Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-25
DORSEY'S DEFENSE.
The Ex-senator Charges Perjury Against
Government Counsel in the
Star-R0uta Cases,
And Gives Mr.. Bliss the Lie Dnect-Se.
riOus Charges Against the
AttOrney-GeReral.

WASHINGTON, November 24.-U nder the
heading, Ex-senator Dorsey Charges Per-
iury Against Government Counsel" the
New York Herald publishes the following:
On the 18Th instant we printed dispatch
from our regular Washington correspond
eut, in which the following statement APP
peared:
There is on file at the Postofiee Department the
report of special agent. dated Little Rock June
IA. 1851, which contains the following remarkable
statement, obtained at that place by the special
Arkansas: lone day stephen W. Dorsey then
United States senator, handed Nj sickles paper
and said: Dn"rsp thaI per ana see what II con
tains Siekles counted its contents and said:
There arr 10000 there
Dorsey then requested sickles to go with him,
and they went direct to Bradys office Dorsey
handed Brady the paper and It's contents Brady
o9efnssa s Ru sp put tSs and all IN
moments conversation Dorsey and Sickles left.
Braiy's room, Mr.. Dorsey said to siekes: I want
You TO recellect this circumstance. -
On the following day the special agent
wrote as follows:
have since had further conversations from
which II appears that Sickles was made witness
for the purpose of enabling Dorsey 10 put stop to
Brady's demand upon him 1t is stated by my
knew this, and so Brsdy tsirned on his heel and
til it amounted TO much that Dorsey drew no
mail money for six months.
We have received letter from Ex-senator
Dorsey, in which he writes:
In evidence of the truth of this allegation /
will say that Mr. ssekles was summoned wit
and so was Gov. Clayton, and not one of them
ever called on TO testify in regard to this most
trary, each one of them-two of whom are my bit
| ter personal enemies-protested that the whole
grain of truth in it. After Keeping these with esses
| here many weeks they were discharged by govern
one OF item would have testified to the statement
I rnt to exactly the opposite. To show how I'M
| saw Mr. Sckles in my life more than two or three
| times, and then in the merest incidental way.
] crime would call in a stranger to witness
! a childish lie like this as a falsehood; the
| evidence of its nntTuth is On its face. In the
| statement of Ex-senator Spencer having witnessed
| the payment of a large sum OF money by me to
terview with one of the government counsel. pub
| lished in the Herald some months ago, fixes the
| Transaction. These statements may be ali truth
| with the following exceptions: never saw Brady
/ Brady was never in my room in any hotel in that
city or anywhere else. Spencer was never in my
| Brady and Spencer together in New York or else
where. l never paid Brady any sum of money in
| terial fact is the time fixed by the government
counsel for my meeting with Brady and Spencer
miles from that city, and had been Tor
months. Barring these few errors what the De-
L oSA1sASS
| its Washington correspondent, might be true 1t
is lie to say that Sckles ever saw me pay Brady
| either pay B.ady money. or have any transaction
with him whatever. II is lie to say that Senator
| spoken OF, or that Mr.. Sickles ever made such
| statement, The government counsel had in their
most vigorous language he denied every allegation
| proposed to be proved by HIM on the part OF the
fact that Spencer had openly and freqnently said
there was no foundation whatever for the state
transaction, as it was alleged, ne said it was
bold-faced lie, and urged that he should not
what could not to- 6ne * the 60 c0 PT0Se
| for the government, after Spencer lett here
witch they expected 10 prove bv 'hs spen aetS
the things which Spencer had told them they
could not prove by him, and the government
counsel insisted upon adiourning the court to Sc
cure Spencer's presence, well knowing that if
counsel alleged he would and the lawyer who
made oath as to what he expected to prove by
made it. only make this statement az merely j i Te
etdental. To all the charges made against me
time and honest public Judgment will make
Nv. DORSEY.
Whereupon the Herald comments as fol.
lows: Goa this he public will be glad TO
hear from Mr.. George Bliss, who is the
counsel who made this affidavit about
Spencer, and who then, Mr.. Dorsey here I'M
equiyocally says, swore 10 lie. Nor is this
| all. Tne public will want to hear from the
| attorney general, who is accused by Mr..
Dorsey of permitting witnesses to be suna-
moned on the pretense that they would
swear 10 occhrrt nces, and hen avoiding to
call them to testify. Ii Mr.. George W.
Bliss has committed perjury, the grand jury
ought to take notice Of that fact, and il the
attorney general has by himself or his OIL
GERS entered into a conspiracy against Mr.
Dorsey, er any one else, the grand jury
| ought to attend TO that also"