Smyrna times., 1876-02-09

A STIGMA.-It has been denied that
Hambleton, one of the new committee
clerks recently appointed by the House of
Representative at Washington has a child
named for Wilkes Booth, but it now turns
out that such is really the fact. The New
York Tribune thus comments on the
matter
And now we ask again, What is to be
thought of the Democratic leader of the
House who takes this man out of his
obscurity and lifts him up to public view as
a specimen Of the Southern Democracy?
Here is a man who has done what ought to
exclude him forever from all decent society
a man who has gloried in paying honor to
murderer a man who fastened upon his
innocent child the name Of one of the most
dastardly assassins in history aman who
cherishes, long after the war has closed, a
malignant and diabolical hatred of his
country, and holds in such adherence the
memory of the martyr President that he
spews his venom on Lincoln's grave. Such
a man is a traitor at heart as well as a brute
No right thinking, patriotic American can
meet him on terms of fellowship. But our
Democratic friends no sooner get posses
sion of the House of Representatives than
they choose him, of all the men in the
United States, for one of their most impor-
tant clerkships. They turn disabled Union
soldiers out of the petty places which the
Government has provided for them, and
give an Office to the blatant admirer OF
Abraham Lincoln's assassin.
If there is any selfrespect in the Com
mittee of Ways and Means it will lose nc
time i'll undoing this shocking blunder
No doubt it is true that when Hambleton
was appointed the facts now brought tC
L - H.
strange if his general character and senti
ments had not been known to those WIN
appointed him. But there can be no excus
for neglecting an inquiry now. This is no
triiling matter, a mere question of clerk
ship. The Democratic party is on trial
1t has not done too much since its surpri
sing successes in 1874 to give us confidence
in its wisdom or integrity, or to make u
forget how ii treated Lincoln during hi
J lifetime, and how large number of it
ablest and most popular leaders bore them
selves in the crisis Of their country's peri
REVIVAL WORK At PRINCEToN.-A rC
markable religious revival is in progres
among the students of Princeton Colleg,
Princeton, New Jersey, which is unde
Presbyterian auspices. The movemer
began a week ago last Wednesday at a COZ
firmatiOn meeting of the Philadelphia
! Society. A few earnest young men went t
work talking with the wild fellows in the
= classes, and persuading them to attend til
. prayer meetings. The next day the Re-
DIR. w. NJ. Taylor, of New York, preache
= to the students, and his appeals are said I
have touched all their hearts. The yOun
: evangelists redOubled their efforts The
= began to organize and to lay out the wor
" systematically. Each Christian stude1
: thought of all his unconverted friends, an
the best way in which to approach then
: lie then took them one at a time in I'll
college walks, in the Railways between I
= citations, or at their rooms in the evenin
q = and talked to them about their duty
become Christians. There were few wi
Z resented or resisted this approach. II
= result has been that the meetings ha,
v gone on, two per day, the students gathe
: ing III little knots in one anothers room
= where they prayed together between recit
= = tions, and in the evening the college facul
= = and the faculty of the Theological Semina
- took deep interest in the revival, al
T. while leaving the management of it entire
:! in the hands of the students they encou
- aged and helped the leaders. At leng
y some of the worst scOfiers became touch,
" and among the converts are all but two
the college boat crew, all of whom are said
= have formerly been noted as much
~ strong Oaths as strong arms. The numb
of converts is about one hundred al
!" fifteen. Moody and Sankey were prese
- - at the meetings on Sunday.