Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-31

but the party leaders determined to
make all who were in any way agents
in bringing home the proof of his guilt.
suffer for what they had done. They
denounced the witness Marsh as the
meanest of human beings, a coward,
thief and the betrayor of mis- friend,
and they breathed the direst ven
geance against him. So fercely did
they rage that he, who might have
run away before testifying, was too
srfghtened to stay in the -coun-
try after he had told his story.
His wife was suspected of prompting
him to turn informer. and she was
taught the danger of going forth to the
help of the Lord against the mighty,
by having her character blackened.
For her share in the business, what
ever it was, she was branded as an &C
cop'plice in bribery, and an adulteress.
Should she take any more active part
in proving Beiknap's infamy, she will
probably be accused of strangling
children for chicken-brot and making
a tour of Europe on a broom-stick to
spend night with the Devil On the
Broken AS for Congressman Rob
bins, LII part in bringing Cabinet
officer to justice has been avenged by
raking up an old story against HIM
concerning q twenty-dollar fee; and as
a warming to all his associates to avoid
making u1savory discoveries crimi-
mating the Administration, he is held
up to rIdicule by nickname in all the
Republican papers. If he had been
less vulnerable, his assailants would
have been compelled to invent lie
against him, and they would have
made it one warrant to kill at
forty PAGES. Blackburn, who refused
to melt at Mrs. Belknap's sup
plications, is held up to the adherence
of all good citizens, in the person of
his brother, who was accused of
spreading smallpox and yellow fever
in the Northern cities by means of in
fected clothing. By skilfully managing
this matter. Administration journals
contrive to mix up the brothers in an
editorial SO that their readers come
out at the close of it with the couvlc
ton that it was Congressman Black
burn, the denouncer of Belknap, who
set on foot the diabolical scheme for.
depopulating the North by epidemics
and running it by fire. But Hester
Clymer. chairman of the committee
that exposed the Secretary of War, has
suffered most of all at the hands of the
loyal newspapers. It is said on high
authority that the way of the
transgressor is hard. but Belknap's
course for the past week has been
over roses and moss, while Clymer's
has been strewn with thorns. He has
been accused of collision with Marsh,
adultery with Marsh's wife, connivance
with Pendleton, political dishonesty
aid general imbecility, all because he
did his simple duty and proved that
one of the highest officers of the Gov
eminent was a scoundrel. A stranger
arriving in the country would imagine
from the press that Clymer. instead of
proving himself the vigilant hero of
virtuous action, had been detected in
some shameful crime. In the smudge
of indignation that has been set
a-smoking hy the Republican press
against Clymer, the contemplate viii
lain whom he caught slips by unoh-
served. La the fierce, unreasoning
wrath of the Republican party on this
calamity there is something of the mad
passion of OthelIo:
Il swear it's better to be much abused,
Than but to know't little.
What sense had in her stolen hours
of lust?
1 saw't not, thought it not, it harmed
not me.
I slept next night well, fed we'll, was
free and merry;
| found not Cassio's kisses on her lips;
He that is robbed, not wanting what is
stolen,
Let him not know't, and he's not rob-
bed at all.
"And this indignant Republican
party whose jealousy. unlike that of
the Moor, is we'll founded, turns fercely
upon the innocent Clymer and calls for
evidence:
''Villain. be sure thou p, owe my love a
whore;
Be sure Of it; give me the ocular proof,
Or by the truth of mine eternal soul,
Thou had st better been born dog
Than answer my walked wrath