Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1866-10-17

tempt Wnlcn MS INFAMOUS career mas
excited among honorable men through
out the world but it socms that the
flood of deserved execration and mall
edictions of mankind was too much
for even him. The conscience-strick-
en- man is out in an appeal for mercy
We copy the following from the Loyal
Cincinnati Commercial
We have received slight pamphlet, entitled
] l"Vindication Of Judge Advocate General Holt
from the foul ISLANDERS Of confessed perjurers and
suborners, acting in the interest of Jefferson
Davis" The matter Of the pamphlet is prefaced
/ by this brief note which shows how intensely
Judge Holt has suffered from the Sian aers that
he resonts
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4, 1868.
"To all Loyal Men In he ma me of simple
ljustice--which is all that claim frcm friend or
fee your attention is respectfully invited to the
subjoined article from the Washington Chronicle,
of yesterday, as presenting perfectly truth
ful vindication of myself from the atrocious cal
umny with which traitors, confessed perjurers
and suborners are now so basely pursuing me.
j, HoLT.''
The n. Y Tribune condenses the
pamphlet into these sentences:
General Holt was duped by the arch william
who called himself Sanford Conover, as others
had been before him. Deceived by Conover's
lies, he gave that scoundrel credence and money
W hich might have been better bestowed. Con-
over, thus supported, suborned other villains to
commit perjuries con6rmotory of his own--al Of
{ hem received and accredited in perfect geod
faith by Judge Holt but, when the House
Committee proceeded 10 investigate them some
of the second hand rdscals recanted and confess
ed their perjury whereupoL Conover though
be stoutly reiterated and stood by his original
imposture, soon took occasion to vanish and has
since remained invisible OF course his whole
fbbrc Of villainy falls to the ground. such are
the material facts in the case and they nowise
mpeaeh the integrity Of Judge Holt, He was
simply the victim OF an atr0cious seoundrel"
"That is all there is about il" adds
the Commercial, anxious 10 get rid f
subject So disgraceful to the 'loyal. +"
1t is enough, heaven knows, but it is
not all. Ii Mr.. Joseph Holt had come
out, Immediately upon the discovery
that Conovcr was perjured knave,
published the truth about him, and
stated that he was deceived, there
might have been some credit given to
the excuse. But instead Of doing this,
Mr., Joseph Holt busted himself, long
after the character of the Conover
crowd was known, in screening them
from justice, in hunting up other per-
iuries to support their statements, and
in writing false and sophistcal argu-
ments to the Judiciary Committee Of
the House, to support their issue Of
perjuries, which statements decided
the Abolition majority of that Com.
mittee in making that false and ma
licious report in reference to the case
of Mr. Davis, which still stands mon
ument of wicked and libelous accusa-
tions. Mr.. Holt combined with the
A olition members Of that Committee
to conceal the papers belonging to it,
and to prevent Mr.. Rodgers from
making u just and truthful report in
reference to Mr.. Davis. Mr.. Holt
used this villain Conover, not only to
poison the minds of the Northern peo-
! pie with his perjuries against Mr..
Davis, but in various other persecu-
tions and trials. The same gang were
prominent in the trial of Mrs. Surratt
and Wirz, and the testimony given
by them served as an excuse for
the execution Of these victims Of
Holt. Like the hired perjurers OF
Titus Oates, these suborncd witnesses
were put forward by Holt upon every
occasion that it was profitable to es-
tablish some scandalous lie about a
Southern man or Northern opponent.
With their aid, Holt and Stanton took
the lives of some and held the lives of
of other citizens in their hands for
more than a year. 1t was only after
the villains became notorious, and the
co-laborer and instrument Of Holt had
escaped, and when Blair denounced
Holt as villain guilty of subornation
and perjury, and the charge had been
echoed all over the land, that the
Judge Advocate comes out, admits his
guilt, and pleads that he was duped
into it by other and greater villains
than himself. "That's all there is
about it," but in the name of all that
is decent, is that not enough to secure
to Holt the Simple justice" which he
asks, by an Incarceration in peniten-
larry TO which he sent better men by
bis plots and perjurios? ?
1t is not surprising that Holt utters
a howl of agony when he thinks OF
bis deserts, when he calls to mind the
hatred, execration and contempt in
which he is held, and the fostering in
fanny which will cling to his name as
long as it is remembered. We're the
hundreds whom he has ruined and inn
poverished by false imprisonment to
dog his steps by day and those whom he
has murdered by the same instrumen-
talities of corruption, perjury and des-
po,ism, to haunt his dreams by night,
as the victims of Titus Oates and
Doughfeld haunted those prototypes,i it
; wound be but portion of the punish
ment Holt deserves-the apparaton