The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-03-08
More DI>%racefuI COnduci Coming
20 light.

The last has not been heard of the
Babe ,ck trial and of the efforts used by
the administration to clear the mem Der OF
the whisky ring, who was its confidential
/ Secretary. The charge has been openly
made by the st. Louis Times and con-
tradiction challenged that Attorney
General Perrepont, who wrote and
! published the order discouraging wit
nes>es for the prosecution at the instance
of the President, used his official position
10 secure all the papers and the secrets
Of thu prosecution and turned them over
to the defense, with whom he cOnspired
fer the aqdttal of Babeock The facts
are stated by St. Louis correspondent
Of the Chicago Times as follows:
/ As rapidly rs Dyer unfolded his plans
| ana his evidence to Pierrepont they were
! repeated to the President The President
! was accessible nj all times TO the Attorney
! General. Dyer had scarcely reached st.
| louis. on his return from Washington,
when both St0rrs and Porter arrived in
! Vas ',iugton, wing been summoned ny tel
! e2raph- The Attorney tieneral had gained
/ possession OF every atom of testimony the
/ prosecution tidu against D1DCbch. anu WIS
as familiar with the plan of that prosecu-
| tion as Dyer himself. Storrs, Porter,
! Pierrepont, Babcock and Grant held con-
! ference. The field was surveyed. and the
| work of Babcock's salvation begun. Night
/ after night, from tile day Porter and StorrS
arrived. until a few days previous to their
| departure for st. Louis, those two dis
/ tinguished attorneys met PierrepOnt aud
Babcnck in a private room of the Attorney
Generals office. and applied themselves to
/ the study OF the testimony and plan 10 be
used against BabcOck. Every point of the
| prosecution was taken up singly and col
| lectively. and plans matured to defeat them.
These were the Times charges, i'm brief
form. The managing editor of the Times,
Mr. Hutchins, showed your CORES Ondent,
Tonight, in response to some inquiries, halt
a doZ"n kilograms received to-day from
Nashin2 t0n, from leading Democratic plem-
6ers of Congress, asking ii the charges could
be sub tantiated, and saying that upon an
assurance that they were well based, an in
Vestigation would be ordered at once. /
aked Mr.. lIutchinS what he proposed to do
about it. He replied: = have teieyra Pied
that tli.'se charges aud will he substanti-
'tIed by ;he very best authority"
This declaration of Mr.. Hutchins, taken
with Tie previous assertion in the Times,
that thu charges against Pierrepont were
based upon the authority OF Il high treasury
official, seem To point pretty clearly to the
source cf them.
nc 81 A@Ouio AllleS IeiteldleS lHdl
these disgraceful charges can be fully
substantiated, and that the whole matte
will be investigated by committee of
Congress. Circumstances and facts with
which the public are familiar, clearly
indicate their truth, and thorough ex-
posture of the iniquity is what the country
demands. 1t locks to Congress for light.
The Administration already stands dis
graced, by its efforts to shield Babcock,
as well as by the affair of Belknap; and
the Administration is the representative
and exponent of the Radical party, which
is on trial at the bar of the American
people,