Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1876-02-25
..Turu Back the Hands"

the ring of true Republicaniam. IL Tue
Tribune keeps up these sledge' hammer
blows we NAV expect to see it in the Presl-
/ Dental campaign, where 1t should have
been from the first, in the front ranks Of
the Republican column. If Democracy
has 40 far disgusted the Tribune as to cause
il to repudiate it as unworthy of public
confidence, what may We expect when the
loyal millions speak at the ballot-box next
fall We commend the following article,
Turn back the Hands," TO the careful
perusal OF our readers
There were men in the South whom 10
grace of forgiveness could touch, no am
nesty soften. They were not great men
or brave men they were the small, mean
and spiteful. We expected nothing OF
them, but were willing they should nurse
their venom and miserably live out their
generation. We did not dream, however,
that these men or any of them would be
put forward as representatives OF The
Southern people, or that they themselves
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the hands of any political party. Above
all, We could not suppose that any party
would take the responsibility Of making
them representative by giving them official
positions.
at seems we were too fast. The Demo
cratic party chooses for Government places
in its gift men whose venom is proof
against kindness. who cannot forget TO hate
and who in cold blood and with ioretho't
and deliberation glory in the work OF muir
der and give posthumous honor TO an as
sassin. Here was one man who in all the
Souih-let US hope in the name of human
ity there was but one such-who three
wears ago in 1872 or 3, the war having
seven years closed, the men who forsooK
the Government and took up arms against
il having been pardOned and restored TO
the privileges they had forfeited, and all
era OF reconciliation been opened who at
such a time and under such circumstances
gave 10 his own helpless child Il name for
that child TO bear through all its future
life. and bearing il TO show to all the
world its fathers undying hatred for
that had pardored him his Kissing mallg-
nifty to the memory OF great and tender
hearted man, who had never harmed him,
and his reverence for AN assassin whose,
name only survives by his infamy. Think
of it for a moment What kind of man
must he Ue who dowers his just born child
with the name Of John Wilkes Booth p
Does il in the coolest of cold blood, with
deiiberation and not upon impulse. Seven
wears after the commission Of the murder
which sent thrill Of horror through all
the South as well as through The North;
q murder SO horrible that in the very white
heat of the war, when the passions OF men
were at their angriest pitch, no decent
man anywhere did other than denounce
il as a most infamous crime-thls. man
calmly fastens on his own poor helpless
infant the murderer's name. This
was not idoicy though it seems incredible
that il should be done by a person OF or
binary intellect and intelligence. It was
Just dull brutality beastlv cruelty. The
man who could approve OF the assassthA-
ton of Mr.. lincoln would be just such
monster who would curse his own flesh
and blood with such n christening and
his child the instrument for carry
ing over to the next generation the badge
of his fathers shame. Poor child,
to be thus fathered aud thus handicapped
for life.
And now, there being snch a man,
such patriot, such a citizen, and such a
father, where do we find him? Ask Mr..
Morrison. Chairman of Ways and Means
leader Of the Democratic party in Con
gress. He found him and appointed him
clerk of his Committee, where he draws
pay from the Government he so loyalty
supports. Ask Michael G. Kerr, the
Democratic Speaker of the House, who
made Nr. Morrison the leade: of the House
and gave him tho opportunity to appoint
this man. Ask the Democratic party,
whish elected Mr.. Kerr and Mr. Morrison.
and which is responsible for their acts aud
for the appointment of this represesenta-
tive Democrat. Who is this man, who
within three years has recorded at the bap-
iisnal font over the head of his infant son
his reverent regard for President Lincoln's
assassin IL he of the sort that the Demo
cratic party chooses out for IFS honors and
emoluments? ? Is this what we are voting
to bring in when we aid in securing
Democratic victory? If so, let US know
it and have a fair understanding. We
have held the Republican party RESPONSE
bic for its appointments We do the same
with the Democrats. This man is not
Mr.. Morr:sun's or Mr. Kerr's Exclusively.
He is the parly's. 1t must carry him. He
is not conspicuous, TO be sure. lie is only
clerk of committee. But there is not
any place obscure enough to shelter such
man where he car draw Government pay.
He afrouts justice he shocks common de-
cency. The man who applauds assassina-
tiou would bc an assassin himself If lac
dared There is no fitness, no propriety,
DO sense in his being anywhere where the
eye of a self respecting citizen may light
on him, much less in any public place
where the nations gorge rises ut sight or
sound of him.
Mr.. Morrison, neither you nor your
Speaker nor your party can afford TO ay-
point to Office man who seven years after
Mr.. IGncoln's murder chri slened his own
son with the murderer name
PHILADELPHIA AND ERIE RAILROAD.
The annual meeting OF the stockholders
of the Philadelphia aud Eric Railroad was
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