The Republican journal., 1870-10-27
wooDFoRD IN A TIGHT PLACE.

Gen. Woodford, the radical candidate for
Governor in New York, will probably be
withdrawn, and some man with less damag-
more guilty than great many other radical
officials, but he is unfortunate enough to have
the proof Of his guilt in the hands of his OPP
ponents. Woodford was silly enough to
make, in maudlin speech, a venomous at
tack upon some prominent Democrats, and
among them Hon. A. Oakley Hall, the pre-
sent Mayor OF New York, and former Z. S.
District Attorney. Mr.. Hall is not the man
to be attacked with impunity by such a weak
vessel of wrath as Woodford so he replies
in scathing article, in which he says
l charge that in November, 1861, when the
Marshal of the New York District was making his
earnest raid upon slavers, Mr. Woodford, then in
office of the District Attorney, used his power
against the government, and in favor of a SLAYER.
/ charge that the correspondence between the
Marshal and the Secretary of the Interior-a cores
pondence invited by Greeley, in celebrated edi-
toral of November &C. lS61-shows this to be the
fact; and that when Greeley charged in that edi-
torial an official with defeating justice, he meant
Woodford just much as Nathan meant King
David, when he said unto him, " Thou art the
man." The records of the Interior Department,
Marshal had procured a condemnation of a certain
SLAYER, an order for trial was obtained by the
connivance of Assistant District Attorney Wood
ford; that then the condemned vessel was bonded;
that it became necessary to fix the amount of the
bond that Assistant District Attorney Woodford's
tather-n-laW became the appraiser; and, as the
said Tribune editorial shortly aterward charged
he appraised it at an outrageously small figure.
WhereupOn the vessel filed its bond andi fed away
to engage in a new slave trade until again checked
by the Marshal. I charge that this occurrence made
fayXr11 nri 10
resign his office to prevent exposure, and that these
charge were not published until, after the war was
over, he was nominated for Lieutenant Governor,
because of the mercy Of the Marshal on that occa-
sion.
l charge that the books of the French Cable Tele-
graph Company will show sum of about $4,000
to have been paid to lobby agents to procure a
charter, and that So 900 or $4,000 of this sum were
said by the agent to have been paid to a gentleman
connected with the then Lieutenant-G overnor.
| charge that while President of the Senate, and
as such member of the Canal Board, he voted for
numberess iniquitous claims, the motive for anC
the nature of which canal contractors, when in
terrogated will tell
Of course this made tluttering among the
friends of the radical candidate. 1t was re-
iterated from one end of the state to the other
Even radical papers, seeing the terrible
Inundated position of their candidate, de-
manded his withdrawal. The only champ ion
that was found, one General Pleasanton, is
thus death with by Mayor Hall
THE MANHATTAN CLUB.
96 FIFTH AVENUE.
NEW YORK, October t, 1870
Maior-General Pleasanton:
| My DEAR SIR-In your recent speech, which
mas been Variousv reported IN al1erent newspapers
| | found an alluson to Gen. Woodford and me as
follows q select the Times report the likely to
DE accepted by you anu your party as Vefaclous >
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ford they intended to bring against him when when he
was running ior Ileutenaht. uovernor, ana certain
paper was apo91 TO guPsm ola certain man sad
cnntradct T. That n,ner was tho Va y WH
and that man was Mayor Hall
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be for such charges and he PREPARED At responsi
paon nc Notice or the Inventions Of av a 1o
the President Is TO notice those OF Coionel FISK 'r
have made several charees against General Wood
ford, who on recent occasion relieved me from
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partisan and they We're correctly reported in the
w;1Iin 70 submit these charges nrecisev Is thew
in Peadg WIN III h enef from general or sfee
select another, and they to select third to pay
all the expenses in any event; adavlts to be used