New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-07-13

TIE LIBEL UPON SENATOR TRUMBULL.
On the 9th of this month The Ne1 York
Times published three columns of falsehoOds
and insinuatiOns about Senator Trumbull.
Nobody dreams of taking the ratings of that
paper seriously. To oppose the perpetuation
of the Grant Government subjects the best
and purest men in the country to its malig-
nant abuse, which fortunately is SO dull that
few people can read it, and so vio-
lent that nobody can consider it truth
full. But its article on the 9th was
SO long that it has greatly impressed certain
discriminating papers, especially The Nation,
which thinks there must be some truth
| in an article three columns in length. There
is about as much logic in this az there was in
Mr.. Websters famous dictum " that no country
"ever lost its liberties which had a waterfall
$50 feet high" We have read the article,
with infinite tedium, and can find no truth in
| it. But here are some of the falsehOods it con-
! tains, from which the rest may be inferred:
/. 1t says that Mr.. Trumbull was elected
| Senator while Judge, in violation of law.
| Mr.. Trumbull had resigned his judgeship and
retired from the bench more than year be-
| fore he was elected Senator.
| g. 1t says "the Pension Agency at Spring
field ILL.,, was given by President Grant
to Gen. Bloomfield" and adds that Mr.. Trum-
| bull extOrted the place away from him by inn
Fortunate solicitations. This is untrue Gen.
Bloomfield was appointed by Mr.. Johnson,
and removed by Gen. Grant at the request of
| Senator Yates, who desired the appointment
Of DR.. Jayne, his lifelong friend, and who
long since stated these facts frankly over bis
own signature.
| g. A most detailed and malicious network of
misstatements and slanderous insinuations Is
contained in The TImes's comments on the
McCarde case. To abridge its volumnous
malignancy, it charges, in short, that Mr..
Johnson employed Senator Trumbull to repre-
sent the United States in that case, paid him
a fee of $4,000 and thus gained his vote in
the impeachment trial. 1t is impossible TO
conceive falsehood more wicked and
more gratuitOus. The man who wrote il
knows that in The Congressional Globe of
March Is the facts and documents
in the case, printed at length, show
that Senator Trumbull was employed by Gen
Grant when Secretary of War, on the 9Th OF
January, 1868. Afterward, when Mr.. Stanton
resumed charge of the War Department, he
confirmed the appointment, as is shown by
his letter of March %. The greater portion
of the fee was paid by Gen. Rawlins, after
Gen. Grant became President. In the face OF
these facts The Times has the shameless auda-
city to accuse Senator Trumbull of having
been brbed by Andrew Johnson with this
fee, and papers making such pretensions to
| candor as The Nation shake their heads over
the vile SANDER, and say it requires cxplana-
| ton.
We wish it distinctly understood that this
ia not defense of Senator Trumbull. Ii
there is man in the United States intrenched
impregnably against calumny by mere force
of character, he is such an one. We do not
skulking politicians behind it who prepared
| this article as reckless and awkward ibelers.