muller, and perhaps a professional
thief or two, may be shoved upon the same ticket.
From the Sun of May 12, 1870.
If Tammany wants an honest man from the lower wards of the city, let Terence Duffy be nominated on the ticket for aldermen, as he is the choice of ninetenths of the Democracy in the first asserhbly district.
The people have stood a great deal from Tammany Hall, but they will never
stand Nicholas Muller.
Nicholas Muller has been proved a ticket swindler. He has served his time
as such in the penitentiary, Messrs. Tweed and Sweeny cannot afford to insult
such men as Moses Taylor and Royal Phelps by placing Muller at their side on
the ticket for aldermen.
The largest meeting ever held in the first assembly district was held last evening to protest against Tammany's proposed nomination of Nicholas Muller.
From the Sun of May 13, 1870.
The Hon. Oswald Ottendorfer has declined the Tammany nomination for alderman. His name would not have looked well at the side of that of Nicholas
Muller. Royal Phelps and Moses Taylor will hardly accept a nomination unless they are assured that Muller's name will be kept off the Tammany ticket.
Nicholas Muller pretends to be a man of decided political convictions, and so
he may be, like any other convict; but the convictions of Nicholas are not exactly of a kind to recommend him for office.
The citizens of the first assembly district will be glad to learn that Messrs.
Tweed and Sweeny have concluded not to nominate Nicholas Muller, the condemned ticket swindler, for alderman. There is some decency left in Tammany
Hall after all.
We do not desire to be understood as censuring the Sun
for exposing the antecedents of any candidate for a position
of honor and responsibility; that is the duty of every highminded  journalist;  but every  honest man  will censure a
journal when it attacks any man for pay, and misrepresents
the facts.
Mr. Muller was the first vilnm  of the law  under which he
suffered; he was only convicted  of a misdemeanor, which
consisted in not having a license, pursuant to  law, to solicit
passengers to purchase passage tickets, and was sentenced,
not to the penitentiary, but to  Ludlow-street jail for three
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As he had no influential counsel, like Mr. W. O. Bartlett,
for instance, to intercede for him, he served the full term of
his sentence.
The Sun has often supported and covered with flattery
candidates for office who have been arraigned and indicted
for felony. 
The attacks of the Sun on the unfortunate Muller were
given as an excuse by the Tammany King for throwing
Muller overboard and nominating Alderman Lawrence Jerome in his place.
Last fall Muller was a candidate for the Assembly, but
positively concluded not to run for the office if the Sun was
again to assail him  as in the spring. IHe was directedl by
some friend to a lawyer who had formerly been an attache
of the Sun, and who could possibly negotiate for the Sun's
support, or at least for its silence..
Mr. Muller called on this lawyer at the latter's law office.
Mr. Muller stated his case to him. The lawyer replied that
he thought he could accomplish what Mr. Muller desired for
$500 (five hundred dollars.)  Mr. Muller said that he was
willing to pay this amount, and would call the next day with
the money.. 
During the interval the lawyer visited the Managing Editor of the Sun and informed him of Mr. Muller's proposition,
plainly telling him that he (the Managing Editor) was only
to receive  a250 (two hundred and fifty dollars.) The Managing Editor agreed to do all in his power to stop the Sun's
attacks on Muller for the aforesaid consideration.
The following day Mr. Muller paid the lawyer the ~500,
and both then proceeded to the Sun office.
Mr. Muller was introduced to the  Managing Editor, and
the latter assured him that he need have no fear of the;-Sun
so far as he was concerned.
Although the Sun kept its word with Mr. Muller, he declined the Tammany nomination for Assemblyman from the
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IV.
THE SUN DURING THE FALL ELECTION or 1870.-How MucH?
The Tammany Ring have had no cause to complain, individually, of the Sun's treatment of them after the spring election.  Not having an opportunity to be of political service
to the Ring, it amused itself during the summer by keeping
up its eulogies of Mr. Tweed and the rest.  Speaking of an
entertainment given by Mr. Tweed to the Randall's Island
orphans, the Sun informed its readers that "the great tiger
was shining as a good man and a happy father."
In the early part of September the politicians returned to
town, and busied themselves in arranging the preliminaries
for the fall campaign.
Itwas a foregone conclusion that the Democrats would
renominate  "the tyrant," John  T. Hoffman.   The lIon.
Horace Greeley was spoken of as the most available candidate
on the Republican side.
At the very first intimation that Mr. Greeley's chances for
the nomination were all that his best friends could desire,
the Sun came out in a leading editorial, and thus commented
on the subject:
From the Sun of September 3,1870.
SHALL HORACE GREELY BE NOMINATED?-If the Republicans wish at the very
outset to confess that they are beaten and utterly beyond hope, let them nominate Horace Greeley for Governor. But if they desire to make a gallant fight,
and to save their honor and their organization, let them select as their candidate some practical man, for whom the Republican masses will enthusiastically
vote.
If the Republicans wish to throw away every doubtful Congress district in
the State, let them nominate Horace Greeley for Governor. But if they wish
to sae their Congressmen and to preserve their ascendancy in the House of Representatives, let them select some candidate whose very name is not a synonyme
of defeat.
We speak of what we know. Last fall, out of old friendship for Mr. Greeley,
and because General Grant had treated him shabbily and insulted the whole
newspaper press in his person, we made a great effort in his behalf. We ran
him ten thousand votes ahead of his ticket in this city and the Democratic counties where the Sun chiefly circulates. But the Republicans of the interior, where
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peated. Let us have a man who can run, and whose nomination will not render the election of Hoffman an absolute certainty.
Tammany Hall desires the nomination of Mr. Greeley; John T. Hoffman
desires it; the enemies of Mr. Greeley in the Republican party all desire it, for
they wish to see him crushed; but those who wish that the great Republican
party, with its glorious history, shall not be thrown away like a set of worthless
old clothes, must deprecate the idea of nominating a candidate for the express
purpose of being beaten. There are many very able men among the delegates
to the Saratoga convention. If they wish to commit political suicide, they will
nominate Horace Greeley.
Particular attention is requested to the above, for reasons
that will be explained hereafter.
On the 7th of September the Republican State Convention
assembled at Saratoga, and nominated Stewart L. Woodford
for Governor.
The San had, on the 31st of January previous, paid Mr.
Woodford's character a high  tribute when  he assumed the
management of the Brooklyn  Union newspaper.  This compliment was not so much out of regard for Mr. Woodford,
so much as to attack Mr. Samuel B. Chittenden, the retiring
proprietor of the Union, who  had had the audacity to assail
Counsellor W. O. Bartlett in the columns of his paper.
The Sun thus spoke of Mr. Woodford at that time:
From the Sun of January 31, 1870.
The Brooklyn Union is a journal which we have often had occasion to refer
to with disgust; but as it is-now passing from the control of the pompous, malignant, and contemptible Chittenden into the hands of Gen. Stewart L. Woodford,
a thorough change in its character may justly be expected.  Gen. Woodford was
recently Lieutenant Governor of New York; he has long enjoyed an extensive
celebrity as a popular orator, as Well as a hearty, kindly gentleman; he gained
fame as a fighter in the war; and his reputation as a practicing lawyer is also
good. In conducting the Union he will have the assistance of clever and experienced men, such as Mr. John F. Mines of Troy and Mr. Charles F. Briggs of
New York. We cordially welcome him to this new field of labor, the most difficult, we suppose, in which a man of talent can engage.
We are happy to believe that Gen. Woodford will be found worthy of his new
and most important vocation; and we look forward to seeing the Union become
under his management-what it has not been under his predecessor-an independent, honorable, generous, interesting, and valuable newspaper.
The next day after the Saratoga Convention  the Sun, apparently not having been " seen" by Mr. Tweed, or any other
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forward, by  declaring  Mr. Woodford'decidedly  the  best
man who could be chosen to  lead the party in the present
emergency," in the following leading editorial, published on
September 8:
From the Sun of September 8,1870
THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION FOR GOVERNOR.-In nominating Gen. Stewart
L. Woodford as their candidate for Governor at the approaching election, the
New York Republicans have shown that they mean seriously to contest the political control of the State with the Democrats. Backed by the support and patronage of the Administration, they intend to make a desperate fight to regain
the losses of the past two years. That they will succeed is not very likely; but
they will at least keep together and be ready for the Presidential campaign of
1872.
Gen. Woodford is decidedly the best man who could be chosen to lead his
party in its present emergency. Young, enthusiastic, and eloquent, he will call
out every vote that it is possible to call out, and make the most of the strength
at his command. Let the Democrats now.do their best, and we shall have one
of the most interesting elections ever held.
Two days elapsed after this eulogium  on Mr. Woodford.
As but few persons were then aware of the peculiar situation
of affairs at the Sun office, no one dreamed that the Suna journal which  styled itself a newspaper of "correct and
elevated  moral principles "-would  have  the  audacity  to
change front and go over to the support of"The Tyrant"
Hoffman and the Democracy. But time works marvellous
changes in human affairs, and two days later the Sun, having
in the interval probably been assigned by the Ring substantial
reasons to desert Woodford, began to show the white feather,
in the following editorial:
From the Sun of September 10, 1870.
Our correspondent at Saratoga spoke the other day of General Stewart L.
Woodford, the Republican candidate for Governor, as a "stay-at-home general."
This is erroneous and unjust. He'served actively during the war in Maryland,
Virginia, and South Carolina, beginning as a private in. the 127th New York
volunteers, and ending as colonel of the 35th United States colored infantry.
Though not a fighter by nature, he was a good soldier as he is a good man. He
is a handsome orator, faithful to his friends and to his party, not marked by
any eccentricities or very prominent characteristics of any kind, except goodness
of heart and kindness for all men. When he became lieutenant governor, he
was the right man in the right place; and if there were any chance of his being
elected to the office for which he has now been nominated, we should be sure of
an honest, dignified, and decorous administration. But that such a man should
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nomination, on the ground that he could not possibly be elected, we had no idea
that General Woodford could possibly be taken up and nominated in his place,
Marshall 0. Roberts having declined beforehand, it was our expectation that
some man of strength, like Edwin D. Morgan, George Opdyke, Amaziah B.
James, George Rathbun, William A. Wheeler, or Andrew. D. White would have
been selected. But we confess that -eneral Woodford, good fellow as he is, and
popular as he is, had not been included in our calculations of probability, and
it seems to us rather rough that Woodford should be taken. However,:he cannot properly be described as a stay-at-home general. In fact he was not a general in the war.at all; his last active service was as a colonel, and he got his
brevet, after all was over, along with that great crowd upon whom Mr. Stanton
so liberally conferred that distinction.
The Sun now  began a series of attacks against Mr. Woodford, and appeared to feel very miserable because Mr. Woodford, and not Mr. Greeley, had received the nomination for
Governor.
If the reader will now revert to the editorial, " Shall Horace
Greeley be nominated? " he will satisfy himself as to the great
desire of Mr. Dana to elevate Mr. Greeley to the office of
Governor.  But the Sun had not as yet mustered  up impudence enough to come out openly against Mr. Woodford.  It
contented itself with merely griniding its teeth.
On September 20, 1870, Mr. Dana, thinking that the public had forgotten his eulogium  of Mr. Woodford of September 8, 1870, wrote the following editorial, wherein he endeavors to influence the Young Democracy to run a third ticket,
and thus insure beyond all peradventure, the success of the
Ring Democrats:
From the Sun of September 20, 1870,
GEN. WOODFORD WILL NOT WITHDRAW.-The Tribune announces that Gen.
Woodford will not withdraw as the Republican candidate for Governor.
There is a curious propriety in the appearance in the Tribune of such an announcement. Gen. Woodford having been preferred to Mr. Greeley through the
operation of bribery, it is in accordance with the well-known, magnanimity of
the philosopher that he should insist upon the rival's continuing in the field and
receiving the awful beating that is in store for him. But much as this may
gratify Mr. Greeley, it is none the less a fatal resolution for the Republican
party. However, we will not enlarge on this head. If the Republicans hanker
for defeat and are in love with suicide, let them go ahead; it is their own affair.
But this determination opens a magnificent opportunity for the Young Democracy. With the Republicans running Stewart L. Woodford and the Democrats John T. Hoffman, the field is clear for an original, brilliant Napoleonic




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movement to be made by this vigorous new party. Let them put up for Governor some bold, approved, decided statesman, whom honest men of all factions
can vote for, and they may carry the State.
Knowing full well that General Woodford was determined
to fight to the close of the polls, the Ring, in order to discourage the Republicans, caused the insertion in the Sun of the
following  proclamation, which  savors much of Counsellor
Bartlett's style.  It was a leading editorial, and read thus:
To THE REPUBLICANS OF NEW YORK.-Your late convention at Saratoga was
a farce. It nominated a candidate for Governor who cannot possibly be elected.
His nomination was not desired or expected by any considerable proportion of
your number. And he was nominated through bribery.
In this condition of things what will you do?  Will you quietly submit to
the wrong that is done you? Will you walk patiently like lambs to the slaughter? Or will you repudiate the action of your venal delegates, assert your own
honest power, and reconquer the control of the Empire State?
The Republicans of New York can carry the State if they will. The Democratic administration at Albany-weak, corrupt, and destitute of ideas-is a
fraud and a nuisance in the eyes of the people. But if the Republicans desire
to gain and to hold the government of this great commonwealth, they must do
it by other means than the nomination of Stewart L. Woodford, secured by
bribery.
If you mean to act you must be quick. There is no time for shiftless fooling
with the subject. You are now irrevocably doomed to destruction. Continue
to run Woodford, and your fate is certain. But compel him to decline, and put
in his place some man who has the confidence of the people, who is not cursed
with the support of the imbecile family Administration at Washington, and who
can be nominated without bribery, and you may win the day.
On the 21st of September John T. Hoffman was renominated by the Democratic State Convention.  The Sun of the
24th, speaking of the Democratic platform, said:
From the Sun of September 24, 1870.
A DEMOCRATIC STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.-The adoption by the Democratic State Convention of the resolution declaring that all the old issues growing out of the war and reconstruction are settled and forever disposed of, was a
long step in the right direction. This is a significant repudiation of the plank
in the platform of the Tammany National Convention of 1868, proclaiming that
the entire reconstruction acts of Congress, including the Southern State governments framed under them, were unconstitutional, null, and void. This fatal
plank proved to be a trap-door through which the Democracy and its Presidential candidate fell, his fall being accelerated by the dead weight of the candidate
for Vice President, who, in a letter published just before the convention met, had
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Democratic President to use the army and navy to compel Congress to repeal
them, and to disperse those State governments by force.
It must be now  apparent to every conscientious mind that
the Tammany Ring fully controlled the Sun, and had easy access to its editorial columns.  The agent employed to ndgotiate for the Sun's support is said  to have been Counsellor
W. 0. Bartlett, Dana's confidential friend.   The Managing
Editor was also in  daily communication with  Mr. Peter B.
Sweeny.
Mayor Hall having charged General Woodford with complicity  in the Appleton-Oaksmith  case, the  moral Sun, on
September 28, is at once thrown into a passion, and editorially speaketh thus:
From the Sun of September 28, 1870.
WHAT S&YS GEN. WOODFORD?-We print in another part of this paper a report of a speech made by Mayor Hall before the recent Democratic convention
at Rochester.  He brings against the Republican candidate for Governor
charges so serious that Gen. Woodford must either at once disapprove them or
retire from the canvass. No candidate and no party can safely go to the polls
with such imputations remaining upon them.
The principal accusation made by Mr. Hall is, that in 1861, when Gen.
Woodford was assistant to the district attorney in the city, he was bribed by
Appleton Oaksmith, a well-known slave-trader, to allow his vessel, then fitted
out for the slave trade, to be bonded at a sum for less than her real value, so
that she was able to leave this port for the purpose of continuing the slave
trade. It is also alleged that the bondsmen upon whose guaranty the slaver
was allowed to sail was the father-in-law of Gen. Woodford.
Another charge is that while Gen. Woodford was Lieutenant Governor of
this State and President of the Senate, the charter for the French Cable Company was passed; that its passage was assisted by the Lieutenant Governor.
And that five thousand dollars were paid to the law partner of the Lieutenant
Governor as a compensation for services in getting the bill through. It is also
alleged by the mayor that, while a member of the canal board, Lieut. Gov.
Woodford systematically voted for every suspicious claim brought before the
board.  Upon this point, however, no special allegation of bribery or other
malfeasance is set up.
If Gen. Woodford cannot at once clear away all these charges, and especially that respecting his alleged collusion with the slave-trader Oaksmith, it
will be necessary for him  to be at once and decisively withdrawn from the
place he now occupies as the Republican candidate for Governor.
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doubtless smile when they peruse this' little cheeky editorial,
which explains itself: 
From the Sun of September 28, 1870.
Some donkey out West inquires what our assaults upon Gen. Woodford
mean, unless it be that the San intends to go over into the Democratic camp.
Why, bless your dear, foolish heart, the Sun can no more go over: into the
Democratic camp than it can into that of the Republicans. It does not belong
to any party, and we trust it never will. Its business is tf tell the truth about
them all, and to denounce the shortcomings and misdeeds of politicians of every
color. If the country were left to depend upon partisan journals for its
knowledge of the truth, it would be badly off. But aslong as the Sun shines
the dark places of intrigue and jobbery shall be illuminated, and political
knaves of every sort held up to the detestation they deserve.
The Sun also took particular pains to say as little as possible in laud of its old protege, Thomas A. Ledwith, who was
the candidate of both Republicans and Democrats against
A. Oakey I-all, the Tammany ring candidate.  If there was
any member of the Tammany ring whom  the Sun cordially
hated and despised, that man was A. Oakey Hall.  For a
whole year the columns of the Sun abounded in articles expressive of the contempt Mr. Dana and his associates entertained for Mr. Hall.  The Saun even went so far as to call Mr.
Hall a donkey, and printed a likeness of him, wherein he
was pictured carrying the ears of an ass.  In proportion as
the Sun hated Hall, so did it love Ledwith, Dana's favorite,
pet up to the last election.  When the Judge ran for Police
Justice against John Hardy, in the autumn of 1869, the Sun
warmly advocated hisclailms, and also availed itself of the
opportunity  to  blackguard Mr. Hardy and Mr. Peter B.
Sweeny.
But the situation had slightly undergone a change since
then.  Mr. Hall was in real danger of defeat last fall, and if the
Sun had boldly advocated Judge Ledwith for the mayoralty,
and Mr. Hall had been  defeated, the Tammany Sachems
would have unquestionably cut off the Sun's supplies, and
Mr. W.. OBartlett & Son's receiverships, references, appointments, and the other bones with which the Tammany ring
judges feed the "faithful and the true."
The Sun, therefore, gave its old pet, Ledwidth, only such
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PFrom'the Sun of October 12, 1870.
-If Thomas A. Ledwith would run for mayor as an independent Democratic
candcldate.against Tammany. and O'attal, he would make a. great race, and we
think could be elected; but if his friends load him ucp by attempting to nominate a.
complete ticket, the chances are that he will be beaten.
From the Sun of October 13, 1870.
It is now said that the Young Democracy are about to nominate Josiah W.
Brown, late tax commissioner, for sheriff.  Mr. Brown is an old political barnacie of the corrupt wing of the. Republican party.  It is reported that Gen.
Grant's friends have- demanded his nomination, on the plea that it would not
"do to have the ticket too Irish."  Let the Young Democracy remember that if
they load Judge Ledwith up by nominating a complete ticket, the chances are that
he will be defeated. 
Well did the San know that the Young Democracy, in
order to  maintain  even  a semblance of  organization, was
constrained   to nominate a complete county  ticket; for had
they pursued  a different course, they would  have admitted
that their war was not against the Tammany Ring, but against
A. Oakey  Hall, which  was not the case.
Then, after the YNoung Democracy had made their nominations, the Sun sneaked around the corner thus:. rom the Sun of October 17, 1870.
THE YOUNG DEMocRAcY. —T he Young Democracy have nominated a fair
ticket.  Tomarna A. Ledwith, who is the candidate for mayor, is a first-rate
man, honest and faithful.  The' public welfare would be safe in his hands.
Some of the other names on the ticket are also excellent. That of J. N. Tappen, the candidate for comptroller, is especially worthy of confidence.
Bnt can this ticket win? Can it overthrow the corrupt power of the Tammany ring?  We fear not. The Young Democracy were slaughtered by the
Republicans last winter. They were sold out by them, for money, for help to
railroads, for offices in this city. A more wicked and foolish act was never done
by anyset of politicians than this murder of the Young Democracy by the Republicans.  But it was done, and cannot be undone now. The present Young
Democracy are not the same whose throats were then cut by the Republicans,
and they are not so strong. Sheriff O'Brien, Norton the Thunderbolt, Creamer
the friend of the mean-sonled A. T. Stewart, Gelet the generous, all these are
amo)ng them no longer.  Besides, the Young Democracy, as now organized, are
under the suspicion of being used to get votes for Woodford. This is fatal.
No party leagued even indirectly with a slave-trader can hope for public support in this community. Tweed and O'Hall are bad enough; but they have
never been engaged'i'n'the slave trade.
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Work of Hell."  It was the effort of Counsellor W. O. Bartlett, and was so acceptable to the Tammany Ring that they
ordered ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND copies of the San containing
this editorial for gratuitous distribution throughout the State,
How much did Counsellor Bartlett get paid for writing it?
How much did Mr. Dana get? We leave the reader to draw
his own inference!
Three days before the election the Sun turns tail on Ledwith, and thus deserts him:
From the Sun of November 5, 1870.
WHERE DOES HE STAND.-Mayor O'Hall visited the Jackson club rooms on
Wednesday night.  He was warmly received by Sheriff O'Brien, and repeatedly
cheered and toasted.
If Judge Ledwith had manfully repudiated all affiliation with the slavetraders' ticket, the friends of O'Brien would have earnestly supported the
judge for may6r. They now support O'Hall and Hoffman in preference to
Woodford and Ledwith. It is not yet too late for Judge Ledwith to debie his
position.
HOW MR. DANA WAS INSULTED.
On Sunday evening, November 6,1870, but two days preceding the election, a gentleman, while in conversation at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel with Mr. Thomas C. Acton, ex-Police
Coritmissioner and present Superintendent of the New York
Assay Office, informed the latter that the Sun was a rotten
Institution, and proceeded to state his reasons for so asserting.
He told Mr. Acton of the bargain between the Managing
Editor of the Sun and Mr. Tweed; of the bargain between
Nicholas Muller and the Managing Editor; and of sundry
other facts known to the gentleman in question, some of
which are detailed above, and others which for the present
are withheld from the public.
Mr. Acton professed great surprise at what his friend said,
and suggested that it was due to Mr. Dana to inform him:f
the matter without delay.
Mr. Acton further proposed to accompany the gentleman
to Mr. Dana's house immediately.  The gentleman signified
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Both walked down to Mr. Dana's residence, in East 18th
street.
Mr. Dana was not in.
Mr. Acton said that as they lad gone so far, they had better
take a 3d-avenue car and ride to the Sun office.
They did so. Arrived at the Sun office, Mr. Acton went
up to the editorial rooms to apprize Mr. Dana that a gentleman desired to see him down stairs.
In about two minutes Mr. Acton reappeared, accompanied by Mr. Dana, who wore the Scotch cap he always wears
when in the harness.
"What is it?" said Mr. Dana, on reaching the bottom of
the stairs.
"It is a long story" wasthe reply,'and we had better go
into the publication office, where we will be undisturbed."'
Mr. Acton, Mr. Dana, and the other gentleman then
walked into the publisher's private office.
Mr. Dana sat down on the lounge, while Mr. Acton and
his friend occupied seats facing him.
The gentleman then detailed to Mr. DIana all the minutic
of the little arrangement between Mr. Tweed and the Managing editor.
When the gentleman had narrated the transaction between
the Managing Editor and Mr. Nicholas Muller, Mr. Dana,
indignantly turning to Mr. Acton, said:
"Well, he (the Managing Editor) has always pitched into
this man Muller every opportunity he has had."'Not since the $250 were paid, sir, 11'l warrant" said the
gentleman. [Mr. Muller paid the money on October 6, 1870.]
"Well, then, all I've got to say is, that he earned the
money very cheap," put in Mr. Dana, with the air of a man
who was insulted at what had been told him.
Mr. Dana was next informed of other money transactions
between his managing editor and several Tammany Hall
politicians, &c.
Mr. Dana, after declaring that nobody could buy HIM, (to
which declaration both gentlemen out of compliment, nodded
assent,) appeared impatient to get away.
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All three then arose to depart.
Mr. Acton and Mr. Dana, however, turned back and conversed for about a half hour longer in the publisher's office.
While waiting for them  to conclude their talk, the gentleman observed Comptroller Connolly enter and walk up stairs to the
editorial rooms.
In about fifteen minutes, Messrs. Acton and Dana-made
their appearance.
After bidding  Mr. Dana good-night, Mr. Acton  and his
friend left.
On their way to the cars Mr. Acton  observed that lMr.
Dana asked how much he (Acton) had paid him  (his companion)
for imparting the information.
This rebuke was all the thanks Mr. Acton received  for
what he considered an act of kindness to the editor of the
Sun.
WAs THIS ANOTHER $6,500?
Mr. Connolly's business with  Mr. Dana, with whom  he
was closeted for a half hour after Mr. Acton and his friend
departed, is explained by the  appearance of the  following
editorial in the next morning's Sun:
From the Sun of November 7,1870.
A committee, consisting of Marshall 0. Roberts, Moses Taylor, John J. Astor,
E. D. Brown, George K. Sistare, and Edward Schell, have examined the accounts
of Mr. Comptroller Connolly, and find them  all correct. They also declare, in
a statement published in another column, that the city finances are in perfect
order in Mr. Connolly's hands. This statement, from gentlemen so eminent in
the financial world, must be taken as answering the imputations that have been
made against the character and administration of Mr. Connolly.
We understand that it has been determined, in order to avoid a law-suit, to
run Mr. Connolly as a candidate for comptroller upon the Tammany ticket.
Mr. Connolly informs us that it was not his wish to run, as he regards his
present tenure of the office as perfectly valid, but he yields to the judgment of
his political associates. After the certificate to which we have referred, it is not
likely that his vote will be smaller than that of any of the other candidates
upon his ticket.
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From the Sun of November 7,1870.
DON'T VOTE FOR WOODFORD. —Don't vote for Stewart L. Woodford for Governor.
Because it is proved by his own evidence that he was a friend of Appleton
Oaksmith, the slave-trader, and when acting district attorney connived with
him to send out the bark Augusta on a slave-trading voyage.
Because when he waslieutenant governor his business partner received $5,000
for the passage through the Legislature of the French cable bill.
Because his business partner received a $3,000 mortgage from Zeno Burnham, shortly after Burnham was pardoned out of State prison.
For these reasons thousands of Republicans will to-morrow vote for John T.
Hoffman, and they will do right.  It is a hard necessity for them, but the slavetrade candidate ought to be defeated.
And again, thus:
From the Sun of November 7,1870.
But do not be afraid of Grant's threats.  Even if he should station troops at
the polls, walk through the bayonets —they will not prick you-aud vote.
Vote according to you honest convictions.  Vote just as you please; that is
freedom. But do not be afraid to vote.
The result of the election is well known.  The Sun, with
marvellous zeal to its owners, thus comments on the subject:
THE ELECTION.-The country is to be congratulated on the signal defeat of
Stewart L. Woodford.  Nominated through the interference of President Grant
to an office for which he had neither capacity nor character; so corrupt as to.
have connived at the slave trade; connected in business with a pardon-broker
and a lobby agent, public morality required that he should be defeated.
The vote shows a considerable falling off of the Democratic majority in the city
as compared with 1868, while the returns from the interior represent a largely
enhanced majority for Hoffman over his previous vote. As near as we can at
this writing gather from the returns, the country gains of the Democracy will.
more than balance their shrunken majorities in this section.  As we figure it,
Governor Hoffman is re-elected by 30,000 over the slave-trader.
The Democrats gain two Congressmen in the Troy and Saratoga districts.
Ellis H. Roberts in the Utica, and John H. Ketcham  in the Columbia districts
are elected.  In this city and Brooklyn the Democrats elect all their candidates.
The Republicans carry the Orange district.
In the fourth district the gallant ItcMahon has been defeated by the candidate of Know-nothing principles, who had the support of the Tammany machine.
A superficial observer might conclude that this machine is so powerful in that
district that it would, as one of its managers has expressed it, elect a jackass to
Congress if they chose to nominate himi  This, however, does injustice to the
people of the district.  McMahon took the field only two weeks before the election. lie had no compact organization to back him, and yet, thanks to his own
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16,000 to less than 4,000. This shows that if he  d had aa week longer for the
fight, Tammany would have come out of it thoroughly beaten.
Governor I-offman's majority in the city is cut down from 69,000 in 1868 to
about 50,000, while Oakey Hall's majority of 54,000 is reduced by nearly or
quite two-thirds. The next Assembly may be Democratic by a small majority.
By this election the Tammany ring gain a new lease of power. If they are
wise, they will turn honest, stop stealing among their subordinates, and give
this city a cheap and just government. A greater opportunity was never offered to any set of politicians..They are rich, they are skillful; and if they
will reform, the people may learn to forget their career hitherto. it is never
too late for repentance.
TWEED, GO TO HEADQUARTERS.
About -two weeks after the election Mr. Isaac W. England,
the Publisher of the Sun, who has acted as an intruder in
this narrative, and whom we will now kick out of the same,
wrote a note to Mr. Tweed, stating that he desired to see
1imr  on business of the most momentous importance.
Mr. Tweed, who had not been to his office for some days,
came down shortly after the receipt of Mr. England's note,
and appointed a time for the interview.
Mr. England was as punctual as most men are when they
have to attend to business of momentous importance.
On being ushered into Mr. Tweed's presence, Mr. England
informed him  that he  (England) came on behalf of Mr.
Dana.  That Mr. Dana  had learned that Mr. Tweed had
given his Managing Editor money, and still continued to give
him  $500 a month, and that Mr. Dana wanted that sort
of business stopped.
Mr. England, after talking  for sometime  longer, and
with the supreme impudence characteristic of the man, concluded by asking Mr. Tweed WHY HIE (TWEED) DID NOT GO TO
HEADQUARTERS IF HE WANTED TO DO BUSINESS.
Mr. Tweed sternly replied that his mouth WAS FOREVER
CLOSED as to whatever pecuniary transactions he might have
with gentlemen, and that as for going TO HEADQUARTERS TO
DO BUSINESS, HE BEGGED TO INFORM  MR. ENGLAND TIAT HIE
INEW OF NO BUSINESS AT PRESENT TO GO TO THE HEADQUARTERS
OF THE SUN FOR.
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is quite apparent, for the Sun has begun to ridicule him, almost daily, ever since.
We rather guess that Mr. Tweed and other public men
whom the Sun has black-mailed in the past will nlot care how
much the biter ATTEMPTS to bite in the future, now that his
fangs are cut.
As Mr. Eingland was strongly suspected of having undertaken the ablove mission o     n  own hoo   and for his own
benefit, a gentleman visited Mr. Dana shortly afterwards to
ascertain froml his own lips whether he had authorized Mr.
England to represent him (Dana) to Mr. Tweed.
"Yes, sir," replied Mr. Dana, "and as I do not intend to
take any action with respect to my Managing Editor, I request of you not to mention to him  that I know anything
about his business."
We have but little to add.
The writer does not presume to claim  for what he has
narrated in the foregoing pages any other merit than tlat of
being a plainly written, TRUTHIFUL narrative of the manner
a model journal of "correct and elevated moral principles"
is conducted.
As such he respectfully submits it to the consideration of
the AMERICAN PUBLIC.
MIV.f