Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1868-06-11
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h10A hlOu uin INV W lioNN AhvtANA
inscription upon the monument Of
baseness and sbamelessness he has
raised TO himself and his Radical fac
ton, his recent impudent assault upon
another well-established principle of
law, and his brazen advocacy Of the
outrage upon the floor of corrupted
Congress, would furnish the theme.
Unfortunately, however, this missha-
pen spawn of some extinct monster
can commit no crime, whether Of
blood or lust, and can fathom no depth
Of brutality or cowardice that cannot
find an example and illustration in
his own past, and which will not be
repeated in his life 10 come, should
The law permit him TO go unwhipt of
justice, and society tolerate the exis-
tence Of a seething mass Of corruption
such as has not defiled the air we
breathe, nor been looked upon by
mortal eye since Jean Val Jean emer-
ged from the reeking sewers of Paris
To insult and browbeat q witness,
as Butler did Charles w. Wooley, IN
the committee room, was only TO do
what the bullying spirit born of the
war, would teach as q gentlemanly
accomplishment to most OF those
whose loyalty and patriotism mean
simply an impudent intolerance. To
tell him "that he lied" as Wooley al
leges Butler did, and then quickly TO
retract it, when Wooley hinted at
resentment outside, was TO advance a
step nearer the deep shadow Of that
infamy whittier the Beast retreats
when be goes TO wallow in his own
peculiar lair; but to rise IN the nation
al legislature and advocate the i'm
prisonment Of a lawyer because be
refused TO reveal the secrets Of his
clients, universally held privileged
communication" professional rela-
tion zhirh Lord Chancellor Of Eng
land said not only 'JustLfed the with
holding Of such secrets, but bound
the counsel to withhold, and not dis
close in any court OF law or equity
either as party or witness"-was an
act so foul that the soul Of the ''rob-
Der" mated with the soul Of the "mur-
derer, and Butler and Bingham struck
hands. And the red hand Of Mrs.
Surratt's murderer drew the res0lu-
ton which aTraigned the lawyer who
dared TO stand upon bis honor and
his oath, and the foul breath OF the
Beast pressed it 10 a vote, and the
Congressional spaniels said yea
mummies that they are-who might,
for any soul or will Of theirs, as well
be under the pyramids Of Egypt,
when Stevens winds the lash Of his
seourge around them, or the Beast
RACES upOn them with his owl oyO,
the like Of which man has not seen
since Zanoni looked upon the monster
that guarded the portal Of the unseen
world.
True, Butler intensified the JOY he
felt, in breaking the spirit and woun.
ding the honor Of helpless man, by
wreaking at the same time cruelty
and probable ruin upon young girl.
Winnie Roam, who is, il seems, a de
vOtee Of art, and whose proficiency in
the branch she has selected, induced
Congress TO employ her to execute
the marble statue Of Lincoln for the
Capitol, occupied the very room des-
ignated by Butler and Bingham as
the GUARD house" 10 be used by the
Sergeant-at-Arms. There stands her
clay model, with all her delicate and
unwearyilg labor upon it--it cannot
be moved, and if left TO dry will shrink
and crack, and become useless, and
hence she must lose her model ana
her labor, and with them her support
What is it in this girls pure life that
has prompted the Beast 10 rend her
with his clawsg Thank God that even
this era Of corruption can furnish but
one such cowardly fend, and the
hand that threatens lust and outrage
TO the unprotected women OF con-
quered city, is the same that now de-
spoils the young artist IN her studio.
We have sought in vain to find in
all the annals Of recorded time the
model after which this leprous thing
was fashioned. An old mythology
teaches that the spirits Of evil beasts
return TO curse the world in different
but loathsome shapes, Judgment
overshadowing the whole cycle Of
time. upon which their baneful pres
ence falls. 1t was Thersites who IN
the ancient councils OF the Greeks H.
lustrated this mythology, and who
gave to all time the apiest prototype
az Tho narneinss rrcafnra. srho is -es
even "Beast," if, as Lady Anne says,
ethere is no beast but hath some touch
Of pity" But in those days there
were heroes, and their sccpTes lashed
him into silence. Thersites found his
/ Ulysses then, and unless retributive
Justice sleeps, By Bingham's order, in
Mrs. Surratt's bloody grave, Butler
the Beast, will yet live TO fill up the
picture as painted in the llliad.
Thersite, only rinmor'd in the thronr,
Inouncious. loud and turbulent Of tongue,
Awcd tv no shame. BY no rcspcci controlled
II scandal busy, In rcpruaches bold
His frure such as might bis soul proclaim,
One eye vas blinking and one ies was lame
His mountain shoulders half his breast o'ersproad
Thiu hairs bcstrcwed his long, misshapcn bead
Splccn to mankind his unriuus heart possessed,
And much he haicd al, but most the best
hong had he lived the scorn o. every Greek.
Ve1ed when be ssoko, but STD they heard hin
speak;
Sharr vas his ruic,.'whic in the thriilcsi tone
Tins with iniuriaus iaunts attacks thc ihruno-
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