Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-09-11

AMHAA COuElSs
Special Correspondence to the Gin. Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Aug, 2S.-A new literary
bureau has been discovered here, which
deserves the attention of Republicans. At
present it is firing a steady stream of
falsehood at Secretary Sherman. In
reckleSsness of statement it rivals the
Illden bureau of the last campaign, and
in the personnel of its membership sur
passes 1t, as nearly all of its active men
nave in various ways rendered themselves
amenable to the criminal laws of the
land. Such another bureau could hardly
be gathered outside of Sing Sing.
1t has begun its labors of furnishing its
material to the Democrats of Ohio for use
In the pending campaign. The working
members are believed to be six in num-
ber. The references of this new firm.
with those they use as witnesses, NAV be
thus stated:
l. Two Grand Juries in the District of
Columbia.
2. A Grand Jury in Indiana.
3. A Grand Jury in Missouri.
4. A Grand Jury in Nebraska.
3. The records of five Criminal Courts.
8 The record of their perjuries in the
Treasury and in the committee rooms of
the Capitol.
The crimes in which the different mem
bers of this bureau have been engaged,
and of which legal proof exists, may be
thus stated, leaving the individual mem
bers to select and appropriate their own:
l. Embezzlement.
2. Defrauding the United States.
3. Manufacturing and swearing to false
affidavits
1. Swearing to false accounts.
| .. Conspiracy to convict an innocent
| man of murder.
| 6. Conspiracy to fix false charge of
blackmail upon reputable man. Three
members of the bureau engaged in this.
| z. Misuse of government funds.
s. Swindling foreign firm.
8. Swindiing two widows.
10. Attempting to blackmail.
| II. Forgery.
Such are some of the personal qualifi-
cations of gang which has now opened
a Literary Bureau to aid the Democrats
of Ohio. In public they claim to be Re-
publicanS, and with an effrOntery that
puts everything brazen to shame they de-
clare that they are friends of Gen. Grant,
and are now only helping the Democrats
to material against Secretary Sherman
because they think he is standing in the
way of Grant.
But this has long been the game at
which the leading spirits of the gang
have played. They haYe continually
made themselves prominent as lickspit-
ties about the public men of one party,
while they have as constantly sought to
by base work against the first.
The following letter from the head
quarters of an Ohio Democratic County
Committee to member of this bureau
affords testimony from the inside as to
; the work in which this precious set are
engaged. 1t has been heretofore pub
lished, but it is necessary to reproduce il
to make the present chapter complete
Besides it is paper that will bear sec
Ond reading:
John Schumer, Chairman; j. C. Rus
sell, Henry Super, Frank Chapman, Sec
retary.
MEIGs COUNTY DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL Com
MTTTEE. ~
MIDDLEPoRT, o., Aug. 8, 1879.
Col. W. B. Moore, Washington, D. c..
DEAR. SIR-I find upon my return
to Ohio that the Foster and Sherman meI
claim that none of the departments have
any ex-rebels in positions. I hope you
will furnish me with the names of SOmt
prominent ex-rebels who have been anC
are now serving the Government in lucra
tive positions. Ifyou exert yourself il
: this matter you can kill off John Sherman
in Ohio so dead that he never can be res
l urrected in Gods wOrld-and Grant vii
come to the front with boom. Now
, your time to strike, and as your two let
: ters, one to Sherman and the other to tn
Enquirer, have been very effective,
} hope you will continue in your work.
: Let the next President be one who serve'
: his country, as Grant, Ewing, and Ric
l did. Your feeling in the matter meet
my appreciation, and all that is necessar,
: is for you to let the people of Ohio know
! how the administrations are eXertin,
: themselves to promote those who attempt
7 ed to destroy the Union and displac
those who defended their country for per
! sonal aggrandizement only.
! Wishing to hear from you at an earl,
l date. | remain yours truly.
j. r. LEDLIE.
Q Under this and similar arrangement
: with Democrats the Literary Bureau ha
= been actively at work. After the des
cription already given of its membership
Z anything approaching honest statement
+ by them will not be expected, but it is
II nevertheless, interesting TO compare som
i of their assertions with what the publ
y records here show to be true in regard t
. the cases they have falsified. Thus ia
, theV have confined themselves to attacl
= ing Secretary Sherman, by printing
. long list of alleged appointments by hil
rf of Confederates. The following are spec
- ments of their work, cOntrasted with til
- facts in each case:
y y j. H. RiVes, Captain of Artillery in I'll
~ rebel army, is Collector of Internal r
% venue of the Fifth Virginia District, an
- has thirty subordinates. Excepting thrt
IL of these, Rives and his whole force a.
:. Southern Democrats.-[Literary Bureau
~ Collector Rives is a strong Republican
y and was appointed not by Secretary She
~ man, but by President Grant, in Feburar
~ 1871.
le Edward w. Massey ,an ex-Mosby que
II, rilla. is Inspector of Customs at Fortre
~ ~ Monroe, Va. Theodore Nellegar, wi
'' served through the war in the New YOl
Burgess Rifle Corps, was discharged
fOr r rxy RT1r
1t is claimed by the defenders of Il
al Confederate Massey-whO was Mosl
to guerrilla, and whom Secretary Sherm;
al appointed Inspector of Customs at Fol
n. ress Monroe, vice Nellegar, a Union sol
~ ier-that he is an estimable citizen. III
ets may be true. But the records of Seer
& tary Sherman's Appointment Bureau w
ks show that DR.. Henry, late Surgeon of Il
an Confederate Army, and within the pa
re ten days appointed by Mr.. Hayes a Su
wv geOn at an important Indian Agenc
st. presented charges to John Sherman mo
wv than year ago, to the effect that Mass
vn had been indicted by the Grand Jury
he his county in Virginia on a charge
M stealing mule. The charges also el
A. braced other allegations of a grave cha
ne acter against Massey. Nellegar has VIZ
nd ten proof that his removal was not inten
IN. ed as reflection against him, but I'll
in the place was wanted for Massey, becaU
nd Ine SolIcCGoI VI OuSGOIIS duu uO VIZ
lr- comrades in the Confederate Army
les Literary Bureau.
is. Massey was appointed in Februal
ad 1877, during the administration of Pre-
as dent Grant, on the recommendation
cir President Grant, on the recommended
-he of Collector BraXton, at Norfolk, V
mo- Theodore Nellegar, whose removal v
nd also recommended for cause. Massey
ar thorough hepuoIlcal, man OF 81
cts. character, and very popular at his pa
mid He was not Mosby guerrilla, but Y
ro- drafted, and served in the COnfeder
nes Quartermaster's Department, and con
s quently never bore arms.