The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-11
ANOTHER OF GRANTS AP-
P0INTEES.


rer, under date of February End,
shows up II of Grants appointees
to Office, as follows:
"But every now and then an OPP
portunIty occurs for viewing a
specimen brick" here at Washing
ton, and the object ofthis paragraph
is to show one of them TO the pub
lie. 1t is the person nominated by
the model President to be the mod
81 United States Marshal for Cali
fornla-the most important FEEDER
al Office in the State. Mr.. William
G.. Morris is the individual thus
honored ; and what l have to say
about him l quote from a pamphlet
now before me, entitled "The Rec
ord of William q. Morris, nomIna~
ted for United States Marshal of
California" 1t consists of thirty
six pages, made up chiefly from
Court records, and Submitted to the
Senate Judiciary Committee for the
dis,oyal purpose of defeating Gen.
Grants favorite candidate. Here
Is She introductory overture, in the
nature of a preface
eff the history of human crime
has a blacker or meaner page than
that exhibited IN the following
transcript from the records of tho
First District Court of California, il
certainly has never been necessary
10 recite 1t TO the American Senate
10 prevent the confirmation OF rs
actor TO a high executive Office
On the 9th of July, 1858, 6. w.
Morris was su attorney and notary
public for Tulare County, Californ>
Ia. AT that date, one J. d. Staple
ford. after various efforts to induce
W. C. Deputy to make him a deed
of certain property owned by Dep
Ety, made a complaint against Dep
rty of embezzlement before a JUS
tee of the peace, and had him ar
rested and confined in the County
Jail. This arrest was a mere pre-
trxt TO get Deputy in his power, for
no witnesses evcr appeared against
Deputy on the examination OF the
charge. The same night, Staple
ford and Morris came, with several
others, to the jail, Overpowered the
keepers. cut the chain that confined
Deputy, took HIM some hundreds
of yards distant, stopping his cries
with threats, pulled off his shirt,
put a rope round his neck and then
lung him up TO the limb of a tree.
lie was let down senseless, when
he was whipped by Morris own
Lands with a cowhide until he re-
covered his senses, when he was
asked If he would deed his proper
fy to S%tapIeford. Upon his refusal,
he was hung up again until he
Ftrangled. He was let down again,
and again whipped by Morris. He
still refused 10 deed his property,
and the same operation was repeat
cd, including hanging and whipp-
ing, when he said he would deed
anything to save his life no prom
ised to do so at daylight, and to
give up all his personal property
was threatened If he did not do as
lie promised he would be hung en-
tainly next time, and was taken
hack and reclaimed. The next
morning very early Morris and Sta
pIetord repaired to the Jail where
nepnty was confined. Morris wrote
the deed IN his presence, and then
and there, with the protestations of
the victim that he signed only to
save his life, amid the insulting and
jeerIng remarks of Morris and Sta
pleford, and calling on a few wit
nesses of the scene for protection,
md while still chained by the leg,
he signed the deed, to which Morris
affixed his notarial certificate, stat
ing that on that date personally ap~
peared before him said Deputy, and
acknowledged to me OHM that he
executed the same freely and vol
unfairly, and for the lrsrs and pur-
poses therein mentioned"
Then follow thirty odd pages of
transcripts from the Court Record,
giving in tedious detail the official
history of this revolving CRIME, and
showing that the man to whom Mr..
Grant wishes TO confde the execu-
ton of United States laws in Cali
fornIa WAS the chief instigAtor and
chief perPetrator of it. What a fit
man for United States Marshal y
Speaker Cunningham RepudI-
atIng the Fifteenth Amend
ment on the Cars.
The CINCINNATI Enquirer tells a
good Joke on one of the members of