Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-09-26
?SlEP,TEMBER 26,,o1St66f1 Stf;
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The Torch!and. Iurpeniine TraV-
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There are Indications that the Toreh-and-
TurpeDtine tourists are lkelyrtO he left 10,
the lurch by the Central Committees, IN
which event they must incontmently drop
into the nearest Northern poorhousbj on
their line ofitravel. They dOimot como up
to the expected marks their roaring is too
feeble to compensate for the outlay in soup
and shin-bohes; the anticipated enthuslas-
tic gatherings are really only little knots Of
noisy Radicals aud the usual lOunGers
about the railway stations; aud worse than
all for these ''Seven Poor Travellers" their
character, or rather utter want of it, has
preceded them on the route iThey are all
t6gethera party of false pretenders--dis-l
loyal NortherDers, most of them, calling
themselves southern Loyalists," assuming
TO represent party of "mofal IDEAS" and
carrying with them records, personal and
political, that are actually putrld. Hamil-
ton, who arraigns the President on the score
of morality was arrested year ago in
house Of prostitution in Washington, and
was tried as q disorderly character. His
private record Il, most infamous. The
Houston TelegGpl, leading paper in the,
State of which Hamilton was some while
Governor" says that the claimed ana held
q free negro woman as a slave, and tlOgged
her in the most cruel and merciless mani
ner." The same journal gives the fol-,
lowing bit of Hamilton's history: 80.
"He came to Texas about lS4S, and set-
tied in La Grange. About lS40 or 1850, a
Mr.. COnkwright was assassinated in La
Grange. DR.. COnkwright, the brother of
the murdered man, published pamphlet,
and circulated it all over tile State, boldly
charging Hamilton with having seduoed his,
brothers wife, and with having procured
the murder of her husband in consequence,
This Charge Hamilton has never publicly
denied, but he afforded clrcamstantial
proof of itstruth by leaving la Grange aud
removing to Austin" ~, .H- ar rrf.. ,
Politically, he was q rank secessionst in
1861, and begged money to raisea Confed-
crate company. 'rH'ii i.HpJ 'A' .H... lhi.
Yarmouth, another @Southern Loyalist"
connected with the Torch-and- -Turpeutine
travelling troupe, is an lllinOisan, who went
to New Orleans during the war; and for a
few weeks, acted as Provost Marshal. The
Tribune dignites him 1as "Jud2ep War
mouth, and no doubt he is as much Judge
as he is Il SOutherner. BroWnlow is nlay-
ing the hyp0crite for pay. For years he
has iobeei the abusive and jblasbhelnons
blackguard ofthe very "AbolitiQnistsn who
now employ him, and who pay his board
and washing, Even Randolph, the per-
funied exotic from Oneida, who pretendst6
be a colored sufferer from Louisiana, and
who is really the prominent actor ia this
company, is humbug. And so of the rest
If they are SOutherners, they are rene
gades from the rebel railks, eX-secession-
lists, and men of the meanest antecedents;
or else they are Northerners who may pos-
sibly have been in, but who were,nev OF,
the South.
1t is quite fitting that the Torrh.and-
Turpentlne party, which Is eninentlyO one of
false pretenses, should send these hunfbugs,
these bogus "SOutherners" about the coun-
try to show the service" sores of their own
scratching. But it was hardly to be ex-I
pected that President Woolsey should hold
up the, infamous Hamilton as a model, to
the youth of Yale.-,N. Y. World. .,,