National Republican., 1876-05-23
and refea alone upon the mighty emineuce
from which he has fallen.

from which he has fallen.
Another crazy witness came upon the stage
OF action yesterday in the Louisiana inVestiga-
ton. His name Is d. d. Foley. His avocs-
ton we do not know. He some time ago In
formed the chairman of the committee that
he was in posses SEN OF valuable facts. With
out looking into the matter at all the chairman
subpenaed him, and kept him waiting ten
days before he was put upon the stand, for
which delay he received about $50. Yester-
day he testified. He announced his bottom
facts, and the result was the committee Or
dered his entire testimony to be stricken out,
and the man summarily discharged. Thus
the Democratic committees are duped by
knaves and whipper-snappers, and the inves-
tigation expenses roll mountain high to in
terest and amuse q tax ridden people.
When Benjamin Hill was elected to Con-
gress his Southern friends predicted for him a
brilliant aud influential career 10 the House.
He was to be the war horse of the defunct
Confederacy and the champion of the right of
secession. His voice was to be the tocsin,
whose sounds were to electrify the South, aud
arouse it from the lethargy which crept over
1t through the avenues Of moroseness and
chagrin at the close of the civil war. But
time blasted these hopes with cruel abrupt.
ness. When Mr.. Hill attempted to make the
North responsible for the historic infamy of
Andersonville he made fdtr pas from which
he has never recovered. Loyalty resented the
insult with such animated energy that It at
once became evident that the rabid course of
Hill was impolitic, and ever since his lips have
been sealed. 1t Is not q voluntary silence he
is keeping, but one forced upon him by his
more shrewd and cooler-headed partisans from
the North.
Hon. j. H. Baker, of Indiana, should have
been sustained by every honest, well-meaning
member of the House in his effort on Thursday
to put a check upon the gross outrages perpe-
trated upon the public in the garbling and fall
styling the proceedings and debates of Con-
gress. As 1t is, the people can place no reli-
ance upon what purports to be an accurate and
truthful record of the Congressional proceed
ings. And when such men as Ben Hill, Sim
gleton, Vance, and others Of that ilk, can ut
ter upon the floors of Congress remarks totally
devoid of truth, false to their constituents,
and reasonable to their country, then give to
the country, through the Congressional Record,
speeches couched in such parliamentary Ian
guege and SO altered as to be scarcely recog-
nizable, it is high time that q stop should
be put to this violation of the peoples
rights. 1t is violation Of the rights of the
people, for 1t is their right to have q correct
and authentic record of the doings of their
servants, and of every word they utter in de-
hoEa Dali
and he should have received the support of
every honest member, and no doubt he did.
A correspondent, in speaking Of an article
on the increase of wickedness among children,
which appeared in this column recently, urges
that we lay the ak at the root, and, in order to
do so, we must war fiercely against reckless
and ill-mated marriages. This is truth. Nine
tenths of all the crime in the world results
from unfortunate matches. But by what nee
romsncy and with what magic wand are we TO
select the chaff from the wheat! The honest
man and rogue are go similar in external ap-
pearance that the most expert are often de-
ceiyed. A man bearing heaven-e erected face
may wear 8 vest that covers the blackest heart
in the community. Physiognomy is gay de-
ceiver. A broad, high forehead, whose lines
of symmetry and intellectual beauty are un-
surpassed, may be useless noddle to
the world as well as to the body
that supports 1t. The knob of a mans body
is neither safe bulletin of his moral condi-
tion nor a fair indicator of his personal worth.
He may be fne-looking and an elegant society
man; at the same time he may have the dis
position Of a fiend and the inclinations of q
thoroughly -matured devil. Again, q man
possessed Of an inferior face whose lineaments
indicate only meagre intelligence, may be full
of the elements that 60 10 make up broad,
whole-souled Christian gentleman. Thus the
problem of proper selection becomes more and
more abstruse as we progress in civilization,
and men become better conyersed in all the
arts Of fine cunning and deceptive chicanery.
We protest against illmating, but 1t is difficult
to present measures by which the curse can be
effectually checked. The cause, perhaps, of
the most Of our matrimonial misalliances is In
the blind, mad way humanity has of rushing
into the sea Of fconjugality. By elopement, by
spite-marriage, by hurried and thoughtless
liason, is humanity constantly pouring into
the gulf of ill-mated, unhappy matrimony,
from whence children are begotten whose life
history is one unbroken chain of crime.