Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1884 — DORSEY’S VENOM. [ARTICLE]

DORSEY’S VENOM.

PB Empties a Few Vial* of Wrath on and Mat Veagh—A Vigorous D«oi LngeraoU, and a Hint of Fart* ■t Be Disclosed. HHln reply to on editoral paragraph ■oting ei-PoitmasWr ( rr: - r:-.l I i . §§| James as saying, “If Gen. Garfield ||Hd taken a lower view of his duties, would not have fallen a victim |H the assassin’s bullet,” the Santa (N. M. ) Eeviw recently published ■Be following communication from Dorsey: |H<7 answer, if worth while to answer at all like James, is that while Gon. Gar|Hld may have been very low in his vow Rj^Hmetimes, as ail men are, he struck the ebb of low tide when he appointed Postmaster General and MacVoagh General. He caught the ovil-fanged in one case and the devil-lish in the lj|Hber. These appointments were against my earnest protest, which was writien at He request of the President-elect and which published long ago. 1 didn’t know Hmos or MacVeagh, except by sight, but the scent or the tirst sight was sufficient. I Rj^B^'' v enough of them to know that they not fit representatives of two great which they claim to represent. 1 oiice Hid that the only credit MacVeagh was ento was the fact that he was the littlo of a great father-in-law. The Hcduct of the best potato generally results vicious and vapid eyes; the transmi.tcd of great men losses its ettoct in the transmission. writing this to you, my chief purpose is reply to statements made by James and HaoVeagh in respect to Col. Ingersoll. As a as a man, as a, friend, and as the of a family he has not now, and never Bd have, an equal in this or any other counAs an orator his peer never stopped on rosttum. Tho intimaton of that man B^B* mea that Ingersoll had in some way a part the assassination of Gariield by furnishing Be aseaaein money to buy a pistol repregjßnts the abhorrent character and the idiocy BHI James as weil as anything can. It would EHe an insult to the vilest professional witness BHk tite Tombs to say that James contradicts EBim. It seems to me that many persons are Horn liars, without judgment to conceal their Having, and many others whose capacity is igHDual in falsehood have tho cunning to con|Bfel ft. Both classes are adorned by Janies EHnd MaoYeagh. A man who defends lngerBH?U against a chargb of this kind would bo a EHreater fool than the man who made the Tho man whose intclleut has enBKgbtenod every nation called civilized, and BHiost of those called barbaric; whose charitaBHle sayings are repeated at every hearthstone BHf the world where language will permit ffiß&peiition; a'man whose genius is recognized Hi Canton, Moscow, London, as well as in Htev York, possesses a power the world likes ■o feel. When a century produces a great IBsjui the man produced makes the century |Breat. EH Whatever reply Ingersoll, A. B. Williams myself have to make before the coinmitwill be made on oath, and I fancy tho KHacts will come out. I have no doubt that |Hhe falsehood of fools will be stamped out. I knew a work more unprofitable than Bm attempt to contradict liars. If you could them of a falsehood one day they IHvould produce ten the ne.it day on tho same and probably on a larger scale. Men Bvho try to hide behind the monument of a Bnartyr can only be found by the boys who Bire hunting tho chirping birds that oven a IBboy with 1118 flrßt shotgun would not shoot at. B?he man who has dblraudod the Government Bnit of millions of dollars, and who lias, in [Birder to conceal bribery, accepted an office B>f the man in whoso favor fraud was perKetrated, is much tho best qualified to tell frauds, being engaged in them all his Ho understands them, being a reformer one hand in tho bank vaults stealing the widows and orphans, the other sticlcSHtag out of tho door, with a voico screaming jHfcreasury and of public morals.

STEPHEN W. DORSEY.