Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-14
Our Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON Feb. 6

WAsHINGTON, Feb. 3.
The "true inwardness" OF Messrs.
Littleield, Maddox and Pickett, az
yet be made to appear in such light
that instead of rendering the RE
formers" cause more buoyant, it viii
sink it by the sheer weight Of their
villainy and the corrupt means by
which they sought to add Louisiana to
the Tilden column. Littlefeld was by
his own admissions a wine-bibber, who
INDUCED in that other requisite to con-
stitute him a chivalric "Southern gen
teman"-a mistress-who was kept in
very economical way on rent of eight
dollars per month; and he betrayed
friend and enemy alike, selling
them out for price; but a comparison
of his statements with the record con-
victs him of willful falsehoods, and in
connection with other evidence already
offered, or that will be offered, his
word will be shown to be yalueless-
entirely unworthy Of credence. Mad
dox appears to have proven traitor
to every cause he esponsed. During
the war he was earnest in his profess
sions of devotion to the Union cause,
and was at the same time swindling the
Davis Government in the capacity of
an agent employed to exchange cotton
and other Southern products for arii-
cles of prime necessity to its armies
The papers are briaging to light other
transactions equally dishonorable and
dishonest. Pickett seems to have been
an enterprising sort of genius: whose
services were always at the disposal of
those who could offer him the greatest
inducements, whether as a fllibuster
or traitor in arms against his country.
He appears to have served in the latter
capacity during the war of the rebel
lion, always protesting his undying de-
votion to the '.lost cause and his un-
queuchable hatred to the "Yankee
Government" yet there is no evidence
that he hesitated to sell the stolen
archives of the defunct Confederacy
to the National Government for few
raltry thousands. All the evidence in
the case goes to show that Maddox
who was trusted by the President and
was requested to make a truthful re-
port of the campaign in Louisiana,
seized the opportunity to enrich him
self. For this purpose he abused the
confidence Of Ex-Governor Wells, of
Louisiana, and misrepresented his view
in such way as he thought most likely
to induce the Republican managers to
place money IN his (Maddox') hands
to defeat the unlawful purposes for
which a million dollars ESQ he intimat-
ED had been sent to that State by
Democrats. But he failed to convince
them of the necessity; then he turned
to Pickett, urged by his avarice, and
the scheme was elaborated whereby
ST, 100000 was to be raised by the re
form leaders to buy up the Returning
Board and give the State to Tilden.
Of course these two worthless never lost
sight of their own fortunes, but were,
according to the.terms of the propose ed
arrangement, to retain handsome per-
centage Of the amount raised for the
worthy object, to reimburse them for
their heroic devotion to principle.
This heightened method of forwarding
the interests of "honesty and reform"
received the unqualified approval of
Hon. John Morrison, aud the Chair
man of the Democratic National Com
mittee, Mr.. Hewitt, was far from con-