The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-02-18
ANLYEA NOES WRETCR.

DR.. J. p. HAMBLEToS, who has been
holding the very responsible and i'm
portant position Of Clerk of the Ways
and Means Committee, to which place
it appears he was appointed at the re-
quest of Speaker Kerr, turns out TO be a
most infamous scoundreI. When the
war broke out he was the editor of a
paper published at Atlanta, Ga, called
the Daily Southern Confederacy This
paper at once commenced the publica-
ton of what il was pleased to call
white" and "Biack" lists Of New York
merchants, giving IL the former the
names of such as were supposed TO ia
vOr the Southern cause, and in the lat
ter the names of leading Republicans.
These lists were used simply for the pur
pose of levying blacknail, HAMBLEToN
himself visiting New York and demand
ing advertising from business men in
that city, and on refusal, their names
forthwith appeared in the ''black" list,
and Southern men were warned against
them, and in some cases parties living
South repudiated debts already due to
them.
1t is also asserted that ia 1862 or 1868,
HAAIBLEToN, under the assumed name
of Hamilton, attempted to sInuggle con-
traband goods South, and was arrested
on5 conf 20 Efor+ T.fava4ta
But the most serious charge against
Mr. HAMBLEToN is that he named his
son John Wilkes Booth, after the assas-
sin of Abraham Lincoln. When this
charge was first made through the Trt-
tune, Mr.. Morrison, Chairman of the
Committee, inquired of him in regard to
it, and HAlTBLETOY vehemently denied
it. The Tribune at once reiterated the
charge, and produced the proof in the
following extract:
MIR HAMBLETON ACCOMMODATED.
From the Washington Pdtriot Monday. Julys. ~.
DIED.
HAMBLET0N.-At the Exchange Hotel,
Washington, ID. c., on the morning of July
Cd, 1872, at 10 minutes past seven, of in
fammation Of the brain, JOHN W. IL,
HAMBLETON, aged years, 3 months
and Il days, youngest son of James =. and
Martha l.. Hambleton of Atlanta, Ga.
Then in a ringing article the Tribune
demanded ''by virtue of its record as a
''true and unfinchiny friend of the
''South when the South needed friends
''and it cost something to stand up and
demand fair play for her; by virtue of
''its devotion to the cause of universal
''amnesty, for which it has made some
Sacrifices, by virtue of the large and
''hearty spirit in which its great founder
''urged forgetfulness of the past and
"peace and reconciliation for the future
"-the spirit which since his death it has
encouraged and striven to maintain;
''by virtue of its representing millions of
''honest and patriotic citizens who can
''forget the heat and passion of the war,
''but who detest and abhor the act of
assassination and the memory of the
'assassin-7He Ne,0- York Tribune asks
''Mr. Morrison to accept this persons
resignation. He may name his chill
''dren what lie pleases. But he should
''not appear in public"
And Mr. Morrison at once accepted
the resignation of DIR. JAMES PINCKNEY
HAMBLETON, and permitted the libeler
of the memory of Abraham Lincoln and
the matchmaker of Northern merchants
go step down and out" Such, in a
great measure, is the class of men that
the temporary success of the Democratic
party is bringing into public places in
Washington They are as defiant and
bitter as ever. The really repentant
rebel may exist there, but he does not
flourish as a member of the Democratic
party. On the contrary, the Hills, the
Tombses and Ham bletons of the South
are the men who are making themselves
and are seeking and find.
ing place and power at the hands of the
Democratic party. The dogma of State
Rights-which the war settled for all
time to come, il it settled anything-is
as loudly and persistently proclaimed as
ever The government of this country
can never be safe in the hands ola party
which places such men in public posi-
ton.