The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-16

explicit denial IN private letter dated December
submitted to Congress, but with the omission OF
tue most significant passages. TWenty-f0ur hours
e n ss tae Of State
OF the President" and his own satisfaction with my
assurances This letter OF the Secretary OF State
mitted TO Congress In general the collection was
complied In manner calculated
TO CONCEAL THE TRUTH COMPLETELY.
me most important papers have been omitted,
others have been garbled.
On May rs, 1871, Mr.. Hamilton Fish thought
proper to recall the subject in spite of this ex-
change OF explanations and his written assurances
that they had been entirely satisfactory to the
President. He told me again that he believed me
November 20. 1870. / could only oppose still
more energetic denial to this arbitrary assertion,
q % tine in
before an anonymous letter, in which /
numerous association had been formed to accom-
pish at any price my expulsion from America I
showed It to the Secretary Of State telling him at
the same time that he was enabled to convince him
self of the means to which my calumniators had
taken recourse. Mr.. Fish read this letter and re-
turned 1t to me- saying, 'Tndeed, this isnot polite
but do you know what am persistently tolds 1t
Ia that
YOU ADDRESS ANONYMOUS LETTERS TO YOURSELF
In order to discredit In my opinion the Perkins
counsel"
1t was impossible to continue a conversation
was necessarily reduced to ask myself whether1i
was In the presence OF one afiiicted with mental
alteration or bent on provocation. In this doubt
thought 1t prudent to retire, after having told Mr.
Fish that my dignity did not permit me to reply to
such imputatiOns.
press organs were led to publish very violent art
ces against me- articles which had been communl-
Gated by the State Department to the Associated
On three different occasions did 1 address
myself to- the Secretary of State in order
Far from COmD1VnO Mr. EIsh avs.
tenn of arbitrary and insulting accusations. jour
nalist named Platt having sent to Cincinnati
dent, the Secretary Of State had nothing more
pressing to do than to attribute it to me. He
charged me, moreover, with being
HOSTILE TO TIE NEGOTIATIONS
government Of Her Britannia Majesty Alter so hav
Citation addressed to Mr.. Fish the annexed let
ter, dated June 49, 1871
sSS n s uS hs 0ps
INDUCING yS1 to act with more Justice and beneyoence
his
n a All Ss s % and
taking resolutions which might compromise the friendly
This appeal to the loyalty Of the Secretary Of
State remained without effect. Since then, until
the admnstratioh attacked me most Violently ia
articles OF which 1t was impossible to mistake the
official origin, for several OF them conceded lite
rally with the official communications Of the Secre-
tary Of State.
on June le, 1871, Mr.. Hamilton Fish addressed to
me an Ofcial note on the Perkins affair, in which
he attempted to free the counsel for that of all
responsibility for
THE TABRicAT1oN OF THE FORGED DISPATCHES
which had been attributed to me. He concluded
;, No one knows !, better than SIR the license
3 institute articles
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Piled, asking the Secretary Of State permission,
not to place myself upon the ground Of inuendoes,
but on that OF frank cordially, from which l am
enjoined by my august master not to depart in my
relations with the federal government"
In spite Of my formal assurances and the preced-
ing explanations, Mr. Fish wanted at any price to
attribute to me
THE PATERNITY OF THE ARTICLE
OF the World Of November 49, 1870. It appears
ted to Congress that the Secretary Of State ad-
dressed q letter on the 25th Of October, 1871, to
\ certain Mr.. G. Adams. in which he charges
honor and patriotism, to depose in writing when
and under what circumstances NJ Catacazy has
participated in the publication of the article In the
World.b Mr.. G. Adams yielded with great zeal to
this fervent exhortation. Two days afterward he
deposed in writing by letter addressed to the Sec:
been written under the dctation Of NJ. Catacazy,
had been kept by him for a few days and returned
with notes and corrections In the handwriting Of
the Minister Of Russia"
had
NEVER HAD RELATIONS OF ANY KIND,
neither direct nor indirect with Mr.. G. Adams.
A few days before my departure from Washing
ton sent him, through an honorable lawyer, MI:
him to Be $ whio with
me in the presence of witnesses, In order to
establish when and where he had seen me or had
time that would deposit with my banker the sum
OF $4,000 to be distributed among the poor in WASH
and corrections in my handwriting. Mr.. G. Adams
declined this interview by informing me, through
nv s ne too 81 the facts
not been at my house himself and that, in truth,
he had never seen me; but that one Of his friends,
mediary, and that, moreover, the manuscript cor
rected by my own hand had been lost or destroyed"
THE SECOND WITNESS,
who, as it appears from the collection Of American
documents, had depOsed In compliance with the
repeated and pressing requests Of the Secretary of
State is a Mr.. Turk who is related to the family of
Mr.. Hamilton Fish, and who has been employed
for more that two years counsel at the Imperial
Legation. This Mr.. Turk has deposed that had
avowed to him my participation in the article OF
q Cincinnati journal containing attacks against
the President of the United States.
BY lucky chance have preserved the minutes
of a letter to Mr.. Hamilton Fish,
WRITTEN ENTIRELY IN THE HANDWRITING OF THIS
SAME MR.. f. TURK,
clsely the reverse OF what he had deposed he had
The following fact proves the little confidence
out though they have been by his eXhOrtations to
the sentiments OF "honOr and patriotism Of Messrs.
Adams and Turk
At the moment when I was about to leave Wash
ingtOn the Secretary Of State let me know that If
did not take the formal engagement not to prose-
cute Messrs Adams and Turk and not to justify
myself before the Imperial Cabinet, he would sus-
pend my diplomatic immunities and
AUTHORIZE THE PERKINS LAWYERS TO ARREST ME-.
In reply to the observation made to him that this
would be violation Of international law, the Sec
rotary Of State replied law Is very
elastic, and besides these men have testified at my
must protect them against the prosecu-
ton OF NJ. de CatacaZy."
Having no intention to prosecute individuals who
have only acted as tools to those who employed
them, declared that did not want to bring an
action for false testimony against Messrs. Adams
and Turk, but reserved for myself the right OF ex
posing to the Imperial Cabinet and to the American
people the proceedings OF Mr.. Hamilton Fish,
The Secretary of State also charged me on
several occasions with having inspired articles OF
the journalist named Patt, as well as articles pub.
lished by the editor Of the HERALD, the Sun and
the Tribune of New York. / herewith annex the
letters of Messrs. Piatt, Bennett, Greeley and
Dana. In which these pantlpmen testify to the