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July 16th, 1874.—till let Oct. Albany, Os.
|Prr ^cehln J[lews.\ hETT ™
PR9Wllt.il I. If*BALL
HIS OWIS DEFENSE
Af.BAKY, fl \.,
“It it not nnk or birib or slate; '
»n» the gct-up-*ud-get that make* men grcmt,”
'From the Cathbert Aj>f>eal.}
Democratic courenlido of ilie Sec*
oud Congressional District.
The Chairm&D of the bi-mocralic Executive
Committee of the Second Congressional Dis
trict, haring fully conferred, by mall," with
members of the Committee, as to *the time'
end pleas for holding the Convention, finds
a large majority of them in favor of the place
hereinafter annauQ£a^pJ£|ghlfM»4a0N*f|flB.
July 28th to September 10th, have been ad-
-vieed by different members, no two of whom
have agreed. Vet all bare desired, that the
Chairman should fix each time, aa might
seem most "early to accommodate the differ,
eat opinions. What terms a suitable com
promise time is. therefore announced:
The several. counties of the District are
requested to send delegates to sit in Con.
venlion at Albany, at 12 'o'clock, M,
on Thursday, the 20tb of August next, to
nominate a candidate for Congress, and to
transact any oibetiappropriate business.
- All Democratic pppcpelf thqfpistr&l&and
Macon'and Savannah papers please copy.
Jotts.T. Cunt,
Cbm’n Dot".'Ex. Com. 2d Can Dist.
Cnthbtrt, July 15, lfS74; . . ..
“ Boil. C. A. Norma, seems to 1m: llieeoro--
ing man in bis Dial riel - tor- Cnng-ssa. Mr.
Nutting'we regard as one of the foremost
men in Georgia, end we should he. pleased to
‘eee him in Congress.. Uis District cannot
send a better men.”
The above is from the Atlanta Herald’. *li
sterna lo be Ibe general expressed opinion,
throughout Ibe Diatrict, Unit Col. Nutting
will be. the choice of the nominating conven
tion.—Macon Star.
Thi Question Srrritro.—Our dear old
friend of (be Thomasvill^ Enterprise, has at
laat broken the ominous, silence ot the yean
that have made Min'gray, and settled the
great problem of ibe Congressional nomina
tion in the 2d District. We waited patiently
for hia voice, and now Imre H in a review of
the candidates for nraoiinstion ; and as be is
the patriarch bf fbe» Democracy, ww doubt
not all will acqu’iesce in his conclusions,
provided they are astute enrfligti lo gnd np
idea, a suggestion' or a preference in l ‘ ia
magnanimous performance*.
I K. I. Kf-ntDallas Letter.
his
The Press on
From the. Atlanta Ileraid."]
The Herald lias never knowingly ‘ defended
a bad man. It ban never-stood* between the
people and any man who d/nfczved their con.
damnation, It has never apologized tor a
ring, or championed a clique, aud it never
will. On the other band it never shriuks
from speaking its deliberate opinion, and
speaks with no uncertain sound.
The letter of 11. 1. Kimball, which we pub
lish this morning, no true-niiuded journalist
can fail to accept For three years. Mr Kim
ball has remained silent under accusations
To-day he speaks and replies serial um to the
charges which have been, made against him.
The journalist i»Uo reads i lib . letter and
then fails to prooduncs upon ils merits,
evades a duty and shirks a responsibility.
For.our part, we should accept as final in
the matter the positive statement made upon
the question of Mr Kimball’s .guilt to Mr.
Kimball himself, by Governor Smith. The
Governor, whose sworn duty.it was to in-
▼estigatr these matters, brought to the aid of
bis own exertions the labors of Hon Linton
Stephens, the acutest legal mind of the day,
and one thoroughly 'posted upon all the
frauds of Bullock's regime; then failed to
find any thing against Kimball “on
which to base, much leas to sustain a charge.
Add to this the fact that Mr. Kimball re
turned to the State voluntarily, and asked (
for an investigation while the Legislature
was in session, and that the Courts have fail
ed to arrest or prosecute Mr Kimball, though
called upon to do eo, would, it sterns, satisfy
the;unprejudiced that there was not much of
a case against him.
His candid and manly reply, will, ^
think, strenghten his cause, and explain to ] a y at the wharf at Brunswick to extend it.
it.. -. — I - ,1,- -- MAiUln H*l«« alt iliA Qi .in and * v .... 1 i V T ItT 1_ iL -
ad with. There seems to be no evasion in il
no .dodging. He approaches every issui
‘ ' * -. and we think, snlisfnctoiily upon it:.;
mball, we hope, is coming back to
corgis his home. He comes ns a pri-
i he proposes lo indenlify probably with
to. We far one, shall welcome him and
all like him. And until something worse
has been proved against him than has yet
beeneuggested; the Herald is his friend.
Ha comes as we know, a poor man. If
this is all the deeper reason for the welooi
which the Herald extends him. If he comi
and casts his iot with our people, puts hi
■boulder to.the wheel, and gives aid in tin
great work of bnilding np the city, he will
find Mends whether he brings money with
Tar H. I. Kimball Horse, K-, *w 43, \
Atlama, Ga.. July 17, 1874. ./V
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel, Augu.-ta, Go.
From your issue of the 12th iostaoc 1 clip
the following: £
“•“We have received a letter from Mr. H -I.
Kimball, complaining of the injustice done
him by our Atlanta correspondent in a letter
published Thursday morning. He charac
terizes th* MatemeD!--.. utterly raise, and,
in view uf the*fact that they are calculated
to du him great injury, requests us lo do him
justice. Prominent as Mr. Kimball has been
in involving the State in the most reckless
and extravigant wildscat railroad enterprises,
and gnilty of peculation, aa he is believed to
be by the great mass ofonr people, we have
.no desire to prejudge him since it is justice
he seeks. All men. no matter how flagrant
their abases or revolting their crimes, are
entitled to justice, and to a trial before their
peers. Public opinion is overwhalmingly
against Mr. Kimball. The people of Geort
gia believe him guilty of the wildest extrav
agance and of having appropriated to his own
personal ase money harrowed on the credit
of the .State. They attribute the financial
embairraoainent of the State to his railroad
development mania, and consider him eualq-
ljr os gnilty oa Gov. Bollock of peculation
and fraud. Mr. Kimball will have to naffer
from the imputation ot being duhonesf until a
jury of the citizen* of Georgia acquit him of in
tentional fraud The people believe him guil
ty. They believe that he oagfit to be ar
rest edand tried. We desire, however, to do
no man injustice, and if -Mr.' Kimball still
feels aggrieved at the comments of either onr
correspondei t or ourselves, we will give him
a hearing through our rot urine. The people of
Georgia wonifl like to hear from him. They
rather admire his cheek in coming back to
face Ibe music, and they would doubtless ad
mire his candoSif he would come out and
make a clean breast of it. If H. T. Kimball
would Only tell all be knows, the people of
Georgia outside or Atlanta would rejoice at
bis disclosures. Until he exculpates himself
the verdict of the people will be against
him” . ' ’
When I addressed you the lelter referred
to. calling your attention to the scandalous
and libelous lelter from your Atlanta cor
respondent, publishctl in your issue of the
Oth instant. I fully Mined what I said in
that note, viz: that ft bad been pabliibed
without your knowledge or consent, and that
I bad only to call your attent:on4o the fact
to have you do me full justice.
I was confident that from lha position
which yon had occupied yon could not be
ignorant of fads that would wholly contrO'
vert the statements of yonr correspondent,
but judging from your comments upon my let
ter, I assume that you are still in ignorance
os lo the facts, and while 1 dislike a newt-
paper controversy, and disclaim any inten
tion of entering the lists against so distin
guished and polished a writer as'ydnrself. or
of dimeending to the level of your slander
ous Atlanta correspondent; nevertheless, I
do ;*'feel aggrieved” at your comments, and
accept the opportunity offered for “a hearing
through your columns."
Tito charges which are made against my
character are generally of that vague, indefi
nite kind, founded only on belief without
evidence, and upon surmise without • knowl
edge, and are, therefore, very difficult to an
swer specificallybat in this “hearing” 4
shall endeavor lo meet with the plain facts
every charge against my character that has
come to my knowing. from any responsible
source—and with this I have done.
The charge that snob railroads as the
Brunswick and Albany, tha Carteraville and
Van Wert, and the Marietta and North Geor
gia, are “reckless and extravagant wildcat
rsjlrosd enterprise,” is not snpported by the
fact. I will not prolong this bearing to lay
before you the history of these enterprises;
suffice it to say they were inaugurated, ad
vocated, and encouraged before the people,
in the legialative halls of Georgia, and before
the financiers of the w >rld, by many of Geor
gia’s ablest men, for many years before I
had tha pleasure of a residence in yonr State,
or the honor of a connection with these great
enterprises. This is: an undeniable fact.
State aid was urged-before the war, and the
men and the newspapers that urged if were'
among the substantial and most abla in Gear-
Sixty-five miles of the Branswiok sod Al
bany Railroad were completed and running
before the war, and hundreds of tons of iron
the people those points which, the Slate and No man can,deny this. When the secession
OoRgoffioera have already become acquaint. convention of Georgia met, Judge NesbU in
troduced and passed an
Judg'
ordinance gnaran
eeing the protection of the State to work!
if internal improvement on her soil, belong
ing to aliens.. The euneention is said to
have been composed of the best men ofGeor-
tizen, representing certain interests, gj,. Would'they have solemnly guaranteed
protection to “a reckless and extravagant
wildcat railroad enterprise 1"
, The iron was taken from this road,fey the
,publio authorities during the war and used
on other railroads in the State. After the
war the owners demanded payment (nndar
Be authority of this guaranty) for the rail-
ad which had been destroy ed to the amount
if three roilUons'four hundred thousand dol
ors— this claim wan presented to the - Goy-
irnor and by him submitted to the Legists-
ure—a committee was appointed who reoog-
himoi not. _. . . ( . nized the legality of the elaim bat were una-
1 '* i the amount.
__.^lav berore some jury toe iaots upon '*1Mis
lead; to a judicial invest!]
and il
Hia invitation to the Chronicle and Senti- h , B t0 a - re{ . upon ,
nel to lay before some jury the facts upon , .. . „. . , .
which it based its belief of his guilt, may As a solution of the matter the State’, in-
ition of his affairs dorsement on the first morigagebonds of
.... the company at the rate of ($15,000) fifteen
thousand dollars per mile was offered by Ike
From the Csnsiitutionalist'. ^
We surrenders large part of our available
space this morning, to .Mr Kimball, who, in
response w M|inl invtraaotS, meets his
adversaries in (he fieldfof controversy. If, as
Mr Kimball states, the lamented Linton Ste
phens could find no grounds .to base a crimi
nal charge against him, although employed
by the Slate to investigate such matters, it
will be rather difficult for.small men to ac
complish what a great man abandoned as un
tenable. At any rale, Mr Kimball.has been
prompt to respond to bis accusers, and if
there is any chance to refute his positions,
dishonor his arguments and brand him with
infamy, no belter chance could be afforded
than the one he now presents.
The Constitution, aa usual, waited for
other papers to Bpeak; and on the 22J offers
Stale in settlement of the claim, in consider
ation-of a release of the State from that
claim. Was it “a wildcat enterprise” then I
-.It has been charged that the Legislature
making this settlement, and granting the
State's indorsement, was a Radical Legist*
tnre which I manipulated: The facts do noj
support this oharge. At that time, the Dam*
ocrats had at least thirty majority in the
House of Representatives, and this bill passed
that body by so overwhelming a majority
that the yeas and nays were not called. Its
strongest opponents in the Senate were the
President of the Senate and the Chairman
of the Finance Committee—the two leading
Republican members. I had no interest in
the bill, and scarcely knew such* bill was
pending, nor did I have any . interest in the
road- until nearly one year thereafter. Is
there any evidence in this that it was a Radi-
a moiety of Us opinion^ anil with a premise ca l scheme passed by a Radical Legislature
that the people naturally look to it for “sin- under my manipulation* The people even
care dealing,” and of;course for decided
and wise counsel, proceeds to dish out a sort
ol hash as doubtful in its make-up as that
served to Artemus Ward in Omaha.
General Gordon.
Atlanta, G* , July 13lh, 1874. :
Editors Constitutionalist .*—I. Teel impelled"
to oorrect a misapprehensions which some of
the press have received from, the report in
the Herald of a conversation with myself.
Personal consiilenuiqn could; not induce
me to speak ; but, lest the comments which I
have seen in some of the -'Democratic papers
should cause damage to the Democratic party,
I beg to say that . whoever, interprets me as
advocationg any other, than a-purely Dem
ocratic canvas, with a Democratic platform; ,
and the truest of Democratic cttndidales up-’ the opposition must surra
on it, or aa doubting the probability of Dorn-
ocratic success, misinterprets me.
It it not necessary, I hope, for me to say
ever of his views or purposes from anything
that lie has ever said to me ; for 1 have never
talked with him npSn any "party issues or
party programme of the past, the present or
the fnture. The reporter entirely misunder
stood me. All! now say, or have said, is
that Gen. Grant is cordial and. .courteous
Southern gentlemen, and my ideas of tua
purposes are based entirely upon observSWon.
With my thanks for the justice you have
sought to do me, I am,
canodt be accused of believing that charge.
At the outset of rebuilding the Btnnswiek
& Albany Railroad, the contractors were
met with lawsuits, injunctions, strikes and
other impediments which oame near over
powering them, and in this condition of af»
fairs I was appealed lo by the contractors to
lake an interest in the enterprise. Before
doing so however I looked carefully into its
. whole history, consulted with Judge Dough*
erty, Hon. Linton Stephens and other lead
ing lawyers of Georgia, who hail fully exara-
1 ined the ConetUntiou of the State aud the
act granting State aid, as to the possibility
of the law being declared unconstitutional.
All advisod ole that although temporary in
junctions might be granted, and some tech
nical legal embarrassment thrown in the
way, they could not stand, that the law was
slrickly constitutional as the act was a legis
lative contract founded upon vonsidcratign and
the opposition must surrender in (ho end.
I then discussed the- prospective business of
the road with some of tue ablest financiers
of Georgia and New fork, all concnnng in
the opinion that it was destined lo be the
Eastern portion of the Southern Pacific route,
,ancf could not fail to prove remunerative.
Not one of ali these men ever intimated to
me that they considered it a “reckless, ex
travagant,'wild-cat railroad enterprise!”
On the faith of the information obtained as
above. I embarked in .this enterprise and
pushed it forward with a degree ofrapidity
and enterprise- = never before witnessed in
Georgia, completing in splendid working or
der one hundred and seventy-four miles, and
grading some forty miles in addition, all
... - - ■ — This fact is unde-
Very truly? jours, : .within eighteen monta.
■ ' 'J, B. Qobooi. . aitbls. * So ouch, m to
More about it
GCXKBAL GOBDON EXPLAINS,
Atlanta, July 17;—Senator Gordon de
nies that be ever claimed any intipmey with
President Grant, or that he knows anything
of the Presidents political views or purposes
from any conversation with Gen. Grant as to
party organization or programmee, past,
present or future. He declares Jus anxiety
for, and his belief in* the success of the Dem
ocratic party wHh the truest Democratic
tha£ can be found, • .
> the Brunswick & Al
bany hein^^a reckless, wild-cat enterprise.”
It is charged that I committed deliberate
fraud in obtaining the endorsement of the
Stai^npon the bonds of the Brunswick & Ala
bahy Company. It is a fact which no one, so
far as lam aware, has ever attempted to con
ceal or deny, that the bonds of the company
were indorse*! by the State before the road
was fully completed, but that there was any
fraud committed by me in this matter, intec**
tional or otherwise, I do emphatically deny.
Under the advice of eminent counsel, for
reasons which I fully explained in an official
communication to the Governor early in tha *
gpriog of 1871. and which I presome is cow
ox* file in the Executive office I a s President
of tbe company applied to hi® to issue tbe
•sDtire amoont ot r.ccis on tbe road. In that
official application I set forth the tacts, ih*t
1 had ju«i returned fiuoi New York. *h-re 1
had made arrangement* for the aucceeefol ue
gou*tioa ot the bond* of the compouji (UtvzUgL
• pruin neut European boutc, tut that io
uitaking stled of bonds abroad it »as u«cea-
i«ry to place them in the hands of a greht
many agents, who rausl actually have the
bonds lu band for delivery ; therefore time
is required by tbe principal bouse taking
these securities at various points in Europe
for sale, and they would not take the matter
up without absolutely controlling the whole
aeries. I, therefore, in. the interest of the
State, aa well as my company, decided to lay
the whole matter before the Governor aod
ank his co-operation. I stated to him that
the road was being very rapidly pushed in
construction; and would be open to Albany
early in September, and to Cuthbert and Eu-
faula in season for the cotton business of that
year, surely on or before the first of January
of the ensuing year ; that the entire grading
was under contract and very nearly complet
ed to Albany, and more ib&n half done be*
tween Albany and Cathbert, all by good and
responsible contractors, who were pushing
it rrpidly ; that the iron for the entire road
had been purchased, aod enough already de
livered at Brunswick to lay the track west of
Cnthbert; that a large amonnt of rolling
stock was at that time being maunfactured,
and by November first the road would be lib
erally stocked. I also stated to him that if
that opportunity to make sale of the bonds
conld be embraced and taken advantage of,
It was believed that tbe State would be se
cured against any possibility of tbe compa
ny’s failing to complete the road, or to meet
its intereat payments with an unfinished road
on its, or the State's bands. But that if be
did not feel authorized to comply with my
request and issne the entire amonnt of bonds
authorized to be issued, then the company
wonld be compelled to ase it securities as
callateral m working temporary loans, thus
locking up a large amount in margins and at
high rates of interest. While if the company
was forced to thft policy U wonld do .all in
its power to carry the work through, hut I
felt It my dnty to inform him that it might
result in so embarrassing tbe company as to
force it to fail to. meet the interest on its
I WAT TAC.
kind brio
ivv from y.in
lain? to lb*
a -ingl* Lund of’nny !
State? Fleas* an
il . 1 Ki —Ball. i
, Ia74
The Governor informed me in response to
mv application that he hod carefailj consid
ered my communication, and bad decided
that under the act approved September 30,
1870, he had the authority to comply with th*
request, and that he would issne the bonds
npon so mnch of the road (jn addition to that
wbiobwaa completed.) os was graded and
for which tbe iron was in Brunswick, retains
ing bouds to the amonnt of four hundred and
forty thousand dollars lo complete the rood
west of Cnthbert. These facts which are on
record in the Executive office and in -the of
fice of the Secretary of State, and always
open to the inspection of the public, show
plainly that there never waa any attempt on
my part (o deceive the Executive or any of
ficer of the State. I was exoeedingly anxious
to carry forward the enterprise and toak
this coarse in perfect good faitb.fnliy expect
ing to be able to push the road on to comple
tion, and I still believe that I should have
done so, had I not been assailed in the most
violent manner by rival corporations and
prejudiced persona, whose unceasing efforts
to break down the enterprise, through the
press, in the courts and by annonymous com.
manications addressed to bankers and cap.
italista in this country and in Europe, so de
pressed the financial standing of the Slate,
and depreciated my securities as to defeat
their sale and effect my financial ruin
Vonehen which have been approved by tbe
Court, and I understand are now on record
in Glynn county, show en actual expenditure
in cash of three million two hundred and
ninety thousand dollars ; and there woe ex
pended in addition to that amonnt tor inter
est, commissions, legal fees and other ex
penses, far wbieh vonehen have not been
presented on account of my-abseence, to an
amount sufficient to (well the sums actually
expended to more than three and one-half
million dollars. Every dollar of which came
Horn withont the State. Any one by exam
ining tbe testimony token before tbe Bond
Committee will find that the amount claimed
under oath to have been advanced* on all of
the endorsed bonds, and the State bonds is
sued in in exchange for the Beeond mortgage
bonds of the company, does not mnch, if any,
exceed the above amonnt, showing that every
dollar realized by the sale and hypotheca
tion of these bonds was expended on tbe en.
terprlse. Tbe State has the full benefit of
this vast expenditure, which in addition to
the value of the rood, has increased the tax
able property of tbe State $2,219,000, as iB
shown by Col, Frobel’sreport. If I have, in
any measure, committed any fraud in connee*
lion with this enterprise, neither myself or
my legal advisers know of it; nor have the
parties who famished thetnoneypn the se
curities ever charged it. As regards the
caaTsatviuB a van want railxoad
jyhat I have said in regard to the fact) that
the Brunswick and Albany Railroad was not
regarded by the best people of Georgia, and
elzewbers, as a “reckless, extravagant, wild
cat railroad enterprise,” will, in the main,
apply to tbe Carteraville and Tan Wert Rail
road, therefore I will not multiply words by
discussing that. Suffice it to say I hod no
connection whatever with it until years after
the State had, by repeated mots of tbe Legis
lature, declared the bnilding of this road to
be “of greet eervioetothe whole coantr* ”
It Is charged that [ obtained tbe indorsement
ot the State, first upon the bonds issued by
the Carteraville and Van Wert Railroad, and
that after the name of raid rood had been
changed to that of the Cherokee Railroad,
that I procured the indorsement of the State
apon the Londs of the Cherokee Railroad,
also, witlrout returning those which had been
S revionsly indorsed under the name of the.C.
; V. W. R. R., thereby securing a donble en
dorsement npon our rood. This matter is
now undergoing very thorough investigation
.in the United States District Court, and I
have given in my sworn testimony in regard
to the facts, whioh it is hardly proper for me
to make pnblic at present. I may, however,
say that the parties who advanced large cams
of money on tbs' ••Cherokee Railroad” bonds,
have investigated tbe facts in the whole ease,
from its inception to the present time, em
ploying some of the best legal (alcnt of New
York and Georgia—and do yon imagine that
if they had diacovered/resti, or even misthpu
resentstion, they wonld not at once have in-
stitnted proceedings against me?
I need not tell yon that a man who obtains
credit in New York, no matter how small the
amonnt, by misrepresentation or by fraudu
lent means, Is not allowed to escape the full
psnalty of the law. I 'deny any fraudulent
transaction on my part in connection with
this matter and look for a complete vindica
tion of the charges m connection therewith,
in the decision of the United States Circuit
Judge before whom this ease will be tried.
FAWNING BONUS OF THI STATX TOM HIS OWN
CBS.
You charge that the peoplt of Georgia be.
lieve I have appropriated to my own -use
money borrowed on the credit (bonds) of the
State. If the “people of Georgia” so believe
it is because they have been misled, and are
totally ignorant of the facts. They have
gathered their belief from tbe report of the
Bond Committee and from what has been
published and republished by the press of
Georgia, said publications being seasoned
with each abase as the political aceidents of
■he time seem to have demanded, and were
therefore swallowed with great gusto. While
I do not desire to cast any reflection npon
the honesty of eaid committee, I can show
that they were miBtakea in maoy of
their conclusions; but their 'investigation
took place at a time of groat political' excite
ment, and very naturally they looked for
such facta as they had been led to expect they
shonld discover.' They say, on page 168 of
thrirrepoit: “Mr. Kimball received from
■he Fourth National Bank the currency bonds
held by that house, and instead-of returning
them Lo tbe State or cancelled os directed to
do.by his letter ofinstruciione from Governor
Bollock * * * * he hypothecated them,
* and received money * * * *
on his private account.?
lam. unable to determine from tbe evi
dence taken by the committee how they ar
rived at this conclusion, far their atatment is
not trne. I did not. receive any bonds from
the Fourth National Bank, as the following
telegraphic correspondence conclusively
proves: -
Atlanta, Ga.. July 16,1874.
To the Fourth Nitional Bank, New York:
The Bond Committee charge that 1 received
from yon In 1871, the currency bands then in
yonr possession belonging to the State. Did
hiw Yohk, July lu
To H, X. Kimball; Atlanta, Go.:
I Jo not find lba! we delivered you any
State bond-.
(Signed ] A. Lane, Cashier.
Neither did I Teceive from any other per
son any bands of the State, except those is
sued directly to me by authority of the law.
As agent of the State, anil acting under the
letter of instructions from Governor Bullock,
(which letter the committee refer lo.) I aim
ply requested tbe Fourth National Bank and
Messrs. Clews A Co. lo rant*! and return lo
the Treasurer the currency bonds held by
them. I never saw, or touched, anyofiliese
bonds referred to as above by tbe Bond Com
mittee, n pith it did I receive any money on
account of said bonds. Oa page 156 tbe
Bond Committee say, referring to the gold
quarterly bonds: “Of the twenty-five hun
dred and ninety-eight bonds disposed of,
three hundred and fifty vure given fur the
Opera House and Executive Mansion. Mr
Clews sold sixteen hundred and fifty and the
remainder was manipulated by H. I. Kimball.
* * * We' are unable to state what
amonnt Kimball realized from tbe bonda
which he sold.”
It wonld appear from this report that I
sold five hundred and ninety-eight of these
bonds belonging to the State, and .that the
committee were unable to discover that the
State received the money realized. In anoth
er part of the same report the committee say:
“We made every effort to ascertain
how much money the State received from Mr
Kimball on account of the sale ot these bonds
by him as agent for the State, but failed lo do
so. except five hundred bonds hypothecated
with Russell Sage to secure a loan previously
made to the State of $675,000.”
The facts are, I never had in my possession
a single one of these fire hundred and ninety-
eight bonds which the committee allege that
I “manipulated” and “sold." And by ref
erence to the testimony of Mr. Sage, (page
137 of some report) yon will note that Mr.
Sage says nnder oath, that in “May, 1871,
witness received from Governor Bollock five
hundred gold bonds of one thousand dollars
each.” He does not say he received them
from me, nor does he menlion my name in
connection therewith. Mow this committee
could have reported that I “manipulated” and
“sold” these same five hundred bonds is a
difficult question to solve, and I am also un
able to reconcile the facts with their report
-in regard to Ibe balance otninety-eight which
they claim I “manipniated.” The following
are the facts in regard to the disposition by
Gov. Bnlioek of the issne of $3,000,000 of (he
gold quarterlies:
For Executive Mansion and Capitol
Building $350,000
.To Henry Clews k Co 1,650,000
M| ~ 600.000
500.000
' lu believe It.-1
• sweepiug aud
hat I at
pel;.:
i In ccnrti
aufficier.il y-a-tiaritaht
wbo Lav* uxiJe tl.es
charges against toy character have dune
unJt-r a utisappreiieuston of the facts. I
have never fur -i moment doubled that the
calm arbitrament ol time, even though 1 spoke
not, would convince tbe people of Georgia' ot
my entire integrity uf purpose throughout
all my dealiog wilh.them.srives.and with the
Ernie. If. rhi.e lelter. which contains only
the simple, plain truth, has the effect lo hast
en Ihnl time. 'I shall be glad ; if not- lean
wait, for it is sure to come.
' communicated to her Th run - V. hi- lawyer,
i she bad. just been before such a committee
I and bad answered some questions ru.: to bsr
• 13 *i Irau- c tiy tbit Uwycr ft** ot
J cleHiing-Mr. Ererhet* of the* charges and im.
I nutations madetg*tiuat him l#y T*»b»ic}*.»i>era,
j in cnnnection with her name. 3he h* bteen
informed, the told me. that her testimony if
giTen as required would put aa end to the
trouble, aud she was willing to say anything
for the cause of peace and religion.
In answer to a question whether the case
was to be compromised, Tilton said : 1 know
nothing of future events. I only know my
present dnty, which is to make the sworn
statement which 1 have promised to the com
mittee of the exact facts in tbe case. I have
tried for four years, using my bfst wit,which
FOR THE PUBLIC
i on
HU
Bearing no malice, and desiring only jn.t-,|*« ^ i.-*" .1° ^
ice, I am respectfully
II. I. KIMBALL.
We some time ago drew a pen*pictnre oj
ah unprincipled and low^oned class of "so*
called journal!*!*, and an old Hat at Thom
asville thought he saw his phiz in it- Uner
ring conscience probably admonished hin
that be ought to hate **a place in that piemre/
ami he straightway commenced abusing thi
artist far “ holding the mirror, as ’iwere, ot
to nature.”
THE REK' llKR Tlf/TOS SMKIUL.
THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY.
To Russell Sage
To Fourth NstionanUnk..
$3,000,000
Afterwards Governor Bullock save Henry
Clews & Co. an orler on the Fourth National
Bank for one hundred, sod to A. S. lVhiton
an order for one hundred,' leaving in the
possession of the Fourth National Bank
three hundred, whioh the committee report
tl having returned to tbe Treasurer. Mr.
Wbiton used tbe one hundred which be re
ceived from the Foarth National Bank, ppoU
tbe order of the Governor, as collateral for a
loan of seventy-fivF thousand dollars which
he negotiated for the State, with the New
York Stale Loan and Trust Company, and
which I understand the State has since paid.
I have been particular in staling the facts
In detail in regard to the dispositions and
nse of these bonds and my connection there
with, for 1 am ea>isfied that the people are
more interested in knowing tha facts in this
then an almost any other subject, which
heretofore have been misunderstood, but I
believe the Bond Committee themselves, with
the new lights now before them, will readily
admit the truth of my statements.
■Yon say tbe people “attribute the financial
embarrassment of tbe State to (bis) my rail
road development mania.”
On this oharge I take issne. It was not
my railroad development mania that origi
nated, advocated, obarteredor inaugurated
a single one of the railroad enterprises with
wbieh I became connected. It wee only
when the repeated failure of others rendered
necessary the choice ef new leaders who
conld command increased energy, enterprise
and capital, that I accepted the leadership.
Tbit feet is well known to tbe people of
Georgia, who can never be mode to attribute
their present financial embarrassment to tbe
expenditure of five millions of money in their
midst that has not cost them one dime—and for
the amonnt of whioh they have shaken off
every obligation for the future.
Your broad sad sweepiug assertions as to
what tbe people believe do not seem to be
sustained by tbe facts. The evidences of
confidence and esteem shown me daring my
former visit, and which are now Ming daily
repeated, in my judgment, wholly controvert
Ibe statement that “Public opinion is over
whelmingly against Mr. Kimball.
And I will add,*! tbe risk of being thought
egotistical, that I feel the pulse of the peo
ple in the warm gnup of the hand extended
by httn Ired of Georgia’s best citizens, many
of whose it waa never my pleasure to know
personally until they voluntarily called upon
me, and who assure me that I have many
warm friends in every pert of the Slate, and
urge me to again take np my residence in
Georgia.
Yon Bay:
“Mr. Kimball will have to suffer from the
imputation of being dishonest anti! a jury of
the citizens of Georgia acquit him of inten
tional fraud.” “The people believe him goil
iy,” they believe “that he onght to be arrest
ed and tried. We desire, however, to do no
man injustice.”
I am bonnd to believe that when yon wrote
the above yon neither intended or believed
yon did me injustice. But I ask', in all oan-
dor, is it no injustice to declsro n man “gnH-
ty of the most disgraceful frauds known to
the commercial world,” wholly npon exports
evidence and without a hearing? Is it no
injustice to proclaim to the world that the
“people believe me gnilty and that I onght
to be arrested and tried, when no obstacle bat
the want of proofs prevent my arrest and
trial ? Is it no injustice to declare that the
people will believe me “dishonest until a
jury of the citizens of Georgia acquit me of
intentional fraud ? If not, it changes the
whole common law whioh declares that a
man shall be held innocent until proven guilr
ty- ■
If I have outraged, in any manner, the
laws of -this State, it is the duty of every
good citizen and member of society who have
the proofs of guilt, to make specifio charges,
swear out a warrant as the law directs, and
bring me before “a jury of the citizens of
Georgia.” If I am gnilty the way to convic
tion sod punishment is dear; if I am not,
why should my integrity be farther ques
tioned ? I have not avoided the law. My
place of residence has been advertised and
well known and I am assured that the law
officers of the State, than'whom there are
none in any Slate more vigilant or just in
the performance of their duties, have not
been neglectful of thoir dnty to tbe people in
tills case.
When 1 was here in February last I called
upon bis Excellency, Governor Smith,- on
tb« very morning of my arrival, and said to
him that I bad heard charges had been made
against me, and that I was then here for the
purpose of answering them.
He replied saying that soon after he- as.
Burned the duties ot the Executive offiffe that
bold charges were made against me tu con
nection with the issue and use of the beads
and obligationa of the State, to the truth of
which my departure from tha Slate pare
force and color. He said, it became Mb daly
to thoroaghly look into the matter, which
he did by direoting Hon. Linton Stevens to
employ sucli assistance as he required, and
to investigate my connection with these mat
ters so fully and completely as to leave no
possible chance of escape if I Lad in any
manner made myself ameaable to the laws of
the State; and, says tha Governor, “Jndge
Stephens took a deep personal -interest in
the mailer, and was in earnest in searching
foe the truth, and 1 am sure he performed
his duty faithfully to himself and the State,
and if there had bsea any wrong doing on
yonr part he would no donbl have discovered
it; bat he reported to me that he was utterly
unable to find any act of yours on which he
could even base a charge, much less prove one.
And,” continued the Governor, “therefore I
know ot no rtseon why you ere not as free
to go and come in Georgia at any man in the
State, and the surprise to me has been, that
knowing yeuTsetfto be innocent, that you
TMF. USUAL CONFLICT OF SURMISE
A X P ST A TRMENT—A BATTLE TO.
THE DEATH—TILTOX VAX1S
AS A r REAL TO THE
COURTS—WHAT COM.
MITTEEMES SA Y.
Nxw VoBK. Jnly 15.—The Brooklyn Eagle
says .* A member of the Beecher Investiga
ting Committee to-day stated positively tbal
even if Beecher were not acting; in good faith
and desirous of such a compromise with Til.
ton, as would close Tilton’s month, it would
be impossible for him to affect it. -The in
vestigation has gone beyond Beecher's powei
and control, and whatever may be a> the
bottom of the scandal, and no matter who or
howVnuch it injures, the faets, so far as lies
in the power of the committee, shall be
brought to light. '
Another member of the committee stated
that Beecher did not authorize Moulton to
say he concurred in the statement read by
the latter before the committee.
Tilton’s friends say he has already taken
eminent legal advice as to the best method of
carrying his case where, in his judgment' it
belongs, to the courts. Mr.. Tilton regards
the committee and its report as a mere in
cident in the future development of the ease;
that tbe interests involved are so great that
they can properly only be settled in conform
ity with the rules that govern courts where
testimony is taken under, oath. Tilton will
meet tbe committee next Mondnjr.
The Argus-says : Mr. Tilton ts iu a tight
place and he realizes it. Mr. Beecher would
not germit any one to broach the subject ot
compromise at Ibis stage of affairs, and the
committee have scouted tbe idea. They have
already heard enough to convince them that
Tilton has a weak ease, and be is at present
trying to avoid an issue.
Mrs lilton remains at 'tbe residence of
Edward J. Ovington, which has been visited
by numberless newspaper men, bntthe'iedy
baa quietly declined to talk with any repre
sentative of the press.. Mr. Ovington reports
that Mr. Tilton informed Mr. Tilton Saturday
morning that in consequence of the course
he haf taken, henceforth their paths wege
apart.
The Union has the fallowing : Mr. Tilton
to-day said : The first intimation I had of the
existence of Beecher's investigation commit-
and con eel the faets which are now to be di
vnlged. Tbe responsibility of divulging them
belongs to Mr. Beecher, who has commis
sioned aix men of his own church to examine
isto facts which, when they are made known,
Will^mt an end to Mr. Beecher’s ministry,
•how him to have been guilty of a degree ol
erimioality wbieh the world little >aspects.
As to a compromise, I know nothing. I
•hall accept none. It is a day of battle and
| tf death.
■onx ABOUT IT—THK SEPARATION.-
Bxooeltn. July 17.—The committee in
vestigating the Beeeher-TtUon scandal contin-
ted lo .meet nightly, bat the proceedings wen
•trtetly secret, all papers being debarred.
Suit for legal separation between Mr. and
Mrs. Tilton. The residence on Livingstone
street will be given Mrs. Tilton, and tbe chil
dren will be placed in her custody, and the
separation win be by mutual consent, and
publicity of the details of the divorce will be
avoided. Beecher left here yesterday for
Peekskill.
WE HAVE A FULL AND COMPLETE LINE OF Alt THE
s o HI O O. Xi BOOKS
ADOPTED BY THE PUBLIC SCHOOL BOARD OF THE STATE.
g«-Our .lock of JUVKNII.I: BOOHS, m.ch as ***^*^J^! fc £*J
to Tracher., School Commissions, and all interested in education. JP* guarantee sat,.foetus
* P"'7 d dr«- Corr “ pan ' lea0e ’weIc.I * ffllTCHEU, Alba., y. C.
“VIC*” CATCHES TH* SENSATION.
Salt Lake Citt, July 17.—Victoria Wood
hall will lecture here Saturday, on tbe Beech
er-Tilton scandal. The Mormons having al
lowed her the use of their Theater for the
purpose.
BEECHER’S STATEMENT.
IS SAID TO BB STRAIGHT FOB WARD
MANLY—ABSOLUTELY AND CXEQU1Y-
CALLY DENIES ALL THE
CHANGES.
\Special Dispatch to Ike Herald.]
Brooklyn, July 17.—Mr. Beecher’s state-
meat is complete and is the hands of hia
friends. It trill be submitted to the Invetii*
gating Committee when Mr. Tilton’s is put in.
Gentlemen who bare seen the document
speak of it as a frank, straightforward, man
ly statement. It explains the nature of the
trouble with Mr. Tilton. He denies ever
having made an Impure advance lo Mrs Til
ton; and concludes with the absolute and
unequivocal denial of all the'charges made
against him in that connection. (Cc nek now 1
edges that Mrs. Tilton complained to him of
the infidelity of her husband, and cited in
stances, and proved that her statement wss
correct, finally begging him to advise her as
a man and minister what to do. That he,
after long deliberation and with much hesi
tancy, advised her that if she felt she could
not reclaim her husband, to separate. After
a time he felt that he bad made a mistake.In
giving this advice, aud apologized to Mr.
Tilton; promising to extend to him tbe right
hand of fellowship, and to bury -forever the
past. This is the scope of Beecher’s state
ment. Il is said that Tilton's statement, when
submitted, will affect tbe character of two or
three other women besides his wife, but it is
uot positively known what position be may
take.
This morning’s Union eaj s that the legal
deed of separation between Mr. aud Mrt-
Tilton is now being prepared.
LA^EB.
Tilton’s final letter to the committee is
published, and it makes the charge, without
circumlocution or doubtful phrase, that Bee
cher did overcome tbe virtuous scruple* of
Mrs. Tilton, and did for a long time sustain
tee was an announcement made to me last the relation with her commonly called “crim-
Tbnrsday night by Mrs. Tilton, who informed ; nt j intercourse.” The letter is fall and to
C ;t n ,c »»■* “ - *
some friend, that by Mr. Beecher’s advice. I donbt npon.
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