, 1872-10-31

paul aAo e1to 64o5s lIAuuB proven tO e31sL IN LQ
New York Custom House, furnish no evidence 0
corruption! What would General Logan cal
corruption if he cannot detect one iota Of it il
any Of these transactions?
atR. scAaAoN's PAPER-M'AnDLE CASE.
~ another -class-of persons, political bigote
among whom my pretended friend, J. Y. Scam
mon, has made himself conspicuous, Eeem tt
suppose that by defauing me they furnish
reasons why Grant should be reelected Presi
dent, even though to do SO they necessarily make
scammon publishes a newspaper to which
he has rightly given q between
water name, as in it's venom it more nearl,
resembles those poisonous reptiles which live
between land and water, than anything know
of. The matter Of which Mr. Scammon oftenest
refers, is my employment by General Grant
and Secretary Stanton to attend to some suits in
the Supreme Court of the United States, and fol
which was paid such fee as Mr. Stanton deemed
reasonable. AL this WAS perfectly legal and
proper, and no fair man would take exception to
it, nor does Mr. Scemmon object to any one save
myself, doing precisely the same thing. Mr.
Carpenter, who was associated with me- as assis-
tant counsel in the McArd1e and Georgia cases,
received the same fee as did, and though Scam
mon complains almost daily that my fee was e1-
Carpenters fee,-and yet Mr. Scammon claims
to be fair man. Mr.. Conkling and General
Butler, while members Of Congress, were
employed and paid for legal services by
the Government, and though Mr. Scammon
complains almost daily that was thus employed
and paid, he never has word to say about the
employment Of MesBrs. Butler and Conkling,
and yet Mr.. Scammon claims to be fair man.
II it WAS illegal or wrong for me to be employed
and paid, it was Illegal and wrong for General
never condemns General Grant, though he al
most daily charges me with being employed and
receiving pay contrary to law, and yet Mr. Scam
mon claims to be fair man. Does the propriety
of my professional conduct depend upon my
support Of Grant or Greeley for President; !;
and, if not, why does Mr.. Scammon as al honest
man seek to make me infamous for what he
does not object to in others? Is he 80 enraged
at my exposure Of the abuses Of the Administra-
ton til :; that he must must. needs be unjust,
blindness that he docs not see that
what is right in others cannot under like circum-
stances bo wrong in me7
scAa1a1oN AS LAWYER AND CHRISTIAN.
Alr. scammon is 9 lawyer, and estimates in his
paper the amount Of the fee alawyer should re-
ceiYe by the number of hours he is engaged in
arguing case in court. submit whether any
man deserves place among an honorable profess
sion who would measure the value of the SER
vices Of a member Of the profession by such a
rule.
But Mr. scammon claiming to be a Christian
and fair man is not only unjust as T have
shown, but he is untruthful also. The number
OF falsehoods which have been published in Mr.
scammon's paper IN regard to the McArdle
tse b,o o9h The bv emRoent
with it something that was untrue that it could
be made Objectionable. Hence the many false
hoods about it, and no sooner we're the parties
uttering one driven from it, than they started
another.
SERIES OF FA1sEHooDs.
The first charge WAS that was illegally en-
ployed by Andrew johnson. This was shown
to be false. By the production of General Grants
letter. retaining me- in the case, and no more was
said about tho llegality of the employment,
when it Was ascartained it WAS by Grant and not
Johnson.
Driven from the falsehood that johnson en-
p1oyed me, it WAS next charged that was paid
BY johnson; but the records showed that was
paid by Secretary Stanton, and Secretary Raw
Eins after Grant became President; then it WAS
charged that I did not attend to the case, but
The records Of the Supreme Court showed this
TO be false; then it Was charged that Secretary
any more, when the fact Was, that the payments
be made were expressly stated to be in part, and
he fixed with hlr. Carpenter the amount which
The fee ought to be- Mr. Scammon has gone SO
far as to say in his paper that it WAS not Illegal
for General Grant to employ me, but that it was
Illegal for me to take pay for my services.
Oh, that SONS Kind friend the gift would gle u,
To see ouTsef as others see us.
1t would from many blunaer free Us.
There is no law in existence prohibiting
llHuDtE u touSIe6b u0lU pIdCL1b1nB 41a pro-
fession in the courts, aud receiving pay for his
services.
Mr. Conkling, who ought to be pretty good
authority with Er. Scammon, as they both sup
port Grant, said in Congress:
should be sorg as IN American, to suppose that
he standard Of intelligence anywhere IN the country
aA go low that any human being believes that there is
he slightest improprtety in MIN who is member Of
courts OF accepting from tho Government Of the
United states from any other client, retainer for
such professional services.
Evidently Mr. Conk1ing did not know how low
he intelligence of Mlr. Scammon was, and could
not have conceived that any man, calling him
self lawyer, and aspiring to edit q newspaper,
8ould be so ignorant and so regardless Of decen-
y, as to quote statute having no reference to
professional services Of Members Of Congress,
Is forbidding them to receive pay for such SER
7ices in the courts.
What the next s1auder in regard to myself
si11 be, know not, but men capable Of invent
ng one falsehood after another, will not hesi-
nut fortunately, the public soon learn to pay no
.egard to what they say.
scA.1MoN AS ANAs1As.
II the punishment visited upon Ananias and |
'apphira was to have fallen upon Mr. Scammon
or the commission Of each similar offence, he |
vould long ago have undergone the horrors, not |
My Of the second, but of many deaths; and had |
like punishment fallen upon all those who
AVE made false statements in regard to my con-
lection with lawful and proper act, there |
fould SCARCELY have been enough Of the Radical !
ross-road politicians left to bury those who
Fould have been stricken down.
WHY ABUSE Is nEsoRTED TO.
My object il referring to the various misrep-
eBentations and ISLANDERS which have |
een promulgated, is not to protect !
Myself against them, for am satisfied they are |
ot believed by those who know me, but to call |
our attention to the desperate means resorted
0 to sustain the present Administration. I'm
Bile to defend the abuses and corruption which
ave been exposed, the advocates Of General
irant's reelection villify and abuse those who
1pose them. What have Liberal Republicans
lone, that they should bo thus treated They
dhere to all the principles Of freedom and |
quality on which the Republican party was
aeed. Their only object is to restain the
federal Government to the exercise Of conRtitu-
iona1 powers, to restore peace and reconciliation
mong all our people, and to purify the. Govern
nent. Ought anybody be abused for favoring
uch objects?
Why should not good men Of all parties unite
or their accomplishment? Bad men who e1-
ect to maintain themselves in authority by un-
Constitutional rsurpations Of power, by distrac-
ions among the people, and who are to be pro-
tied by the abuael and corruptions OF Govern
nent, will. of course, oppose all reforms It is