National Republican., 1875-07-10
NoRnHnFFs LAST LETTER

SCCIGldI1 Vi IuG
Republican Congressional Executive Com
mittee, has taken the trouble 10 reply to the
recently published letter of Kerl Nordhof,
the literary Hessian. Nordhoff's letter
proves every assertion that we have ever
made regarding him, and was hardly worth
notice at Judge Edmunds' hands; but it is
fair to presume that the Judge, in his earn
est though futile desire to please those who
really do not wish to be pleased, overlooked
the fact that he was condescending to
controversy, so TO speak, with one of the
most despicable journalistic prostitutes in
the country. Such person Notdhof un-
doubtcdly is notwithstanding the many
comparatively respectable pens that rush
to his defense, now that we have placed
him in the pillory as a falsiier He pre-
tends to be a Republican, when the only
basis of that pretense rests on the fact that
he may have written something in support
of the Republican ticket at one national
election. With that exception, and he was
well paid for it, he never did anything to
Gntitle him to recognition as Republican;
but, on the contrary, has been guilty of
numerous acts to show his natural enmity
TO the party. His recent letter in an
swer to the criticisms of this journal proves
that he is not a Republican, because it
gives plain evidence of attempt to do the
party covert injury. He misquotes those
criticisms, and makes false deductions
from them, all for this purpose. 1t
should be remembered that Nordhoff and
W. Walt e-r Phelps are boon companions
and fellow -conspirators. During. the last
session of Congress his opportunity to show
his love for the party was abundant, but as
all the world knows he used it to defame
Republican leaders and decry Republican
principles, or to exalt such men as Phelps.
In his recent Southern letters he pursued
the same policy, and went so far as to point
out to the Democracy the advantage of dis
organizing the colored vote. This informa-
ton was not new to any one who had
studied the Southern question but the
manner in which Nordhoff put it in print
as soon as he discovered it conclusively
proves his desire to see accomplished. He
tells falsehood when he says he is Repub-.
licap, and those who aid him in giving pub
licity to that falsehood are but little, if any,
better than he is himself
AS regards our personal Characterization
of this miscreant, we have not one word of
retraction to make. We have repeatedly
detected him in giving publicity to the
most unblushing falsehoods about persons
and things in. the South, and we know from
the best authority that he habitually sought
information when preparing his letters re-
garding Southern affairs from prejudiced
sources. Assuming, at a glance, to learn
more than others knew who had spent
years in that section, he blundered from
one misstatement to another until he
reached Alabama, from which State he
gave to his publishers the first init.
nation that the Republicans of the South
were not one and all objectionable rascals
There he was forced to acknowledge that
the Democratic administration of the
State had been more extravagant and reck-
less in the use of the peoples money than
its Republican predecessor. But at no
other point was he able to discover that all
the good, all the honesty and all the respec-
liability of the people had not been gathered
into the Democratic folds. In Tennessee,
Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and now,
we presume. in Georgia, this Argus.eyed
seeker of the Democratic superiority and
Republican inferiority found nothing to
commend, save that which would meet the
approval of the enemies of the Republican
party. In short he was sent South to per-
form duty which was to slander, to the
best of his ability, everything that savored
of friendship to the Administration, and,
with the single exception, almost unac-
countable, of one letter from Alabama, to
which we have referred, he has earned his
money, as any uuprincipled wandering Bo-
hemian would have done under the same
circumstances.
When we characterized him as dutch
Jew" we did it advisedly, and drew the
distinction emphatically between thst epi-
thet and q respectable German Israelite.
He may pirate as much as he pleases of
the political effect of this phrase, but we