Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-12-24
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,ogard to the frauds practised upol
n.a Internal Revenue by the distiller
: the West, still continue to collec
,i..rt fre head Of tie President of th'
rr..toi States a cloud of suspicion
,.Ii,.I, sill no doubt leave bchird ar
ol.,, less fragrant than the odor &,
h, f.v.-tte Havana.
,r.... 4 "a John B. Henderson, who
r-as ..,, ,,,,yt by the Government Il
r,nsecut.- III The case of Aver. wa
discharged : i-yn1 ary further condEc
of the cause, Tor the alleged reason
that his spa. ch reflected irjuriousi,
un,u the Iru.u,.cula'a cha @cttr of ttt
President. 4 lawyer. possessing the
ore4t em'neu"t yud dist ngu.shed abll
r,.f Genera. Fl pdtrscn, who, in the
discharge i fue duties IF his profes
sion, would without iRstscause, takes ad
vantage Of his position to nnlign and
t,ad1cn So exalted a parsonage as Ger
eral Grant, deaerv"s not only the cou-
demnatI01 Cf the Presidents cabinet
call .-upfrocked." But If we are to
believe General HENDERSON. the Presi-
dents cabinet must huvc acted over
hastily, and that he deserves ntitl,er
the condemnation which he bas receiv-
ed. nor the "upfrockinR" which he haa
not received. MY crime" says Hen
dersou, ''was not that made speech,
hut thvt Babcock was indicted"
It was DOT that L accused the Pres
ident {, + being Implicated III the frauds.
for I did no such thing. What / did
YVES to denounca the revocation of the
order of Dougia~s by the President Us
a tyrannical AID unjustifabIe act.
prompttd d by pOliticaI motives, and |
cpiy regret, Il that in the country cor
rupt men could use party coHsldera-
tion- fer their own dishonest pu' poses.
I1evtr charged that the President
acted dishonesty. but only that he
acted as partizan, and that through
allowing himself to be used for party
purposes he did perpetuate the Whis-
kew Ring in st. LOUIS.
You see, the President had no more
to dc with that order than the Emperor
of Japan. The law provides expressly
that HE S4cretery of the Treasury
shall, upon the recommendation Of he
Comm iseioner Of Internal Revt u'7e,
make these transfers, and Douglass
himself did not know what the law
was when he testified that the Presi-
dents sanction was necessary.
Now, after this full and candid ex
planation from Genera Henderson,
who, of the Presidents s adherents that
would not readily agree to the recanta-
ton of the order for his condemnation
Gen. Henderson did not charge that the
President himself MAS guilty Of defraud-
ing tie revenue, but that only mem
b. * his official family conmitted the
crime. And for this trihing breach of
courtly etiquette, the thrilling elo-
quence Of the great lawyer can no
more be heard in the great st. Louis
trials ABOUT whiskey. So far as this
whiskey is concerned, he will have to
do rs it is said Beecber has determined
to do in regard to another great scan
d., cOnsecrate himself to "siience un-
der sutferiDg." But the silence of
Henderson On!y will not suffice to
shield the Presidents confidential ad.
wiser and private secretary. It is
asserted that Secretary Bristow will
also have to be siienced before Iona.
This rumor is based principally upon
two grcun ds:-In the first place, be-
II ~ fIh
had oppo 1.-THE removal of Henderson;
IN the r. cd PLACE because he, like
He .ders0r, Is open m0uthed for the
proSecI. ,ps, OF all who i:sve been en-
gagged III s',e whiskey fraud. Where
these PROSECUTIONS come go near touch
lrg the sacred Presidential persOn, rs
to taA1 from lis presence his conf
dental aud trusted adviser, even Gen
eral ,Graut winces. The iron nerve
which stood the shock us hundred
bait without a ttemor, now bt gins
to give way. But viii the sileEce OF
BlStow, added to that OF Henderson
answer the purpose Of saving Babcock
This individual, though convicted of
every charge, may yet escape tue pub
Ec gaze OF contempt. The dirty clouds
OF suspicion which rise from this dirty
business, are breaking ia rentIess fury
about his devoted head, and ere the
strength of their violence is spent,
they beg 10 re assemble and threat
en- to hu1l their thunderbo!ts at the
head OF no less person than the Eres-
ident himself.
Extraordinary facts, il is asserted,
VIII soon be sptead broadcast before
th= world, with the intention OF drag
g'hg the President of tile United
States into this great Whiskey Ring
conspiracy. a orrespondence of the
New York Herald writing from st.
Louis foreshadows what these facts
Will be. He says
1t appears that in 1873 d collector of
internal revenue In the Fourth Con-
efesslonal district of Miss our, Lnsay
murdoch by name, received private
information of t. e frjghtful frauds 60
ing on ln st. Louis. According to
nuldoehs story, as he retailed it to
az oInclai OF thus city, he came to ST.
LOUIS Investigated the statements
MADE to him, aud became convinced
LA tna' oyce and Mcdonald were at the
ua tI"9 Oh a vast ring of conspirators.
of ,b;. e, mined to notify the President
o4f3 81 'hls state of things, aud made an
81 -" "a ~ ~ as To the facts, which be mail
Pre,;I ~ the 9th of June, 1873, to the
= tfetldent eide With the request to return it
~ oori miNl "a II l, not used. He took a,verlfied
ss'pS ol tins affidavit, subscribed to BE-
-E nnn Cifcut Judge, nd th-re are
- ~, 'o copies of this in the city, one
ar5 5H9 hahds OF District Attorney Dyer
60 a 'ii,, other Ill those of Mr.. Hender
~ both gentlemen refused, to-day
tsNe it TO me, but it is not the con-
OF s' VI thls paper wi ich is so remark
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