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The BOynton Sherman Controversy =
Specifications of the Ormer's Charges.
WASHINGTON, January 30th.-General H.
V. Boynton's charges against General w. L.
Sherman are made public General Boynton
submits the specifications, which are three in
number, to Secretary OF War Ramsey for the
information of the President. He shows that
the legal right of a citizen to make such
charges is established by recognized opinions
of the Judge Acknowledgement. He pro-
ceeds to state that on the 18th instant, a re.
porter for a newspaper, one +. IL. Cowles,
approached General w. L. Sherman, in the
headquarters of the army, and asked his
opinion of the reputation of the undersigned,
explaining to General Sherman that he and
some others acquainted with him had pub.
lished the undersigned as liar, and that
General Sherman's testimony" was also
desired to add TO their own on that point, to
''show the public what fraud he 1.-THE under
signed) is. In the course of the converse
ton which followed, in which the reporter
acted in his capacity as such, General Sher
man said to him, with the full understanding
that what he said was solicited for publica-
ton, among other false and slanderous things
of the undersigned, He is entirely without
character" ''You could hire him to do any
thing for money" For thousand dollars
he would SANDER his own mother, and that
he was very persistent and energetic in
manufacturing falsehoods. These things
being spoken to a reporter for publication,
and being uttered in the presence and hear
ing of others, constitute the crime OF
SANDER as defined by the laws in force
in the District of Columbia. This con-
stitutes the first specification. The second
specification is in effect, that four days
later General Boynton, feeling confident that
however severely General Sherman might
criticise the review of his Memoirs by
the undersigned, of which he was more par
ticularly speaking to the reporter, he would
not so far forget what belonged to his high
Office as to Use language at once SO coarse, so
false, and so unofficerlike. therefore called
the attention of General Sherman, in writ
ing, to the reporters article, and asked il the
words attributed to him were correctly
stated. General Sherman replied, indorsing
them in language in some respects still more
gross than that to which his at
tention had been called. This letter
he subsequently exhibited to others, by which
exhibition he again violated the laws relating
to the crime of SANDER. Specification third
sets forth that Sherman, in his Memoirs,
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himself during the civil war, and having all
the records within easy reach, committed
grave and inexcusable errors in his statement,
and did by these writings do great injustice
to noted officers serving with or under him,
notably to General U. S. Grant, in connec-
ton with the Forts Henry and Donelson
campaigns, and the ' march to the sea; !" to
General D. G. Buell. and the Army of the
Ohio, in connection with the battle of Pitts
burg Landing to Gen. Geo. III. Thomas, then
deceased, and the Army of the Cumberland,
in connection with the battles of Chatta-
nooga and Nashville, and the assault on Ken
esaw Mountain; to General j. b. McPher-
son. then deceased, in connection with the
battle of Resaca to Generals John A. To-
gan and Francis P. Blair, then dying with
paralysis, in connection with the battle of
Atlanta to Generals Morgan, Soy Smith
and Hon. E. NJ. Stanton, in connection with
the Savannah cotton matter; these aspersions
against noted officers, and these various err
rors, unjust assertions and unfounded claims
and aspersions having been partially exposed
by Henry V. Boynton, writer of
honorable character and fair reputation,
by comparing the writings of said
William T. Sherman, General of the Army,
with the official records of the war; andIpublish-
ing the same in volume showing that the
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man took full credit, really was planned by
General Grant, and that other campaigns, of
which Sherman claimed to be the originator,
were the work of other Generals. General
Boynton says he has concluded to afford Cen
eral Sherman an opportunity of asking for
Court, which, if called, must of necessity be
made up of officers high in rank and possess
ing the respect and confidence of the public.
1t would also be Court wherein the Gen
eral of the Army would have every adj
vantage which his high rank and extended
fame could give. 1t is respectfully SUBJ
mitted that, while an officer may not
violate the letter of the Articles of War by
writing inaccurately and to the dscredit of
distinguished fellow officers and of renowned
armies, such conduct does most grossly violate
their spirit and it is further respectfully
submitted that an officer holding the position
of General of the Army, with all the records
of the war at his control, by which to insure
Justice and accuracy, cannot well commit a
greater offense against military morals than
to publish inaccurate and unjust statements,
to the injury of noted officers, both living
and dead, whose regulations, deeds and fame
are as dear to the country as his own. Il
Murat HaIsted on the Presidential Cues
ton.
CINCINNATI, January 30th.-In view of
newspaper charges that Halsted, of the Com
mercial, had started a story that General
Grants friends had arranged to withdraw his
name as candidate for the Presidency, Hal
sted says there is wide difference between
that statement and the statement that Grant
will not be contestant for the Presidency.
Halsted says he is called upon to confirm a
report, said to be traced to him, that he said
George w. Childs told him that he had let
ter from General Grant declining to be can
didate for the Presidency. There is no ques-
ton of veracity between Mr.. Halsted and
Mr.. Childs, for Mr.. Childs never said any
thing of this sort, and Mr.. Halsted never
said he did. Halsted says further that he
was informed in Philadelphia that there
would be authority for it, that Grant was not
a candidate, and must not be pressed to the
contest such that the authorization would
be distinct, the declaration decisive, and
lndue III Roou tlIne. he mas not understood
that this statement has been denied, while
good deal of trouble has been taken within
few days to deny some things that have not
been charged.
Presidential Preferences in Colorado.
LEADvILLE, January 30th.-The Democrat
of tomorrow will contain letters and inter-.
views with all the leading Democrats and Re-
publicans of Colorado, including the Con-
gressional delegation, on the Presidential
question. The Republican sentiment is d.
vided in ratio of about 81 for Blaine, % for
Grant, Is for Sherman, for Hayes, 2 for
Washburne and l for Hartranft The ma
jority of the Grant men favor Blaine as Sec
ond choice. Democratic opinion is almost
equally divided between Tilden and Bayard.
with Field OF California next, and Seymour,
Hendricks, Pendleton and Hancock about
even. Republican opinion on how the Colo
RADIO delegation will vote is about evenly d.
vided between Grant and Blaine.
LEADvILLE, January 30th.-To-morrow'
Daily Herald, of this city, will contain re-
port of interviews with l, $40 representative
Republicans of Colorado, on their first choice
for the Presidential nominee of the Chicago
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