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a state, that he would represent it in the United States Senate, and that his grand emigration Platte Valley scheme would supply in conjunction with the Pacific Railway the requisite population and wealth to meet the increased expenses of State organization. Taylor the Republican editor here had a vast amount of evidence from his own mouth to fight him with - 1st Train proposed to him that he would spend thirty thousand of the half million Dollars that he made on the Kansas Road in conjunction with Hallett - this had a bad look as the reputation of that Road and Hallett for punctuality of payment were at least below par - and the reason seemed to be apparent - and not altogether creditable - 2nd Taylor was to be paid for his efforts twenty shares of the Credit Mobile an institution designed to control the monied world. venal enough to do anything, this excessive liberality lost confidence in the value of the property offered - and left an unscrupulous Editor with the means to kill him* (without any defence) from his own mouth - I have said enough to show you why I could do nothing for Mr Train - a moderate amount of discretion, would have made him very popular in this territory - for no man ever made better first impressions than he did here - I give you the reasons as they are represented to me without vouching for the facts he will know whether true or not and have written this as much for Mr Trains reading as your own - and I feel that when he asks his friends to exert themselves for him he should not furnish others clubs to fight them with Respectfully Yours Peter A. Dey Bribery is very well here, but it is neccessary to cover it up in such a way that it can not be used against parties in future - the true policy being to confine the knowledge of it to as few persons as possible - and cover the action of the person with the Semblance of conscientious Scruples
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a state, that he would represent it in the United States Senate, and that his grand emigration Platte Valley scheme would supply in conjunction with the Pacific Railway the requisite population and wealth to meet the increased expenses of State organization. Taylor the Republican editor here had a vast amount of evidence from his own mouth to fight him with - 1st Train proposed to him that he would spend thirty thousand of the half million Dollars that he made on the Kansas Road in conjunction with Hallett - this had a bad look as the reputation of that Road and Hallett for punctuality of payment were at least below par - and the reason seemed to be apparent - and not altogether creditable - 2nd Taylor was to be paid for his efforts twenty shares of the Credit Mobile an institution designed to control the monied world. venal enough to do anything, this excessive liberality lost confidence in the value of the property offered - and left an unscrupulous Editor with the means to kill him* (without any defence) from his own mouth - I have said enough to show you why I could do nothing for Mr Train - a moderate amount of discretion, would have made him very popular in this territory - for no man ever made better first impressions than he did here - I give you the reasons as they are represented to me without vouching for the facts he will know whether true or not and have written this as much for Mr Trains reading as your own - and I feel that when he asks his friends to exert themselves for him he should not furnish others clubs to fight them with Respectfully Yours Peter A. Dey Bribery is very well here, but it is neccessary to cover it up in such a way that it can not be used against parties in future - the true policy being to confine the knowledge of it to as few persons as possible - and cover the action of the person with the Semblance of conscientious Scruples
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