The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-07-15
The Spy-System at Washington.

removal. under the direct action of the
LOYAL League and Grand Army of the
Republic, Radical organizations, has just
taken place here, wo are told, no less
damnin in its circumstances than that OF
Mr.. Tonry for marrying Annie Surratt,
reported yesterday, and in which the no.
torious Gen. John A. Logan is TO less i'm
plicated. Martin Renchase has thus been
displaced as a messenger in the Sixth Au-
ditor's office, for the dauning offence of
suffering his wife 10 rent room in his
house to an ex.Confederate officer to as
sist her in feeding and clothing her fam
ily, this officer having been, in the years
before the war, a friend to every member
of her household, both officially and per-
sonaly.
Martin Renchase is an Irish Catholic,
and was first drawn into the public ser
vice as door-keeper OF the White House by
President Jackson, during the latter part
of his administration. He served in
that capacity for the remainder of ths
term of President Jackson, and for his
fidelity to duty was continued by Presl-
dents Van Burcn, Harrison, Tyler, and
Polk. Toward the termination of Polk's
administration he was, however, displac-
ed for some particular fayorte. During
Taylor's administration and that OF Fill
more he was made messenger in the War
Department, where he continued, giving
entire satisfaction, until the close Of Presl-
dent Lincoln's administration, Senator
Cameron, of Pennsylvania, being his fast
friend. He was now transferred from the
War Department. to tie Sixth Auditors
Office in the postofice Department, re-
ceiving his new appointment of messen-
ger from the hands of Mr.. Chandler, the
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and
here he has remained, giving entire satis-
faction to Mr.. Hazlett and the whole di-
vision. With these antecedents he has
been notified, nevertheless, that his SER
vices are dispensed with and negro in
stalled in his place! The offence on the
part of his wife in letting room in his
house to an old friend, who happened TO
be Southern man, was not to be passed
; unavenged by Gen. Logan and the Grand
Army, and again the sanctuary of private
life is invaded at the nstigaton OF q spy
and informer.
1t may bo of consequence also to state
that Martin Renchase was the first head
centre of the Fenian organization in the
city of Washington, and is still an active
member of that body, and that his oldest
son, q young man OF more than ordinary
culture and character is at this very time
occupying confidential positio connec-
ted with the headquarters of the organi-
; cation in New York. On the other hand,
tho spy and informer against him with
: the Loyal Leagues and the Grand Army
of John A. Logan, is all Englshman Il
Confederate deserter, and discarded
lover of Renchase's daughter, who,
through his hatred to the Fenians as an
Englshman and his desire for revenge as
rejected suitor, found fitting employ
ment for his base nature in betraying the
rites of hospitality, and in making Sian,
derous representations both rs TO Rem
chase and rs to the ex.Coniederate officer
renting q room in the house.
The policy initiated by Sumner and
Grant in respect to the alabama claims
and the British government, Tor the pur-
pose of winning over the Irish to the sup
port of the Radical party this Fall as has
been boldly avowed by the Radical press,
and embraced in their resolutions upon
the denomination of Geary, as Governor
of Pennsylvania, is thus shown to be the
voriest trick and fraud imaginable; and if
the Irish Catholics suffer themselves to be
caught by the miserable pretence, they
will be left without friend in the United
States-N orth, South, East, or West-to
? deplore the doom that surely awaits them
after becoming thus ensnared. Indeed,
they will find that every party in the land
and every element of population, as we'll
as every religious society, will stand
equally indifferent to their fate. While
the Radical journals are loudly mounting
the believing speech of Charles Sumner
on the Alabama claims, throwing dust in
the eyes of the Fenians and Irish Catho-
lies, this is the way that both the Fenans
and the Irish Catholic are treated in this
government by this pretended anti-British
party. This is the way that the negro is
substituted and to be substituted in the
place of the Fenans, and this is the way
that Catholic is to be prescribed for
marrying q Catholic Gen. O'Neill may
lead his people into the trap set for them
if he pcases and they are fools enough to
follow him into the snare, but the end to
him and them will bo no less speedy, cer-
tain, and sure-the loss of their civil, po-
liticsl, and religious rights in America
JOHN TYLER, JR.
SINGULAR MEDICAL Casa Georgia