The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-04-06
The Butler and bingham war.

llNNhAMs hNlIAuA NINN Nv ~ 49,
Rump House, has produced some startling
developments relative to the trial and
hanging of Mrs. SURRArT, and aroused a
spirit o%finquiry and feeling Of anxiety as
to the result, on the part of the American
people, it is but proper that we place be-
fore our readers some Of the comments OF
our cotcmporaries thereon, as they may,
from time to time, come under our notice,
we. therefore, reproduce the following from
our able contemporary the Baltimore (Md)
Gdsette, which says:
"B1NGrAM felt kcculy the terrible stab.
lie faltered and floundered in his reply.
lie challenged any one to prove that he had
seen the diary, or knew anything about IT,;
spoke of doing his duty to the country
culogized all who were CONCERNED with
him In the prosecution; characterized the
conduct of BUTLER as ~disrcputable, and
sat down with a painful sense of his utter
~incapacity 10 wipe out the stain of blood
which BUTLER had iucradicably fixed upon
him. But what fearful revelation is this
What q wide field of terrible responsibility
IT opens up! If BINGHAM was accessory to
the llllIltI OF hINs SlhhAll l. ~ AAH' ~ 'A
equal. If not a greater degree, was HON
the Judge Advocate General, who sat on
the bench during the whole trial and guided
aud governed the course Of the prose
cution. SO also was STANTON, the ready
associate Of Hour i'm AL this bad business,
and so, though TO a lesser extent, were q
host of other officials. PAYNE, in his last
III NJ 1v-r,.wrs 20 hn
guiltlcss Of all knowledge Of the conspiracy
to assas-iua,c Mr.. LINCOLN. General HART
RAurr, to whom the declaration was made,
stoutly affirmed his belief of the truthful
ness of PAYNE in this matter. Mrs. SUR
RATS confcSsor solcmnly asserted her in
uoccuce of the crime. they were all UNI
needed. The Radical wolves were rayenous
for blood. and they would not relinquish
their prey even though that prey were an
innocent woman. The very Military Com
mission by which She was tried has been
decided by the highest tribunal of the
land to have been illegal. Some Of the
most important witnesses, the creatures
of HON., stand before the public con-
fcsscd pcriurers. And now, browning
the whole, ono forward one of the
chosen chiefs of the Radical party, who
confirms all, aud more than an, that has
been said Of these slcutl-houuds of inius-
ticc ny others, and boldly charges that the
blood of IN innocent woman crimsOns their
skirts. It matters not that the man who
said this is himself dabbled with blood
that he hung MUNFURD mt New Orleans,
without any trial, for an ollensc which has
since been traced to a lad of sixteen that
he imprisoned and tortured under false
preteXts an army chaplain tor refusing to
make a false statement about a brother Of
ficer;' that he first grossly insultcd and
then wrcakcd his vengeance ON helpies,
women, and that he is as cowardly as he i.
vain, aud trcacherous as he i%sdishonest. He
may have reminded the listeners of Satan
reproving Sin; but if there had been nc
Sin to reprovc there could have been nc
Satanic rebuke of it.
The question is not what he himself is
but whether the facts he stated are true
Who doubts that what he asserted openly
many, even of his own political inclining
secretly believe? The shadOwy presence
of the avenging NEMESIS darkens even now
their triumphs, and while they are indig-
nant that the first blow should have been
struck by one of their own leaders, in then
W camp, they are beginning to discover,
with the Radical Boston advertiser, that
after they have justified the imprisoning
impoverishihg, and hanging of American
citizens by Military Commissions, these
courts form no creditable page in the an,
mails of the Republican party So the ole
saying is not a popular fallacy after all
Murder will OUT"
Louisville Convention Postponed
We find the following paragraph in tn,
La Crosse Democrat of April /:
The National Democratic Convention
called by Kentucky. to meet ut Louisville
May Z, has been postponed to the 18th o
July. There win be a large attendance
especially from the Western States
We have not as yet seen any other an
nouncement of the postponement of tn
time of holding the National Democrat
Convention from the 9TH of May until tn
18th of July, but accept the above, brief a
it is, as a semi-oficial announcement of th
matter, and are rejoiced to believe that til
glorious Fourth of July has been s]electeI
as the most appropriate time upon whicl
the true Democracy of the country shall
assemble to put forth to the world again
declaration of their principles, and W
hope to be present on the occasion, to wit
ness such a gathering of those faithful un
wavering Democrats-stauuch true mel
who faltered not in the hour of danger
has but seldom, If ever before, since tn
days of JACKSON, assembled together.
The Eastern sky is bright'ning boys,
The Democrats are awaking,
Connecticut has mCde = noise,
That sets tie dry bones a-shaking.
Looking toward America.
An intelligent London correspondent
the New York Herald writing on the 9Th c
March says:
81 am inclined to think if we get thing
settled in America, and arrange our differ
cnces with England before the end Of thi
year, that the next European mania 70
speculation may turn toward the Unite