The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-08-29
NUMBER 81
Prom the N. Y. Sun, Radical.
Grant Nailed. :


The Tribune of Yesterday publishes
the following car,l,received by telegraph
from Hon, Heron, formerly United
States Marshal for Louisiana: =
'SIR: The card Of United States
Marshal Packard in the Tribune OF tho
l4th inst, is simply IN avoidance Of the
truth, and an effort to relieve the Fed
eral officials here of the odium they de-
serve Gov. Warmoth had no intention
of using the police, either at the Cus-s
tom House or at any other place select
ed for the Convention, as l personally
know. o. the evening of the 7th inst.
Marshal Packard stated ITO Gen. Camp
bell Judge Dibble, and Mr.. Fish OF
the Republican, that he had the highest
authority in the land for using the Gus
tom House and troops, and has since
STATED that Gen. Grant authorized it,
The order for troops was obtained from
Gen. Reynolds, Marshal Packard hav-
ing telegraphed him that an attack from
thugs and 'bruisers' upon the Repub-
licam Convention was feared. Gen.
Reynolds did not know the Convention
was to meet in the Custom House, and
that the difficulty was simply between
two sets of delegates. 1 further state
that Marshal Packard and his abettors
cohspired with certain roughs of the
lowest order to aid them in case OF
trouble, in which Gov. Warnoth and
his leading friends were to have been
killed.
aYours, DC, FL. HEBRON.
"NEw ORLEANS, Aug. II, 1871 "
This card not only stamps Packard
as uttering falsehoods in his attempt.
through the Tribune of the 14th inst,
to exculpate Gen Grant from RESPONSE
ility for the employment Of troops to
overawe and control the State Conven
ton; bnt it sinks the brand Of infamy
deep into Grants own forehead, by Civ
ing facts which will convince everybody
except his most besotted supporters
that Grant, and Grant primarily and
mainly, was the author of this outrage
upon the rights of American freemen
If Grant does not promptly deny
these statements of Gen. Heron. and
by the most irrefragable proofs convict
Heron and twenty or thirty other cit
izens of Louisiana of gross untruth.
then, unless the people have made up
their minds to succumb to Military
Dictator, they will drive Grant to tho
wall now, and demand that the House
of Representatives impeach him for
high crimes and mistlemeanors as soon
as that body assemblies. There may be
higher crime committed by Presi-
dent than employing the troops under
his command to pack convention to
secure lis own denomination, hut there
can hardly he more dangerous and
impudcnt one but when, as in this case.
it is done under false pretences, and by
practising deception upon the general
officer who controlled the troops, there
certainly cannot be more dastardiy
and sneaking one.
Unless Gen Grant clears up this mat,
ter so thoroughly that not film of sus
picion can rest upon his conduct in re-
gard to this transaction, then. il the
Republican party has the hardihood to-
renominate him, it will he ground to
powder in November, 1872
That's nothing Ex-President JOHN.
SON nailed and then clinched him with
the evidence of his entire Cabinet The
Democracy propose to defeat GRANT.
or any other man nominated by the
Radicals in 1872 Smoke that!