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Show SENATOR JOHH H. MITCHELL. A fu-Tid to S u;il.,r M:l. hell, ,,! iir-'"!', himself a ;'Pi,tl.?ini n of iug'n r. p'H-ition, pres. iit.'l ih a ".up!, of day a( Mr. Mit v !!'. n-j-ly to ' ( the gi'JtVt; i h.oth Itu-I'i Uailil hilil -I.- a man, and, per eon-' ijn''ii ., n -rl. rtin- on the propriety of in.- h-id-j j j t tho hih -oition of l.'nU'd .-t..--- , Si ii.itor. Wi: do not puhiUh th.it x-- ply in full f.jr the rimple rea.-.'ii th.it j it dors n.,t Mjuarrly and hiu .-t:y , mi . t a singl.- one of tin: i harg' - : -ig.tin-t him whi. h were ii"t.-d in lor Hkimi.h. We are n,l of tlnn! who would puhli.di any -ravr areti.-at i ,11 , .ig..in.-t him or iiuy oth'T jmhli.- man, 1 iiL-relv l'i itu.-o he was a pri 'iniiK-ni 1 meiuIxT of a partienlor p.tiiyi ikt 1 would we asi-iiiiie iini.n-'-iici; ami drel.uv that hr could not he guiliy, ' mrrrly heeau-r In.' had w.'.-nre-l an j ci'V:ttil pjsiioii. rnfortunat. ly. t'-i ; m.ijiv had, venal, rornit scoiiiidreh av ol'taiiml jilar-e and p-i-itiou : w itliiu a I'.-w years for us to aerept the unlahitnl honor of all as an ir- resi.-lililr faet. Mr. Mite),ell admits that ho had ' doiin-.-tie ln.ul.les," that he di.l j eliiinge las name from Hippie to : Mitrhell, and fails to meet niln-r I t,'rave chiiri-s iigaiu.-t him. He puh- ; lishes a t'-legram from his IVnn-yl-vaniii law partner, that hr (Mitchell) I never defraudcil liim ; and we do not reinemher that anyliciv said hr . lid-only lid-only that Mr. Mitchell defraudul clients of the lirm. He has also a telegram from Mr. Simeon Cameron, who-e ti-slimony to char;teter, anywhere any-where that he is known, would e r-lainly r-lainly he reee'ivnl with a largo per ( ernlago of diseuiint, from the fact that he i.s ttdmitted to Ik; at once the nucl a.-tulo and unscrupulous polili-cian polili-cian of the dominant party, alheit he is a I'. S. Senator, and (iovernor maker if not a President maker. We have; nothing against Mitchell. His divorced wife is living, and is, (he Km nk lin, I 'a., SH,tt-r says, a "hired lielp" in a hotel. This he-speaks he-speaks a life of honesty industry on her part, not that of luxurious wan-toness. wan-toness. He says he hud domestic tiimhles;" she says if a 1'ittshurg ehmnicler represents her aright that the cause of those " trouhles was his hringing a wanton into the marital home, and hringing her j there night after night, in defiance of com i nun decency and the. commonest ; respect for morality. If John Hippie Mitrhell, or John Mitchell Hippie, ran explain away this damning accu sation, which may he considered a very venal nlVence in most iniaiters, wo are willing lo condone the accusations accusa-tions deemed to he even graver hy the "great moral party" of the country, coun-try, that, charge him even wii roh-l'ing roh-l'ing poor clients. As proof that we are neithr partisan parti-san nor hypercritical, we heg to say that we rcspert and honor overy inemhorof the United States Senate that has set himself against corrup-lion. corrup-lion. We respect Cliarles Sumner, . hut cannot agree with his views; we honor Judge Thunnan, hut do not agree with him on many things: we admire Judge Edmunds, Senator Carpenter, and many others, showing that our pxilelietions are neither in favor of party, nor faction; hut we do not respect, and we uncontnillahly de-pise, any and all men who win their way to power under false colors, and cover corruption with "the garh nf honor and manhood. |