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John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 25: epoch of public corruption (search)
n order, they set about organizing a campaign of hatred and resentment against Dana and the Sun. In this they invoked the aid of the federal courts to punish the editor for offences which, if offences at all, were offences against the laws of the State in which they were committed. It was on June 20, 1872, that the Sun published a letter containing a phrase that was everywhere hailed as the shibboleth of corruption. It runs as follows: Treasury Department of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, March, 1867. My Dear Titian, Allow me to introduce to you my particular friend Mr. George O. Evans. He has a claim of some magnitude that he wishes you to help him in. Put him through as you would me. He understands Addition, Division, and Silence. Yours, W. H. Kemble. To Titian J. Coffey, Esq., Washington, D. C. The writer was State treasurer at the time, but was convicted in 1880 of trying to bribe members of the Pennsylvania legislature, and served a year in the penitentiary for his o