American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-10-11
SHEPHERD DEFENDED.

] ne HOlolltuS 2AlcAdHuci IL. SuVi''
herd, Governor of the District of
Columbia, whose recent appoint
ment to that office has subjected
President Grant to just and merited
censure, has found a champion and
defender in the person of Rev. DR..
Tudor, pastor of the Carondelet
Street Methodist church: New Or
leans. In a long letter written at
Washington City. and published in
the New Orleans Christian AdrOcate
of the end instant, DIR. Tudor goes
into ecstacies over the grandeur
and magnificcnce of the improve
menis that have been made in that
American Sodom, and which are
the effects of a stupendous system
of fraud and peculatiOn, involving
the moral honesty OF the very man
whom he so highly extols. Shep-
herd must have daZzled the vision
of the Doctor with the splendor of
his achievements, and then thrown
a veil of deception over his eyes to
conceal the truth, else he could
never have written that letter in
the face of the charges preferred
against him by the press of the
country.
1t appears that while in Washing
ton, DIR. Tudor received marked
and courteous attention from Shep-
herd, and believing his words,
made him the subject of fulsome
adulation; and which, we fear, will
add nothing 10 his fame, either as
minister or as man. Those who
are ignorant of the reputation of
Shepherd, would suppose from
reading DR.. Tudor's laudatory trib-
ute to his genius, talents, enter
prise, integrity and courage, that he
IS a man to be admired and hon
ored by his fellow-men. Abiding
to the charge that he was mem
Der of the corrupt ''ring" at Wash
ingtoD, DR.. Tudor says: "If it was
necessary, 1 would not only dis
claim the insinuation of such a
charge, but also defend him against
the narrow -mindedness and the SER
Witty of judgement which brands
every man of public spirit, and
even, in some cases, the benefactor
of his species, as a leader or a MEN,
Der of the 'ring.'"
Lest this unfortuna ate letter should
mislead the uniformed as to the
public estimate of the character of
Shepherd, we give as an offset to
DR.. TudOr's eulOgistic endOrseme
the following counter>opinion OF tie
New York Sun
"When the Office of Governor of
the District of Columbia became
vacant by the resignation of Henry
ID. Cooke, brought to bankruptcy
and his commercial credit destroyed
by his implication in the great
frauds which the District Govern
ment had perpetrated under Gen
eral Grants auspices, did the Presi-
dent appoint an honest man in his
place. No; he appointed Alexander
r. Shepherd, a more notorious plum
dereI than Cooker
Now, which testimony is entitled
to the most credence, that Of resi-
dent minister of New Orleans,
whose temporary visit to Washing
ton brought him in personal con-
tact with Shepherd, from whom he
received courteous consideration,
and who, we doubt not, deceived
him as to his connection with the
fraudulent operations of the s.ring;''
or that of a paper in New York,
whose business, of late, has been to
investigate the Washington frauds,
and bring to the surface the guilty
parties? With the facilities of both
for arriving at the truth, we must
accept the testimony of the San;
and in doing this, we do not wish to
be underst God as calling in question
the veracity or sincerity of DR..
Tudor, believing, as we do, that he
has been duped by the very man
whose character his letter is inten-
ded to shield.
We can but regret the publica-
ton of the letter, coming as it does
from the pen of an eloquent and
popular divine, for as it reads, it
makes him the champion of q man
who has been denounced by the
first journals of the North as a dis.
honest and INSCRIPTIONS official.
Whenever a minister of the Cos.
pei steps aside from his high and
holy vocation to champion the
cause OF government contractor
who stands charged before the
world with fraud and corruption, he
assumes fearful responsibility,
and one that must affect him i'm a
greater OF less degree. DR., Tudor
is bright and shining light in the
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