The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-06-04
Prom the Chicago Tlmes1
The Mote and the Beam.


A telegram from Springfield, Massachu-
sets, contains the following;
AN Indignation meeting Is called by
prominent citizens for tomorrow night, TO
determine what action the people will take
to suppress the lnmcrciful cruelty, wantOn
barbirity, aud other hcinous crimes In the
public schools"
This Is highly interesting information to
come from the very centre of godly Puri-
tauism Ia Nav England.
There Is hut one way to treat this matter.
IL l. 10 erect Massachusetts into a military
district; declare martial law and proceed
to reOrganiZe the State, allowing only ne
groes TO vote. This IL being done In the
South upon the strength of some rumored
Outrages committed upon anonymous freed
men by nameless rebels at uncertain places,
zone day last week" If the south should
be put under military rule because some
unknown rebels were reported to have COM
mittcd Outrages upon some suppOsititious
freedmen, why should not the same retri-
button occur IN Massachusetts,, where the
victims are white, and the Outrages well
authenticated
IL is generally certain that people who
have great sympathy for remote objects of
suffering have none whatever for those at
home Providence gives a man about so
much philanthropy; and II he employs II
his ncXt-door nelghbor.
This explains why Massachusetts,, which
wceps necessarily over the wrongs OF the
distant African. furnishes In its own
schools and families, more cases Of down
right brutality and tyranny thar any other
state in the union. For every scar planted
on the back of the slave by the "oligarchy"
of the southern states, there are two scars
upon the backs of white children planted
hxr n V,tf t,Fh n Muggnphnanfta
Ii was New England Puritan whose case
u few days since horritied the entire country
by the revolving details Of the starvation.
lashng, scalding aud freezing of an inno-
cent and helpless little girl-the daughter
of one of the brutcs who were
principals in the tragedy. 1t was
New England Puritan who, few weeks
ago, whipped his little son to death to
make him say his prayers. 1t was New
England preacher, legislator and represen-
.atiye mau who, last week. was detected In
n series Of revolving and nameless crimes
in connection with the children of his own
congregation. 1t is New England teachers
who apply the strap to grown-up young
lady pupils; it is the action of New Eng
land instructors which has provoked an in
.dignation meeting in one of the principal
cities of Massachusetts, In which 1t is pro-
posed to take action to suppress the un-
other heinous crimes in the public schools"
The Puritan, in his anxiety to get the
mote from the eye OF the STAKEHOLDER, does
not discover the beam--the scantling, the
stick of timber-in his own eye.
tss Judge CLARK, of Huntsville, Ark,
committed suicide recently by cutting his
throat in an ambulance, while being con-
veyed from Little Rock to his home for
trial upon a charge of defrauding WIDOWS
and orphans of Federal soldiers out of PEN
sions, etc, collected by him from the L.. S.
Government.
CdS- Colonel GAY, post commandant at
Columbus, Mississippi, in view of the fact
that that place is swarming with unem-
ployed negroes, who are u tax upon the
public, has issued an order "that all freed
who have no homes and employment In
the city, shall leave without delay and
seek employment elsewhere"