The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1892-10-28
Special Dispatch to the Globe Democrat.


Mr.. Cleveland's friendship for
defenders of the union was not
paradoxically proved only by his
pension vetoes, but by the appoint
ments which lie made during his
administration. Partisan demo-
Gratis pretend to detect the ele-
ments of heroic courage in his $40
pension v%etoes, but Mr.. Cleveland's
antipathy to union soldiers is illus
trated in a still stronger light by
the men whom he selected and ap-
pointed to the first missions
abroad. In the entire roll of our
foreign ministers the only names
that were borne on the muster roll
of the union army were those OF
Gen. 70. S. Bragg, Of Wisconsin,
who was given the mission to
Mexico-salary $12,0OO-because
he deserted his comrades when the
dependent pension bill IA up for
passage over the vote; Charles
DENLY, minister to China, and
Geo. W. Merrill, minister to
Hawaii, who were for q short time
in the early part Of the war officers
in Indiana regiments. The good
northern democrats who fought
for the union we're ignored and the
desirable places were distributed
among copperheads and confeder-
ates, as follows:
Mission to Austro-H hungary
salary, S12,000-given to Alex
ander R. Lawton, of Georgia, edu-
Gated at West Point; quartermaster
general in the rebel army.
Mission to Bolivia-salary,
$5000-given in S. S. Carlisle, Of
Louisiana; served in the rebel
army.
Mission to Brazil-salary, $12,-
OOO-given to Thomas J. Jarvis,
Of North Carolina; served in the
rebel army.
Mission to United States of
Colombia-salary, S7,5O0-given
to D. A. Maury, of Virginia, edu-
Gated at West Point; dismissed
from the union army for disloyal-
ty, June, 1861; entered the rebel
army, where he became major
general commandment of the forces
which repulsed, with great
slaughter, General Sherman's
army at Chickasaw Bayou,
December, 1862.
Mission to Corea-salary, ST.
5OO-given to Fl. A. Dinsmore, Of
Arkansas; served in the rebel
army.
Mission to Greece-salary, S.,
5OO-given to Walker Fearn, Of
Alabama; rebel agent in Europe,
afterward serving in the rebel
army.
Mission to Japan-salary, S12,-
OOO-given to r. B. Hubbard, Of
Texas; colonel in the rebel army.
Mission to Paraguay and Uru-
guay-salary, Z ,5OO-given to
John A. Bacon, Of South Carolina;
major in the rebel army.
Mission to Peru-salary, S5,-
O00-given to Charles W. Buck,
of Kentucky; served in the rebel
army.
Mission to Portugal-salary,
S5,O00-given to E. P. G. Lewis,
of New Jersey; served in the rebel
army.
Mission to France-salary ST.
5OO-given to MI. McLane, Of
Maryland: a wealthy; confederate
sympathizer, who left the country
during to war and resided abroad.
Mission to Spain-salary, S12,-
O0O-given to J. l.. McCurry, Of
Virginia; served in the rebel army;
was also a rebel congressman.
Mission to Venezuela-salary,
81, 50O-given to Charles L. Scott,
of Alabama; served in the rebel
army.
Cleveland's first minister to
Mexico-salary, S12,OOO-was
Henry R. Jackson, Of Georgia;
who commanded a brigade in the
rebel army during the war.
A. M. Kelley, of Virginia, who
was lieutenant in the 18th confed-
crate regiment during the war, was
appointed by Cleveland minister
to Italy, but the Italians refused
to receive him because of insulting
language minister Kelley had used
toward Italy.
N1apo1onJ tban orpoip4o1 him