Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-05-18
The Campaign Of SIander.

HE campaign Oh SldnOef.
Senator Anthony, of Rhode Island,
does not often indulge in speech-mak-
ing, but when he does, his words never
fail to command the earnest attention
of the country. a trained journalist,
he Possesses the art of saying what he
thinks strongly and conpactly while,
as man of broad and comprehensive
views, he represents in his utterances,
quite as nearly as any other Senator,
the average sentiment of the country
ON all the leading public questions o.
the time. A few days ago he spoke
briefly of the Democratic outrages upon
public decency in the investigating
business, showing how the act of nearly
every public man, right Or wrong, good
or bad, true or imputed, is made the
occasion for villification. We give be.
low portion of his remarks as ex.
pressing what we believe to be the
feeling of all right thinking people as
to the campaign of scandal:
"Men whose lives have been passed
in the reputable and even illustrious
services of their country are held up to
the eXecration of the people whose
good will they enjoy, and whose graft.
tude some of them have earned. Dis.
charged employees, broken down con.
tractors, Illicit distillers, disappointed
lofiice-seekers, men to whom Titus
Oates was crcditable witness, have
been permitted to drag the regulations
| of honorable men before tribunals
which in their methods of jurispru.
jence remind US of the Star Chamber
and whose Interpretation of laws o.
evidence and the rights of the accused
were borrowed from, the Spanish In.
QUESTION. Nay, Mr.. President, The
penitentiary and the mad-house have
/ given up their dead in this general re.
surrection of falsehood and perjury. II
is but few days since the whole com.
munity was startled with the foreshad
owing of some terrible revelation
against the elected chief of the Repub
lie. We were told that he had com
mittel crime SO atrocious that il
could not be named; that when it wa:
exhibited to the American people il
its unparalleled enormity, nothing bu
the shortest methods of the quickes
impeachment would stand betwe
you, Mr.. President, and the White
House, which hope at some day yeu
will reach by much less circuitou:
route. And, Mr.. President, when the
accusation was put to the proof, wher
the testimony upon which all these
! charges had been made had been ad
duced, ii appeared that crazy mar
was ready TO testify with a sOlemnitN
that left no doubt of the sinceIi v of hi:
conviction, that the spirit of Genera
Grant was accustomed to pass through
the keyhole OF his chamber by night
and stand beside his bed, and upon
promise of that testimony, and nothing
else whatsoever, thousand neWspa
pers opened their batteries upon the
character of the man who had borne
the flag of his country in triumph from
the fallen rampArts of Fort Donelson t.
the captured citadel of the rebellion
and who had been twice elected by the
people to the highest place in theiI
gift. The miserable instruments of all
this scandal will be likely to escape, OF
will be punished With "few stripes. u
Regulations they have none to be injur
ed; generally as poor in purse as they
are in honor, they laugh at fines and
confiscation, and the universal con.
tempt in which they are held by those
who suffer from them, and by those
who employ them, will probably pre-
serve the Penitentiary from the con-
tamination of their presence. But,
Sir, behind these are men who have a
name and stake in this country; men
who employ or encourage these miser.