Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-05-28
UNFfI APPoISrMENTs.

SO far ex-rebeis and virulent copper
heads have been IN greatest request in
the filling Of ofisiaI vacancies BY the
aev Democratic Administration. Men
OF the very worst records have been
most prominently pat forward, treason
being rated above loyalty by the ap-
pointing powers. Public sentiment has
In at leass two cases compelled the
President 10 cancel appointments Of
ex-rebels Of the worst type-Blsokbarn
and Metres. These fellows have been
encouraged By the Administration and
It's supporters until they have become
1noearable, and their past acts which
should most strongly condean them
are urged as Recommendations, II
there are not in the United States in
this late day-twenty years after the
var-a sufficient number Of Democrats
who ars not treason tainted to ill the
onces. the party had better again 90
oct and vais until new generation has
succeeded.
Here are two illustrations of the elass
OF men now seeking and getting Fed
eral appointments:
WASHINGTON, hay 1S.-A gentleman.
long a resident Of Washington, saws !:
when President Lincoln was assas,i-
mated, l was resident Of Washington.
engaged in the Iaterior Department. /
remember fully the circumstances of
the assassination, and that at the time
there vas q meeting called Of the syIn.
pathizsrs With the murderers of Presi-
dent Lincoln. Among the number in
attendance was Richard l.. UropIsy,
then q grocer doing business on Bridge
street, near Market. At that meeting
Cropley proposed this sentiment !:
Here's to the man that pulled the
trigger that killed the man who freed
the Niger The sentiment was too
ultra even for the crowd Of Southern
sympathizers in which il "a proposed.
But there is no doubt that II was at
tered by Cropley soon after the assassi.
nation of the President. The matter
wss published and commented upeu in
the newspapers at the time, aud was so
bitter and vindiUtive that nv wife made
memorandum Of the words, which
she has since preserved. / see that this
same Cropley has been appointed by
President Cleveland Collector of Gus
know whether President Cleveland is
familiar with what I have related or
not, but the appointment is an unfit one
and an insult to the memory of Presi
dent Lincoln, and TO every man who
loves bis country, irrespective of his
party utilization just want 10 90 on
record as saying 30. The facts stated
can fully substal1tiate.
WASHINGTON, May PA man arrived
in Washington this morning and regis-
tered at the National as Israel Green,
of Mitchell, Dakota. MIR. Green is a
Democrat, and wants the land office at
Mitchell. His people all endorse him
for What he wants; nevertheless be is a
marked man. and il is strange IL he
does not return to Dakota la q few
weeks disappointed. De Is the man
who took John Brown prisoner at Har-
per's Ferry, and il was Green vho gave
the old hero a saber wound on the head
that nearly killed him. Green was
lieutenant of marines under Colonel
Robert K. Lee, and WAS ordered to take
a detashment and charge the engine
house in which Brown and his men had
taken refaee. Old Brown was kneeling
On one knee. behind the engine. He
had dropped bis gun and had q spear in
his hand. Green came MP behind him
and dealt him blow on the head. II
would have killed him bad the point of
the sword net caught on q rope ever
his head. Mr.. Green served 10 the Con.
federsts army and was brave soldier
He Ia nov a farmer at Mitchell, and IL
a popular reyulsion Of feeling at the
idea OF putting in office the man who
laid violent han6s oa old John Brown
does not rise against him. be NAV be
able to leave Washington with the CON-
mission be wantfL