The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1866-02-14
Senator Howard cf Michiean.

Senator Howard # Michigan
This fanatic from Michigan, says tho ~
I. News y, has at lastearned 4 kish n;.S Il.
in the Temple Of Iufamy. On Tissds.,' =
offered the following resolution IN s.a e
Senate: MAJ ~ = inc
!" Whereas, II appears by the s,a,,,,.
the Secretary pf War that Jefferson 4 w
and Y. q. Clay are held in confinement :.
having been concerned in the assassinat;on
OF President Lincoln, and for the mnr,ssr -
Federal soldiers held as prisoners Of war :.
Therefore be it respectfully recommends Ss.;
that Jefferson Davis and Clement O. Glsv
be tried Immediately BY d military connie.
sion or court martial
This man Howard has an the ouaI,Ac.
tons for q pedagogue in some prim,rr
school in the backwoods Of the Far West.
and, how any State that had once bean
honored by such senator as Cass conM
thus dishonor itself by Howard would
have astonished us if we had not rerns an.
bered that Massachusetts,, who had onca
sent q Webster and d Winthrop, now sends
a Sumner and q Wilson. But it is dav
OF small things. We might say Of dull.
ness, as was once said of greatness. Soma
men are born to lullness: some man
achieve i and some have it thrust upon
them. Howard belongs to the first class,
Stupidity and dullness were born with him.
and ingrained into his very nature aud we
have often been forced to lister, to his prosv
harangles in the Senate, and wondered
which most to pity, the representative OF
his constituents. But all fools are not al.
ways good natured, and when malice, com.
bines with folly it may work huge mischief
in the world in the way Of persecution and
suffering. It was the malice of the kings
Jester that kindled confagration in Paris.
destroying several hundred lives during the
reign Of Louis XIV It would be in vain 10
attempt to argue with the Michigan Sena.
tor about the constitutional right Of the
Senate to pass any such resolutions, or to
leadeavor to impress upon him the gross i'm.
proprlety OF any such action; he could not
be made to comprehend either Howard's
dizziness is something extraordinary va
know, like that of DR.. Sheridan, Of whom
Dr.. johnson once said ,,, 40 sss
. Sherry is dull, Sir naturally dull, Sir.
but It must have taken him great deal Of
psius to become what we now see him
such an excess Of stupidity, Sir, is, not in
nature" r. '''' 80"
But, poorly as We think Of the Michigan
Senator. we do not believe he originated
this internal resolution lie has been
merely asked to stand sponsor to the brat
which really was begotten of the loins OF
Secretary Stanton. His image and super.
scription are written all over it, This
mans malice and ferocity are really some.
thing saperhamall, which they must have
been to have induced Seward to hail him as
"dipiae;" for we remember it was ST. Just
whom Marat said "gas diriae, when he
heard Of a series of atrocities committed BY
him against the aristocrats. Fooled by tho
President in his malignant desire to drag
Jefferson Davis and Senator Clay before
his military tribunals, over whose gates Of
entrance mightbe written the same legend
rs that over Dantc's He'll: HE ,cho enters
here seaces hope behiad" This Gend, in
the guise OF humanity,is trying TO bring to
bear the legislative influence Of the Nation
on the Executive Poor stupid Howard
has been usedas the instrument ofth ma
lightly. Stanton knows perfectly we'll that
both Davis aud Clay are as innocent Of
these charges as himself but he knows also
that if he can once get them before one of
his Military Commissions, that allegation
I will there pass for proof, and their murder
| is fore-ordained. It's high time that Pres
ideEt Johnson got rid Of 6 the divine Stan.
ton Il his baggage is checked through
on the line Of the reconstruction policy, as
he said the other day to q friend, then the
sooner hedispenses with Stanton services,
and gives his portfolio to another. tho
better. IS s
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