Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1879 — Prophetic Disclosures. [ARTICLE]

Prophetic Disclosures.

Mr. Potter—Mr. Marble, will you be kind enough to inform the committee whether you sent any cipher dispatches from Tallahassee to' anybody in New York during the months of November and December, 1876? Mr. Marble—Forasmuch as the plot to filch the Presidency aqd the Government from the eleot of the people, beside its two qualities of fraud aud force# had two periods and portions, or otherwise parts, the undersigned has felt constrained in the primacy of leadership# standing fast In the final citadel of power, the keen bright sunlight of publicity, to ride down Pennsylvania avenuo clothed upon with chastity coparcener— — Q.—But, Mr. Marble, excuse me, I think you did not catch tfie drift of my question. A.—This ague-smitten Pariah offering to the highest bidder the sacred muniments of'*the Presidential title, worked out the primary part and fraudulent groundwork of the plot, otherwise complot, or, totidem verbis, conspiracy Q— Mr" Marble! A.—This fiction and that forgery are the two necessary hinges upon which the Tribune hangs every subsequent falsification of my opinions, purposes aud aets. Forasmuch —

Q.—Mr. Marble, did you write the dispatch numbered fifty in this pamphlet, conveying a “proposition to hand over Tilden decision of Board, etc.# for $200)000?” A.—One decisive instance will suffice. Cipher-telegram seventy-eight, stating that the Democrats wanted nothing but a fair count, is, as translated and ascribed to me, a base fabrication and forgery. Theaguesmilten Pariah who betrayed his capacity for crime by attempting to hide the true Q.—But, Mr. Marble, the dispatches in the Tribune. A.—Sir. I never read the Tribune. Forasmuoh—— Q. —Did you use the signature “Moses” while you were in Florida? A.—Anyone of the venal crew Q. —Please answer my question. A. — It is anybody’s secret that throughout the month white this groundwork and primary part of the conspiracy Was heaping up and cementing iu debauchnient and dishonor, a few thousand dollars—a market for the wares of just one Madison Wells, just one McLin, only one—paid for doing the bounden duty and mere justice he had swofti to do, and the whole atrocious conspiracy would have been bursted like a puffball and blown away in dust. But I apologize to Gov. Tilden for confronting his character with the morally impossible. The complex tissue of fraud they were weaving, the deputized gobetweens and real principals in the crime of reversing, forasmuch Mr. Potter—The witness will please confine himself to the matter of the question. Mr. Marble —I shall let these thirty or forty broadsides of disparagement pass on into echoes more or less noisy. The perjuries, forgeries, paper fabrications, the numerous and more immoral payments with public offices possessed through a crime and prostituted for its reward, whereby an inflexible House would have shriveled and consumed the conspiracy, root and branch. Thrice 600 votes fairly cast for the Tilden Electors in Alachua County, the infernal scoundrels Q. —Did you write over the signature “Moses?” A.—Swarms of brokers Q. —Answer, please. Did you write over the signature “Moses?” A. — The simplicity of this plan may have obscured its sagacity. Forasmuch Q. —Answer my question. Did you write ? A. —W hereby Q. —Answer the question. A.—Forasmuch as the undersigned Q. —Are you “Moses?” A.—To hear Noyes defend the Alachua frauds and forgeries with gushing eloquence, and the fabricated testimony of two hundred and twenty-eight affiants, would have given that canting hypocrite, Pecksniff himself, a moral vomit. This man— — Q.—Mr. Marble, we will pass to something else. 1 find a telegram addressed to you, saying, “Proposition accepted if done only once.” What was that proposition? A.—Traces of money payment are darkly visible to the Potter Committee. Fraud

Q. —Was it a proposition to sell the vote of Florida? A. —The archprimates of treason when beclouded by untoward events which have given the usurper a coigne of vantage which his uttermost audacity had never won, embarked upon unsounded and shipwrecking seas, whereby the monumental fraud Q. —What proposition did you transmit from Tallahassee to New YorkP A.—The signal and peculiar mark of that plan was this: His absolute trust in moral fnrcesf Jlis enl.ire faith in the people, their volitions, and their power. Ana why, of all men in the United States, should not he? A.,coparceny of spoils Q. —Did you receive any proposition “to hand over Tildep decision of Board” for a sum of money? A.—The shameless creed that this Republic is rotten at the core; that we, forty-eight millions of freemen, descendants in great part of a race of men who made their Kings and unmade them, who dethroned Kings, and beheaded, and at times dispensed with Kings, are now wearing the robes and the purple of sovereignty by proxy only till the first dragonnade led by a savior of society— Q. —Please answer the question. A. —Whereby forasmuch otherwise forecast circumspection intrepidity complot coparceny preventing Moses best Bolivia London Qj,—What proposition did you telegraph to Col. Pelton? A.—To carry on'aihid public order the ark and shechinah of our self-government. Q. —Was any answer returned t^that nonununieatiQft?.^A.—The Democrimy of the Great West, on Jackson's trfrfhday, had their representatives crush the conspiracy between the upper and the nether millstones of the supreme i law, and the strength of those Who had j won to hold. The frauds in Alachua County—> . I Q. —Have you ake/to these ciphers?

A. --When this flagitious complot wu was flagrant in all Its parts, and while as yet no one Republican hierarch bad challenged the conspirators with a stand thou on that side, for on this am Q. —What Is the meaning of the word “ CopenhagenP” A.—Beside a plan of campaign, here were arsenals of ammunition provided, and lethal weapons fashioned to the hand of every hater of fraud. For whatever the wish, or the less absolute integrity, or the more customary morals of - any dovoted adherent, the coequality of their separate powers in the concurrence of best United States documents would put their menaced usurpations to the torture of proof in the act. lor who can say that the untimelinesS in raising a supremo issue of popular sovereignty . G.—This hardly meets the inquiry, Mr. Marble. A.-It petrified the “ fierce Democracie” themselves in all their popular assemblies Q.—Did you P A.—Alachua frauds a . Q. —Did you agree to pay anything for the votes of the Florida Canvassers? A.—John Sherman and Index Noves • ,■ C^.—Give me a straight answer. A.— Forasmuch u q._ What was the nature of this proposition? A.—Offering to the highest bidder the sacred muniments of the Presidential title. Gen. Butler.—This witness only confirms me in my opinion, that we cannot inquire into the private transactions of unofficial persons. I think he might as well be discharged. ■ Mr. Marble.—Shall I not ring firebell in night? Mr. Potter.--No, Mr. Marble, the committee will excuse you from further attendance. Mr. Marble. —These infernal scoundrels —— Mr. Potter. —That will do, sir. Mr. Marble. —Coparceny Gen. Butler.—As a lawyer, I must say that this is entirely irregular. Mr. Marble.—The Alachua frauds— Index Noyes—Forasmuch —— Mr. Potter here gave private instructions to the Sergeant-at-Arms, and Mr. Marble was led out of the room.—Washington Got. N. V. Tribune .