The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1886-12-23

| w ASHiNG iON, beC. c.-GleuiCdI
Examiner Dabney, of the Pen
sion Office, contemplales suit
ior libel against certain newspa
pers who persist in libeling him
as murderer and traitor. Ac-
ton is liable any day. The an
nexed correspondence on the
subject would seem TO dispose of
the Dabney's maligners:
Department OF the Interior, United States
| Pension Office:
WASHINGTON, Dec. IL. 1896.
To Goodspccd Post, No. 29S q. a. Il.
| Department OF Kansas:
am IN receipt of your reSolu-
ton of Dec. 4th, which reached
me Yesterday, and OF numerous
resolutions, letters. Dc, from var
ious parts of the United States
relative to the appointment as q
member Of the Board Of Examin- |
ing Surgeons in The Office of DR..
L. S. DLbney. of The city Of New
Orleans, La. Your resolution is
as follows
THAT we beg leave TO enter
this our most earnest protest
against The appointment Of one
DR.. Dabney. Confederate, Of
AndersonviIle Prison fame. po
sitlon on the Board in the Medi-
cal Division in The United States
Pension officc; that we regard The
appointment as al insnlt to every
loyal man and eX-soldier Of tie
Union army, and more than an
insult and outrage TO the rem=
nant of the living survivors of
that earthly hell, and especially
to he dead; Shat, as Post COM
prising representatives of eX sol
diers { Union) and prisoners Of
war, Democrat and Republican
parties. request that The appoint
ment of said Dir. Dabney lie re
voked at once; that a copy of Q
these resolutions be sent 10 His a
Excellency. the President OF the v
United States, and the Hon. John /
G. Black, Commissioner of Pen ?
sions, Washin ston, ID. c." i
Dr. Dabnev was appointed to b
Ihe position he now holds in this I
bureau after examination and a
,eri,fication by The United States C
Civil Service Commission more (,
han thirteen months ago upon a
NY selection. He then was and a
low is a citizen of the United II
States and on equal footing with t,
very other citizen. There were !.
10 preferred applicants for the n
,lace TO which he was appointed. I
lie has since discharged all the
luties Of his Office in an able and d
Efficient manner, as shown by
he reports 10 me Of his superior
'fficer, the Medical Referee. He
las shown himself capable and D
lonest. He is in harmony with ?,
lis lawful superiors in their views 6
# duty and government. These ie ~
hings fill alike the requirements y
( sound government, of public ii
'olicy and of existing law. DIR. of
)abney may remain in public o,
flee. so far as | am concerned, v
,hile these conditions exist. !"
The foregoing statement con- al
ludes lle entire law of the case. nj
ut that you may not misap pre- wi
end the wisdom OF his appoint 81
tent, and that you may know :"
Tho and what this young IL an is II,
nd has been, and that you may "
now that the recitals Of your
asolutions are not true. and that
our denunciation is leveled at
ne, who in 1866 was but Sc
hid and who never saw The H.
ia"e you mention (Anderson- ~
ille), | append certain papers e,' p
,T your consideration, and call ID;
our attention, in conclusion to
lie fact that The Union soldier
IS suffered no harm at DR.. Dab en
av's hands in his year or more so
service. rs the doubling record eX
the Pension Bureau shows. ye
I've the honor 10 be, re:
Very respectfully yours.
John G. Black, Az
Commissioner. :.
Dcpartr ent Of the Interior,
Pens on y lice, col
u. u Dec. Iltl', 1855.
Hon. John G Black, ComniS- IL"
7ner of Pension-Dear Sir: In r
much as he press of this conn
' have made many false state De'
ents about me, | deem it my in
lty 20 you 10 state, upon honor, anC
at was born Oil a cotton plan A.,
lion in Hinds County, ilIssis- 49,,
,pi, May IS. 1850; that | was l"
yer enlisted IN any army; that ,
never was at Andcrs0nylIle IL
V life; that | never served as a w.
ard anywhere: that never fir Ex
a gun a, any person in my Va
?; that, so far as | know, no ,oor
litical Inflnence was brought wv