Wilson Fisk Quotes

themselves three times more than the cost of building the railroad, in the meantime bribing the congressmen with shares in the imaginary company. There was the gold conspiracy of Jim Fisk and Jay Gould, in which Grant was persuaded by these two financiers, without in the least understanding their aims, to assist them in cornering the gold market by causing the United States Treasury to shut off the circulation of gold. There was the Whisky Ring, a group of distillers who evaded the internal revenue tax by bribing the Treasury agents — a scandal that landed at the President’s door when his secretary, a General Babcock who had been with him at Appomattox, was shown to have been taking the distillers’ money and to have used it in financing Grant’s campaign. Grant testified that he believed in