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Volume V. OMAHA, NEBRASKA. FK1DAY, SKFn:NIIU:irr7lht57 Number 30
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COPPINQER'S RECORD.
An Alde-de-Camp of the Pope
Appointed by Cleveland
A Brigadier General In tne
United States Army.
Coppinger an Alien for Mir Thn
Thirty Tears, While Drawing Pay as
an Officer ot the 1'nlted States Army
Ills Immoral Record on the Tar i He
l'oal.
Oakland, Cul., Aug. 13.-Editor
American rati tot: On the eve of my
departure for a short visit of a few
weeks to the Eastern States, I desire to
call the attention of your readers, who
feel an Interest in the matter of the in
justice of President Grover Cleveland,
In the appointment of Pope Plus IX's
aide-de-camp, Colonel John J. Cop
plnger, as a brigadier-general In the
United States Army, over the heads of
a score of native-born American colo
nels of Revolutionary descent, whose
sires bequeathed to them their blood
bought heritage of civil and religious
liberty and American independence.
These skillful, brave and gallant native
American officers, with long ar d bril
liant records of noble and patriotic ser
vices, graduates of the Military Acad
emy at West Point, or who have won
their spurs and commissions in the
regular army upon the battle-fields of
the republic. American citizens by
birth have been outrageously ignored,
and a foe to human liberty and the
rights of man, the Irish Roman Cath
olio volunteer who, with others, left
Ireland to go and fight for Pope Pius
IX against the "Freedom and Unity of
Italy with Rome for its Capital" and
aealnst the patriot armies of Victor
Emanuel and Garibaldi; and who for
pretended gallantry at the Gate of
Rocco was created by his holiness a
chevalier of St. Michael and honorary
aide-de-camp of Pope Plus IX.
This man, on whose account James
G. Blaine was defeated for the presi
dency by the election of Grover Cleve
land, the native American and Prot
estant element of the Republican party
either withholding their suffrages or
voting for Cleveland, rather than that
the pope's aide-de camp should also
become the military secretary and per
sonal co-aide-de-camp of the President
of the United States In the persons of
James G. Blaine, and John J. Up
plnger, his son-in-law, the Irish Roman
Catholic adventurer who was Ignomln
lously driven from the soli of Italy, re
deemed by the patriot Italian armies
under Victor Emanuel, Garibaldi, Maz
zini and Cavour.
Grover Cleveland has now done
worse than was anticipated of James G.
Blaine. For over thirty years this
foreign mercenary adventurer drew
his pay and wore the uniform of an of
ficer of the American army with blazon
effrontery without ever taking any
steps to become an American citizen,
and only within the past three years
has he become such, that his Jesuit
supporters might cause him to be un
justly and iniquitously promoted over
the heads of better and braver men,
who, from a long line of native-born
American ancestry and by their own
ability and long and gallant services,
are a thousandfold more entitled by
their own merit to be promoted to
higher command.
The rules of the service compel them
to submit to this injustice in silence,
and bear this slight while their breasts
throb with a righteous indignation
that tbey cannot express, and none of
them have any knowledge of or even
suspect that they have a friend in the
writer who pens these lines. Every
United States senator in Congress
should be held responsible by his stale
and his constituency for his action
when this man Copplnger's name la to
be presented to them for their confirma
tion or rejection.
Said the statesman and historian
George Bancroft, in his eulogy of Ab
raham Lincoln, delivered February
12th, 1866, before both houses of Con
gress, the president and cabinet, the
United States supreme court, the of
ficers of the army and navy, and the
diplomatic corps assembled:
"But the Republic of Mexico on our
borders was, like ourselves, distracted
by a rebellion and from a similar cause.
The monarchy of England had fastened
upon us slavery, which did not disap
pear with Inde pendence. In like man
na ' the ecclesiastical policy established
by the Council of the Indies in the days
of Charles V. and Philip II. retained Its
vigor lu the Mexican Republic. The fifty
years of civil war under which she had
languished was due to the bigoted
UNCLE SAM AROUSED BY THE A. P. A. HE
system which was the legacy of mon
archy, just as here the inheritance of
slavery kept alive political sirife and
culminated in civil war. As wi'h us
there could be no quiet but through
tt e end of slavery, so in Mexico there
could be no prosperity until the crush
ing tyrannyof intolerance Bhouldceate."
"It was the condition of affairs in
Mexico that Involved the Pope of Rome
in our difficulties, so far that he alone
among sovereigns recognized the chief
of the Confederate S ates as a president
and his supporters as a people; and in
letters to two great prelates of the Ro
man Catholic Church in the United
States gave counsels for peace, when
peace meant the victory of secession.
Yet events move as they are ordered.
The blessing of the pope on the head of
the Duke Maximilian could not revive
in the nineteenth century the ecclesi
astical policy of the sixteenth; and the
result is a new proof that there can be
no prosperity In the state without re
ligious freedom."
In the "Diplomatic Correspondence,
U. S., Part III., 1865," page 620, will
be found the letter of Pope Pius IX. to
Maximilian, from which the following
extract Is taken:
"Let instruction, public as well as pri
vate, be directed and superintended by
ecclesiastical authority; and, finally, let
the chains be broken that have hither
to retained the church dependent on
the arbitrary control of the civil gov
ernment." This Is the pope who appoints John
J. Coppinger his aide de-ca-np, who
draws his puy as an officer in the
United States Army, while at the same
time he Is a spy and an emissary of his
master, the enemy of the American
Republic, of Abraham Lincoln, our best
beloved Lut martyred president, whose
Jesuit tools carried out their fell pur
pose of assassination and pi urged our
country into woe, lamentation and
tears.
Not only this, but from a moral point
of view this outrageous appointment
should be rejected by the United States
senate. This man Copplnger's record
is a bla.-k and disgraceful one, which
also is a reason why this appointment
was unfit to be made and should be re
jected. The late Rev. Jame3 O. Ray
nor, for many years a chaplain in the
United States Army, and for a long
time stationed at Angel Island, and at
FortAlcatraz in San Francisco t ar
bor, gave to the writsr this man Cop
pingcr's full history, and declared that
he was a disgrace to the service and
ought to be cashiered. It was also
made notorious and became a public
matter, and in the San Francisco Daily
Chronicle, In two separate issues, of
July 21, page 1, and July 25, page 3,
1872, will be found a full expose of this
lecherous papal Lothario, who de
stroyed the domestic happiness ui vr.a
man's life, whose wife admitted to him
her guilty liaisons with this man Cop
pinger, and the outraged hubband not
long after ditd of a broken hrart. Gen
eral William U. L. Barnes could unfold
more of this nutter, so we learn, if he
would.
It is the duty of every good and true
American citizen to do all In his power
to prevent the confirmation of such an
appointment, that was totally unfit to
f Ho niDila
The extracts from the San FranciBco
Chronicle referred to are hereunto an
nexed, that your readers may see that
this statement is corroborated and not
overdrawn.
For patriotism, country, right, jus
tice and decency.
I am respectfully yours,
Edwin a. Sherman.
A Wife's Fidelity A Sory of Domes
tic Misery acd Fashionable Vice
Why Tom Cash Separated from flis
Wife -The History of the Case as
Related by Himself A Gay Lothario
in Epaulettes the Cause The Sequel
of a San Francisco Scandal A Great
Lawyer's Worderful Astonishment
An Attempt to Bruise the Head of
the Serpent Separation, Divorce,
Reconciliation, and a Long, Bitter
Quarrel.
oh! woman! woman!
During the summer of 1866 the New
York Herald sent to this coast as its
regular correspondent a gentleman
whom all our best citizens well remem
ber Thomas M. Cash. Mr. Cash came
to San Francisco from Panama, where
he had resided for several years as
agent for the Herald, and was instructed
to take up his residence here in the
same capacity. He brought with him
in the steamer bis young wife, to whom
he had been married but a few years.
Mrs. Cash was quite young, very pretty
and accomplished, and possessed great
vivacity of disposition and other at
tractive qualities. The position which
Mr. Cash occuple 1, together with the
social qualifications he and his wife
b )th possessed, served as passports to
our beet society, and it was not long
before the young people were received
li. to the mystic circle of the elite with
open arms. They continued to reside
in this city until the spring of 1869,
when Mr. Cash received orders to re
turn east via the Overland route, which
had just then been completed, and
write it up for his journal. Believing
that the journey would be a bard one
for Mrs. Cash, he made arrangements
to send her to New York by steamer,
and with that end in view, and while
waiting for the steamer to sail, the
couple broke up their establishment
and went to live at the Lick House.
WHICH INTRODUCES THE SERPENT.
During the residence of the Cashes
in Sin Francisco they had made man;
acquaintances. D. O. Mills was one of
Mr. Cash's warmest friends. W. C.
Ralston was an intimate of both; Col.
W. H. L. Barnes was a welcome visitor,
and others of more or less social dis
tinction had their names and those of
SEES THE DAMJEIl OF ECCLESIASTIC'ISM.
their families Inscribed on Mm. Cash's
tablets. She was a winsome little wo
man, and a'tractcd all to her by her
brilliant wit and fascinating manners.
There was one gentleman who was al
ways welcome whom Mr. Cash did not
like. This was Captain John J. Cop
pinger, of the Twenty-third United
States Infantry. The captain was a
dashing-looking officer bold and bril
liant, and because of bis very audart,
found favor in the eyes of Mrs. Cash.
She had formed his acquaintance on
the steamer from Panama, and a des
perate flirtation was carried on between
thom during the entire voyage, but
which ceased when they arrived in San
Francisco, and wa9 not revived for
some time. Mr. Cash had grown terri
bly jealous .of Captain Coppinger, and,
believing the latter to be a roue, had
forbidden his wlfo to have anything
to do with him. But this injunction
doesn't seem to have been heeded.
THE TRAIL OF THE SERPENT.
Not caring to wait until the steamer
sailed, Mr. Cash left his wife at the
Lick House, and set out on his journey
overland.
When he got to Sacramento he saw
Mr. Mills, who said that the road was
perfectly safe and travel over It very
comfortable. He then resolved to take
his wife with him, and telegraphed her
to meet him at Sacramento.
This she did, but so reluctantly that
it excited Mr. Cash's wonder, and
caured him g'eat pain. They wt nt to
Virginia City, and from there Mr
Cash went into the White Pine region,
leaving his wife behind as the guest
of William Blanvell, of Virginia
About the same time, Captain Coppin
ger appeared again, an! was Mrs.
Cash's constant attendant, even accom
panying her to Reno, whither her hus
band had telegraphed ber to meet him.
Here the captain seems to have been
dropped, and the couple proceeded on
their way east.
RETURNING TO THE SERPENT S CHAIN.
Mr. Cash remained in New York a
few months, his wife going to Phila
delphia, where her father, William D.
Lewis, resided. In August of the same
year he received orders to return to
San Francisco, which were afterward
revoked. His wife was crazy to return,
and so worked upon her husband's
mind with her entreaties that he re
signed his position on the Herald and
formed a business connection with
Hager & Co. in this city. This do
lighted Mrs. Cash, and on the 10th of
August they set out on their journey
once more for the Pacific slope. Ar
riving there, they went to reside on
Taylor street, No. 706, the house of a
Mrs. Locke. It was a building peculiar
to San Francisco, having but one floor
and basement.
The first floor had four rooms, three
of which were occupied by Mr. Casa,
and the fourth by a ledger. It was at
this time that Mrs. Cash began to
evince a coldness toward her husband,
and, as bo says treated him with many
violent exhibitions of temper, etc.
This lift) continued over a year. Thcy
of course, renewed their pleasant ac
quaintances and wore received again
into the charmed circle. And Captain
Coppinger was still in San Francisco,
THE STORM DREARS AT LAST.
One day in March, 1870, there was a
terrlb'o commotion In the house of the
Caches. Trunks were being hastily
paekei and other signs being made of
Intended travel. Next morning a car-
rlcgi drove up and the magnificent
cashier of the Bank of California
emerged from It. A lady closely veiled
came out of 706 Taylor street and got
Into it, followed by Mr. Ralston. The
two drove- to the Oakland boat, and
while on the way engaged In earnest
conversation. Mr. Ralston bought a
ticket, placed the lady on the cars,
bade her a warm and cordial farewell
and returned to the city. Their friends
only knew that Mrs Cash had suddenly
gene East, and for a time were satisfied
with this explanation. But by and by
it boan to ba whispered around that
all was not right; that Mr. Cash had
made a terrible discovery, and that he
was going to begin proceedings for di
vorce. These rumors flow like wild
fire, and finally the thing came out
Mr. Cash had made a most wonderful
discovery. He had detected his wife
In a gu'lty Unison with Captain Co -pir.ger,
and she had confessed her
whole guilt to their warm friend Mr.
Halston. And this is why she went
East in so sudden a manner.
THE HUSnANI) TELLS THE STORV OF
HIS WRONGS.
This revelation created a great ecin
dal at the timo. Society at once formed
itself into sides, and each warmly es
poused the side of either husband or
wife. One party tald that Mr. Cash,
by his silly jealousy, and peevish, sus
picious temper, bad driven his wife
into doing just what she did; that he
abused her, and refused to provide for
her, and, in nhort, they laid at Mr.
Cash's door every sin in the Decalogue.
Another pirty said these were mostly
ladies) that if they had su.h a fool for
a husband they would be tempted to
do the same as Mrs. Cash had done.
But another, and by far the largest
number of these friends, upheld the
husband and blamed the wife. In
view of all these contrallctory
statements and opinions, Mr. Cash has
deemed it proper to publish a pam
phlet, in which he gives to the world a
full account of his wife's seduction and
his own disgrace by the dashing Cap
tain Coppinger. We will make copious
extracts froa this work, for the reason
that in doing so there is no danger of
our being led into misrepresentation in
the narration of the tale.
We have condensed the first part of
Mr. Cash's pamphlet by way of intro
ducing the story in as little space as
possi ble. The story of the discovery
of his wife's guilt and subsequent
evcnU we will let Mr. Cash tell nearly
In hi own words.
Referring to bin return to San Fran
clioo, he iay: "It was not long after
wo were comfortably settled before her
manner began to change once more.
She resumed the old slight insulted
me whenever the opportunity offered
enraged me to that I frequently lost en
tire control of my temper, and allowed
myself to ute language that I regretted
before the words were fairly off my
tongue. One day, early In November,
she frankly told me, after I had been
complaining of her treatment, that she
had erased to love me as she bad for
merly done, by reason of my frequent
tits of 111 temp or. This was the first
confession she ever made that her feel
ings toward me had changed. No one
can Imagine the senration experienced
by me when these words fell from her
lips.
Almost maddened, I left the house
and vowed that I never would return.
I sought a room elsewhere that
night, and the next day returned and
removed my clothing and other mat
ters, and left, as I thought, finally. It
was not long, however, before I begun to
repent of having acted so impetuously.
I longed for my home again. I con
sulted a friend; I told him all, and he
advised me to try and m ike everything
straight once more. He went to see
-her; bo had a long conversation with
her, and then returned to mo and ad
vised mo to write and effect a recon
ciliation. I did not wait to be told
twice. I went at once to my office and
wrote her a long and affectionate letter
and when finished I determined to take
it myself. I reached the house about
7 p. m. The front door wag opened by
the old landlady, but I found the door
of ifly own room locked, and It was Bonus
time before I could gain admittance. I
could nut account for the delay.
When I entered the room my wlfo
was seated at the center-table reading.
I handed her the letter, and upon read
ing It her faco assumed a pleasant ex
pression. She told me, however, that
she should Insist upon my occupying a
separate apartment for some time as
punishment.
I started for the back room to get
some article I had left behind; this she
resisted, and said that she would get
whatever I wanted, and she then urged
me to leave, saying that she would have
the room arranged for me the next day.
Little did I think then that her seducer
was at that time secreted in the closet,
and that it was putting him out ot
sight that bad caused the delay In ad
mitting me. If I had had at that In
terview the slightest suspicion of the
true state of the caie the game would
then have been In my hard, but no
thought that she was doing wrong ever
entered my brain. Acting at her sug
gestion, or rather at her solicitation, I
left and returned next day, putting
things to rights and returned my old
habits or life.
When I returned I found a miserable
cot-bed provided for me, and I was told
that In It I was to sleep until such time
as my wife saw fit to receive me once
more Into favor.
I did not object, but accepted the
situation with the best grace possible.
For nearly a month I occupied that
couch, when, finding there was no
change in her conduct, I was, for the
sake of comfort, compelled to buy an
other bed, and this I occupied alone up
to the time when ber treachory was
discovered. Time wore on, and I could
make no Impression on my wife's obdu
rate heart. 1 could not fathom the mys
tery nor imagine the cause, hence I de
cided to consult a friend, whom I kn?w
would give the matter duo considera
tion and probably suggest a remedy.
This friend was Wm. Hayes, a lawyer
of San Francisco. It was on Monday
morning, March 14th, 1870, that I
called upon him and stated my case and
told him all. lie thought awhile, and
then said: 'Cash, I will have to consult
a woman about this; she is better posted
in woman's ways than I am. Come
back this afternoon at three o'clock
and I will be prepared to gUe you an
answer.
At the appointed hour I returned,
when he said: 'Cash, your wife has a
friend that you know nothing of, and
you must find out who it is; and, if you
do not employ a detective, I will.
I did not like the idea, but I con
sented. The services of Detective Of
ficer McDonald were procured, and he
began work on the day following. It
was not two hours after the detective
went on duty before ha got the first
clue and discovered that my wife was
receiving letters through the mail-carrier.
Ho was watching the house aud
it was done as follows:
On the west side of Taylor and at the
corner of Bush there was a grocery
store having a window on Taylor street,
out of which the whole block could be
surveyed. It was at this window he
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