The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-06-16
What Service Gets Reward.
TIM. LlNKINW ATEE

III.
II
i" What Service Gets Reward.
i The appointment of j. Russell Jon,
e IA Minister to Belgium, and the perti,
e acity with which General Grant cline
;. TO the man whom the Senate evidentl
2 does not like, have caused a good de-,
OF comment. The friends of the lat
Minister, Sanford, Radicals have
special complaint to make, that tn
President has broken his word to them
having promised that he would max,
no change, until after the next meetin,
Of Congress.
Why General Grant insists upon Civ
ing office to Jones, is OK planned, in part
by his prominence in certain politica
transaction wherein h. and Mr.. Wash.
onrne, the Minister to France, came t,
disgrace and grief, and therefore meri,
compensation from loyal govern.
ment.
In the early part of the war the same
loyal Mr.. Jones, in association with
Others, caused the arrest of one Madi.
son Y. johnson, and his imprisonment
IN Fort Lafayette. on a trum,,ed I'M
charge of disloyaltv, Mr.. johnson he.
ing a Democrat. On liberation, Mr..
johnson brought suit in an action IF
trespass for false imprisonment, and
held on to it obstinately. against all
legal snbtertuges and diliatory pleas,
Tor SIX years. Finding the Judgment
must finally 60 against them, they f.
nai'y, to escape heavy verdict for
damages, agreed to enter plea of
guilty, the decree for damages being
limited, by consent, to enough to cover
the costs of suit.
Inc following is given in the Chica-
go Times as the AFFECT confession of his
guilt, which is on file in the court with
the signature Of Mr.. Washburne. now
Grants Minister to France, and Mr..
Jones, now Grants Minister to Belpi-
nm. They confess.
That the said pleas, heretofore fled
oy them in said case, and the matters
ma things therein set forth against
'aid plaintiff, are untrue in substance
md in fact. And the said defendants.
urther confess the wrongful trespnss
ma imprisonment set forth in said de.
'laration, and that the said defendants
ire guilty in manner and form as there
n stated and set forth, and that the
ald plaintiff has sustained great dam
ge thereby, as is alleged in said de-
iaratlon, and said defendants further
oDfess that the said seizure and i'm.
rls0nment of said plaintiff was wrong.
vi, nnjustifiable, and without cuuse.
no that said plaintiff was innocent Of :
he violation of any law, or of doing
ny act lnimical to the Governments 81
ne United States, and that said plain
M ana no act, used no expression, or
xerclsed any influence, to the knowl.
dge Of said defendants, that was not
support of the Government of the
n'ted States, its constitution and it's
Tvs.
Is there any doubt that j. Russell II
'nes, Grants relative" and E. B. Il
'asl'bnrne, his Mentor, the unhappy n
PENDANTS in this snit. are entitled to =
me identification for their sufferinps n
the cause of rampant loyalism, to t!
ns"le them for the disgrace into u u
''lch they fall among honest men. be-
lite such as Sfckles deserved the mis- N
IN to Spain, or Ashley the Governor F."
lp OF Montana. But in that case :, ~
nat is possible to be done for Stanton II
ID Seward, the great unconvicted IA
lminals of allf-[N. o. Picayune. -