The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-09-02
A MOngrel Congressman.


THE Charleston Duty Neacs few weeks
AGO published a letter to the public from l..
j. Mackey, a Mongrel Alderman and poll
tician, and brother of DIR. Albert G..
Mackey, who was lately removed from the
Collectorship of the Port OF Charleston,
sc. The Mongrel member of Congress
from the Charleston district, G. &. Bowen,
was instrumental in getting DIR. Mackey
turned out and war between the factions
inthat CITY has ensued. Alderman Mackey,
after defending himself against certain
charges brought by Bowen, carries the
war into Africa in the following style:
But how stands it with G. G.. Bowen,
whose name, by civil fiction, now bears
the prefix Honorable?" He is a New
England man, born and reared in Rhode
Island, near the very altar of liberty. Tie
entered the Confederate army as lieu
tenant of cavalry, and after an ignomni-
Gus career of two years, be was cashlered
(as can show by the official record before
mel for the crime of forgery. 1t is also
true that / WIS indicted with General
Walker on the charge of violating the neu-
trality laws of the United States, but
have vet to learn that this fact could de-
tract from nv standing rs a gentleman.
Immediately after my trial and acquittal
on that charge, L was appointed by the
authorities at Washington as Examiner of
the United States Surveys for Kansas and
Nebraska. | was not u clerk, but the Ex-
aminer of Accounts, in the Freedmens
Bureau, and in that capacity became &C
quanted with the evidence on which Z.
&. Bowen was arrested and commit
ted to prison by General Sichlcs, on
the charge of stealing money from the
freedmen. 1t is true that | was Private
Secretary to Governor Scott, the same
gallant soldier and worthy gentleman
whose duty it became, as assistant COM
missioner of the Freedman's Bureau for
South Carolina, to have Bowen arrested for
stealing, and to make him, through the
military authorities, disgorge "A large
amount of his i'll gotten gains 1t is true
that am " well known in Texas" In the
summer of 1860 as acting United States
provOst-marshal over twenty counties OF
that State. | arrested many criminals,
some of whom were arrested for the crime
of murder, after fair and impartial trial,
on far less evidence than that adduced to
prove that G.. G.. Bowen murdered Colonel
White, by the hands OF hired assassin In
his bedroom at Georgetown, ). c., In
November, 1864, for which bloody deed he
escaped punishment, through the flight OF
was confined in prison here on that charge,
and was released at the general Jail de-
livery made by the United States forces on
their entry into Charleston, in 1868. This
dark but truthful story of Bowen's crimes
Is not inconsistent with his ante war record.
He came to this city in 1859 rs the head of
band of the lowest class of gamblers,
and soon signalized his advent by stealing
a valuable set of faro checks from an es-
adjustment in this city, which checks he
sold in New York, where they were re-
covered by the owner, together with the
written proof of BOwens guilt. This fact
! can prove by "clOud of witnesses"
The municipal authorities of this city
have been very frequently appealed
to during the last month by his
wife at Louisville, whom he has
abandoned, although worthy woman,
to aid her in securing a support
from him, while he is living in open in
fanny with another in this city Bowen
charges that | preside over sO-callcd
Union Leagues, where for fee of fifty
dollars, he puts through resolutions to slam
der good Republicans 1t is true that |
am President of the Union League of
Charleston, the same League that sub
scribed money, earned by the hard hands
OF labOrlng men who chiefly composed it,
to feed BOwen's putative children in this
city in 1867, while he was imprisoned in
Castle Pinckney on the charge of stealing
"a charge which the members of the
League were led to belisye uni from his
nlausiblo U>CIIitiOnS OF innocence.
The resolutions to which Bowen refers
were passed to denounce the proposed APP
p0intment of his friend, G.. w. Clark, as
collector of this port, and to stigmatiZe the
political treachcry of Senator r. a. Saw
yer and G.. c. Bowen. Surely it did not
require "a fee of $50 to induce me to-
support such resolutions 1t is worthy of
note, that L. ). Senator Sawyer, who is
now BOwen's bosom friend and co -conspir-
ator, was charged by Bowen, on oath, in
July, 1868, with having committed the
crime of perjury in taking the iron-clad
Oath-a charge which is true. | have
thus briefly glanced at the criminal
history of this Honorable Represcn-
tative from South Carolina" 1t is to be
hoped that justice will yet overtake HIM.
And put III every honest hand whip
To lash the rascal naked through the world"
T. j. MACkEY