The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-06-24
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His appearance ana cohu"'' mp =
9TH The idea that he was in calibre an6
,,ersons, dignity so much below the standard
- ona A. n he entrusted with such mis-
s;,, that he was the general subject OF ridl-
chic. and facetiously styled Coionci JACK
.ss uc held the title Of Colonel OF the
seyentv.third Illinois volunteers.
This person has risen to the surface once
more. As an applicant to Congress for pay
for services as spy for Mr.. LINCOLN. In
snnport Of his application he makes a STORY
which upon its very face is in great pal'
nreposterous-fu Of lies which could haro-
" have been inspired save by motives o.
cain. getting liberal sum out of the Urea
s,,rv for absolutely nothing, as we believe.
He hadn't sense or force enough 10 DO any
Thing in the role he attempted worthy OF
compensation out Of the treasury.
This mans statement and examination
by the committee of Congress occupy h'c
columns in the New York Herald, and the
Herald backs up his claim in one OF It's
gassy editorials.
So stupid and shallow story could not
deceive any one whose common sense was
not overcome by pleasure derived from
all statements casting odium upon TIC
southern people. JAQUEss narratcs MS III
serview with Mr.. DAVIS, and how he ascer-
.o;nea Mr.. DAv1s's ltimatum-freedom and
INDEPENDENCE for the Southern Contederacy.
This he reported to Mr.. LINCOLN, who III
once concluded that a correspondence
Going on in Canada was likely to Involve
him in n blunder, and he sent JAouEss 10
Canada to crack that nut, and OF course
that redoubtable gentleman, telling his
own story, says he cracked 1t, and exposed
its rottenness to Mr.. LINCOLN. BE beat CLAY
and THOMSON, and GREELEY. and their
colleagues in the attempt at peace in Cana
da, and declares that Mr.. GREELEY cursed
Mr.. LINCOLN up and down, and called MN
liar." This is "high' for the phloso-
pher of the Tribune, and Colonel JAckAss
will probably hear from him. But TINS
great tactician got in amongst the Canadian
peace-makers, he says, with letter from
Mr.. BUCHANAN, at whose house he spent
day, and drank more liquor than he had done
in all his life before, as he would inslnuate,
to keep up with old BUCK. whom he un-
QUESTIONABLE SANDERS by charging him with
entertaining the hope that the Confederatcs
would triumph and the Union be dissolved.
Mr.. BUCHANAN satisfied us at least that he
wished no such thing; but the Jackass can
afford to kick the dead lion when he knows
it win please those of whom he Is asking IA
large rick of hay for comfortable subsis-
tence.
The great JAoUEss was most ind0mitably
active and fleet of foot. He was everywhere,
and saw everybody. He procured COVER
nors to journey from one point to another;
paid their expenses tit is important they
should 90 into his billy; and interviewed
them. He induced Governor SEYMOUR to
meet Governor ANDREW, of Massachusetts,
and jointly with the latter Governor, pre-
vailed on Governor SEYMOUR to change his
ways, and send troops to help the Union
cause, and we may almost say, with FAL-
STAFF, to "p1rge and live clean" in future
What great man is JAoUEss! How he
loves the Union and greenbacks
But the greatest cock and bull narrative
of this JAoUEss is story he tells of plan
concocted here to burn up all the big
cities of the North and their shipping to
boot, and how he put an extinguisher upon
the plan. He did this in second visit to
Richmond. He got wind of the grand
scheme on his first, and returned to frus-
trate it. He got in with the principal of the
Confederate chemical department. and won
his confidence, and, he consenting, the two
compounded kind of match and eXplo-
sive material which would make 4 fuss and
soon extinguish itself, or burn brightly
for q moment as ''though it would burn
the world up and then extinguish ITSELF
&C., &c. Such story would not be con-
sidered as anything but Il stupid imposturc
by any man who was not thinking more of
making q little capital against the southern
people than of the probability of the story
itself.
JAoUEss attempts to prove his claim by
asserting that about that time houses were
mysteriously fired in New York and else
where, and the fires went out most mystic
riously; with much more of such stuff.
The whole statement on this point is the
boldest imposture. The impudence of
making it is astonishing.
It is we'll known that hundreds of schemes
for retaliation were concoctcd by all sorts
Of people and presented to the Confederate
Government-not excelling, we are sure,
the measures for annoyance and destruc-
ton invented at the North. But it was
known here and in every place with which
We held communication that Mir. DAVIS
and the commanding authorities of the Con-
federacy universally rejected every scheme
that was contrary to the usages of honora-
bic warfare.
Even while we write we see in JOHN
MIrcHEL's journal that he had criticised as
an editor Mr.. DAvIss dissemination to re-
taliate for outrages committed by the ad-
versary. If MIR. DAVIS was especially noted
for any one thing above another, it was for
his persistent opposition to all expedents
not sanctioned by the usages of fair and hu-
mane conflict.
That there was such a manufacture in
this city as that this applicant for money
from Congress alleges is incredible. The
statement is stupid and preposterous. 4
But we have already given too much
space to Colonel JAcKAss. 81
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Mr.. AKERAAN.-It seems hard to tell
whether the new Attorney General (who,
by the way, taught school in Richmond
from 1915 to 1913 il more knaye or fool,