The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-10-13

IN the army until june 1901, Wueu nc was
dismissed for disloyalty. He then entered
the rebel army and became q Major General.
He commanded the forces which repulsed
Gen Sherman's men with great slaughter
in the disastrous attack on Chickasaw
Bayou, in December, 1862 He was the
author of several articles setting forth his
achievements in behalf of the rebellion,
written in the customary one-Southerner-
whip-five- Yankees style.
The mission to Korea-salary s., 50o-was
given to Hugh A. Dinsmorc, of Arkansas,
who served in the rebel army.
The mission to Germany was given to
George Fl. Pendleton, Of Ohio, who ran for
yice-P President on the "War Failure"
ticket. Salary, s17,5Oo.
The mission to England salary ST., 500
was given to Edward j. Phelps, of Vermont,
who had been pronounced in his opposition
to the war.
The mission to Greece-salary $500
was given to Walker Fearn, Of Alabama,
who was Secretary of the first Confederate
Commission to Europe, when Fort Sumter
was fired on. He returned at once to enter
the rebel army, was chased by our block
aders, his vessel driven ashore and wrecked
| under the guns of Fort Moultrie. He es-
capped, and joined the staff of Gen. Joe
Johnston as a Captain. He again went to
Europe with Confederate Agent L. Q. c.
Lamar appointed by Cleveland Secretary
of the Interior and Justice of the Supreme
Court,-an then returning to the Confed-
eracy Joined the staff of Gen. Preston as a
Lieutenant Colonel, and served as such until
the close Of the war.
The mission to Japan-salary $4,000
was given to Richard II. Hubbard, of Texas,
who served through the war as Colonel of a
rebel regiment, 22d Tex.
The mission to Paraguay and Uruguay
salary $7,500-was given to John e. Bacon,
of South Carolina, who served through the
war as Major of rebel regiment, 7th S. c.
The mission to Peru was given to Chas.
w. Buck, of Kentucky, who saw some serv-
ice in the rebel army.
The mission to Portugal-salary $4,000
was given to E. P. c. Lewis, of New
Jersey, who was Colonel In the rebel army
during the war, and for Is months prisoner
in our hands.
The Minister to Spain-salary $4,000
was the Rev. ]. L. M. Curry, Of Virginia,
who was Representative in Congress before
the war, then entered the rebel army, and
was afterward elected to the rebel Congress,
and served in that until tho war ended,
when he became Baptist preacher.
The Minister to Venezuela-salary $500
was Charles L. Scott, Of Alabama, who
was Representative in Congress from Cali
fornia when the war broke out, but left his
seat to enlist in the 4th Ala, in which
he became Major. He was so severely
wounded at Seven Pines as to be compelled
to retire from that position, when jeff Davis
appointed him Judge Advocate General of
Longstreet's Division, with the rank of
Colonel Of Cavalry.
Cleveland's first Minister to Mexico
salary $12,0O0-was Henry R. Jackson, of
Georgia, who commanded brigade in the
rebel army during the war
A. M. Kelley, of Virginia, who was Lieu
tenant in the 10Th Va.-rebel-during the
war, was appointed by Cleveland Minister to
Italy, but the Italians decided that he was q
persona non grata. Cleveland then appointed
him to Austro- Hungary, but the Austrians
refused to receive him for the same reason
that the Italians did. Cleveland then made
place for him as one Of the American rep
resentatives ON the International Tribunal
at Cairo, Egypt, at a fat salary.
The only names on the whole roll of our
Foreign Ministers which were ever borne
upon the muster-rolls of the Union army
were those of Gen. E. s. Bragg, of Wiscon-
sin, who was given the mission to Mexico
salary So, 0OO-for his treachery to his COM
rades when the Dependent Pension Bill was
up for passage over the veto; Charles DENLY,
Minister to China, and George w. Merrill,
Minister to Hawaii, who were for a short
time, in the early part of the war, officers in
Indiana regiments.
This is partial record of one Department
only of the Government, but it shows clearly
what was the general rule of appointments
under Cleveland. Ex-rebels and Copper
heads were everywhere brought 70 the front
and given the choicest bits of patronage;
Union veterans had to stand back and be
content with the scantiest crumbs of favor.
They got only what no one else really
wanted.
When Mr.. Cleveland pirates about
preference being shown Union veterans he
knows that every page of his record fatty
contradicts him.
Comrades, act gour retoes ready.