Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-10-29
Doollttle, the "Silent Partner in
Cotton.

address the Liberals at Lancaster on
Thursday next. lie is an eloquent
and polished speaker. His dignity
and his affectation ofvirtue and honor
have won him the title of "he earn
est man" His air of wounded honor
and injured piety, would sit graceful
ly upon city clergy being tried
for unchastity, and his demure, in
nocent cast of countenance would
give him a tremendous run of sue,
Cess as a New Zealand missionary.
He has a way of calling himself ian
earnest man." just as his diminutive
fellow statesman and comrade calls
himself an Honest Miller"
Now although we have thus far
striven to tell the truth about these
men, sand nothing but the truth"
yet we have refrained from telling
the tchole truth. Therefore We offer
in this issue few additional facts
upon each
As it is some time since allusion
was here made to Doolittle's cotton
partnership, and as that transaction
in all it's gIaring impudence, hypo-
crisy and richness has never been
disproved or really denied, we think
it only proper to refresh our m mo-
ry of it by referring to the Herald of
Sept. Sd. Mr.. ID. used his influence
as U. s. Senator in 1864 to obtain
from Lincoln permit for II. J. Con.
natty of Racine, Wis, to trade in
cotton inside the Rebel lines to the
extent of $4,000 bales. This emit.
tied G. to enter the lines protected
by the permit and by troops, and steal
or buy for little or nothing an
amount of cotton that might then
bring several millions of dollars.
Doolittle then demanded that Mr..
Connatty should give him one
fourth of all the profits under this
permit, under pretence of love and
respect for Doolittle because of his
fidelity and honesty in his high po-
sition. After days reflection, Con-
natty fearing that Doolittle might
cause revocation of his permit if de-
MED quarter of the profits, agreed
to the extortion and copied and sent
those racy words that Doolit.le had
written out to address to him.
But it availed the Earnest Man
nothing that he had given Connatty
such tremendous squeeze by rea-
sen Of his powerful position as Sena'-
tor from Wisconsin the great cot
ton steal did not come off as promis-
ed, and why not? Because Gen.
Grant, who was greater and wiser
in such matters than even the Presi-
dent, saw the evil and corruption of
the cotton trade, and knew that
while it was carried on he could new
er successfully fight the traitors so
he crushed it out utterly and taught
the speculating Yankees as he once
did the Jew smugglers on the from
tier, that his army was organic d to
right and not to help civilians make
money.
Another interesting specimen Of
completely in fraud and bribery il
office came out in reference 10 Mr..
Doolittle, in the n. Y. Tribune of
March 1867. 1t comes in tn torn
of six column Report Of the House
Committee on frauds in the n. Y.
Custom House." Here it is proved
before the committee that Collector
Smythe, had derived the sum of S40,-
900 from the disposal of some of his
patronage, which was to be divided
among those to whom Collector
Smythe looked for retention in flee.
The contemplated distribution
under this $40 900 arrangement APP
pears from Mr.. Smythe's and other
testimony to have been little more
explicit and exhaustive. 1t was as
follows:
| EExtract.) Geo + Thompson
| late of the Daily News. 900
Senators Doolittle and Pat
tsrson $1,000 each) 10 900
| Embree, deputy collector, 600
| Humphrey, and by him at
| once rejected. 600
Brown, Private Secretary of
| COllector-rejected by him
| Political Fund, 10 900
"Mrs Perry known as
washington Woman" 900
/ known share, say 900
This makes up the $4,000, 30 as
to correspond technically with Mr..
Smythe's oft.reiterated assesera-
tions that che was not to have dol
lar of it," This showing, however,
left him sole almoner of the $4,000
political fund.
We have no space to explain fur
Their, but will merely refer those who
want to investigate the matter, to
the Congressional Globe, 1st Session,
10th Congress, 1867, from page 120
to page 400, where the Senate was
for days engaged in bolstering up
the credit of Patterson and Doolittle.
Here will be found the record of
DoolittIe's nepotism in getting his
son fat place in the N. Y Custom
House also 5000 greenback reasons
why he voted against the impeach~
ment of Andy Johnson and took a
leading part in organizing Andy's
Bread and Butter party.
Vote TOR James Woodhouse
for Register.