Sunday morning globe., 1901-12-15
THE SUNDAY GLOBE, WASIINGTON, D O.. DECEMBER

against the ingenious and elaborately %.
gested repor, of Hon T.. A. Koons.
To summarize, if your Excellency please
MT Koons says
(f) That murdered Osborn
l2) That killed Hughes
Cd That ann "a blackmailer.
(4) That ] ann "a drunkard
(5) That ] am "a domestic brute
And he quotes testimony only 10 show
that hit Osborn ON the chin The remain.
der Of his report is a condemnation of the
stories of my personal enemies one of
whom Shot me In the Neil House and the
other Of whom endeavored to iudict me for
criminal libel and who because OF bis mil
lions is able to command the services of
politicians whose hold on the public tcat
had the honor TO break by am exposure of
the rapidity with which they developed
from seventy five dollar per month mercan.
tile clerks into bankers, merchants, etc,
after a few years manipulation as officials
| of the tax payers dollars. These few organ
/ lied, personally malignant enemies pull the
strings and start other more reputable peo-
pie to do an injustice their consciences
would never approve did they know their
manipulators as ! know them. Hence, /
harbor no no feeling and but little disap-
pointmeut at or for Mr. Koous' course in
| my case, So long as the Board of Pardons
/ will accept secret reports and violate the
/ spirit Of the oath Of Office its members take
to hear openly the petitions and protests for
and against an applicant for clemency,
| just SO long though every citizen Of any
standing in the community favors the par
/ don. will this clique stihe the voice of the
/ people stamI ede well-meaning and merci-
/ ful christian men and women, and on the
grounds of 'cNpediency' prevent either
/ justice or mercy to me and TO my devoted
wife and children.
had thought your Excellency, that this
/ honorable board was designed by the people
and commissioned by the governor TO only
examine the testimony and the documents
laid before it hear oral statements OF coun-
sci and determine by weight or preponder-
auce of facts for OF against the prisoner.
had also believed that professors had to
appear publicly before the board either iu
/ person orby petition. find however from
/ MI Koons report that have been laboring
/ under apprehension, therefore, because
of the powers for evil and the methods of
/ the assassin Characteristic of this clique
/ who for ten years spared no pains TO entrap
or ruin me, / withdraw my papers, with
your ENcelleucy's permission, and restore
them to the keeping of my wife and child
rem. These papers are a vindicatou Of a
husband and a father by the best and the
noblest the bravest and the purest of the
citizens of a republic which accepted my
services as a youth when II was perishing
at the hands Of its traitorous sons, and
which now in the meridian Of It's glory con
signs me to a living death in my declining
years, for the crime of defending my life
and yindicatinR the honor Of my family.
The recollection, if your Excelency
pleases, that / have been an humble mem
Der of the rank and file in an army which
fought and triumphed in the sublime cause
of human liberty, has preserved my self
respect despite the purposed ignominy of an
unjust sentence Undegraded in mind un.
broken in spirit unseared of heart, await
the summons to reioin those comrades with
whom, over thirty years ago, / marched
from the Wilderness to Appomatox The
blood soaked uniform of the boy Of sixteen
will admit me to full fellowship with the
shades Of those who died at the Wilderness,
Spotsylyania, Gold Harbor and Petersburg.
for they will overlook the stripes Of the aged
convict in memory of those days when the
life of the republic was at stake touched
elbows " while breastiug the murderous bull
let storms of armed treason.
II is because such memories are valueless
to those whom fate and circumstances have
charged with my liberty and whose cold
hearts never thrilled TO the blare of trumpet
OF beat of war drum that ! respectfully and
earnestly beg permission of your Exceucncy
to withdraw the petitions of more than a
brigade of veteran soldiers whom Alr
Koons in bis ignorance of that love which
was welded in the fire of battle" of that
recollection of tested comradeship on the
march, the bivouac and the field Aippantly
assumes know little IL anything" about a
comrade with a SOLDIER record.
In conclusion ! beg leave your Excel
leucy. to offer some pertinent remarks
touching Mr.. KooNs' CHARGE of blackmail
Rumor upon which Mr.. Koons erected this
obscene monument, pronounced the names
of certain citizens of Columbus as the vic.
Tins Of my designs.
Col. A. G. Patton, ~ b. Abbott, Charles
Hayden, Theodore Gordon and Banker
Sinks. my friends inform ME, have since
my incarceration been mentioned by my
enemies as men 1 have blackmailed or at
tempted to blackmail
beg Of your Excellency TO send for Col
A. G. Patton and ask him if did not cor
rect am article criticising his treatment Of
couvcts, without solicitation or price. and
if did not assure him in my Office that
nothing derogatory to his private character
should appear in the capital unless he was
given a chance to state his side of the mat
ter before publication ask him If kept
my promise
summon n. B. Abbott and ask him if !
did not on more than one occasion exploit
his early enterprise in this city in the mat
ter Of his ability and readiness TO under
take and execute large contracts
Summon Charles Hayden, Esq, and his
attorney, Col. T.. J.. Taylor, and examine
them on the manner in which / baiiled and
defeated some malignant enemies of the
former in their efforts to scandalize some
members of Mr. Haydens estimable fam
ily. Colonel Taylor will inform your Rx-
cellcucy as to the exact methods Of black.
mail ] practiced in Mr.. Hayden's case
Inquire of Mr.. Theodore Gordon and his
teller Mr.. Hoffman, of the particulars of a
certain matter which Mr. Hoffman visited
my Office and interviewed me on Again