The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 31, 1896, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 FATHER YORKE T0 GEN, MORGAK, The Chancellor Excoriates the Ex-Indian Com- missioner. vened at Chattanooga, Tenn., order; HIS MILITARY CAREER. pursuant to speclal from headquarters First Separate Division, Army of the Cumberland, and_of which Coloyel L. Johnson, ~Forty-fourth Regiment, United States Colored Infantry, is president, was arroigned and tried Lieutenunt-Colonel Henry C. Corbin, Fourteenth Regiment, United States Colored Infantry, on the following charges: Charge 1—Cowerdice, Charge 2—Misbehavior before the enemy in violation of the fifty-second artiele of war. Charge 3—Conduct unbacoming an officer and a Eeptieman. ar arge 4—Conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline. y 2 = Finding of the court: Not guilty. The court does therefore MOST HONORABLY Acquir him, the said Lieutenant-Colonel H. ffi;lr(hrl\n, Fourteenth United States Colorea In- The proceedings and findings of the general gouremartial in the foregoing case of Lientenant- el Henry C. Corbin a 3 - Colonel y ‘orbin are approved and con- Lieutenant-Colonel Corbin will accordingly be re- leased from arrest and returned to duty. By comman: of MAJOR-GENERAL STEEDMAN. 8. B. MoE, Major and A. A. G. ORGAN'S MALICE. I think, Mr. Editor, that this is sufficient an- swer to Morgan's base accusations against a brave and honorable officer. What Corbin's ersonal character might have been, I do not 20, Says the General Was Convicted | know. He mucr pems oo argoesn, T do not on Thirteen Different Charges. THE COURT-MARTIAL RECORDS. What the Catholics Have Indian Education in Western States. Done for the Rev. Father Yorke, Chanceilor of the archdiocese of San F ancisco, writinginan- swer 1o a letter to THE CALL from General ,‘,h\r;::m, Indian Commissioner under President Harrison, SAyS: To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—DEAR The Rev. Hon. General T. J. Morgan, akes exception to my lette r of Decem- In that letter I drew attention record in the army n the Indian ser: ber 17 s as “coward h the quic s inguishes all such “high- conscientious neu ss ¢ calmly chewing the cud of reflection es ) defend panions N'S ADJECTIVES. General T. J. Morgar, D.D. my letter as an attack on his 2 n attack uncalled for, cow- . landerous and faise. Allow me & few lines to examine this charge. The Rey. characterizi 1. My ‘“‘attack’” on General Morgan, D.D. Wwas noton his personal character, but on hi: pub record. 1f the documents lyingatt war office proved him to be unt 1 dictive and devoid of honor in his capacity he has no right to distract the attention by cries about his ‘‘personal thar- acter.” Each one of thes e, and are officers guilty of them to es iment on the plea that they sre per- To prove them 1 did not go into the Mr. Morgan’s private life. public acts. Ii this be an I 1 character I gladiy he Rev. Hon. General e vices is a personal I judged him ck on his gan, D.D., con- t my attack was alled for.’ It hat he has full liberty to come to this Coast as a lecturer ag hurch t to defe see: ith notorious defamers It eems that he is privi- Catholics and Catholic: body of your fellow- has a right to attack you. to_ignore you &t times does rright to def selves. all familiar with the spectacle of which follows the passer-by shap- nd snarling. Every tim, 0 mnotice the cur returns to hisd g applause &t his own courage. Some- how B nexpected kick sends him uncalled-for barkin; t under A this letter A is hardly s owardice. Let me ow remark that my “attack’” was made over ny neme snd in_the public print. I did not refuge b >nymovs correspondents or behina a courtesy title. What 1 had to say | I said it'in such manner thet I and I alone was responsible. Iam ready now and at ali times &nd by every word of my charges. The Rev. Hon. General T. J. Morgan, D. D., that my “attack” was * Slander is defined by tale or report maliciously to injure the reputat of an- Wherein has the Hon. Rev. General ¢ charges false? I said court-martinled. Does he deny it? 1 said he was convicted. Does he deny it? 1 said he escaped on = technicalit Does he deny it? He has given explanation in plenty, but the substantial facts remain We shall see soon how much his xplanation are worth, but I have made no_assertion cor ning him which I have not backed up w dence, and thougn he proclaims loudly that ese assertions are false he has not dared to DISPOSITION. n to the San Fran- eneral T. J. Morgan, ation with the fol' of San nk, who hed me A very prominent business man Francisco,an army officer of high kindly sent me your paper—which re ow days ago—accompanies it with the ng statement: ‘I read the inclosed very ed with quitea nun n concerning your record, inform you that they are able to you, and agai Iknow that you will have f the ol2" soldiers_with you on ; proposition against the Catholics opposition to our grand public I am not a member of the ' unbounded sympa r was written by a “prominent man of ‘San Franeisco, an army high rank.” >rominent business men' and army officy of high rank are not in the habit of slander tneir peighbors. It General Morgan had a TS spark of soldierlike feeling in him ne would | not have produced the testimony of & man whose nsme he withheld. Brave men fight in the open, but Morgan end his correspondent Prefer 1o stab in the dark. Z If Morgen’s friends wish to defend him, I think, Mr. Editor, your columns are open. I shonld like to know the name of the army officer whose unbounaed sympathies are with the ignorant horde of unnaturalized Orange- men and Scaundinavians who hired the H General Morgan to preach. I should like to know by what rigit he speaks for nine-tenths of the old soldiers. Let him come before the Ban Francisco public so that we may seo the brave and broad-minded soldier who is with Morgan on every proposition against the Catholies. I know enough of the history of the war and of the old soldiers to state now that Morgan’s assertion and the assertion of his anonymous correspondent are untrue. The old soldiers are not bigots. When the call to arms first came Catholic and Protestant went te the front and inquired not about religious faith. When in the field, in the hospitals the Sisters of Merey and of Charity ministered to the wounnded withont @istinction of class or creed, the old soldiers were not “against the Catho- lics.” On Memorial day, when. the veterans go from cemetery to cemetery and in sadness rcmlvl the past they are not against the Catholics. They see the tiny flags waving over the graves as thickly in Calvery ss in Laurel Hili, end no unkind feelings of bitterness or bigotry dis- turb their solemn thoughts among the silent tents and in the bivouac of the dead. THE PIRST COURT-MARTIAL. The Rev. Mr. Morgan gives his version of the two court-martials which he figurea (40!‘!' cerning Colonel Henry C. Corbin he writ 3 feit called upon to have one of the officers of the regiment court-martinled for cowardice end although the evidence did not satisfy the court it was true nevertheless. Concerning my own testimony in the case of the officer [Cor- ] charged with cowardice af the battie of hville, I simply say now, &fter thirty years i with no malice toward the officer, and it regret that I am forced thus to say it, v word of the testimony which I gave at time was true, sbsolutely and unquali- 1 gvrutest that I am not responsible for regging him once again before the public in this unenviable light.” The Rev. Mr, Morgan would do_ better to re- e his protests for himself. Colonel Corbin Las nothing to fear from being brought before the public.” Let me. copy out the finding of the court, which is Corbin’s justification and Mor- ga0’s condemnation: s . HEADQUARTERS FIEST SEPARATE DIVISION, ATABAMA, CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Marcn 14, 1 General Order No, 6. 1. Before a general court-martial, which cun- se citizens must keep | and down the country on a | the passer-by | e your read- | b | i | General Morgan, who w: cur the enmity of Morgan. If he had gone round the camp denouncing vice and twang- lngxlexu. with a Bible in one pocket and a stolen chicken in the other, Morgan doubtiess would have considered him "one of the elect. But because, apparently, he was neither & rharisee nor a hypocrite, Morgan tried to Swear away his life, Icall your attention, Mr. Editor, to the un- usual words which occur in the verdict—“the court does most honorably acquit him.’ Cer- tainly the men who used this _expression had little faith in Morgan’s oath. He swore on the trial es distinctly as he wrote in his letter that Corbin was a coward, and the judgment of the tribune was & “most honorable acquittal,” which “most honorable’’ acquittal was ap- proved by General Steedman. This verdict is the more remarkable when we remember: 1. That Morgan charged that at Decatur, Corbin, being in action on the skirmish line, had left it and retreated to a,point in the rear of the line of battle. 4 2. That it was shown that Corbin had gone out to the skirmish line under orders from Morgan himself to observe the enemy’s posi tion and return and report it. - 3. That at Nashville, where gross cowardice was charged, it was proved by officers of the highest standing that Corbin was particularly gallant on the field. 4. That in the official records of the war under Morgau’s report charging Corbin with cowardice there is an official note declaring that the charge was proven unfounded. 5. That the court censured Morgan for his duct during the trial. The court takes thisoccasion to animadvert on the uncharital:le conduet of Colonel T. J, rgan, Fourteenth U. S. Colored Infantry, toward the accused, Lieutenant-Colonel H. C. Corbin, during the trial, and bis unoflicerlike conduct while giving his testimony for the prosecution, by attempting to take memoranda of the evidence so given, until forbidden by the court.” Evidently Morgan knew that a liar should take any chanc 6. That the courd put on record its opinion of Morgan’s two chief witnesses. Of one it said that he was “guilty of misrepresentation and falsehood,” and of the other that he was guilty of “falsehood.” That when Morgan precipitately resigned from the army Corbin stepped into his place as colouel of the regiment and remained with it until it was mustered out emong the very last of the volunteq regiments. That he then joined the regular establish- ment and was in the adjntant-general’s corps in the Division of the Missouri, and that he was under all circumstances a brave, faithful and competent officer. You will remark, Mr. Editor, that though I alluded to all these things in the letter which the Rev. Mr. Morgan underiook to answer, the only plea he could make is, “My testimony was true.” He does not deny the facts, though he accuses me of falsehood. He does not deny that the court censured him for his unofficer- like conduct, though he accuses me of slander. The man he accused of cowardice a court-mar- tial most honorably acquitted, and now that he aceuses me of cowa THE SECOND COURT-MARTIAL. Let us come now to the second court-martial. Here is origin: ““As a consequence of my severe discipline the two officers whom I had court-martialed joined with others and formed a con:piracy to get even with me and trumped up a technical charge, on which they based their hopes of driving me from the service. They chbarged me with false muster.” I have no evidence before me, Mr. Editor, to show the motives of the officers who caused Morgan’s court-mertial, says it was a conspiracy. Iremark, however, t if you visit a prison and converse with the convigis you invariably find that they- aro aii ntand vietims of & conspizacy They will inform you with an_earnestness, Teal or affected, that the police, the witnesses, the jury, the very Judge himself were in a con Bgainst them. It is possible that this s convicted on three arges and thirte was the victim of & conspirac: minded of the 01d Roman’s scoff: Credat Iudeus Apclles non ego. The Rey. Mr. Morgan evidently wishes to let we are re- | the public understand that the only charges against him were those concerning the false mu for forming a judgment on Morzan's case, I copy out the official records of the court-martial: HEADQUARTERS SECOND DIVISIO: CHATTANOOGA, General Order Before a zeneral court-martial, convened at Chat- tanooga, pursuant to special order 34, q 1S First Separate Division of the A the Cumberiand, March 25, 1865, and of w! Colonel Thomas' F. Wilder is presiaent, was ar- raigned Colonel Thomas J. Morgan, Fourteenth United States Colored Infantry, on the following charges and specifications: Charge 1—Violation of the fifteenth article of war. Specification 1. In this, that the said T.J, Mor- gan, colonel of the Fourteenth Regiment, United States Colored Infantry, did allow the original muster-in Colored Infantry, to be signed by other oficers, the said T.J. Morzan having been at thet time aware that the said muster-in rolls contained the mentioned dates, but who was nevertheless mus- as c ptain from the 1st day of November, 1863. LS at Chattanoogs, Teun., during the month of ay, 1864. cation 2. In this, that he, the said Thomas n, colonol ef Lbe Fourteenth United States ‘olored Infantry, did order Captain J, G, Vallette, of the same regiment, to sign. the muster-in rolls of Company D, Fourtecnth United States Colored Infentry, after the said Captain Vallette had pro- tested (both verbally and in writing) against doing 80, on &ccount of the said rolis having contained & false muster, und forthermore, that tue said Colonel T.J.Morgan did allow the sald Captain Vallette o sign the above-mentioned roils, know- ing at the same tme that they contained a false | muster. This at Chattanooga, Tenn., on or about the 11th day of May, 186 Specitica fon . In this, that the sald Thomas J. Morgan, colonel of the Fourteenth United States Coiored Infantry, did aliow the original muster-in rolls of Company D, Fourteenth United States Colored Infariry, to be sigued by other officers, he said Colonel T."J. Morgaa, having been aware at that time that (he sald muster-in rolls contained the false muster of at least one oflicer, viz : Cap- tain J. G. Vallette, whose company, D, was not filled to the minimum strength until the 9th day of November, 1863, and who was not entitled to muster-in as captain_until the 9th day of Novem- ber, 1868, but who-was mustered ou the herein- before mentioned rolls to rank as captain from the 20 day of November, 1863, and was paid as cap- tain from the last-meutioned date. "This at Chattanooga, Tenn., on or about the 11¢h day of May, 1864. Specification 4, In this, that the sald ThomasJ, Morgan, colonel of the Fourteenth United States Colored Tnfantry, did allow the muster-in rolis, of Company E, United States Colored Infantry, to be signed by minor oflicers, e, the said Colonel T. J. Morgan. having been at the time aware that the said muster-in rolls contained the false muster of ac least one officer, viz.: Captain A.J. Rolph, whose company, E, Fourteenth United States Colored In- fantry, Was' not fliled to the minimum strength until“the 1]th day of November, 1863, and who consequently was not entitled o miuster as cap- tain untll ore of the last mentioned dates, but was mustered on the above-mentioned rolis to rank as captain from the 21day of November, 1863, and was pald as captain of Company E, Fourteenth United States Colored Infuniry, from the last- mentioned date. This at Chattanooga, Tenn., on or about the 5th day of May. 1864. Specification 5. In this, that he, the sald Thomas J. Morgan. colonél of the Fourteenth United States Colored Infantry, did allow the muster-in rolis of Company ¥, Fourteenth United States Colored Infantry, tobe signed by other officers, he, the said Colomel T. J. Morgan, havin, been aware that the said muster-in rolls contain tho false muster of at least one officer, viz., Cuptain 5. B. Stafford, whose company F ‘was not filled o the minimum strépgth until the 10uh day of November, 1863: who was mustered on the above mentioned rolls to rank as captain from. the 2d day of November, 1863, and 'was paid ascaptain from the last meniioned date. - This, at Chattanooga, Tenn., on of about the lst day of May, 1864. - Specification 6. In this, that he, thesaid Thomas J. Morgan, colonel of the Fourteenth United States Colored Infantry, did allow the muster-in rolis of Company C, Fourteenth United States Colored In- fantry, 1o be signed by other officers, he, the said Colonel T. J, Morgan, having been a: that time aware that the said moster-in Tolls_contained the false muster of at least one officer, viz.: Captain E. Munk, whose company, C, was 1o filled 1o the minimom strength until the 9th day of November, 1863, but_who was mustered on the above-men. tioned rofls to rank &s captain from the 2d day of have & good memory and he did not wish to | ce I am willing to | | leave the verdict to the public. he Rev. Mr. Morgan’s account of its | The Rev. General | may be true, but it is not probable, And when | specifications, tells us he | er. In order to give the public the proper | he | materials rolls of Company A, United S.ates | not entitled to muster as captain until the lasi- | tered on the herciubefore-mentioned rolls to rank | November, 1863, and paid as captain from the last-mentioned date. This at -Chattanooga, Tenn., on or about the 6th day of May, 1864, Charge 2.’ Conduct unbecoming an officer and o gentleman, Specification 1. In this, that he, the sald Thomas Morgan, colonel of' the Fourteenth United tes Colored Infantry, was on or about the 5th day of November, 1863 (while major or the Fourteenth United States Colored Infantry), intrusted with ©wo (2) petitions or memorials signed by officers of the Fourteenth United States Colored Infantry, and addressed to Major G. S. Stearns, commnis- sioner of organization of United States Colored troops, one Of which said petitions or memorials contained & request for the appointment of ihomas J. Morgan, at that time major of the Fourteentn United States Coiored Infantry, to the position of lieutenant-colonel of the Fourteenth United States Colored Infantry, and the other of which said petitions or memorials contained a request. that Major E. F. Dutton of the One Hundredth and Fiftieth Iliinois Infantry Vol- unteers (now lieutenant-colonel) shouid be ap- pointed colonel of the said Fourteenth United States Colored Infantry, and furthermore, that the said J, T. Morgan did proceed to Nashvilie, Tenn., and did deliver to Major George S. Stearns the petition or memorial containing the request for his own promotion, but that he did fail to deliver to the said Major Stearns the petition or memorial containing the reguest for the appointment of Mujor Dutton of the One Hundred and Fitiieth Illinols Volunteer Infantry to the position of colonel of the Fourteenth United Siates Colored Infantry. This ‘at Gallatin and Nashville, Tenn., on or about the 4th day of November, 1863. Specification 2. n this, that the said T. J. Mor- gan, colonel of the Fourteenth United States Coiored Infautry, having, while superintendent of organization of United States colored troops at Chattanoogs, Teun., promised the position of cap- tain of a company of the United Stazes Colored In- fantry to Sergeant David Holmes of the Fifteenth Penosylvania_Volunteer Cavalry, on_condition that the said Sergeant Holmes should recruit the number of men required to compose a company of infantry in the United States service, and after said company had been recruited by Sergeant Holmes to the “minimum strength,” offer Lo the said Sergeant Holmes, now a captain In the Forty- fourth United States’ Colored Infantry, the sum of $3 for each man so recruited by’ Sergeant Holmes for said_company, on condition that Ser- geant Holmes would reléase the said Thomus J. Morgan from the fulfillment of his contract and not accept or claim the appointment as captain of the aforesaid company, the said $3 per_esch man, oifered as a bribe to the said Sergeant Holmes by Colovel T. J. Morgan, being the sum allowed by the Government of the United States for_recrujt- ing purposes, and to which sum the said Sergesnt Holmes was' righttully entitled, but which he never received, he (the sald Sergeant Holmes) having refused to accept the sald sum from Colonel 'T. J. Morgan as & bribe to degline his po- sition a8 ‘captain in the Forty-fourth Regiment, United States Infantr This a¢ Chatiancoga, Tenn., on or about the 12th day ol May, 1864. 3 Specification 3. In this that he, the said Thomas J. Morgan, colonel of the Fourteenth L nited States Colored Infantry, did, during the ebsence of Lieus tenant A. C. Sailsbury from his regiment, the Fourtcenth Umited States Colored Infantr: in the month of November, 1864, order Cap: : Company G, Fourteenth United b Colored Infantry, to take from the drawer in the company desk formerly used by Lieutenant Sails- bury a certain letter of paper belongiug to the said A. C. Sallsbury, and 10 deliver the same to him, tlie sald Colonel T. J. Morgan; and furthermore, that the said Colonel T. J, Morgan did positively | refuse to deliver the aforesaid letter or paper to the | sald Lieatenant A. C. Sailsbury when requested to 0 50 by him, on or about the Ist day of February, 1864, ‘This at Chattanooga, Tenn. Specification 4. in_this, that he, the said Thomas J. Morgan, colonel ot the Fourteenth United States Colored Infantry, did open an envelope addressed to Lieutenant-Colonel Henry C. Corbin, Four- teenth United States Colored Infautry, and did t therefrom a_letter or communication from Major Southard Hoffman, A.A.G., to the said Lleutenant-Colonel H. C. Corbin, and did-order W. H. H. Avery, adjuiant of the Fourteenth United States Colored Infantry, to make and retain a copy of the aforesaid letter or communication before sending the same to said Lieutenant-Colonel H. C. Corbin, the rightful owner of said letter or com- munication. ‘This at Chattanooga, 1 day of Jaunuary, 1865. ation 5. In this, that he, the said Thomas J. an, colonel of the Fourteenth United States Colored Infantry, did canvass or discuss the con- duct or character of Lieutenant-Colonel H. C. Corbin, Fourteenth United States Colored Imfan- try, concerning Lientenani-Colonel H. C. Corbin of | sald regiment, and did ask enlisted men of the Four- | teenth United States Coiored Infaoiry their opin- | ion in regard 30 the conduct of Lientenant-Colonel | Corbin on certain occasions, #nd aid sllow and en- | courage said culisted men (0 express their opinion concerning the character. conduct Or capacity of Lientenani-Colonel Corbin in his (Colonel Mor- gan's) hearing ..ithout censure or rebuke. l);l'hi: in the field during ihe month of December, 54, 3. nxn., on or about the 25th rge 8. Conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline. & Specification 1. In this that he, the said Thomas J. Morgan, colonel oi the Fourteenth United States Colored Infantry, did, after having received certain churges and specifications preferred against Assist- ant Surgeon J. R. Ong, Fourteenth United States Colored Infantry, by Surgeon F. B. Ames on the 24th day of Janiary, 1865, refuse or neglect to { forward sald charges orspecliications on or aster the 5th day of February. 1565, thereby violasing | the requirements of & circular issued from head- quacters, Depurtment of the Cumberland, bearing the date 0f March 8, 1865. This at Chattanooga, Tenn. Specification 3. In this, that he, the said Thomas J. Morgan, coionel of the Fourieenth United States Colored Infantry, did aliow First Lieuten- | ant Charles Richman, Fourteenth United States | Colored Infantry, to tender bis resignution as un officer of the United States army atter complaint had been made to him, the said Thomas J. | gan. by Lieutenant D. K. Wright, R. Q. M., teenth United States Colored Infantry, 10 the effect that the said Lieutenant Charles Richman had been guilty of stealing and selling one mule, the property of the United States. and after the said Lieutenant Wright, R. Q. M., had requested | Colonel Thomas Lieutenant _ Richmond ~ under thermore, that the said Colonel di0_ forwsard the resignation of Lieut man, approved, without mentioning J. Morgan 0 place the said fur- arrest: in his in- dorsément theréon all the circumstances attending said resignation, or the offense of which Lieuten- ant Richman was accused of being_guilty by | Lieutenant Wright, R. Q. M., United States Colored Infantry All this at Chattanooga, Tenn., during the month of January, 1865. FINDING OF THE COURT. Of the first specification to first charge—gullt Of the second specification 1o first charge—gullt Of the third spe. ification to first charze—guili; Of the fourth specification to first charge—guilty. Of the fifth specification to first Churge—guilty. Of the sixth specification to first charge—guiliy. Of the tirs: charge—guilty. Of the first specification to second charge— guilcy. o Ot the second specification to second charge— guilty. Of the third specification to second charge— uilty. 51 ine fourth specification to second charge— | guilty. B3 The firth speci ication to second charge—gullty., Fourteenth false muster of at least one officer, viz.: Captain | Of the second charge—guilty. C.W. Baker, whose company, A, Fouricenth| Of the frst specification 1o third charge—guilt United States Colored Infaniry, was not filled to | Of the third specification to third charge—guiity. the mioimum strength until the 11th or 12th day | Of the charze—guilt of November, 1863. and who was consequently | And the court does, therefore, sentence him, the said Colonel T.J. Morgan of the Fourteenth United States Colored Infaniry, to be dismissed from the service of the United States. { 1L 1n the foregoing case of T. J. Morzan, Four- teenth United States Infaniry, the court having found the accused guilty of the first charge—viola- tion of the fifteenth article of war—had not the | authority to change the sentence as prescribed in that article for such offense, and 1ts failure to con- form 10 the requirements of the above article in sentencing the accused is an error fatal to the pro- ceedings and findings of the COUIL s0 far as relai 10 the first charge. Of the second charge, the cvi- dence before the court,as shown by thé record, does not, in_the opinioa of " the general { commanding, warrant the ungualified finding made by the court. While Colonel Morgan's con- duct may, on some occasions, have been somewhat reprehensible, the evidence fails to show a formal. ity on the part of Colonel Morgan, and would jus- fy the court in making & sentence of dismissal. As to the third charge, the specifications to which are acknowledged true by the accused, it s evident | frow the record that Colonel Morgan was governed | by the best intentions and a_desire to subserve the interests of the service, in view of these facts the proceedings and findings and sentence of the court in the case of Colonel T. J.Morgan, Fourteenth TUnited States Colored Infantry, is disspproved, and Colonel Morgen ordered released from arrest and returned to duty. . 111 The general court-martial convened by spe- clal order 84, headquarters separate division A. C., March 23, and of which Colonel Thomas ¢. Wildes is president, is dissolved. By command of GENERAL STEEDMAN. WHAT THE RECORDS SHOW. This is & complete account of the trial asit appears in the records of the wer office. The curious who may compare the Rey. Goneral Morgan’s version of General Stecdman’s;order with the original as gven above will remark that Mr. Morgan must have quoted from mem- ory. Several eulogistic expressions which the Rev. general no doubt thought very appro- priate have been sanawiched in between Steed- man's severe sentences. % That the Rev. General Morgan can take any comfort from the order shows that his case is very bad, for we must remember that (1) The finding of thecourt was set aside, not because justice was not done, but because the sentence was iliegal. (2) The sentence was 1llegal because it was less than the articles of war preseribed. (:fl The court-martial sentenced Morgan to be discharged. (4) The fifteenth article of war septenced him to be “cashiered.” \ 5. To be cashiered means that not only should he be discharged, but that forever aiter “he should be dissbled to have or hold any office or employment in the service of the United States.” 7 In our criminal courts we can imagine a convict getting free because the Judge sen- tenced hfm 10 imprisonment when the statutes prescribed hnnggn ; but I am under the im- pression that while the conviet might be ve grateful to the Judege he would not go rount the country boasting of his escape. HIS RESIGNATION. . The Rev.General Morgan, D.D., accuses me of falsifying facts. He writes: Mr, Yorke says: “Permit me to remark that 5000 after thesé courts-martial Rey. Mr. Morgan resigned precipigately from the army.” The animus of this statement is, of course, on the face of it. How false it is in fact, and how utterly un- generous it is in motive, will be appreciaied by yourreaders when I call their attention to the fact | Morgan at & salary of $6 a _da: that the courts-martial were held in Mareh and that I resigned in August. Your readers, Mr, Editor, will perceive how blundering a tactician the Rev. Morgan is if they look af the dete on the records of the court-martlal. General Stedman’s order is dated the middle of !ulf. Morgen resigned early in August. If this 18 not a precipitate resigna~ tion, perhaps Mr. Morgan can da&cl;fi.e what is, There is no need, Mr. Editor, of ying facts in this nasty case. The only thing e is to set these facts forth as they occurred. No one but a presgher would attempt to brazen them out. i HIS WITNESSES. % The Rev. Mr. Morgan produces a host of wit- nesses 1o bear testimony to his good character. I have no doubt they are wuun&; 0 say very nice things about the reverend gentleman. Some of them even may love the ground he walks on, but that is neither here nor there. I am dealing with General Morgan as a soldier, and I deal with him as I find him described in his country’s records. Ifind him there-with a stained escutcheouand a tainted name. I find his word considered wortnless by his fellow- officers. I find his very oath re]ec!ed. I find him stigmatized as unofficerlike and uncharitable. I find him proved ilty of thirteen different specifications, and I find him. escaping punishment because the sentence of the court fell below the severity of the law. : I find him resigning his office as soon as the result of the trial was made known, and I find the man whom he tried o ruin steg;flng into his place. These are the things I find in the records of Morgan’s country, and by these records do I judge him. b HIS INDIAN POLICY. The Rev. Hon. General T. J. Morgan defends nis Indian policy and incidentally attacks the Catholic church. He does not deny: 1. That the contract system was established Ry General Grant 8t the suggestion of Parson Newman. 2. That nearly all the Protestant denomina- tions—Methodists, Congregationalists, Episco- paleins, etc.—entered in the contract system without any scruples concerning its un-Ameri- can spirit. i 3. That all these sects discovered that the system was un-American ou)fi when they were beaten by the Catholic church. 4. That every cent of the money went for the food and clothing of the Indians, and not for the mission work of the churen. 5. That the Catholic body contributed $1,500,000 to build schools and equigthem: that the salaries of the teachers, on_a Govern- ment basis, would amount to over $4,000,000; that the $3,430,000 received from the United States Government was spent to the last cent in feeding, clothing and nursing the Indian children. THE BAPTIST CLAIM. The Rev. Hon. General Morgan is careful to conceal the fact that this money is not United Stetes money, but money belonging to the In- dians. When, therefore, he says that the Bap- tist sect declined to receive anything he says what isnot true. The Baptist sect does not receive Indian money through the United States treasury, but it receives Indian public money from the Indians themselves. Its schools in the Indian Territory are supported by funds voted by the civilized nations. These sChools are sectarian schools. Tre money which supports them is public money, and General Morgan comes before the people and declare we Baptists believe in the separation of church and state, and that they never received any public money! Go to, thou hypocrite? MORGAN, AND CATHOLICS. The Rev. Mr. Morgan declares, “I dismissed no one irom the Indian service because he was a Catholl A plain statement of facts may enable the reader to judge for himself. When Morgan through church fnfluence had been appointed by that moral philanthropist, Benjamin Harrison, a5 Commissioner he took unto himself a bigot seven times worse than himseli, known as Dorchester. This Dorches- ter was & preacher of the same caliber as J. Q. A. Henry and Donald Ross. He was known an anti-Papist writer and lecturer and, ther: fore, was consiGered a very capable man todeal with Catholic sehools. ‘The Rev. Dorchester’s first move was to have his wife appointed as special agent to General and traveling expenses, She was then detailed to attend her husband in his travels, and both being thus provided for ai the expense of Uncle Sam they proceeded to inspect the schools. FIRST BLOOD. The first school visited by this worthy pair was Haskell Institute, a large establishment situated at Lawrence, Kans. At this school they found cmployed Protestants. Catholics . = 5 Andone of the resultsof their visitations wast Protestant employ es removed...... [ Catholic employes removed, 3 The employes removed had been nominsted by a Republican, and they were all worthy and competent. At the Chilocco school, which was next vis- ited, sevenjeen emploves were found. No Catholics; no dismissals. At the Osage school one Catholic was found. She was dismissed. At this agency the advent of Dorchester, who is & Methodist preacher, was marked by a strange pienomenon. The Osages are the richest people in the world, and it has become the iashion for all kinds of money-getters to dip their buckets in the funds. Dorchester’s appearance was signalized by a present of £60,000, which the Osages were per- suaded to give for the erection of a Methodist schoolhouse at the agency. And these are the preachers who do not want State money. At the Kaw school the employes were found s follows: Protestant. Cacholics. = The result of the visitation was: Protestant employes removed. K Catholic employes removed. 8 Among the employes dismissed here was the superintendent, P. W. Mess. Ie is a one- armed soldier, a Republican, and had been employed under Republican and Democralic adminisirations on his merits. In his place was appointed a man named Spray. Morgan stated that Mess was removed because the in- terests of the sehool required that other -per- scne better qualified for school duties should be appointed. This lying statement was given out by Mor- gan while he held in his hand a letter from Spray, on one page of which there were no fewer than sixieen misspelled words, At the Cheyenne school all the employes were found to be Protestants. At the Arapahoe school the state of affairs existed. At the Pawnee school there were nine em- ployes, one of whom, the superintendent, was & Catholic. Dorchester said in one report about this em- ploye, “Booker, although a Roman Catholic, is A good officer.”” In eaother, “He is a good, kind, conscientious, faithful man.” Was he retaired ? By no means. An ignoramus of ithe Spray kind was given his place, and at the Pawnee schiool not a Catholic was left. At the Otoe school all the employes were Protestants. No change. Same ideal condi- tion at the Ponca school, at the Genoa school, &ud at the Omaha school. At the Winnebago school this was the condi- tion of affairs: Protestants & Catholics. After the Dorcastrian Avatar we find Protestants removed Catholics removed. At the time Morgan entered office there were 144 teachers in the Indien Territory. Ofthese only six were Catholics. One of Morgan's first measures was to make a clean sweep of the unfortanate six. Not a Catholic was left. That the Hon. Rev. General Morgan, D.D, left a Catholic in the service is owing to the fact that the Republican Senators rebelled and the moral and philanthropic Benjamin Harri- :rlou ‘was compelled to call the Rev. T. J. Morgsn own. Such, Mr. Editor, are a few of the facts which back up my assertions about the Rev. Mor- gan. We have had many unworthy men in public office in_this country, but never such canting scoundrels as the Revs, Morgan and Dorchester. If there was anvthing more than enother that made Harrison’s administration hateful to his own party it was the plague of preachers he let loose on the offices, From the authentic documents which I have given above the unprejudiced public can form heir DPlnion of the man who is “against the atholics.” We are proved to be antagonized bysuch aman. What can we expect irom 8 soldier who strove to swear away a soldier's life on a lying charge? What can we e: il from a witness whose perfidy is inscri on his country’s annals? Wihat can we expect from an officer against whose name stands thirteen times repeated the word guilty?” But the preachers seem to be without shame, Devoid of decency, devoid of honor, devoid of truth, Morgan shambles across the stage of lifea Msnnf‘md & scorning to all honest men; and he cells on a patriotism which he has never felt, he invokes & philanthropy which hes paid him well, a progress which has left him far behind, and a Protestantism which he Iibels to save him from the well-merited con- tempt of mankind. Yours uuty . C. 4 8 same happy YORKE. Playing With the Army. A tavorite amusement of the two emper- ors was playing with the french army. Napoleon delighted in the display of his condescension to the men and in the ex- hibition of their enthusiastic affection for him. Their drill, their uniforms, the niceties of military ceremonial, the gor- geous drum-majors twirlirg their batons or marching in puffy state—every d fascinated nghe Ol;ar,ywhule ou‘z ?y% Czartoryski, was affected with the disease of paradomania.—Life of Napoleon, by Professor Sloane, in the Century. 3 11 DAGGETT'S PSYCHOSCOPE ‘History of a Play That Antici- pated the Mind-Reading Machine. M'CULLOUGH WAS LEADING MAN Barrett Offered the Authors $I10,000 if They Would Strike Out Certain Scenes. Recently the electrical world was startled by the announcement that a Washington inventor had perfected a machine which was said to be able to read the mind and transfer to & canyas a picture of themind’s impression or thought. Several successful experiments.were had and it was found to be one of the greatest mechanical appli- ances ever constructed. Engineers who in getting Robert Fairbanks to look into the machine, on the ground that he is the only man in the room who is without color blindness. The same screen that was used for the tableau is permitted to stand for the psychoscope exhibition, and when all is in readiness and_the preiiminlnel have been gone through with, Gresham sud- denly says in a loud voice: ‘Who killed Amos Royalton?’ In an instant the pic- ture of the murder comes into Fairbanks! eve and the scene of the murder, justas he ‘was - preparing to strike the third blow with the crowbar, is flashed on the screen, and Lucy recognizes her father lying on the sofa, Fairbanks over him with the weapon in his hand. “This is the burden of the plot and the surroundings are, of course, more in detail, many other characters being broufbt into the play. A strange thing is the fact that in the tableau introduced in the fifth act representing Elaine was a fac-simile of the painting of Elaine afterward produced b{ obey Rosenthal. Another point is ihat all of the electrical contrivances that Percy Gresham was working on in his ex- periments have since been Eer(ected, and I sometimes marvel at the theories that are presented in the play that have since been found practicable. ““The play was never presented but once and that was in Virginia City. Lawrence Barrett offered us $10,000 for the copyright if we would eliminate a certain scene that he considered objectionable. We thought it was necessary to the plot and refused to doit. Mr. Goodman was more opposed to THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15th, Will be preduced with new scenery ‘and siartling effects, u semsations! Drams in five Aots, by R M. DAGGBTT sndJ T GOODMAN, eatitled Y Percy AMOS ROYALTON £| ROBERT FAIRBANKS (Clerk of Mr. Rovali; PETER HOLMES (a retired Merehant). .. PHILO BUNDY (a Couniryinan). ... , HENRY TRIPP (a Reporter and Dramatist). oo oo Y STARCH (a fashionable 8well), aaanem e 1TZ HENF CAPTAIN McNABS (2 Police Captain) JIMMY DOBSON (s Burglar—his fifst appearance) #.UCY ROYALTON:... Gresham (An Inventot) Stock and Mones Braker). ... ) an'seeims ommn. John McCullough E. N, THAVER : _JOIN WIL3ON _HENRY EDWAR| -] C WILLIAM . E. J. BUCKLEY OWEN MARLOWE +q=-EBEN PLYMPTON —maesseeeen .. W C. CROSBIE ... MRS.F. M, BATES ‘With the beautiful original song, ‘ 1E LOVE BE LOVE ~ Music b‘ PROF. SAUE& (OONSTANCE PROCTOR..cont Lase — . "MISS HELEN TR \(y* MRS ROYALTON e e e e . .. MRS, JUDAE FUSABIA OLATTER (Her first appexrance) —. . v~ MRS CHARI £3 ED] IONDS MRS, FORTUNA HUNTER... et e o ot 6 mamana . e .. MISS ALLISON RINNIE LATTINER.. T NISS MINNIEWALTON NOL_LYMd’HEmN e e e e s g e MISS M. CHAMBERS ALICE, . et et s M1SS IMOGENE RLE “ORA LS g . _MRS. ROBLVSON THE FULL CAST THAT PLAYED IN [From an old theater programme in the possession of Hon. : NIS§ GHARLOTTE RELD THE * PSYCHOSCOPE.” Rollin . Daggett.. are ready to believe that most anything can be done with the aid of machinery held up their hands and exclaimed, “Who would have thought such a thing pos- sible?”. They thought mechanism would stop at recording the mind’s impressions and the new contrivance is something of a Eoser to most of them. Apropos of this marvel it is recalled that Rollin M. Daggett, ex-Minister to the Hawaiian Islands, and Joseph T. Goodman, the gentleman who has solved the Aztec calendar and who has recently returned from an archeological investigation at Kensington museum, England, wrote a piay in Virginia City nearly twenty-five Yyeass ago called the Psychoscope. 1t con- tained a character, Percy Gresham (an in- ventor) played by the lamented John Mc- Cullough, who had succeeded ininventing just such a contrivance as has been rought out by the Washington man, and which he uses in thé play to fix a crime upon the right person, who is permitted to go at large while Percy Gresham is serving life sentence for the crime of the other man. Mr. Daggett, in a conversation yester- day, outlined the plot of the “Psycho- scope” and said: *‘Thomas Edison was in Virginia at the time the play was put onin Piper’s Opera- house, Thursday evening, August 15, 1871, and said to me: ‘Mr. Dnggeu, ou have merely anticipated what is bound to occur in electrical mechanism and that machine you bave created for your play will be in- vented before yo\{ are dead.” I thought nothing more of the matter until I was confronted by the newspaper announge- ments of the Washington invention. “AS thedplny went, one Amos Royalton, a stock and mining broker, has a daughter named Lucy, who is in love with Percy Gresham, thé young inventor, played by John McCullough, who is without sufi- cient funds to pursue his experiments in electricity. Lucy secures the loan of $1000 for him from her father, and the day Amos Royalton pays the money o Gresham he goes back to his office to get a paper he had leit there. Upon entering his rooms he is attracted by a dim light and upon further nvestigation finds one Robert Fairbanks, his confidential clerk, in the act of robbing the safe. Fairbanks, who sees no way of escape, takes an iron bar with which he had previously effected an entrance in the rear of the oftice, and brains his employer. “He strikes him twice, and has the bar raised to deliver the third when a knock on the front door canses hm to hesitate. “Almost immediately Gresham enters and Fairbanks disappears through the back door. Gresham finds Royalton dy- ing, and yells murder, which results in bringing in the police, and the officers ar- rest him as the guilty one, when, in re- ality, be has returned to the money -broker to restore him the sum of $100, which Mr. Royalton had overpaid the inventor when he loaned him the $1000 earlier in the day. Of course the other §1000' is found on ihe person of Gresbham and is considered evi- dence that he stole it from Royalton. The result is that he goes to Sing Sing for life. Lucy believes him innocent, and there is a woman who is a sort of go-between for them 1o carry messages, and she keeps him posted on what is going on op the out- side. Finhlg, Lucy, woman like, engages herself to Robert Fairbanks, knowing nothing of the fact that he is the murderer of her father. Gresham hears of it and sets to work to break out. “When he was put in prison he was allowed to go on with his electrical ex- periments, and his tools were permitted in his cell. He was reiarded as slightly off, anyhow, because of the fact of his being wrapped up in his experiments, and was regarded as harmless,” All the time he was in confinement he was working dn his fisvchuco‘ e, end had about compleied it when one ni sht he heard a scratching near the base of his cell. He heard it for several nights, and finally, while looking for the exact spot, a brick was removed, and then another, until a space large enough to admit 'a man was made, and then from the adjoining cell a convict crawled and grabl Gresham by the throat, warning him not to make an out- cry or he would strangle him. “The convict turned out to be a man who was tryin‘gi to ewnipe, and fearea that Gresham would give him away. The two men then formeda plot to get out, and Gresham told his companion that he in- tended to remove the last barrier to liberty by burning down the iron. bars with elec- tricity, which he does before Jimmy, the safe-cracker, who is dumfounded by the operations of Gresham, and regaras him as the devil. At any rate, they &es out, and, to_cut & long story short, Gresham takes his psychoscope and goes to the resi- dence of Lucy Royalton, where a party is in progress and tableaus are being held. 'He manages to get in the house to ex- hibit his wond invention, and with the assistance of Jimmy and a little flat- tery bestowed in the right place, succeeds it than I, and the result was that Barrett never purchased it. ‘At the present time I am contemplat- ing taking it to New York, where plenty of backing is offered, and special scenery will be painted with plenty of electrical phe- nomenon to bring it up to the age we are now living in.” Mr. Daggett is quite wrapped up in the possibilities of the production, and has re- written parts of it lo 1mprove the whole plan of the plot. PEOPLE’S BANK PROTEST. Exception Taken by the Trust Com- pany on Behalf of Depositors to' Directors’ Acts. The California Safe Deposit and Trust Company stated tbrough its attorneys, Gunnison, Booth & Bartnett, yesterday, that it would formally protest before the Bank Commissioners and the board of di- rectors of the People's Home Bank against the board’s action toward Sherman, a large debtor of the wrecked bank. This protest is to be made on the belief that the Sherman incident was improper and not in the interests of the People’s Bank; and also on the ground that the di- rectors have no right to rele ase one debtor no more than another. The resignation of R.D. Fry from the board was explained as a move taken after due deliberation and because at the last election Mr. Stevens, a director, controlled a majority of the board. For this reason Mr. Fry resigned, be- lieving that the trust company could pur- sue its work regarding the People’s Bank more efficiently and with better results ! when not represented on the board of directors. 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