The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-09-07
ANOTHER LIE VAILED.


happy for q day or so over
the statement of The Rev. c. w.
Dennison, the editor of the Ma
tiopal Harbinger. Mr.. Dennison
said Henry Wilson told 10.
winter that Gen. Grant drinks too
much and that he, Wilson had
told him so. The Journal to-day
publishes the following letter from
Henry Wilson, in which the dis
tinguished Massachusetts States
man denounces, as will be seen,
The statement Of Dcnnlson as sun-
qualifiedly false We suppose now
the Greeleyites, who are clumsy as
traitors, and clumsy as hypocrite,
will demand that Henry Wilson
shall prove himself innocent, not
that Dcnnison shall prove his own
statements. The willingness of the
Greeleyites to ialsify, is only par
alleled by their inability TO de-
ceive.
Rec. @ w Dennison;
SRI have gust read in the
Springfield Republican, of this
date, your letter on the drinking
habits of General Grant. / am
astonished at seeing myself quoted
as saying to you in conversation
last winter, president Grant drinks
too much. I have told him so.
Senator Wilson, you say will not
deny this do deny in the most
emphatic language, that have
ever said anything of the kind to
you, or anything that resembled it.
Your statement is nnqualifdely
false. During the last nine years
have seen Gen, Grant hundreds
of times, I have Sc IN him in his
camp, in his family, at his own
table, at the table of others, at
home and abroad, and I have never
seen him under the influence of
Intoxicating liquors. l remember
distinctly our conversation. You
referred to the ISLANDERS concern
. ing the Presidents drinking hab-
its. / said to you what / have said
to others, that I regretted that the
President used intoxicating liquors
at all, that wished he woIld take
the pledge, and-that I had o mind
to ask him to join the Congress
ional Temperance Society. What
said Of the President I have said
of all all our public men who use
Intoxicating drinks or furnish them
to others. / have for many years
felt that if our public men would
wholly abstain from their use as a
beverage, they would confer last
ing benefits upon their country
and upon their race, nor have l
any doubt sir, that if the truth
could be known in regard to the
cases referred to in your singular
ly reckless statements, it would
appear that]each one of them was
cruel and malignant slander,
[Signed "H. Wilson"
Not the least among these lying
Greeley papers, are the two con-
federate organs in our city-both
of whom-the Radical and Her
aid, arc vieing with each other in
the race of publishing'the largest
and most preposterous fslseh Gods.
about both Grant and Wilson.
Senator Morton, in his m asterly
vinidication Of President Grant. ir
Lyceum Hall, on Saturday nigh
week corroborated the testimony o.
Mr.. Wilson-and said that he, too
had seen the President, frequently
during the past three years, anG
lie had never seen him under tn,
influence of intoxicating liquors
and he empha tically and pointed,
added, that "a certain politician
land he evidently meant Georg
Washington JULIAN was stumping
the county, claiming he had seel
Gen. Grant dead drunk in til!
streets of Washington: Now
said Senator Morton, if that gen
tleman, or any body else woul
name the time and place of sue
intoxication, and make oath to il
he would guarantee tc convict hir
of perjury and put him in til
States prison
We have additional testimony
from Julian's family organ, itsel
branding the charge of drunkenes
against General Grant as false an
without foundation. This chare
, appeared in q communication
( written to the Julian organ, ju!
prior to the nomination OF Gel
Grant, as the candlQate OF the ii
publican party, by las it was III
derstood at that time) the wife
George w. Julian, and it alledgt
that Gen. Grant was seen {
Pennsylvania Avenue SO drur
:, that he had to be supported /
e two of his officers &c, and the
n followed homily on selectin
such man as Republican ca
n didate for the Presidency, &c. b
It this communication was follow,
re by another. in eight or ten da
n thereafter. from the pen of IL
same correspondent. taking bat
II tho CHARGE in toto md prOaOur