National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-12-13

whom he supposed had caused his retire
ment into private life. Bututhe retirsd
statesman grew weary Of his o5untfY home
and moved to 81. Louis, and When DE rem.
nant Of the two elements offhe Republican
party IN Missouri sndayoredto unite again
In 1872 he thought there was . chance 70
gain something by being friendly to the
President SO he succeeded In being made
candidate for Governor 10 lead the for
lorn hope in the State, not that there
was the least chance of election, but to
secure some prestige at Washington for
the future. And what was thisi Grant
was reelected, and soon Mr.. Henderson
was DESTROYS of being appointed to for.
eign- mission as q recognition from the
President, but in this he failed, and Il is
said that both himself and his estimable
lady, an old resident Of this city, were very
indignant at the. failure, and complained Of
their treatment by the President and his
family; and right here may be found much
of the animus that prompted the late As
sistant District Attorney to make the as
sault he did upon the President His time
for revenge had come. BE had used the
old friendship of his fellow. townsman,
Dyer, to become assistant in the prosecu-
ton at St. Louis; he had been allowed to
have charge of the case, and in his speech
upon the trial he has squared accounts, as
he thinks, with the President and repaired
bis wounded honor. Was this just on his
perti Let us see. Mr.. Henderson's
brother, a large tobacco manufacturer, was
indicted for deffsuding the Government
under Johnson's administration, and was
charged with having burned buildings and
falsifed books to conceal the fraud; case
30 bad that Mr.. McCreery. of Iowa, one of
the attorneys for the defense, withdrew
from it when the false books were placed
in his hands. Does not Mr.. Henderson re-
member his coming on to Washington, and
finally succeeding in getting the case nolls
prosecuted and his brother free2 Should
not this action make him little more char
liable to parties at least not yet convicted
and scarcely charged with crimef
And, more than this, was it necessary for
him to vent his long. kept wrath upon the
President for his own supposed grievances?
When the President, in his earnest desire
to punish crime, employed his own bitter
enemy, in the person of Mr.. Henderson. to
aid in the prosecution Of the whisky ring,
and directed those in charge to take their
own course; in fact, aiding them in every
possible manner to do 80, was not Mr.. Hen
derson bound by common courtesy, to use
no stronger term, to treat the Executive
with respect and does it not seem entirely
gratuitous on his part to 60 out Of his way
to make this bitter personal attack2 Will
not all thoughtful men consider this action
simply the result of q disappointed political
ambition? The retired statesman will now
attempt to 60 into cheap martyrdom on
account Of his dismissal, and there will be
no end of jeremiads upon so-called abuse
of power on the part Of the President but,
for the would-be martyr, the
people care very little for the sgonizing
trials of his somewhat elastic conscience,
and still less for his personal dislike Of the
President. The trials viii continue with
out Henderson, and the world will not be
moved out Of its orbit by the peculiar os-
of the disappointed politician at
St. Louis. q ..l..s a. o.. ia