The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-04-09
Butler and Bingham-The Thief
and the Mmrdercr.

with all ofBEN. BUTLER's badness, some
thing Is owing to him, in the late debate.
between himself and BINGHAM OF Ohio, in
u%nearthing some of the circumstances Of
the murder Of Mrs. SUREAIT. by order Of
the Military Commission. He has thrown
q little light into some dark places.
Our contemporary protests that he has not
sympathized with that general sentiment
that has prevailed In Singing BUTLER out
as the only wretch in "thc party Of great
moral ideas" thus making him Il kind of a
scape goat for the sins of the multitude OF
beasts with which he herds Wherefore,
we beg to ask, is BUTLER worse than
HORACE GREELEY, who upholds and defends
him, and who invited him to speak 10 be
half Of his own election to Congress? We
do not intend to allow this party to get of
by loading down BUTLER with their guilt
and odium. lie could have lone nothing
that LINCOLN did nos allow him to do, and
he has done nothing, from his famous
"womau order" down TO the present time,
that the Abolition party have not endorsed
and applaudcd. Let rs have fair play.
BUTLER is rs decent n man rs BINGHAM any
day, and in the debate in Congress has in
nicted a wound upon him from which he
win never recover.
The Fortieth Congress has not met ia
vain. 1t has revealed the first sight of that
NEMESIS whose avenging wrath these
foolish eXperimcdtcrs with destiny have
s~upposcdthey would never see. That great
dcliucator of human passion. SHAKESPEARE
says:
Hood W Onaye blood;
stones have been known 20 move, aud trcos 10
Nugtres, and understood ]rcIatio,., aqyc.
by magot- pics, and coughs. ana "ook, brought
The secrets, man orbIood"
BINGHAM and STANTON aud HON., and the
members of the Military Commission, may
well ponder these words of the great poet,
aud then remember the fate Of Governor
WALL, of England, who, in twenty years
after executing even n guilty man by Mill
tary Commission, was himself condemned
and hanged! Law will never be again
triumphant In our land, never again will
it be a protection 30 the citizen, until we
have vindicated its ~avenging power on the
heads of some of those who have trampled
it under their feet as Il worthless thing.
IL this generation does not do it. another
will. or else the hands on the dial of civili-
,ation will be turned back a thousand
years.
On the point Of the proof OF the guilt or
innocence of Mrs. SURRArr, which the
3G,Dwtiiatc' diary of BooTH. taken from
his person, and conveyed to the custody of
STANTON and IIoIT, might have proven,
the Chicago Tribune, certainly Radical
enough for any loyal stomach, says:
"There ought to be one man who can
o throw light ON this point, and that man is
Lieutenant Colonel COnger. who took this
diary from the person of Booth, together
with a knife, pair of pistols, belt, holster,
lille, pocket compass, spur, carbine, cart
ridges and bills of exchange. With the
exception of the diary, all these articles
We're shown to Lieutenant Colonel Conger
at the time when he was on the witness
stand, and by him identified as having
been taken from the body of Booth. The
diary, however, was not shown to him
Now the question arises, why was the
diary, which the witness CoNGER took from
the person Of BOoTH, not shown him? OF
course the mutilation had then occurred.
or it was reserved for that purpose-the
tearing out of the eighteen pages which
BUTLER charges.
Why was no question put to him con-
corning it? Was a written diary in which
the principal conspiraror had made a record
of some Kind, both before and after the.as-
sassination-a record which had an intelli-
gent story to tell-was this of less impor-
tance than Il pistol, a pocket compass, or
ajack-knite? Is it at all likely that a doc
ument of this sort would have been with
held from the witness had it not contained
something which the politicians whose
party policy demanded the life of an inno-
cent woman desired that the court and the
country should not know?
What that something was which tho
Jacobin conspirators Of murder thought fl
10 conceal, is to be surmised from theiI
prompt refusal in the House of Represen-
tatives to appoint q committee to ~investi.
gate the alarming charges of BEN. BUTLER
~ Our chief national luxury being the
colored parsonage in the wood-pile, it may
be interesting to those who are enjoying il
TO know what is the price of that luxury
The people of the United States paid int
the national treasury, during the year 1866
fce hundred and tieenty-three million, min
hundred and Se0enty-seren thousand, Tire
hundred and eighty-Rine dollars. Every dol
lar of this vast sum is earned by the toilin!
masses of the country. Thu productive in
dustry of the country pays every dollar o
it. That is about 1923, 100000 more of tn,
earnings of the laboring classes of the coun
try than they would have been forced Il
pay-as they are forced TO pay this-if tn
internal spirit of New England fanaticisn
had been choked in its cradle. How mucl
longer will the toiler, the deliver, the maj
of muscle, of acres, but not Of erempfo.
bonds, suffer the Radical heel upon his neck
~ BARNUM, the Snowman. the Radica
nominee for Congress i'm Connecticut, VIII,
was so handsomely defeated by another 0
the name-BARHUM, the iron-man, is sat
TO be so Disguised that he intends to sal
for Mr.. Stewards new Russian possession
with the first steamer. That count,
affords a splendid opening for BAaNuM'