The New York herald., 1875-12-11
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If the information is false, then no. If
true, then yes All depends upon that.
Show this to Mr. Henderson.
EDWARDS PIERREPONT,
Attorney General
Especial haste J
No. 5.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 8, 1875.
To Hon EDWARDS PIERREPoNT, Attorney
General, Washington, D. G.. -
The speech of Mr. Henderson was extern
poraneous, and the stenographic report
alone can determine the correctness of your
information. Mr. Eaton sent you the por-
tions relating to the subject. Please examine
them and answer at once
D. P. DYER, District Attorney
No. g.
Sr. Louis, Dec. 8, 1875
Hon. EDwARDs PIERREPoNT, Attorney Gen
eral United States, Washington, D. c.
have seen your last despatch to Colonel
Dyer. Ny speech in the Avery case was ex-
temporaneous. Mr.. Eaton mailed you on
Tuesday sworn copy Of the stenographer of
30 much as he thought related to the Presi-
dent. 1 did not see it, but I stand by the
speech as made / said nothing beyond
what my sworn duty required and for that l
have no apology to make.
j. B. HENDERSON.
DISGUST IN ST. LOUIS.
There is much dissatisfaction among the
citizens Of St. Louis over the action Of the
Cabinet, and the discharge of Henderson is
pronounced public calamity. The extraor-
dinary success which has attended the
trial Of the whiskey cases is attributed more
largely to him than to any one else, and it is
considered that the prosecution, in losing
Henderson, loses its backbone. Henderson,
in second interview with your correspon-
dent tonight, declares that he did not intend
his speech as personal attack on the Presi-
dent, but that his object was simply to por-
tray, in fitting terms
THE GREAT CORRUPTION AND vIILANY
which had crept into the management of
public affairs to such an extent as to threaten
the stability of the government For this
state of affairs the people and the public
officers were in common responsible, Presi-
dent Grant included. There has been GER
tain laxity in the administration of the
national laws which has been productive of
just such frauds as the "Whiskey Ring" rob-
berries, and he thought the Executive charge
able with at least some responsibility for the
imperfect execution of law. The President
had also interfered in the affairs of Com
missioner Douglass, the indirect result of
which was to strengthen and perpetuate the
'TWhiskey Ring" and on this score Mr.. Hen
derson thought he had the right not to make
personal attack, as Grant puts it, but to
criticise the
or any other official whose neglect Of duty
had brought such disgrace upon the coun-
try. AS prosecuting attorney for the govern
ment it was his duty to place the response
bility where his judgment told him it be-
longed and he was convinced that the
President as much or more than any other
official, was responsible for the present con-
dition Of the Revenue Department.
GRANTS oFFIcIoUsNEss
and his arbitrary conduct, together with his
subordination Of everything to party and his
surrender of SO many important Offices to
corrupt politicians, had brought more peril
to the country than all other causes COM
bined. Mr.. Henderson reiterated that he
still stood upon his speech as originally re-
ported, and had no apology to offer and no
qualifications to make He regards his dis
missal by Grant as furnishing irrefutable
evidence Of the truthfulness of all the
charges contained in the speech.
MR. HENDERsoN's SUCCESSOR
has been definitely announced from Wash
ington. The choice has fallen upon Samuel
4. Glover, formerly prominent republican
politician in this city and State, and now one
0f the leading members of the st. Louis Bar.
A STARTLING REPORT.
report is in circulation here that all the
documentary evidence against Babcock,
which was filed in the United States District
Court, has been stolen and spirited away.
The Clerk Of the Court, who is the custodian
of oil such records, declines to be interviewed
as TO the truthfulness Of the report, and
nothing definite can be learned concerning
it. The report is believed by many to be
true.
THE GRAND JURY TO GRANT.
The action Of the Grand Jury in sending