"White man bery unsartin": "Nigger haint got no friends, no how"; the blackest chapter in the history of the Republican Party; the men who robbed and combined to rob the freedmen of their hard earnings.

by F. Colburn Adams

Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Co. vs. Vandenburgh. No. 4463.

Found balance due the bank, $85,372.64.

Securities on hand to meet this, depreciated and worthless $75,208.21.

Stickney’s shameful and criminal mismanagement is forcibly told in the above. If we had a Tweed to tell us the true inwardness of the Abbott Paving Company, and the men behind its scenes, the story would be doubly interesting.