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Updated: June 11, 2025
The defalcation of Swartwout with over a million dollars from the New York customs' receipts had forced upon President Van Buren the importance of filling such posts with honorable men, instead of political shysters, and Bancroft, though a rather narrow historian, was a gentleman and a scholar.
"Did he ever serve you with any papers in the Astor House or anywhere else?" "Never." "What is your business?" "I am an undertaker." In an instant the room was in a turmoil, Bunce screaming out that he had been tricked by a parcel of shysters, Gottlieb indignantly defending his ruse as a perfectly proper method of discrediting Bunce, and the referee vainly endeavoring to restore order.
Tump cut into his diatribe: "No use talkin' lak dat. Our 'ciety thought you wuz a aidjucated nigger. We didn't think no white man could put nothin' over on you." "Education!" snapped Siner. "Education isn't supposed to keep you away from shysters!" "Keep you away fum 'em!" cried Tump, in a scandalized voice.
Baggage-smashing, dog-smudging, ring-dropping, watch-stuffing, the patent-safe men, the confidence men, garroters, shysters, policy-dealers, mock-auction Peter Funks, bogus-ticket swindlers, are all terms which have more or less outgrown the bounds of their Alsatia of Thieves' Latin and are known of men.
Lorimer and that bunch will manipulate the outfit to death, no matter how the mine produces. They'll have a quarter of a million to work on pretty soon, and they'll work it hard. They're shysters but it's after all only a practical demonstration of the ethics of the type "Do everybody you can if you can do 'em so there's no come-back." That's all of that. I don't care two whoops about the money.
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