The weekly clarion., 1869-11-11
EXPOSE OF H. w. BARRY,


WASHINGTON d. c. April Z, 1868.
Editor Of the Lexington Advertiser:
SIR: In compliance with your request
transmit herewith documentary evidence TO
sustain charges heretofore preferred against
formed, for Congressional honors In the
State of Mississippi. A few words explana-
tory of the motive which prompted my ac-
tion In this, will not, hope, be considered
superhuous. To quiet tbs fears OF some
who may, perhaps, think i am actuated by
selfish and mercenary motives or partisan
hatred, 1t Is only necessary for me to say
that have ever affiliated with the dominant
tRepublican) party, party which has en-
listed my warmest sympathies, and TO that
organization alone do look for a ST eedy
and equitable adjudication of the conflicting
interests that has awakened such fearful
convulsions; nay, more Ii Is the only NIX
DTUM through which a permanent and en-
during peace caA be consummated. regret
exceedingly that / am impelled by a sense
of duty 70 give publicity TO these facts, for
it Is giving an undue but unenviable notori-
ETY. to an undeserving man, who, instead
of being the recipient of the honors and
emoluments of Office from a credulous and
signed TO a felon's cell, and like the grovel-
ling insect, 'fed upon the vapors of a dun
geon." He Is a monstrous fraud, false and
an unworthy of belief even by willing ears.
makes it doubly important for the newly
enfranchised to select men animated by as
lofty precepts, and inspired by as divine
sentiments as ever mpelled men to action,
to represent them In the national councils,
who will ignore personal interests and ag-
grandisement until every link forming our
chain of States are reunited and their mil
lions of people returned TO the shield of our
Republic. undertake to say (and the ac-
companying documents are conclusive of the
efRaaa of hat
Barry is utterly destitute of every quality
necessary to make n good citizen, and
should be consigned TO political oblivion
there to commune with his conscience (ifhe
has any and enjoy the fruits of his ill-got-
ten gains.
Barry boasts of distinguished services,
battles, &c. The records Of the War De-
partment show that he participated in no
engagement as a Colonel, and it is doubtful
whether he ever ''smelt powder" during the
progression of the war.
Barry's reprehensible conduct while in
command of the post of Paducah, KY, COM
ing to the knowledge of the Governor of
the State, that official felt it obligatory up
on him to take some action in the premises,
and he embodied in a message to the Legis-
lature, charging him with having ordered a
bank to pay certain sum OF gold to pros
titute whose society he enjoyed, a fact that
was established by the testimony of Messrs.
Norton and Steele, officers of the bank-their
evidence Is on file at the Judge Advocate
Generals Office, taken before Gen. Fry, pres
ident of a military commission appointed to
investigate the affair. Barry was ordered
before a court OF Inquiry, of which Colonel
Guppy was the presiding ofhcer. He was
subsequently court martialed and repriman-
ded in General Court Martial Orders for SO.
He commanded a Division for n short time
Tin the absence of General officers,) and was
arrested in Texas and eluded trial. after
court had been ordered, through some prac-
tical shrewdness. He was again In arrest
when his regiment was mustered out and
with difficulty succeeded in obtaining an
report of Major Lidell, on file in the De-
partInent of War. There Is also on file in
that office what purports TO be copies of au-
tograph letters written by those officers who
deny them in the accompanying evidence.
There are also copies of recommendation
from the entire Kentucky Delegation-also
from Gems. Logan and Garfield; the latter
speak positively that they do not know him,
while some of the Kentucky Delegation say
they have no recollection OF him whatever,
Barry applied to me for copies of letters
which secured my promotion by brevet, as
suring me that he would send them to the
writers asking that they would make auto
graph copies TO be used In his favor, /, in
giving the copies, inserted his name where
mine appeared. He acted In bad faith and
represented them as autograph letters TO
Mr.. BandalI who certified TO copies made
from them, and secured him his brevet. He
was a school teacher before the war near
Louisville, and during the military opera
.tions TO recount his record it shows him out
of the army, In arrest, waiting the sentence
of Court Martials. or results of Courts of
Enquiries, the greater part of the war.
Gen. Howard dismissed him from the en-
ploy of his Bureau while he was acting as
an agent at Goodman, Miss, when he ascer-
tanned his character.
JAS. ID. MCBRIDE.