New-York tribune., 1876-01-19

no parade of repentance, no affectatlon ol IT,
gret it was enough that while they MAN.
tanned their pride they banished resentment.
There were exceptions. There were men In
the South whom no grace of forgiveness could
touch. no amnesty soften. They were not
great men or brave men; they were the small,
mean, and spiteful. We expected nothing of
them. but were willing they should nurse their
venom and miserably live out their generation.
We did not dream however, that these men or
any of them would be put forward as repre-
sentatives Of tho Southern people, or that they
themselves would have the assurance to ask
Office at the hands of any political party.
Above all, we could not suppose that any
party would take the responsibility of making
them representative by giving them official
positions.
II seems we were too fast The Democratic
party chooses for the Government places In Its
gift men whose venom is proof against KIND
ness who cannot forget to haze, and VINO III
cold blood and with forethought and delibera-
ton glory in the work of murder and give
posthumons honor to an assassin. Here was
one man in all tho SOuth-let us hope in the
name of humanity there was but one such
who tbrco wears ago, in 1872 or g. tho war
having been seven years closed, the men who
forsoolx the Government and took up arms
against it having been pardoned and restored
to the privileges they had forfeited, and an
era of reconciliation been Opened-who at
such a time and under such circum-
stances gave to his own helpless child
name for that child to bear through all
its future life, and bearing it to show to all
The world its fathers undying hatred Tor
government that had pardoned him hls hiss
ing malignity TO the memory OF n great ana
tender-hearted man, who had never harmed
him. and his reverence for an assassin whose
name only survives by ts infamy. Think OF
il for moment What kind of man must
he be who dowers his just born child with the
name of John Wilkes Booth Does it in the
coolest of cold blood, with delibcration and
not upon impulse. Seven years after the COM
mission of the murder which sent thrill OF
horror through all the South aS well rs
through the North; murder so hor-
rible that in the very white heat
of the war, when the passions OF
men were at their augricSt pitch, no decent
man anywhere did other than dcn0ancc it rs
a most Infamous crime-thls man calmly
fastens on his own poor helpless infant the
murderer's name. This was not idiocy;
though it seems incredible that it should be
done by person of ordinary intellect and in
telligence 1t was just dull brutality; beastly
cruelty. The man who could approve of the
assassination of Mr. Lincoln would be just
such monster as to curse his own flesh and
blood with such n christening and make his
child the instrument for carrying over to the
next generation the badge of his fathers
shame. Poor child, to be thus fathcrcd and
thus handicapped for life.
And now, there being such man, such a
patriot, such ctizcr, and such father, where
do we find him7 Ask Mr. Morrison, Chairman
of WAYS and Means, leader of the Democratic
party in Congress. He found him and ap-
pointed him clerk of his Committee, where he
draws pay from the Government he so Loyalty
supports Ask Mr.. Michael c. Kerr, the Dem
ocratic Speaker of the House, who made Nr.
Morrison the leader of the House and gave
him the opportunity to appoint TINS man.
Ask the Democratic party. which elected Ar.
Kerr ana MI. Morrison, and which Is responal-
bic for their acts and for the appointment oi
this representative Democrat Who Is this
man, who within three years has recorded at the
baptismal font over the head of his infant son
his reyerent regard for President Lmcoln's
assassin7 l. lie Of the sort that the Democratic
party chooses out for its honors aud emou-'
ments7 Ia this what we are voting to bring
in when we aid i'll securing n Democratic
victory1 If so, let us know it and have fair
understanding. We have held the Republican
party responsible for its appointments; we do
the same with the Democrats. This man l.
not Mr. Morrison's or Mr.. kcrr's exclusively.
lie is the partys. 1t must carry him. lie is
not conspicuous, to be sure. He is only clerk
of a committee. But there is not any place
obscure enough to shelter such II man where
he can draw Government pay. lie ailronts
Justice he shocks common decency. The man
WHO applauds assassination would bo an as'as-
sin himself if he dared. There is no fitness,
no propricty, no sense in his being anywhere
where the eye of a sclf-rcspecting citizen may
light on him. much less in any public place
where the nations gorge rises at sight or
sound of him.
Mr.. Morrison, neither you nor your Speaker
nor your party can afford to appoint to Office
a man who seven years after MIR. Lincoln's
murder christcned his own son with the muir
dcrer's name.