Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1867-10-30
Retributive Justice.

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justice. When tho judgments Of passion
and malevolcnce come back to DO executed
upon those who illuminate them when thu
insolent official is suddenly hurled from hi'
high place, and made to occupy the seat o.
the criminal that is retributive justice
1t was Mr. Wade. if we remember rightly
who a few short weeks ago proclaimed that
no Democrat would, hereafter, be permitted
to take his seat in either House of Congress
There was sufficient insolence in the declar.
alton itself, but Mr. Wade is not man tc
leave unsaid anything to give point to hi.
speech. lie declared the Democracy o
generation Of vipers, aud denounced them
as unfit for association, with Sumner, But
Ter, Stevens, and the erudite Colfax. That
was putting the Democrats sufficiently low
down in the scale but to see the full force
Of the speech we must remember that Mr..
Wade had set up the negroes Of Ohio tc
do the voting for the prescribed Democracy.
At length We have the result Of the issue.
Mr. Wade himself is stricken down, and
all his negro constituency has gone down
with him. What he denounced for others
has fallen upon his own devoted head. He
and the negroes arc left out, and the De.
mocracy come in. Sumner and Wade and
S evens and Ashley and Chandler and But
Ter have all gone down together. What a
precious brood Of martyrs the Radicals have
cast into the Republican graveyard Now
let the humane and considcratc Mr.. Holt,
and the kind hearted Stanton, give us a
funeral eulogy The former should be con-
fined to the character, services, and states
manship Of the virtuous and exalted Sum.
ner, with by-play reference to the conserv-
ativc nature Of military over civil govern
ment, the supremacy of Congress under
Republican rule, the great infcriority of the
white men, closing up with learned dis
s,rtation showing that the rebellion hascom-
menccd. We are fond of light literature,
and really count on Brieadier.G General Holt,
Judge Advocate General of the United
States Army, to give us something wonder
fully like himself in this matter. The peo-
pie are running astray-absolutely running
astray. 1t will not be five years at their
present rate of speed, before they will come
to the conclusion that trial by jury, free
press, and free speech and civil government
are respectable and even essential elements
in our Democratic system. The Judge Ad.
vocate-Gener, who is sort of cross be.
tween a lawyer and general-not much of
either might easily convince Congress that
we are in state Of war all this time and it
might be well for Congress by special act to
make it perpetual. This would give ground
for restoring Mr.. Stanton and putting out
the President. War would go far to justify
a total disregard of the Ohio elections, and
we doubt not Stanton might be induced to
annul them by proclamation-appoinHng
Wade to his old place in the Senate. This
kind of work would be nothing new to Stan
ton, who sent thousands of our people to
prison, and enabled his detectives to make
some ol the most complete and profitable
operations or raids upon individuals inspir-
ed, Of course, by a loyal regard for the great
Union cause. that has ever been performed
since the days Of La Fttc, the pirate. We
say to the Republicans, you are never safe
separated from your leaders-and we bring
tho matter directly down to Stanton. You
must have him back, or you must all go
down together. At all events, let us hear
Stanton on Wade and Chandler and Ashley
md Caker, the detective, and Bakers book,
anL how he kept in the war Department,
md how he came to write the veto Of the
enure.of.office bill, and then how he got
'aught and went out of the Department.
stanton, we remember, is not much of a
alking man. lie keeps his own COUNSEL -
They say he was a sort Of detective but We
hink this is not true. There was no need
IT such work from him and then he was
% known and hated by everybody he ncv-
IF could have made himself an effective de-
ective.-National Atelligencer.
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Mrs. LlNCoLN's EXPOSE. The New
York Citizen takes this view of the sub.