Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-03
SCHURZ AMI GRANT.
Letter from the Former Containing
Additional Proof Of Grants Attempt
TO Bride.
The President of the United States Dis.
graeed as a Falsiler Of the
Truth.

Senator Schurz, while in New York
city on Friday last, sent the following
/ letter TO the press to sustain his asser-
ton that patronage was offered to those
who would support the San Domingo
annexation scheme:
"SIR-phe statement l made in my
speech in 1t. Louis concerning the pa
trOnage in connection with the Santo
Domingo business has been represented
rs incorrect in 4 dispatch Of the AssOcia-
ted Press, apparently inspired by the
President himself. 1t is now JdOper
that | should give myauthority for what
] said. The letter quoted in my speech
rs coming from the gentleman who had
with me the conversation referred to
was addressed to me by General Alfred
PleasantOn, late Commissioners of Inter-
nal Revenue. 1t was written in reply TO
n note from me, Of the contents Of which
7 have a memorandum which reads as
follows:
"sAsk PI. whether he remembers con-
versation he had with me concerning
Santo Domingo, in which he said that
II ] would support Pres. / could have all
the patronage | wanted, etc. And ask
him whether he was authorized by Pres.
to say SOL
"General PleasantOn's letter in reply
to this is quoted in my speech, and is as
follows:
""NEw YORK. January ., 49,.
"'DEAR GENERAL-Regarding the
conversation you refer to in your note, 1
remember il vas with the knowledge
and consent and after l had q converse
ton with him 1.-THE President) that I
called upon you and had the converse
ton you spoke of. My impression at
this time is that the President desired
your support in his San Domingo
scheme, and wished to be on such terms
with you that your support could be OBJ
tanned. I do not nov remember any
particular language used at my inter
view with the President, and would not
hazard doing him an injustice by at
tempting 10 quote from memory; but
the impression made upon my mind by
the interview was fixed and distinct.
Truly yours, in haste,
"a. PLEASANTOS,'
81 have since received from General
P~leasanton the following note:
NEW York, July p, IS72.
DEAR GENERAI-Of course l have
no objection to your giving my name to
the public. In explanation of the facts
1 would say that, being 4 friend of the
President rs well as Of yourself, Idesired
you should be on good terms, and you
should understand that there was no
personal feeling in the way of relations
mutually satisfactory. Your statement
is correct that the President wanted
your support for his SantO Domingo
scheme, and that you could have had
the patronage Of the government for
giving it. That was the distinct i'm
preston the Presidents conversation
made upon my mind, and l communi-
Gated it to you at the time. If the Pres
ident positively denies having had any
such conversation, Iregret it. may
console myself with the reflection that
this is the first time that any statement
of mine has been questioned, while the
President has had occasion before this
to distrust the accuracy Of his recollec-
tons. Truly yours,
AIN justice to General PIeasanton l .
must add that the drift of what he said
to me is correctly stated in his note.
When he found that l had conscientious
to the Santo Domingo scheme,
he urged me no further to support it.
He desired me to 90 and see the Presi-
dent, to which / replied that if the
President wanted to speak with me OH
public business l should consider it my
official duty as a Senator to respond to a
note from him requesting me to call.
And that was the end of it. My recol-
is that General PleasantOn init
mated to me at the time, that he spoke
with the knowledge and consent of the
President. L inquired about it after
ward in writing, for the purpose of either
strengthening or correcting my impress
ion concerning that fact.
"AlthOugh the President recently con-
descended in an interview with a Herald
10 say that my opposition was
wing to an unsatisfied desire for patron
.ge, or words 10 that effect, l had. as
viii not now be denied, some excellent
easOns to think that if [ wanted pa
ronage had a very good chance to OBJ
ain it, at the e~xpenss-Of my conviction
# duty. Truly yours, G. sCHURz."
NV NoRK. July 70. 1872.