Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-09
rHE REmovAr. or cAmp.


spondent Of the Cincinnati Gazette (Radi-
cal) telegaphed that paper touching the re-
moval of United States District Attorney
Camp, for the Eastern District of Tennes-
see, that ait now appears that the chief
worker against him was Roderick r. Butler,
who has been pursuing him for the part he
took a year ago In collecting evidence in
Buffers pension Frauds Senator Brown
low does not likeTto be thus robbed of the
honor of getting Camp decapitated, and he
.rushes into print Ritlna Characteristic card
on the subiect, in which he says:
Without intending any newspaper con-
troversy, slbjoin the following document,
signed by Hon. Horace Maynard and my
self: Is ..'t
To the President of the United States
We would respectfully but earnestly re-
commend the removal of Z. c. Camp as
United States District Attorney for the
Eastern District of Tennessee. We recon-
mend this because his continuance in Office
is sreatly injurious 10 the Republican party
and your Administration.
IA 1t is the popular belief that he 44sas his
alice
such is the fact we are not prepared to say,
but such is public opinion. Without as
summing to decide whether such opinion is
well founded, it certainly exists, and IS very
preiudicial TO the Government and those
charged with its administration.
l,-, Many prosecutions are instituted against
persons technically but not substantially
guilty of violations of the law, and then
dismissed upon defendants paying the costs.
a. We recommend in his place the appoint
ment of Hon. George Andrews, recently
one Of the Judges of the Supreme Court,
elected by the people of the State, but re-
moved by the recent change of the Con-
stitution by the Rebels, which, among other
things, abolished that Court. Judge An
drews is gentleman of high personal char
acter, a sound lawyer, and an upright, fair
minded man.
We have the honor to be, etc,
w. G. BRowNLow,
-t...Fs e-lla NNHoRACE MAYNARD.
/ publish this letter in vindicatiOn of the
President, and upon this Recommendation
of Mr.. MAYNARD and myself I hare reason
TO knoso that the action of the Administra-
ton was based. If Representative Butler
endorsed the change recommended by May
nard and myself, it was because the Re
o publicans of his District, in common with
the entire party in East Tennessee, desired
the change, and have clamored for it since
long before Mr.. Butler was arraigned for
alleged frauds on the Pension Office. Ger
tain it is that the change recommended in
the foregoing letter TO the President meets
the hearty appreciation of the entire Repub-
lican party of East Tennessee. And the
Rebel-Democratic politicians openly ex-
press their regret at Camps removal, be-
cause, as they say, his continuance in
office was injurious to the Republican par
ty. W. G. BRowNLow.
Y KNOXVILLE, Nov. 6.
1t thus appears that the removal of Mr..
Camp was demanded upon the ground that
his continuance in office is injurious to the
Radical party and the Grant administration.
This is the paramount ground for his re-
moval Not word is said about the pub
lie interests suffering at his hands. 1t is
true, fault is found with Camp because he
has been institutfng prosecutions against
''persons technically but not substantially
guilty of violations of the law" and then
dismissing such prosecutions 'upOn defend
ants paying the costs" But this will apply
equally to other District Attorneys. 1t is
thefault ofthelaw against illicit distilling that
these officers are clothed with the power to
harrass and annoy spersons technically but
rot substantially guilty. of crimes. The
law was enacted for that, very purpose-it
was intended to entrap unwary people who
do 1t,t inland ~ 1-;oioga Az Io.,.. a,,1 -,
dreds of citizens of Middle Tennessee have
felt The power this act has conferred upon
the ''mlnions of the law" and at a heavy
cost to them, and yet Brownlow and Nav
nard have never uttered word against
prosecutions. But it appears that few of
the 'foyal" men of East Tennessee have
been made TO feel the weight Of this inio1Ii-
tous law, and straightway Brownlow
H'and Maynard squealE like pigs that
have got their heads into a crack in a
ence a little too small to admit their get
ting out with any thing like comfort. We
have no doubt Camp is guilty, as charged
by Brownlow and Maynard-it is Radical
human nature-but the law should be
amended so as 10 take il out of the power of
such men TO harrass and annoy better men,
and thereby put money in their purses.
Let us have justIa ws-laws to punish crime
and protect the innocent against sharpers
and shysters-and honest men to enforce
them, and then we shall have no such com
plants as Brownlow and Maynard make.
---AllE a c. FEag