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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 12 0 Browse Search
Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography 6 0 Browse Search
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana 6 0 Browse Search
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865 4 0 Browse Search
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1 4 0 Browse Search
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John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 25: epoch of public corruption (search)
ntral Pacific contractors, the congressional salary grab, and the plan for the annexation of Santo Domingo. It opposed the confirmation of Caleb Cushing and George H. Williams for the Supreme Court of the United States, and had the pleasure of seeing their names withdrawn. It denounced the weakness and incompetency of Richardson as Secretary of the Treasury, the corruption of Creswell as Postmaster-General, and of Robeson as Secretary of the Navy. It held up to public scorn the name of Oakes Ames, for distributing gratuitously the stock of the Credit Mobilier, which had made enormous profits out of the construction of the Union Pacific Railway, and exposed such members of Congress and other public men by name as had accepted that stock in exchange for their votes and friendly offices. The revelations in this case constituted one of the most shameless scandals of our political history. They stained the character of one congressman, who lived it down and afterwards became President
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 26: Grant's second term (search)
nection with the lady's confession and the undisputed facts of the case, the Sun did not hesitate to pronounce Beecher guilty nor to declare that his great genius and his Christian pretences only make his sin the more horrible and the more revolting. It was on October 1, 1878, that the Sun published an elaborate and circumstantial article recapitulating the career of General Garfield as a member of Congress, and charging him with complicity in the Washington ring, the operations of Oakes Ames and the Credit Mobilier, the back-pay salary grab, the De Golyer paving contract, and many other irregularities of legislation. It was a bold and relentless arraignment, which attracted much attention at the time, and constituted later the strongest argument of the campaign against the election of Garfield to the presidency. It was repeated in many forms by Democratic speakers during the canvass, but failed to convince the majority of the voters that Garfield was altogether unworthy. H
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Index (search)
Index A. Adams, Abigail, 1. Adams, John, 456, 459. Adams, John Q., 25, 138, 456, 459. Addition, Division and silence, 427. Alabama campaign, 355. Alabama claims, 422. Alabama River, 250, 251. Alcott, Mr., 27, 33, 35. Alexander, Columbus, 434, 435. Allen, Mr., 48. Alliance between Russia, Prussia, and Austria, 82. Altgeld, Governor, 481. America, aid to, 81. American Cyclopaedia, 158, 173-177, 501. Ames, Oakes, 434. Amnesty for political offenders, 401. Ancestry and family history, 1,2, 3. Anderson, Major, 164. Annexation of Canada, 421-423, 476-478. Anti-British feeling, 382. Antietam, 168, 199, 310. Antislavery amendment, 352. Appomattox, 330, 331. Appraiser of merchandise, 414,415. Army, corps, Sixth, 337, 338, 342 362; Ninth, 322; Thirteenth, 318, 227, 236, 245; Eighteenth, 335, 337; Nineteenth, 337; of Potomac, 170, 249, 250, 251, 275, 299, 303, 304, 310, 317, 318, 330, 333, 349, 362, 366; of Shenandoah, 344; of Tennesse