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Show very blood ; when courts and people seemed leagued together to compass his destruction, one officer of the French army, Col. Picquart, stood by him, braving all the danger in the -way, all the obloquy which the infuriated people could hurl at him. i .-. .. Now Dreyfus has been cleared ; France has done ! what it could to! make' restitution for the wrongs inflicted in-flicted upon him' and Picquart advanced to a General has been made chief of staff of the French army, by the Minister of "War. It is -the loftiest station in the.rmy, carries 'with it-the highest honor and largest emoluments. His appointment is one of the most direct revenges that - time ever wrought. - tOf course his enemies do not like it and some seen to fear that he will, through his office, punish those who were most active in their abuse of him. Such men possibly reason from what they would do with such an opportunity. His appointment will be held by him as: a sufficient' revenge upon them, , if he is really a great soldier and man. His triumph is absolute and will remain so if he is great enough for the place that has been given him. v ! ' His receiving it is proof that Justice sometimes, at'least, balances her awful scales in away to justify her old reputation, but, nevertheless as a rule she is awfully, slow. ..... j..' , hen Dreyfus . was in the very' crisis of persecu-tioni persecu-tioni when the rabble of Paris" was thirsting for Ea ...- .. . |