The Stark County Democrat

The Analogy of his Motto Dieu Defend Le Droit.

It is recorded of the celebrated French thief Cartouche that whenever he had made a very good hit his first thought was to get himself up in the style of a man of birth and rank, with red heels to his shoes and a coat of arms on his seal. This seems to be the instinct of a whole class rather than of any particular member of that class. In the course of the examination now making in Alabama into the ways and means by which that scurvy imposter Spencer got himself foisted into the United States Senate, it has come to light that he was accustomed to write his notes to his tools and adjutants, giving them directions as to the fraudulent use of money and of troops in the work of procuring his seat, upon very handsome paper bearing his monogram and engraved motto, "Dieu defend le Droit." This is the motto of Earl Spencer; and it is clear therefore that Spencer, as soon as he had scraped together a certain sum of money belonging to other people and found himself on the way to the Senate Chamber, must have looked up the arms and device of the Lord of Althorp and appropriated them. In its way this is almost as good as the performance credited to another distinguished "statesman" of the period. Mr. William M. Tweed. Of him we are told that being sadly put to it to affiliate himself with any known family of the arms bearing nobility and gentry of Great Britain, he hit upon the happy thought of cribbing the arms, coronet, supporters and all, of Hay, Marquess of Tweeddale, perhaps on the ground that as "all flesh is grass" he might fairly consider himself a kinsman of the Hays.—New York World.