Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1864-06-04

which has been more generous and for
bearing to your errors than you have been
just to ita guides, permit mo to soy that il
was less possible to be true oil any one Of
them than it was of any man high or low
who suspected them.
And so the end has proved. The con-
fessed and guilty forgers were your own
jealous partizans, Joseph Howard, jr.,
who has confessed his crime, was Repub.
lican politician and Loyal Leagner, of
Brooklyn. Consider, sir, at whose feet
be was taught his political education, and
in whose cause he spent his political
breath. Mr. Howard has been from his
childhood an intimate friend of the Re.
publican clergyman, Henry Ward Beech.
or, and o member of his church. He has
listened year in and year out to the drop
pings of the Plymouth sanctuary. The
stump speeches which there follow prayer
and precede the benediction he for years
reported in the journal which is your devo-
ted organ in this city. For years he was
the city editor Of that journal, the New
York Times for long time he was the
Washington correspondent of the elief
Abolition newspaper of the country, tue
New York Tribune; he has been fro
quent contributor to the columns of the
INDEPENDENT he journeyed with you from
Springfield to Washington be represents
himself favored visitor al the White
House since your residence there.
BY curious felicity the stylus with
which his amanucnsis copied on tissue pa.
per the proclamation and signed your
name was abstracted from tho editorial
rooms of the Tribune. The party princ.
pies upon which you were pledged to ad.
minister the Government have been the
daily meat aud drink Of this forger. He
has denounced as faithfully as you the par
ty by whose defeat you rose to power, lie
has been the noisy champion of an exclu.
sive loyalty he has preached in club
houses and at street corners those politics
which stgmatize constitutional opposition
to the Administration as disloyalty to the
Government. The stock brokers who were
his confederates will be found to be of the
same kidney. They all advocated paper
money legal tender; they have all counte-
nanced the paper imitation they have ell
been needless Of the misery TO poor men
which such in1ations breed they have all
reoiceC at the speculation thus fostered
and by speculation they had hoped to
! thrive.
For twenty-four hours something was
pardoned to your presumed natural trepi,
dation, since our blamelessness having been
alleged to you by those here whom it was
your duty to believe, it seemed only pru'
dent to await your recovery.
For the next twenty four hours, from
moment to nome ut, it was expected that
you would hasten 10 confess and repair
your mistake. But the mistake thus pro.
longed grew to the proportions Of o crime
and till the discovery OF the forger stripped
its mask off and disclosed the inspiring
cause of the act, it grew moustrous il
mems eyes.
We were patient that the immeasurabl(
ipfamy of the act might swell to its ful
proportions, and stand complete.
BY the recall Of your arbitrary order
you have not made reparation for the
wrong you have done. Ire injury and
the insult remain, The violation Of tht
Constitution stands recorded, and unless
adequately atoned, becomes fatal pre-
codent. For the purpose of gratifying al
ignoble partisan resentment you hav,
struck down the rights of the press, yo'
have violated personal liberty, subjected
property to unjust seizure, ostentatiousl.
placed force above law, setting danger
Gus example 10 those who love force NOR
than they respect law and thus, and b.
attempting TO crush the organs of free dis
cussion have made free elections impossi
bic and broken down all the safeguard
of representative government.
1t is you that in this transaction stan'
accused before the people. i5iS you VIII
are conspicuously guitSf~5is upon yO'
that history, when rec0Gaihg these events
will afix the crime of RdiEegard Of you
: duty, Oblivion of your oath, and pitia
BILE subservioncyt0 psrtJ psjudico and II
personal ambition, when; the country de
manded in the presidential Office elevate,
character, devotion to duty, and entir
seli-abnegation.
But you are not to be left to the judge
ment of history alone. Thank God, b,
the provisions of our Constitution, not ye