The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-24

comply, if possible, with your patriotic
demands. j. p. II.
Mr. HAMBLEToN ACCOMMODATED.
From the Washington Patriot, July 8, ls72.l
DIED.
HAMBLEToN-At the Exchange Hotel,
Washington, ID. c., on the morning of
July 3, 1872, at 10 minutes past I, of in
hammation of the brain, John w. b.
Hambleton, aged 6 years, months and
IL days, youngest son OF James Z. and
Martha l.. Hambleton, of Atalanta, Ga.
From the New York Tribune-Editorial-lOt
We enter upon the work to which we
are invited in the emphasis of itahc,
'',cithom delay" and offer this morning
the obituary notice of John w. B. Ham
bleton as it appeared in the Washington
Patriot, of July g. 1872. This is the
usual death notice, as given by the fam
| lily of the deceased. 1t shows that so late
as in 1872, when it was supposed the era
of reconciliation had begun, Mr.. Handle
ton had not dropped the Booth from
his sons christening, though 1t was vail
ed under an initial. The notice, We be-
lieve, was the same in the other papers.
We have abundant testimony, also, that
the child was named wilkes Booth :"
that the child and the child's nurse
habitually so gave his name, that Mr.. or
"Dr" Hambleton repeatedly called him
Wilkes Booth and gave his name as
| Wilkes Booth when inquired OF, and that
| il was a matter of some notorlety IN Alta
lanta and at Washington.
So IL appears from this announcem ent
that in the month of March, 1866, nearly
n wear after the assassination of Mr.. Lin
coin and the close of the war, this person
perpetrased his hatred for the Union. his
murderous hatred for the memory of Mr..
Lincoln. his strange admiration for an
assassin's deed, and his unaccountable
reverence for an assassin's iniamy, by
giving his child the assassins name.
That is all there is to it, He has quib-
bled about it, evaded the direct issue,
prevaricated, and at last sharply
and squarely denied it and demand
ed the proofs We give him with
out delay" the first installment,
aud we take leave to assure him, upon
this his first appearance in formal de-
NAL of the charge, that this is not "a cru
sade of the eanti-Democratic press" against
him; that it is not partisan and ma
licious," and that he himself is Of no
consequence whatever, except as a great
party takes him up and makes him in
some sense representative of its spirit
and purpose. In reply TO his quest tion
whether there is anything in either OF
the new amendments of the Constitu-
ton, the Reconstruction Acts, acts OF
Congress, proclamations or military or
ders that prohibits a man from naming q
child anything he chooses" we answer
unhesitatingly there is not He may
name his child Judas Iscariot or Simon
Magus, and there is no law to prevent il
nothing but the sense of decency and
some of human feeling toward the child.
But we may add that, though there is nC
law against it, there is in the heart of the
American people, South as well as North
among the ex-Confederate as well as the
ex- Federal soldiers, such high and holy
hatred for the cowardly act and the de
tested name of an assassin as will not al
low the man who filings in decent people
faces this shameless homage to an assas
sins memory, to wear the honors Of thu
Peoples Government. and to draw pa
from the Peoples Treasury. And thougl
he is but an Insignificant person, holding
by grace of Democratic Congress an in
significant office, the people OF this coun
try who have not forgotten to revere Mr.
Lincoln's memory, will demand of tn
party which is responsible for this ap
pontment, why it honors the man VIII
honored his assassin. And the gentlemen
have done it may be assured that, how
ever they may view it, it is a matter o
no light consequence.
Mr. Hambleton says his resignation i
subject to the will and pleasure Of MI
Morrison, the Chairman of the C3mmit
tee of Ways and Means. He seems h
J think it will not be accepted; that a
least it will not be required Well, then
the New York Tribune-0y virtue of it
record as a true and unAinching frienC
, of the South when the South needet
friends, and it cost something to stanC
up and demand fair play for her; by viz
} tue of its devotion to universal amnesty
for which it has made some sacrifices
by virtue of the large and hearty spiri
in which its great founder urged forget
fulness of the past, and peace and recon
ciliation for the future-the spirit whicl
since his death it has encouraged an'
striven to maintain by virtue of its rep
resenting millions of honest and patriot
citizens who can forgive the heat and pas
sion of the war, but who detest and ali
hor the act of assassination and tn
memory of the assassin-the New Yorl
| Tribune asks Mr.. Morrison to accept thi
persons resignation. He may name hi
children what he pleases But he shoul
not appear in public.