The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-04-02

name connected with foolish failure, ano
not through any unfriendlyp feeling. His
feelings toward the gentleman Ga we're
Just as kind when he refused him the let.
tiers as on-the day when he recommended
him to an Office ia which he made from
$4,000 to GIG, 1000 of the peoples money y!
The gentleman (H) remarked, upon MS
HT,s, disapJroval of the plan, that 1t mao
Moan tried before. and could be tried again;
In order to smooth the tnipg osei, snt
tighten the gentleman's oisappo .hn
and modification, he argued Win 'he gen
tleman that the Natlonai hePuoiioau
Con,nittee were making 2.iorts to raise
money; and also, that without some po-
litical excitement money could not De
easily raised, and under thesezcitement OF
a presidential campaign 100000 could
be more easily raised than $1,000 at
that time. He co. then proposed that
the money be raised at home, and thought
that Republicans like HAWXHURsT and
himself. with good Federal officers, could
raise the money. He asked how much was
wanted. He replied about $4,000. he
was very much surprised that the sum
should be so small, and subscribed 5000, as
did also his clerk. He thought that HIS
face frightened at this. He left, and, as
he said, never offered the paper. to any one
else. This might be true, but he (U.) bad
heard several persons say that it had been
offered them. They talked about it,. and
did not seem to approve of its being in his
fH.'s) hands. The Executive Committee
of the Republican party had approved of
collecting the money at home instead of
abroad. The idea among many was, and.
he fU.) suspected, that Fl. was fully i'm
pressed that he was in great measure the
Republican party, and his idea Of helping
the interests Of the party was SO lnsepara-
BILE from his idea of what would lend to
his own ambition that some were unWill-
ing to subscribe to the paper in bis hands.
. HAwxHURsT asked If the Executive Com
mittee did not afterwards send him TO the
North to collect money.
UNDERWOOD said he was not sent for 81
months after this, and he did not then get
money enough to pay lis own expenses.
81 will next refer to the following SEN
tence from the letter in this Republican
organ, the Dispatch "That he knew two
men that would give thousand dollars
each if they could be nominated for Con-
cress." This statement will appear in its
true light when / mention that l meant
the gentleman himself as one Of the two,
and thought he knew it. 1t was joke
upon him and I thought he would take q
hint to subscribe for the uses Of the Re-
publican party. The other gentleman re-
ferred to was his brother tax-commis-
sioner. This, then, is the grarermen OF
the charge that was pcdling ont teats
in Congress at 81 900 apiece.
HAwxHURsT 81 would ask the gentle
man a question. Did he not mention at
the time the names Of Lewis Mckenzie
and Lucius NJ. Chandler %
UNDERWOOD: II mentioned the name OF
Mr., Mckenzie in connection with re-
mark had heard him make to the effect
that he had expended $4,000 in q, lcgiti-
mate way in his last campaign, and had
gotten beaten, ard he didn't mean to run
again. repeat it, the allusion was to my
friend and his brother tax commissioner
DR.. Watson, both Of whom, according 10
general report,--I had heard it from their
own mouths, in fact,-were DESTROYS Of
getting seats in Congress, and would give
ST 600 each for one.'
Mr.. UNDERWOOD then turned his atten-
ton to the following sentences from the
article published in that Republican organ
the Dispatch /" felt chagrined and jg-
dignant at Underwood's persistent efforts
TO embarrass the committee, unless used
in accordance with his wishes" And yet
this was after he GU had tried all in his
power to concliate him, and backed up his
effort with a subscription of $500. Had
he a. been as cool as he co. and his
clerk during the interview, he would not
have left the Office chagrined and indig-
nant, and his miDd would not have been
troubled with other political anxieties, SC
that he would have misunderstood him as
be did. But the strongest minds would
often become distorted by political ambi,
ton and anxieties. The good qualities that
adorned the character of his friend
(H.) were known and appreciated, but il
was generally conceded that he was defec-
tive in memory. He knew enough Of hrs
good qualities, however, to remove all
suspicion that lie intended to do him (U.)
an injustice.
He had been referred to by bis friend as
being an aristocrat, and partial to moneycd
men. He would remind the gentleman OF
one thing, and that was, that be had spent
more days and money for him (H.)
not to get him all office, but to retain him
in one. than he had ever done for any
other three men. Shortly after the decla-
ration of peace, when the Secretary OF
the Treasury had recommended the re-
moval of the tax commissioners, he co.
had the benefit every morning OF visit
from his friend, who beseeched him to &C
to Washington and ask Congress not to dc
this. He consented, and, at his request,
spent several days in Washington at that
disagreeable business of lobbying. The
recommendation Of the Secretary Of the
Treasury was not adopted, and through
his influence the gentleman from AleXan
dria was permitted to retain his office fol
another year, with the comfortable sum o.
81, 900. For this, nor for anything else
had he ever accepted a tarthng.
This was not the first time he had bser
called an aristocrat. He had been called
an aristocrat, and almost a rebel. In de.
nying this, and asserting his Republican
principles, he would not say, with others
to the colored people that he loved them
better than his own wife. He would not
say that he would give them farm apiece,
however idle or vicious. He would not &C
to the national poor house at Arlington
where there were 600 infrm, imbecile
men, who were the controlling power in