The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1869-12-31
Editorial Correspondence.

minissra.ion will only cease with its
existence. The president has a: last
undcns what he had every good rca-
son never to have done. lie has re-
moved James MounscLapk Ashley,
the Great Impeachcr, from the Of.
ice Of territorial gorsrnor Of Mon:a-
M. to which he vas appointed against
tho rcmcnstranec Of every dcccrt
man in the republican party.
Another wonder is tina: TIE Sen.
ate has decided virtually, that giving
President Grant a district school Ii
brary does not qualify Hoar for the
ciicc Of Supreme Judge, though for
that reason Grsnt saw 1T to nominate
him for the position. In his case as
Attorney General, vaul;ing ambition
has o'erlcarcd itself, flooding the
country with opinion after opinion,
assuming the roar OF the lion, though
mauifcstipg the bray Of the ass.
But a most wonderful! disregard Of
the eternal fitness vf things was man
ifested by the president in the up
ro,n,mcnt of Edwin NJ. Stanton, to
the Office Of associate Justice of the
Supreme Court, and an equa! mar
vel is that it should be reported that
SO fit type Of the Jearies school
should have been confirmed by the
After the events Of his cruelty; bis
known and wanton violation OF law;
his utter disregard of the rights Of per-
son and property; it is not surprising
that the Supreme Judge of the Uni
verse should have called him from
the Bench--to Justice, from presiL,n-
over the trial of offences, where thv
basest criminal is spo.lessly innos mt
compared to the depravity Of him who
was to preside over their trial, judge
their fate and FIX their destiny. to
his eternal bodc, unless such place
is.to be forever useless, in hadcs.
Rejecting upon these rotoriously
infamous appointments leads one to
review his opinions in favor Of an APP
pointed judiciary. Tina: we have ia
vored an appointed judiciary, instead
Of an elected enc wherein the mere
partizan would obtain the position,
instead Of the erudite gentleman, all
within the circle of our acquaintance
know. But when the "Sainted Lin
coin" would appoint Dick Busted,
as one Of the District Judges Of the
IT, S.--a man deserving the peniten-
tiaiy then and impeachment, Which
he Is soon likely to have. now. When
horse jockey and sporting president
would pass over tue legal talent in
the party TINT elevated him to the
Presidency and select from it an j..
Is. Uoar ia short when the noble,
pure, and Intellectual giants Of his
day are to be passed over to give
place to the murderer Stanton, it is
better tina, all Judicial Offices DO gil.
81 By election than left to such blum.
dcripg incompetence. or criminal dis,
regard Of the pl.;nsst principles Of
duty.
Mcfarland. the man WHO gave such
M abrup. check to Free Love in New
York at the reviewers muzzle has beer
Indicted, and now comes the trial
Of course all the libertines of The
Press, as well as Of the pulpit art
busy waiting his crime (it it b;
asrimc while those who love happy
homes. rvirtue, purity. ana the high
esttypo Of civilization developed II
tie character and social intcrcours.
of onr race. would SEQ the holy in
nuenccs that cluster around our FIRE
sides, vind,cated in the only way left
open by lac fiicicncies and technical
,ies Of the law
The great question to be decided
in the trial of this case is not simply
whether Mcfarland is to he hung fol
shooting the man who invaded his
family and robbed him Of his child.
rem. aal seduced his wife from the
paths Of virtue, hut whether Liber-
tines, and Scducers, either by them.
selves. or aided and abetted by nu.
nlerous Free Lovers in or cut of the
.kurch. Influential Or otherwise, are
TO have full swing in society to its
great detriment and Generalization.
Christmas iu Chicago was observ.
Cd by nearly every body. all business
places deiug closed, while APPARENTLY
nearly every one Of it's third of q
million Inhabitants were upon one
and another Of its streets. In crowd
ingsonr way through this living, a.
tive, moving mass of human beings
fortune directed our steps 80 that VIC