The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-04
The One Charge Against Gov. Hayes.

From the Cincinnati Commercial
There has been a good deal of atten-
ton paid to the story that Gov. Hayes,
while in command of a brigade in Gen.
Sherman's Army of the Shenandoah,
appropriated to his own use $500 in
money, taken from a man who was
shot as deserter at Monocacy juno
ton, in August, 1864. The man was
tried by court-martial. and condemned
as a deserter and confirmed bounty
jumper. Before the execution of the
sentence he sent for W. w. Harper,
the chaplain of the Thirteenth West
Virginia Volunteers, to whom he gave
two watches and S4OO in money,-the
avails of his bounty jumping. The
disposition of the money became
matter of consultation, and it was de-
termined that it should be used to OBJ
tain a recruit for the service who
would not desert. The watches were
handed back to Mr.. Harper, who still
has them, and he has never found the
relatives of the soldier who was shot.
AS to what Gen. Hayes did with the
money, Mr.. Harper is not prepared to
say. He only knows, or thinks he
knows, that he left it in the hands of
the general. Gov. Hayes recollection
of the matter is, that after it was de.
cided the money should be used to get
recruit, it was also decided that sit
hould be delivered to the proper off,
Ger to get the recruit and he had al.
ways supposed "that this was accord
ingly done'' with the money. 81
know" says Gov. Hayes, "that I
never used or appropriated it to my
own use. If it was handed to me it
was Immediately, then and there,
turned over to the proper officer to OBJ
tain another man in the place Of the
deserter."
This was not done in corner. The
officers present at the court-martial
knew of the circumstances. Major
f. NJ. Carey, of the Twenty third
Ohio, knew the money was left in the
hands of the judge advocate of the
court, and by him turned over to the
quartermaster or the provost marshal
for recruiting purposes, and that was
probably the disposition made of it.
At any rate, Gov. Hayes assertion
that he did not appropriate it to his
own use is a sufficient denial. AS
Gen. Comfy, who was cognizant OF the
affair, though not present when the
money was disposed of, says -
st is the most preposterous nom
sense to suppose that Gen. Hayes, a
soldier of the strictest honor, with a
brilliant record to hand down for the
Inheritance of children he loved so
tenderly, could have sullied his honor
and furnished his fame III 4 doubtful
money transaction covering the pitiful
sum of $780,
Moreover, the recold of ''the court
martial in the case of Isaac B. Whit.
low, rebel spy and deserter,' has been
discovered. 1t shows
81. That he was tried by a drum
head court-martial regularly called
and convened by an order of Gen.
Crook, and the action of court con.
frmed by the department commander.
20. That he was ordered to be exc
cuted by Gen. Crook at shutdown, Aug.
5, 1864.
SO. That he fought in the rebel
ranks after his desertion and was can
tured in rebel uniform, and that in ad-
aition to other crimes he was a boun-
ty- Jumper, and had received money as
4 substitute.
81. That Gen. Hayes had nothing to
10 with his trial or execution"
The record is at variance in manv
with the statement of Chap
ain Harper, whose memory both as to
he time when the execution took
place and the persons present when
he money was paid over by him, is at
:ault, and makes it probable that be-
1ond general knowledge of the affair
len. HAYES had nOthinp tn do with -