The mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1863-1943, 1865-04-22
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Radical Aut0.PhOtOgrRphs.

Men (says the New York World) are
rewarded and punished in their own
natures. A bigot or BOBBY can suffer
nothing from the most ingeniously con.
trived retribution worse than to be what
he is. 1t is natural that people who are
provoked by the arrogant imbecility Of
men like Mr.. Charles Sumner, or the We.
hement malignity of men like Senator
Wade, should long to see the one and the
other subjected to wholesome external
discipline. But little reflection OIL the
laws Of human nature must show US that
Mr.. Sumner has already suffered the
worst extremity in being Mr.. Sumner
and that Torquemada himself could in.
vent no sharper pains or penalties for the
blood-thirsty and indecent course of Mr..
Wade than Mr.. Wade daily pays in his
absolute incapacty of knowing what
magnanimity and justice, and the chival-
rio sense of honor and the civilized in
stincts Of Christian good breeding, arc
Look, for example, at the proceedings in
the Senate on Thursday last, when a mo-
ton was made by Senator Trumbull, Of
Illinois, to appropriate certain sum of
money for bust of the late ChieEJustice
fancy, to be placed in the Supreme Court
Simple, proper, and inoffensivc as this
motion was, it proved q very Ithuriels
spear to bring Out the real nature of Ger
tain radical leaders so clearly and sharply
that history will never need to 60 beyond
that days record to paint them.
A bust of Chief Justice fancy in the
Supreme Court room OF the United States
4, is less an honor paid to Chief Justice Ia
ncy than simple recognition of the duty
Of the Republic to its own institutions,
and to those to whom it intrusts their ad i
ministration. But in the eyes of such
purblind and passionate political bigots
as Mr.. Sumner and Mr.. Wade, every duty
Ct decency performed towards political
'oppo~cat is an attack opon that worship
of themselves in which their whole relig
ion lies. Chief Justice fancy in the ex-
ercise Of his high functions expresse an
opinion nearly ten years ago concerning
the rights Of shareholders in the terrific
ries, which Mr.. Sumner and Mr.. Wade
consider wicked and damnable. If any
moral guilt attached to such decision, it
was their duty while ChiefJustice fancy
lived to see that he was impeached for'it.
This they did not do, and over his grave,
at least, it might have been supposed that
they would respect the judicial integrity
which they had never dared to challenge,
even while reitcrating their dissent from
the soundness of his judicial views. Had
they done so; had the formal proposition
Of a merely customary tribute to veneer
able man, gone, after ninety years, to his
rest, been suffered by them to pass with
no more comment or opposition thar
might have followed q motion to attend
his funeral, the Senate. indeed, wou.C
have been spared the'sbame Of recording
upon its journals The most disgraceful re
marks ever uttered in an American legis
lative chamber, but history would have
lost its finest auto. photograph of the mer
who have played the basest and the black
est part in the sad drama of our times
Mr.. Forster, in his life Of Sir John Eliot
has just brought to light fact which
paints the character of Charles the FRS
more fully than whole pages of rhetoric
When the brave statesman who first stood
in the breach for principle against prerog
alive had died in the Tower, his young
son petitioned for leave to bear his ia
theirs body into Cornwall, there to lay i
with his ancestors. Whereto the King
answered, writing with his own hand OF
the margin of the petition itself, "Lett
Sir John Elot's body be buried in the
church of that parish where he dyed. ~
And $50 he was buried" adds the histo
Tian, "in the Tower Of London" This
touch of the hyens in the foolish Stuart's
fatal nature at once explains to US his
worst crimes and his worst blunders.-
In like manner. the unconscious revela
ton which the Summers and the Wade:
made of themselves in the debate on Mr.
Trumbull's proposition will spare some
future Carlyle deal of pains in the way
of hunting down the real men themselves
through the tangled thicket of their rank
philanthropies and their lush declama
tons.