, 1865-12-30
Treasury Appointments In the South.
CAIRO, H., Dee, a, 1865.


.-..- CARo, H., Dee. n, 1866
Editions Chicago Tribune:
Referring to the extraordinary acknowledge
ments OF Secretary McCul1och, in his commu-
nlcation to Congress, relative to Treasury ap-
pointments in the South, to which you allud
ed in your editorial in last Fridays issne, I
wish to call the attention of tho loyal people
OF the North to q few facts connected there
with.
Nothing has 80 much mortified and aston
ished the very few Internationally loyal men
OF the South, than the Government appoint
mcnts made there; for though there are very
few men OF that character TO DO found there,
It Is unquestionablJ true that there are plenty
Of such to fill all the Government Offices.
Men, who II not born there, have resided
there for many years and who, except In tho
prosecutions and sul1crings they have under
zone in consequence Of their loyalty, have
never been compromised In character In auY
way. It was nlso thought, for tho best inter
ests Of both North anl South, that II treason
was not punished 1t ought to be made to take
back seat, aud that in making Government
appointments discrimination should not be
made sgninst the loyal men Of tho South and
In favor of leading and original rebels It
also ought to be considered that Government
In Its appointments would hereafter foster tho
growth Of loyalty, that rebellion If unpun-
lshed would 1T least die ont In due course of
time. But the conrsc Of the Government hss
been to promote M c1actiy opposite stnte Of
affairs.
= Secretary McCulloch is also uucandld In
stating that appointments were only made to
men who were rebels af1cr the authority Of
the government had ceased orer the South,
{r{a tfy7fr4 f3N1 hanf7 trr
fore. Take the case Of Dntf Green, late Guar
termaster General of Alabama, now dead.
This person was graduate of West Point,
and nj the very first breaking out of the re-
bc!lion was ono Of the foremost In hanging
Union and Northern men, md depriying them
their lives. Yet after Taylor surrendered ut
Meridian, and 1t was evident that the Confed-
cracy had finally ind utterly collapsed, this
man made haste 10 the first United States
post, took the oath Of amnesty, (this was be-
fore the days Of the Presidents proclamation
and Immediately got q Treasury appointment
to hunt government cotton In Green county,
Alabama How lucrative such appointments
hnre been to such men can be known through
! the only caae which has been ventilated by
means Of q military court, the case Of Thos.
J. Carver, Treasury Agent for Choctaw coun.
prominent eecessionist in its very earliest day,
and the sentence ofthc court was that be pay
a fine Of ninety thousand dollars and be In
prieoncd for twelve months-the tmprison-
ment, as usunl, being remitted. This man
| hns paid his fine and has sixteen hundred
bales Of cotton left, worth three hundred and
| twenty thousand dollars the proceeds Of
less than sir months' operations us govern
| ment - Treasury AGENT And there arc
many, If not hundreds, of such cases 10 all
pnrts Of the South; The appointees Of the
Treasury being as o general thing consplcu%
Gus for t1sloyalty, 1t nothing else.
Elbow loyalty may be hereafter promoted,
rebellion discouraged, and tho country gener-
ally be pacifled and made a perfect unit, by
| selecting men for internal Revenue and
Treasury Offices who are openly opposed to
the Government they arc pnid to serve, and
With whom original perjury and lawlcssuess
arc familiar, might etfectually puzzle Phfla.
dolphin law yer, easy as the task seems to IN
| Indiana npnnc1er.
Take the troops now there, Away from the
Sout1l, and It Is my opinion, based upon sew.
cral thousand miles travel therein, that res
idcnce there will be more dangerous than II
Was before the war for Northern men. and
that the negroes, now being shot down and
murdered BY detail In every direction, will be
generally mazsacred without any mercy being
shown them. All in consequence Of the very
unfortunate Ito use the mi1dest term posi-
b1e} course Of the Government toward Treason
generally. THIS Is only an individual opinion
| but time may test It8 truth.