The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1861-09-07

with what measure We mets it shall be
ieasufed to you again Scripture.
Il is not our design to preach sermon
rom this text-only to show that this prin-
iple is unalsessbly affixed to human action
I'D smeasurably the governor of hunAn
asure- Consideredin this light, it is the
silver rule Forgetting. it may be, the
roneness of humans % measure again IN
ind tha. which has been metedout to them,
dr. Hammond, of the Broadaxe, pitches in
Mr.. Tharin for being ''sirangerP and
aking an active part in trying to give aid
and comfort' 80 patriots, and assisting to
extirpate treason and traitors from the land.
Wha. etfron,ery in Mr.. T.! And this grave
objection, coming too. as it does, from one
who IS himself quite as much of ''stran-
GER in Richmond. as Mr. Tharin--indeed,
if We are no, mistaken. Mr. 81 is the great
er stranger" he being the junior arrival in
our city by week or zen daysl The charge
is vastly rich as well as hugely contemplate;
it strikinyly applicab BILE: with what meas
ure We mete,' &c.
Again. in the Broadaxe of July 20.
we find the following:
men beginning thus early to find faalt acith
the Administration. and oppose the war
They are endeavoring to build up an oppo-
sition party. and are ready to sink the patri-
OF in the partisan. We rejoice to think and
believe that there are no such men In Rich-
mond. and We hope none in Wayne County.
IT we have such men. they have not dared
70 whisper their opposition. 10 dread OF pub
lie opinion, FOR THIS COMMUNITY WOULD
BRAND THEM AS TRAITORS!'
This is a pretty good estimate of the tenn
per of our people by a''stranger"! No
such men In Richmond at the time the
above paragraph was written; but the fungus
matter has e. identity been growing, and III
pening. under the mistaken idea that those
who had always been battling the Repubi-
can party, might be Gas the Jefiersonian had
ceased to exist induced 10 support pro-
fessed Republican paper that would find
fault with the Administration and one
man at least has been found in our city who
fills the denunciatory bill he himself made
out. and he should not complain if this com
munity brands him as one of the ''traitors'.
The same Broadaxe Of Aug. 3lst, thus finds
fault:
while our people were struggling under
defea, at Manassas that well nigh prostra-
ted their energies and narrowly saved the
nation to them, the ddmtnlstrdttOn acds
heedlessiy and toolashly la6oriag to trus-
trate their uisAes by a continued policy Of
anacticity and peakness."
=. :. ...s ..cpuuIicans OF New
England, New York and Ohio laboring for
the establishment of no party policy. yet
the Administration is pursuing the opposite,
and paralizing the efforts OF the people, by
placing at the head of our army contracts
and civil offices men of the most vindictlve
partizan proclivities, and for party consde-
81 party, but
the Administration, which is, unfortunately,
nj the present time, in the hands of a most
contemplate political clique"
with what measure ye mete,'' &c, has
already been verified in the experience for
the last few days Of this same editor Of the
Broadaxe. He has found that the citizens
of Richmond. will hold those who .fnd
fault with the Administration" particular
ly Republican editors who promulgate that
find fault doctrine. to strict accountability
-"brand them as traitors" Already,
several Of their subscribers have with
drawn their support since the last issue OF I
the Brcadaxe. and the cry is still they
come to withdraw their subscriptions. This
is right. and We hope it will be lesson that
will prove salutary to one who seems to he
trying to establish branch of the Cincin
natl Enquirer in Richmond. and is determin-
ed not only to write himself down an ass
but to acquire the reputation OF being one Of
Prot. Doe Sticks's "Damphools."
As being relevant to the Unlimited free
dom Of the press. claimed by those who
find fault with the Administration. and
who are using their best exer.ions to stir up
the people against the Government, by
trying to make them lose confidence in those
who are administering its affairs. at time
when sedition is rife and rebellion ram pant, !,
and when, if ever. the hands of the Admin
istration should be upheld in It's endeavors
to maintain the Union intact, and to crush
the conspiracy and extermina,e the con-
spirators.--we publish the following opin- i
ion of that eminent jurist, Justice Story
Il was given at a time when wholesale trea- ,
son like the present. lurking under the pre-
tence Of claim to freedom of speech and i
of the press, was not dreamed of: I
That this amendment was intended to
secure to every citizen IN absolute right to /,
speak or write or print whatever he might :
please, without any responsibility. public or :
private. therefor, is supposition too wild to :
be INDUCED III by any rational man. This
would be 10 allow 20 every citizen the riuht