Year: 1866

would have sent him back to Illinois, where
he ought always to have been kept, being
utterly unfit for the position of President
Hence he would have left Washington soon
after the 4th of March, 1865, and therefore
could not have been at Ford's theater, and
disgraced himself and the Presidents office
in April of that year Had he been wise
and good man, he would have been at home
attending to his proper business, as Chris
tian gentleman would have done, then an as
sassin could not have harmed him. But
being given to theatrical entertainments, he
hired a Box in a corrupt place, set bad ex-
ample by often resortihg there, and thus, for
his previous illegal, corrupt and numerous
violations of the Constitution, the laws, and
legal rights of other men, and of the States,
exposed himself to violence, and thus his
corruptions indirectly turn honest Mr..
LINCOLN Fslodese.


If he has not, some OF his fawning
sycophants may learn, that, Honesty is the
best policy.


Doors FOR STATIONERY
JACoBY & IKELER:


Gentlemca-Pleased with the indepen-
dent manner and bold style of conducting
your Journal, we withheld the public ex-
preston of our opinion until time might
arrive when words of encouragement should
be offered in defense of the cause so near
our hearts. But the prospect brightens with
the steady march of events, and words of
cheer were useless Truth and right tciH
triumph


Already the ominous tide is setting in
which threatens to engulph the dark forms
of party whose great ambition has been,
and still is, to ruin, desolate and divide our
country. Did we need proof of this? 1t is
found in the Shiny, nauseous track of Aboh-
tlonism. Every foot of ground over which
they have passed is proof positive OF the
damning work of desolation pursued by the
dominant party. They gloat grimly over
their work of destruction. Sayagely, they
strike treSchercus blows at the charter of
our liberties by introducing a vast number
of amendments to the Constitution of the
United States They would so distort and
deform that instrument by their sacrilegious
work as to rob 1t of its dignity and force,
giving to our posterity a mass of folly, In
lieu Of the wisdom and purity left us by our
fathers. But their time for rule and riot is
already coming to a close. Soon the vile,
disgusting creature will drag Its black, reek-
ing carcass of corruption from the places of
power, and Abolitionism shall be known
only by the ruin it has wrought


Everybody talks and thinks, now, of ely
mer as our next Governor. He is so frank
and open in his expressions of opinion and
declaration of principles and withal possessed
of such eminent qualifications of mind and
heart that no one can doubt the result Of an
issue with him and Geary The latter strives
most industriously TO conceal his political
principles, if he advocates any. He may be
elassed among the neutrals-


The Columbian I An Independent
Journal y Well, what next? But Dem
oerats are not so easily caught, now. The
paper certainly possesses the merit of being
well and handsomely executed, but it has no
principles, SO we class it with Geary


The editor, under the caption, ''Explana-
tory, goes off with declination of princi-
pies, and stops just where he begun, COM
mitting himself to no real line 3f' policy, and
asserting no independent course for his In
dependent ~ Journal" We would recon-
mend that he substitute some other word
instead of independents and. call the thing
by its proper name Else hoist your colors
and 60 into the contest manfully. Place at
the masthead the name of the Hon. HES
TER CLYAIER, or throw the black flag to the
breeze and support Get1ry. More anon.