The daily gazette., 1876-07-17
FISHERS SCALP
H0sr .JesCeH Took 1t.

The Judge has Drd,pn the Stpord and Hroun
array the Scabbord.
From the Dover Sentinel. July IS.
We have received for publication a
statement of Hon. George P. Fisher,
late U 3. Attorney for the District of
Columbia. 1t reaches us too late to
appear in to-day's issue, but we shall
give it in full in our next.
We have always believed that Bris~
tow and Jewell, on being elevated to
the Cabinet by President Grant, imme-
diately set themselves to work to be-
little and malign his administration by
striking at those whom they supposed
i were the Presidents warmest friends,
and especially those whom they chose
to regard as advocates of the third
term. Judge Fisher was classed by
them in this category, and hence be-
came one of the earliest victims of
their injustice and treachery.
How much foundation in truth there
was for complaints against the Judge,
made by them to the President in ses
cret Cabinet council, where it was i'm
possible for the Judge to be heard in
his own behalf, and in the vile false>
hoobo ib IuCIl Wy
the correspondents of the detective
press, who constantly hung around
their respective Departments and pri =,
vate quarters to catch their inspirations
of malice and mendacity, will be fully
demonstrated to the entire satisfaction
of every right thinking and unpreju.
diced man, of whatever party, who
, may read the statement.
Mr.. Bristow and Mr.. Jewell had
, more than a year ago made cut slate
for the coming Republican Conven-
tion, on which the name of Bristow, a
Southern and Western man, was in
scribed as the candidate for the Presis
dency. and Jewell, an EaSHrn and
Northern man, was placed as the can.
didate for the Vice Presidency.
| At this time the name of Grant was
in the mouths of nearly all the South
ern Republicans for the third term
He was more popular then at the South
than ever before, and the North was
also contemplating his third nomina
tion as u necessity that might arise in
the hot conflict that should be waged
between the friends of those who were
regarded as candidates likely to be
brought prominently before the Gin
cinnati Convention.
To kill off Grant was TO these aspi.
rants matter OF the last necessity
to this work they address themselves
by striking at those whom they be.
lieved to be his favorite friends, and
making them appear to be knaves and
scoundrels. They did this for long
time with vengeance, supposing tina,
the tree would be judged by its fruits
and that having through the vile Sian
ders OF their newspaper correspondents
made the public believe that Grant:
peculiar friends were all rogues, the
inference naturally followed that Gram
himself was the greatest rogue of all
They did all in their power to connect
him with the socalled whisky rings
with the District ring, and with frauds
upon the Treasury, urder the hypo,
critical crylof "Reform."
How Bristow has succeeded in his re.
form policy is best shown by the fact that
the Internal Revenue has fallen off more
than five million dollars since it was be-
gun. His system of reform is as signal
a failure as his attempt to destroy Grant
and make himself President. General
Grant being too honest himself and toe
loyal in his friendships to suspect such
treachery in men whom he had raised to
the highest honors he could bestow, was
for long time made the unconscious
victim of these hollow hearted hypo.
critics. But the light broke through at
last; and having discovered that these
willy aspirants had most basely deceived
and betrayed him he without ceremony
required them to resign.
aAh how h is auan no pdaJ ,1ytioa 4 lot, I,
commend the poisoned chalice to their
own lips"
About this time one year ago, when
Jewell was seeking to have Judge Fisher
removed, mutual friend, we are told,
went to him to convince him that he
had no foundation for any complaint
against Fisher; but to all the arguments
addressed to him he simply replied with
q staggering air of triumph "In less
than a week l will have Judge Fishers
scalp dangling at my belt And so it
was; and his work was as mean and
wicked as that of "Sitting Bull or Cap
men change with them. We would now
suggest to the ex-Chief Jewell that in
all probability Judge Fisher will ex-
change scalps with him and give him for
his own that Of Jewell himself and throw
into the bargain those of his friends,
F., Bristow and Bluford Wilson.
Judge Fisher has borne with remarka-
BILE patience the mountains of abuse and
slander heaped upon him without the
slightest justification, and we regret that
he had not published his statement at
the time his resignation was demanded
by Jewell. But he was believer in the
doctrine that, "Time at last sets all
things even, and only now makes tine
publication at the urgent request of his
many friends here who have known him
all his life, and among whom he has re-
turned to dwell and pursue the practice
of his profession.
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