of masked men. Mr. Eason had visited Atlanta a day or two previous to his assassination, and it was supposed he had been summoned to testify against the parties who had assaulted a deputy United States marshal's posse, killing two horses and wounding a guide a short time previous. 4. Samuel Kenney, a citizen of Pickens County, Ga., residing near Talking Rock post-office, was shot and killed by illicit distillers who suspected him of giving information against them (October 16, 1877). 5. A colored man (name unknown), started in January, 1877, to locate an illicit distillery in Douglas County, Ga., operated by persons known as Tooker Brothers. He was last seen in Campbell County and has not since been heard from. It is now conceded by the citizens, that the generally received opinion at the time of his disappearance that he was murdered and thrown from a bridge into Sweetwater River was true, and that such was his fate. the right breast and coming out on the left side of his back. 10. Deputy U. S. Marshal Kimbrew was killed in Hancock Co., Georgia, Sept. 11, 1878, while assisting in the arrest of the Ennis Brothers, notorious illicit distillers. One of the Ennis Brothers met the marshal's posse at the door and fired upon them, resulting in the death of Kimbrew. 11. A man named Seawell, employed by Deputy Collector Moore to assist him in removing an illicit still which he had seized in Moore Co., N. C., March 5, 1879, was killed by the owner of the still. 12. Deputy Marshal Harkins was killed while attending the trial of a distiller before Commissioner Morris, in Henderson Co., N. C., Feb. 3, 1877. Twenty armed men attacked the court, fatally wounding Harkins; the other officers escaped. The distiller was also fatally wounded. This was one of the most daring outrages known in the history of the "moonshine war. 6. Benton Whitecotton, a citizen of Hall County, 13. Deputy Collector John Cooper, son of the Ga., disappeared in July, 1877, and recent de- collector of the district, was killed while atvelopments prove that he was brutally mur- tempting the seizure of the distillery of Hutdered by a man named Bryant, who was a re-sell Amarine, in Blount Co., Tennessee, Aug. lation of an illicit distiller against whom 9, 1878. The officers were fired upon in the Whitecotton had informed. Bryant confessed dark from the bushes, resulting in the death the murder on his death-bed. The remains of Cooper, two or three large balls entering of Whitecotton were found at the place indi- his body, and mortally wounding him. cated by the murderer and have been indentified. 7. In the month of May, a colored man, whose name cannot now be ascertained, left his home in Campbell County, Ga., to come to Atlanta on business. Some illicit distillers, residing in the neighborhood, learning of his departure from home and supposing it was his purpose to inform against them, followed and attacked him with shot-guns. He ran in order to save his life, but in the effort was frightfully mangled with the buckshot fired after him. He made his way to Atlanta, where he died from the effect of his wounds. 8. In Fannin County, Ga., about the middle of August, 1877, Mr. W. F. M. Greenway, while gathering fruit in his orchard, was shot with buckshot and mortally wounded. It is known that Mr. Greenway rendered aid to revenue officers in their operations against illicit distillers, and for this threats had been made which were executed by his brutal assassination. The assassin concealed himself behind a large stump around which had sprung up undergrowth which afforded him seclusion, and when Mr. Greenway was reaching upward to gather the fruit the assassin discharged the contents of his gun at him. The shot struck him in the stomach and he expired in a few minutes. 9. Deputy Collector Colman Leatherwood was killed at Newgent's distillery in Etowah County, Alabama, in June, 1875. His body has never been found, having been concealed or destroyed by the murderers. The circumstantial evidence showed clearly, however, that he was shot while approaching the still-house by a rifle in the hands of some one concealed in the brush behind the fence, the ball entering 14. Thos. J. Williams, guide, who gave information to internal revenue officers who were conducting a raid against illicit distillers in Lawrence Co., Tennessee, in October, 1877, was soon afterwards taken at night from his house by disguised men, and murdered for rendering assistance and giving the information as aforesaid. 15. James Spear, a former member of raiding force, who was with Deputy Collector J. M. Davis attending court in Grundy, Tennessee, Sept. 18, 1878, was shot and mortally wounded by a ball that was evidently intended for Davis. He was walking by Davis' side at the time when the shot was fired from the brush in the suburbs of Tracy City. Spear died in a few days afterwards. Davis was, and is. noted for his great zeal and efficiency in breaking up illicit stills and arresting offenders. 16. Deputy Marshal John Minnis was killed in Sumner Co., Tennessee, in July or August, 1876, while engaged in the work of suppressing illicit distillation in that county. 17. W. A. Fowler, of Lawrence Co., Tennessee, was killed on or about the first of January, 1880, by illicit distillers for giving information in regard to their operations to deputy collectors of internal revenue. 18. Deputy Marshal F. H. Torbet was killed about ten miles north of Paris, Henry Co., Tennessee, Oct. 1st, 1876, by one Giles, for whom he had a capias. Giles has not been indicted by the State, and no effort has been made by the State officers to affect his arrest for the murder. 19. Tesse Vanderwinter, a citizen who assisted the officers in breaking up some distilleries in, Lee Co., Virginia, on Monday, May 14th1877, near sunset, while at work in his corn field, was fired upon by a body of armed men | ceived at the Internal Revenue Office indicates and mortally wounded. that, under the stimulus of Hancock's nomination and the expectation of Democratic victory, the practice is reviving all over the South. 20 and 21. Two men, names unknown, while assisting Deputy Marshal Robertson in South Carolina, on or about Feb. 7th, 1877, were killed by illicit distillers during a raid, 22. Jas. Ledford, a guide, living near Block House, in Spartanburg Co., S. C., was killed by illicit distillers June 11th, 1877. It appears that the illicit distillers had ascertained in some way that Ledford had assisted the revenue officers, and he was visited in force under the leadership of John Weaver and Budd Casey, and literally butchered to death. 23. Chas. Austin, a guide, was killed by Redmond, a famous outlaw and illicit distiller in South Carolina, in March, 1878. 24. Deputy Marshal Rufus Springs, in April, 1878, while engaged with a revenue force in raiding upon an illicit distillery near Greenville, S. C., was killed by being shot from the bushes in the rear. 25. A man named Griffin, a cattle dealer, was killed by illicit distillers, under the supposition that he was a revenue officer, at East Fork, S. C., on or about the 27th of June, 1878. Why this is so—“The good time coming, boys "-Democratic leadérs' promises. The exigency of the Democratic canvas naturally makes the demand for whiskey very great, and when to this is added the promise of every Democratic nominee for Congress on the stump that all laws against free distilling shall be repealed, and every stream and water course in the South shall be lined with stills, it is no wonder that the revenue officers are again called upon to use their utmost efforts in the suppression of this evil in their respective districts. Aleck Stephens sympathizes with › Moonshiners So does the “Solid South.” Even so moderate a man as Alexander H. Stephens openly declares that he considers it a great hardship that the mountaineers in his section are not allowed to produce brandy and The vigorous action of the Government without molestation. There can be no doubt whiskey from their surplus fruit and grain diminishes “moonshining "-Hancock's that the prevailing sentiment in the South is nomination revives it all over the South! one of hostility to all federal laws, and especialIn consequence of the vigor with which ly to those relating to the revenue on spirits illicit distilling had been followed up by the and tobacco. The record of bloody resistance revenue authorities, it appeared some months to the execution of those laws herein partially ago that the amount of illicit distilling was detailed, and the fact that the murderers have, very much diminished, and that the illicit in every instance, the sympathy of the comdistillers were ceasing, in a degree, their ne- munity in which they live, afford conclusive farious practices; but recent information re-evidence on this point. CHAPTER X. Democratic Hatred of Union Soldiers. "RESOLVED, That the soldiers and sailors of the Republic, and the widows and orphans of those who have fallen in battle, have a just claim upon the care, protection, and gratitude of their fellowcitizens."-Democratic National Platform of 1876. Experience proves that efficient, economical conduct of the governmental business is not possible if its civil service be subject to change at every election, be a prize fought for at the ballotbox, be a brief reward of party zeal, instead of posts of honor assigned for proved competency, and held for fidelity in the public employ." Democratic National Platform of 1876. * "We pledge ourselves anew to the constitutional doctrines and traditions of the Democratic Party, as * embodied in the Platform of the last National Convention of the Party."-Democratic National Platform of 1880. PART I. Democratic Rule of Appointments to Office “Civil Service Reform in the House-Crippled Union Soldiers Kicked Out and Rebel Soldiers ExaltedPropositions and Votes in the House on the Subject. In the Democratic House, December 14, 1875, Mr. Fort, Republican, proposed to pro ་་ Sunset Cox to the rescue ?—Hls amendment | laws being enacted by Congress giving liberal pensions to and the vote by which the Democrats the diseased and crippled soldiers, and to the widows and children and dependent fathers and mothers of those smothered the whole thing. who have died from wounds or diseases contracted while in the service of the Union army, and to each living soldier, and to the widows and heirs of those dead, such boun afford to those who have won and preserved to the ties and homesteads as a generous Government can nation its liberty and Constitution." Thereupon, Sunset Cox offered the following amendment, in the nature of a substitute, and moved that the same be referred to the Committee on Accounts: "Resolved, That inasmuch as the Union of the States has been restored, all the citizens thereof are entitled to consideration in all appointments to offices under this Government." The vote upon reference to the Committee on Accounts was: YEAS-Messrs. Ainsworth, Anderson, Ashe, Atkins, Bagby, J. H. Bagley, Jr., Banning, Barnum, Beebe, S. N. Bell, Blackburn, Bland, Bliss, Blount, Boone, Bradford, Bright, J. Y. Brown, Buckner, S. D. Burchard, Cabell, J. H. Caldwell, W. P. Caldwell, Candler, Cate, Caulfield, Chapin, Chittenden, J. B. Clarke, J. B. Clarke, Jr., Clymer, Cochrane, Cooke, Cowan, Cox, Culberson, Cutler, J.J. Davis, De Bolt, Dibrell, Douglas, Durand, Eden, Egbert, Ellis, Ely, Faulkner, Felton, Forney, Franklin, -Fuller, Gause, Gibson, Glover, Goode, Gunter, A. H. Hamilton, R. Hamilton, Hancock, Hardenbergh, H. R. Harris, J. T. Harris, C. H. Harrison, Hartridge, Hartzell, Hatcher, Haymond, Hereford, A. S. Hewitt, G. W. Hewitt, Hill, Holman, Hooker, Hopkins, House, Hunter, Hurd, Jenks, F. Jones, T. L. Jones, Kehr, Knott, Lamar, F. Landers, G. M. Landers, Lane, Levy, B. B. Lewis, Lord, Luttrell, Lynde, Maish, McFarland, McMahon, Meade, Metcalf, Millikin, Mills, Money, Morgan, Morrison, Mutchler, Neal, New, O'Brien, Odell, E. Y. Persons, Payne, J. Phelps, J. F. Phillips, Piper, Poppleton, Randall, D. Rea, Reagan, J. Reilly, J. B. Reilly, A. V. Rice, J. Robbins, W. M. Robbins, M. Ross, Savage, M. Sayler, Scales, Schleicher, J. G. Schumaker, Seelye, Sheakley Singleton, Slemons, W. E. Smith, Southard, Sparks, Springer, Stenger, Stone, Swann, Tarbox, Teese, Terry, C. P. Thompson, P. F Thomas, Throckmorton, Tucker, Turney, J, L. Vance, R. B. Vance, Waddell, C. C. B. Walker, G. C. Walker, Walling, Ward, Warren, E. Wells, Whitehouse, Whitthorne, Wigginton, Wike, A. S. Williams, J. Williams, J. D. Williams, J. N. Williams, Willis, Wilshire, B. Wilson, F. Wood, Yeates, C. Young-168. f The previous question being demanded was seconded by 142 yeas to 9 nays, and the resolution was then agreed to by Democrats and Republicans alike. " The Democratic House shows its Pecksniffian hypocrisy, turns a somersault, and refuses to carry into practice these professions, on the very same day! But to test the sincerity of the professions of the Democrats, Mr. Fort on the same day offered the following: "Resolved, That the doctrine just announced by the House in the resolution of the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Cason, is so wise and just that, in the judgment of this House, it should be followed by officers of the House in filling subordinate places under their authority; and that in all such cases they are hereby instructed to give to well-qualified. Union soldiers preference, over soldiers of the late Confederate army.” On this, he demanded the previous question, but the Democratic House refused to second it, by 93 yeas to 103 nays. Thereupon Fernando Wood, by way of adding insult to injury, sneeringly moved to refer the resolution to the Committee on Centennial Celebrationwhich motion was agreed to by 122 yeas to 93 nays-all the yeas being Democrats, as follows: 1. G.M. YEAS-Messrs. Ashe, Atkins, Bagby, J. H. Bagley, Jr., Bland, Blount, Boone, Bradford, Bright, J. Y. Brown, Buckner, S. D. Burchard, Cabell, J. H. Caldwell, W. P. NAYS Messrs. C. H. Adams, G. A. Bagley, J. H. Caldwell, Candler, Chapin, J. B. Clark, Jr., Clymer, Baker, W. H. Baker, Ballou, Blaine, Blair, Bradley, W. Cochrane, Cook, Cowan, Cox, Culberson, Cutler, Joseph J. R. Brown, H. C. Burchard, Burleigh, Cannon, Cason, Davis, De Bolt, Dibrell, Douglas, Durham, Eden, Egbert, Caswell, Conger, Crapo, Crounse, Danford, Darrall Faulkner, Felton, Forney, Franklin, Fuller, Gause, Davy, Denison, Dobbins, Dunnell, Eames, Evans, Far- Glover, Goode, A. H. Hamilton, R. Hamilton, Hancock, well, Fort, Foster, C. Freeman, Frost, Frye, Garfield, H. R. Harris, J. T. Harris, C. H. Harrison, Hatcher, Goodin. E. Hale, Haralson, B. W. Harris, Henderson, Hereford, A. G. F. Hoar, Hoge, Hoskins, Hubbell, Hunter, Hurlbut, Hunton, Jenks, G., Hill, Hooker, Hopkins, House, Lane, Levy, Lord, Lynde, Hyman, Joyce, Kasson, Kelley, Ketchum, Kimball, L. A. Mackey, Maish, McFarland, McMahon, Metcalfe, King, Lapham, W. Lawrence, Lynch, Magoon, Mac- Milliken, Mills, Money, Morrison, Mutchler, New, O'Brien, Dougall, McCrary, J. W. McDill, Miller, Monroe, Nash, E. Y. Persons, J. Phelps, J. F. Philips, Piper, Poppleton, Norton, Oliver, O'Neill, Packer, Page, W. A. Phillips, Powell, Randall, D. Rea, Reagan, J. Reilly, J. B. Reilly, Pierce, Plaisted, Pratt, Purman, Rainey, M. S. Robin- Riddle, J. Robbins, W. M. Robbins, C. B. Roberts, M. son, S. Ross, Rusk, Sampson, Sinnickson, R. Smalls, Ross, M. Sayler, Schleicher, Sheakley, Singleton, Slemons, A. H. Smith, Starkweather, Stevenson, Stowell, Strait, W. E. Smith, Southard, Springer, Stenger, Stone, Tarbox, Thornburgh, M. I. Townsend, W. Townsend, Tufts, Terry, C. P. Thompson, Throckmorton, Tucker, Turney, Van Vorhes, Waldron, A. S. Wallace, J. W. Wallace, Walls, J. L. Vance, Waddell, Walling, Walsh, Ward, Warren, G. W. Wells, Wheeler, J. D. White, Whiting, G. Willard, Wells, Whitthorne, Wike, J. Williams, J. D. Wil C. G. Williams, W. B. Williams, J. Wilson, A. Wood, Jr.,liams, J. N. Williams, Willis, Wilshire, B. Wilson, F. Woodburn, Woodworth-102. Wood, Yeates, C. Young-122.-For names of removals and appointments, see pp. 118, 119. A patriotic resolution, to which both Republicans and Democrats Agreed. On the 5th of January, 1876-the Christmas Recess having intervened-Mr. Cason offered a resolution' as follows: nodulo-91 » ano? "Be it resolved, etc., That we recognize the brave and gallant services rendered by the loyal soldier to his country in the time of its greatest need and peril, PART II. 66 Democratic and that we do earnestly recommend to the people of Appointments abrogated to sat our common country the utmost care and watchfulness over the rights and interests of these brave men, securing to each one in need of employment and to such and their families the necessaries and comforts of life; and in all cases of public employment and in the bestowment of the emoluments of office, that, all other things being equal, the soldier shall have the preference over the civilian; and, as one branch of the legislative department of this Government, we are in favor of isty Democratic Greed for "Spoils”—Union Soldiers Kicked Out and Confederate Soldiers Appointed. In 1854 the Senate Democratic majority, discerning the coming political change in the organization of that body, and anxious to keep their friends in the various Senate offices as as possible, put their heads together and devised a plan which worked tender subject." There would be no soldiers removed the Democratic majority had no intention of removing Union soldiers from their places as Senate officials. 66 admirably for them. At the first session of Whereupon Mr. Conkling expressed his the 33rd Congress, a select committee having surprise" at the statement, and, continuing,, been appointed to consider, ported the following resolutie the matter, re-said: to the Senate: The old standing Democratic rule ordered away by a Democratic caucus, so as to rush Republicans out, and hungry Democrats in. "Resolved, That the several officers and others in the departments of the Secretary of the Senate and of the Sergeant-at-Arms shall be appointed and removed from office by those officers respectively as heretofore; but when made during the session of the Senate any such removal to be first approved by the President of the Senate on reasons to be assigned therefor in writing by the officer making the removal, and when in the recess, such reasons in writing to be laid before the President of the Senate on the first day of the succeeding session, and to be approved or disapproved by him.' On January 17, 1854, it was passed by a de cisive vote, and became a standing rule of the Senate. When the Republicans came into power they made no effort to disturb that rule, nor to disturb the old officers who, in the course of years, died out or resigned, one by one, as age or other callings beckoned them. Thus it remained this Democratic rule through all the years of the Republican majority in the Senate. But early in 1879, the Democrats having a majority at the extra session of that year, and being importuned by a ravenous multitude of Southern and other Democratic place-hunters, determined-as they could not get the President of the Senate to consent to the removal of the experienced and efficient Republicans in the offices of the Sec retary and Sergeant-at-Arms-to annul the rule that their own party had made to go back on their own offspring, as it were in order to get the few "loaves and fishes pertaining to the Senate organization. This was decided on in caucus, and Senator Wallace, the chairman of that Democratic Senatorial caucus, undertook to engineer the thing through. The caucus resolution–Senator Edmunds' amendment offered to protect Union soldiers-Wallace's duplicity exposed by Mr. Conkling. On the 17th of April, 1879, therefore, Senator Wallace offered in the Senate the following Democratic caucus resolution : " Resolved, That the several officers and others in the departments of the Secretary of the Senate and of the Sergeant-at-Arins shall be appointed and removed from office by those officers respectively." Senator Edmunds moved to amend by adding the following: "But no officer or employee of the Senate who served in the forces of the United States in suppressing the late rebellion shall be removed except for cause stated in writing to the President of the Senate and approved by him in writing.' Mr. Wallace assured Senator Edmunds "that there need be no apprehension on this apparently "I assert that they [the Democratic majority] have already acted in violation of what the Senator says. I assert that they have already removed a Union soldiera man who served in the armies of the Union and was discharged because of the injuries he received, and yet the honorable Senator says it is not worth while to guard this because the majority may be trusted to abstain, much as the overseer may be trusted to abstain from the lash! **** I refer to Mr. Fitz who has been removed from a position in the office of the Secretary of the Senate, a position whose duties he never neglected or came short in, Mr. Fitz having served, I repeat, in the armies of the Union and having been discharged because of the injury and suffering that came upon him in that service." Democratic votes against the Union soldier and for the Confederate soldier — Adoption of the rule-A clean sweep! Of course the adoption of such an amendment as that of Mr. Edmunds, would defeat one of the very objects of the repeal of the old rule. Union Soldiers were the very fellows the rebel brigadiers were "gunning for. Hence, when, on April 25, 1879, the amendment came to a vote, while every Republican voted for the amendment, every Democrat voted against it! Following is the vote in full: YEAS-Messrs. Anthony, Bell, Burnside, Cameron of Pennsylvania, Carpenter, Chandler, Conkling, Dawes, Edmunds, Ferry, Hill of Colorado, Ingalls, Jones of Nevada, Kellogg, Kirkwood, Logan, McMillan, Morrill, Paddock, Platt, Plumb, Rollins, Saunders, Teller-24. NAYS-Messrs. Bailey, Beck, Butler, Cockrell, Coke, Eaton, Garland, Gordon, Grover, Harris, Hereford, Hill of Georgia, Houston, Johnston, Jonas, Kernan, McDonald, Maxey, Morgan, Pendleton, Randolph, Ransom, Saulsbury, Slater, Thurman, Vance, Vest, Voorhees, Walker, Wallace, Withers-31. Of course that also was voted down yeas 26, nays 34,-all Republicans voting for the amendment and all Democrats against it, as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Anthony, Bell, Burnside, Cameron of Pennsylvania, Cameron of Wisconsin, Carpenter, Chandler, Conkling, Dawes, Edmunds, Ferry Hamlin, Hill of Colorado, Ingalls, Jones of Nevada, Kellogg, Kirkwood, Logan, McMillan, Morrill, Paddock, Platt, Plumb, Rollins, Saunders, Teller-26. NAYS-Messrs. Bailey, Bayard, Beck, Butler, Call, Cockrell, Coke, Eaton, Farley, Garland, Gordon, Grover, Har. ris, Hereford, Hill of Georgia, Houston, Johnston. Jonas, Kernan, McDonald, Maxey, Morgan, Pendleton, Randolph, Ransom, Saulsbury, Slater, Thurman, Vance, Vest, Voorhees, Walker, Wallace, Withers 34. Whereupon Wallace's rule was adopted by a strict party vote. Having thus removed the only legal impediment to the expulsion of the old employees, the Secretary of the Senate and Sergeant-at-Arms at once began the work M.J.Bunnell, shot through "SEC. 2. That so much of section 354 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to the District of Columbia, as requires that no person shall be ap-W. Shriver, lost an arm. J. B. Eugene, lost an arm. pointed as policeman or watchman who has not served in the Army or Navy of the United States and re- R. P. Bishop, lost an arm. ceived an honorable discharge,' be, and the same is hereby, repealed. J. E Hammond. "And agreed to-yeas 25, nays 15, not voting 36. "NAYS-Messrs. Allison, Anthony, Baldwin, Burnside, Cameron, of Wisconsin, DAVIS, of Illinois, Ferry, Ingalls, Kirkwood, McMillan, Morrill, Paddock, Platt, Rollins, Teller-15.". The proposition had originally passed the House. In the debate which ensued in the Senate, the Republicans resisted the repeal on the ground that the time had not yet come when the Union soldier should be set aside for the Confederate soldier. But Mr. Beck insisted on the repeal, and announced the existing law excluding Confederates as the meanest vengeance towards a political opponent (meaning an exConfederate), or the lowest demagogy, and it was practically announced as the future policy of the Democracy, in all matters of appointments, that the Confederates were to have at least an "equal chance.". A. D. Wood, no. 43 ca99 Louis Reinburg. E. R. Cressey, wounded. Harrison 8. Linker. J. H. Barker. H. Lyons. J. K. Mertz, wounded. J. B. Clark. S. S. Blackford, wounded C. H. Manning. C. G. Thwing, disabled in left arm. G. Beck. D. A. Babcock; lost one eye. G. H. Lillebridge, wound- R. W. Simmons, disabled. G. H. Smith, in Libbey C. E Diemar, wounded five W. K. Taylor, " C. B. Gafney. A. F Stowe, disabled. Rebel soldiers employed. List of the names of 88 rebel soldiers who are or have been employed at the U. S. Capitol, by the Democratic House and Senate since the capture of the Capitol by the Democracy : Col. L. H. Fitzhugh, Tex., Col. John W. Polk, Mo., ex-Doorkeeper, House. ex-Doorkeeper, House. Maj. J. M. Stewart, Vir., E. Snowdon, Vir., Asst. Postmaster, House. Postmaster, House. Col. J. C. Burch, Tenn., Sec Maj. F. E. Shober, N. C., retary, House. Chief Clerk, Senate. Col. H. E. Payton, Vir,, Ex- Maj. L. Chalmers, Miss., Bill ex-Asst. Finance Clerk, Gen. C. M. Wilcox, West Room, House. |