Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-11
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their allegiance. Nothing dishonor.
able or unreasonable was demanded
of them. If the victors were mag
unanimous, the Vanquished were fol
the most part, manly and frank
There was no parade of repentance,
no affeetatioH of regret; it was
enough that while they maintained
their pride, they banished resent
ment. There were two exceptions.
There were men in the South whom
no grace or forgiveness could touch,
no amnesty soften. They3were not
great men or brave men; they were
| lhe small, mean and spiteful. We
expected nothing of them, but were
willing they should nurse their ven
ON and miserably live out their gen
Grafton. We did not dream, hOwev-
er, that these men, or any of them,
would be put forward as representa-
tives of the Southern people, or that
they themselves would have the as
surance to ask Office al the hands of
any political party. Above all, we
could not suppose that any party
would take the responsibility Of
making them representative by Civ
ing them official positions.
It seems we were too fast. The
Democratic party chooses for the
Government places in its gift, men
whose venom is proof against such
kindness, who cannot forget to hate,
and who in cold blood and with fore
thought and deliberation, glory il
the work of murder, and give pos
thumous honor to an assassin. Here
was one man in all the South-let US
hope in the name of humanity there
was but one such-who three years
ago, in 1872 or 8, the war having
been seven years closed the men who
forsook the Government and to- K
up arms against it having been par
doned and restored to the privileges
they had forfeited, and a era of re
concIllation opened-who at such
time and under such circumstances,
gave to his own helpless child a name
for that child to bear through all its
future life,. and bearing it to show
to all the world its fathers undying
hatred for a Government that had
pardoned his Kissing malignity to
the memory of a great and tender
hearted man, who had never harmed
him, and his reverence for an assas-'
sin whose name only survives by its
infamy. Think of it for momentl
What kind Of a 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
deliberatien and not upon impulse
Seven years after the commission OF
the murder which sent a thrill of
horror through all the South as well
as through the North; murder SO
horrible that in the very white heat
of the war, when the passions OF
men were at ther angriest pitch, no
decent man anywhere did other than
denounce it as a most Infamous crime,
this man calmly fastens on his owp
poor, helpless infant the murderer's
name. This was not idiocy; though
1t seems incredible that it should be
done by person of ordinary IntelF
leet and intelligence. 1t was Just
dull brutality; beastIy cruelty. The
man who could approve of the assasr
sination of Mr.. Lincolh,a would be
Just sucha monster as to curse his
own flesh and blood with such .
christening, and make his child the
instrument for carrying over to the
next generation the badge of his
fathers shame. Poorzchild, to be
thus fatbered and thus Handicapped
for life.
And now, there being such a man,
such a patriot, such citizen, and
such father, where do We find him!
Ask Mr.. Morrison, Chairman OF
Ways and Means, leader of the Dem
| ocratic party in congress. He foaRd
and appointed him clerk of bis Com
mittee, where he draws pay from the
Government he. so loyalty supports
/ Ask Mr. Michael c. Kerr, the Dem
Oeratic Speaker of the House, who
made Mr.. Morrison the leader Of the
House and gave him the opPoTtunl-
ty to appoint this man. Ask the
Democratic party, which elected Mr.
Kerr and Mr.. Morrison, and which
is responsible for their acts and Their
appointment of this representative
Democrat. Who is this man, who
within three years has recorded at
| this baptismal font over the head OF
his infant son mis- sreverent regard Tor
President Lincoln's assassin? Is ne
of the sort that the Democratic par.
ty chooses out for honors and
emoluments? Is this what we are
voting to bring in when we aid in Sc
curing Democratic victory? If so
let us know it and have fair under
standing. We have held the RePub-
hcan party responsible for Its ap
| pointments; we do the same with the
| Democrats. This man is not Mr.
MOrTisOn's or Mr.. Kerr's exclusively
He is the party's. 1t must carry him.
He is not conspicuous, to be sure
Bat there is not any place obscure
enough to shelter such a man where
he can draw Government pay. H'
sffronts Justice; he shocks common
decency. The man who applaud
assassination would be an ASSASSIN
himself if he dared. There Is no ht
ness, no propriety, no sense IN m
being anywhere where the eye OF
self respecting citizen may light OF
him, much less in any public Piae'
where the nations gorge rises at sign
or sound of him. -s atte
/ MIR. Morrison, neither you mol
your Speaker nor your party can af-
| ford to appoint to office a man who
seven years after Mr.. Lincoln's MUIR
der christened his own son with the
murderer's name. @ ID rs 2
There is q member OF the Massa-
ehusetts Legislature, named f. w.
Clspp, whi deserves special and hon
orable mention as resident and leg
islator of o State celebrated for the.
n umber and rapacity of its dead,
b eads. lie Fecently returned rail-
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