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Bills of exchange were drawn, on which endorsements were forged, and these bills were presented to the bankers on whom they were purported to be drawn. One day some of these forged bills to a large amount were presented to Messrs. Mathiesen and Silleine of Hamburg, who, knowing the endorsement to be forged, refused to cash them.
The split between Southern moderates and Southern radicals was further indicated by their differing attitudes toward the adventurers from the United States in Central America. The Vicksburg Convention adopted resolutions which were thinly veiled endorsements of southward expansion. In the early autumn another Nicaraguan expedition was nipped in the bud by the vigilance of American naval forces.
It took three months more to get that back to the yard, and by that time the old commandant had been retired for age and a new commandant had fallen heir to it. "The new head read all the endorsements, by now forty-eight, and pondered over them.
Wallingford, the first reactionary movement on the part of Judge Bigelow, was his refusal to endorse any more paper for his nephew, or the firm of which he was a member, on the ground that such endorsements, on his part, were of no real value, considering the large amounts for which he was already responsible, and consequently little better than fraudulent engagements to pay.
All of these endorsements were secured at conventions held in Southern California and the Northern women pursued the same policy. These do not include those made by organizations of men, or of men and women or of clubs for suffrage alone and these in the South exceeded fifty.
On a time I received a report on the subject of refunding a cotton tax amounting to about $600,000. It bore two endorsements one by the solicitor "Examined and disallowed, Chesley," and one by the commissioner "Allowed, Pleasanton." I placed the report in my private drawer with the purpose of delaying action until I should ascertain where the propelling force existed.
"And now, Judge, if you wish my friendly aid, confide in me as you would a son or brother. You will find me as true as steel." A revelation succeeded that filled Mr. Wallingford with painful astonishment. The endorsements of Judge Bigelow, on paper brought to him by Dewey, and of which he took no memorandums, covered, no doubt, from a hundred to a hundred and fifty thousand dollars!
Letters and endorsements from prominent Americans seem to have no weight with these Germans. I'd no idea our identity could ever be disputed." "We must admit, sir," returned the captain, reflectively, "that the spy system in this war is something remarkable. Spies are everywhere; clever ones, too, who adopt every sort of subterfuge to escape detection.
Being young and energetic, with a large property, with few debts of his own, it would have affected him but little, had he not been too generous towards his friends in the way of endorsements.
We visits the Dance Hall; not to dance, sech frivol'ties bein' for younger an' less dignified sports. We goes over thar more to give our countenance an' endorsements to Hamilton who runs the hurdy-gurdy, an' who's a mighty proper citizen. We says 'How! to Hamilton, libates, an' mebby watches 'em 'balance all, or 'swing your partners, a minute or two an' then proceeds.
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