The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1865-02-15


perJohn A. BiAgham writes lsstsr to
the OAdiE RpaL'odH which is published
in the last number of that paper in relation
to the passage Of the recent constitutional
amendment by Congress, in which he indi-
iectly glOries in having helped to bring on
the present deplorable civil war. He does
90 in this languages; -
"This triumph of the right nust rejoice
the hearts of all the friends Of good govern
ment and to none can it be more gratifying
than to those Of US who, in the Both Con
gress. resiste1 the passage Of he C0Rstiiu-
ti9al AnlesdnleRt nhich pr0rided that no
such amendment as that III. ady passed IN
the interests Of justice and humanity should
ersrbe made 70 The Constellation Of the CHitect
Stufes.' go .r'. .e.t....-sr r-.,i .-..-
The italics 10 the above are ours. Il Is
well known to everysresder Of his country,
that if the amendment to the constitution,
which Mr.. Bingham speaks Of in the above,
had been adopted by the Goth Congress, no
civil war woEld haze followed. And yet
John A. Bingham, for the sake of freeing
the negroes, glories in having opposed the
adoption of that amendment to the consti-
tuition, the rejection Of which caused .the
present deployable civil war, and deluged
this. once prosperous, happy and united
country, in blood. The man that 'rejoices
in being instrumental in assisting to bring
about such a staS Of affairs as we have al
present, ia welcome to all qualification it af,
fords him. For our part We want none oI
that kind of pleasure.
But freeing tho negroes is not all the
pleasure this civil war has afforded Mr.
Bingham. 1t has enabled him to line hi,
toffers at the expense of bleeding and tax
ridden people, as the item mentioned below
shows. IF there had been no war, John A.
Bingham would not have received his sala.
ry as Judge Advocate, and $4,000 besides
for assisting in the trial of Surgeon General
| Hammond: "a
ATTORNEYS FEES FOR GOVERNMENT
SEnvIcEs.-It appears from an official re.
port of the War Department, that the
hUpuntAW Httu1HcS icSs paiu 1ethCo OuuG
last is $23,500, Of which $4,000 was paid
from the hdJeas corpus appropriation the
remainder from the contingency appropria-
ton of the army. There were 81 900 paid
for the defense of y. L. Philips, Marshal
for the Southern District Of Illinois, to
BreYning & Business; $500 to Grimshaw
& Williams, and 81, 800 to John Blackburn,
in the same case 81, 500 to Ewing & Hun
ter, in the case of Edison B. Olds rs., Gov.
Tod; $500 to Thomas q Alexander, for
the defeAse of Gen. Cameron; $500 each to
b. I. Hoffman and Henry L. Page, in the
case of the United States rs. Gov. Tod; and
$500 to Fl. II. Hunter, in the case Of Olds
Edwards Perrepnat, in the Kohnstamm
case, received $5,25e; John L. Hale $4,000,
and John A. Binsham, III the Hammond
case, $1,000
Aud yet this 'shoddyite" John A. Bing-
ham, who receives $4,000 for attending a
single case, besides his pay as Judge Adyo-
Cate, and perhaps as solicitor of the Court
of Claims, has nothing to contribute to the
relief of soldiers families when requested
TO do so by the Governor Of Ohio; and pays
nothing for.theirrelief except the small pit
lance which he is compelled to give when he
pays his taxes. On what "shoddy" pat
riot John A. Bingham is!