The Union. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1863-1866, 1864-03-04

ry an election. the more fuss you mako tho
more fun the ungodly are apt to poke at you, |
to say nothing of the ungrateful tendency of
candidates-such is the selfshness of human
nature-to bolt and 90 over to the enemy or
positively decline 70 be used any. morel-
There have been agreatm many ofthese birth
strangled political babes, Of which the very
benes--if they ever had any bones-are
among things lost upon earth. There are en-
thusiastic gentlemen in this city. who within
the last twelve years have belonged to as
many wcll-dcfned and separate parties all of
which have, after dubious existence, man
aged to rid themselves of their semi-vitality
and to die deoently or, indecently. Now, it
seems, we are to have new experiments. We
are to have curiosity of a party, at once
radical and conservative, alive and dead,
blind and sharp-sighted, deaf and long-eared,
pro-Slavery aud anti-Slavery, constitutional
and unconstitutional, cautious and rash,
clear-headed and fanatical, in favor of Slave
holders and mortally hostile to Slavery
This will certainly be stronger hybrid than
any heretofore begotten even upon The Es-
press newspaper. P. T. B. never had in his
museum such thrilling, amazing, unprece-
-dented and awe-inspiring bit of deformity,
such compendium of all possible contradic-
tions, as this miscellaneously constructed
party will be- The mermaid, compared with
| it, was but piece of clumsy joinery. Pity
it's that it should die--a greater pity its
that when dead, it cannot be rubbed well
with. arsenical soap, scientifically cured, that
no more vermin Nay be engendered, and
then hung up with the apes and the alliga-
tors. '5N
Total extinction of Slavery Why what,
we pray to be told, are the New-Lights talk
ing aboutH Why this means infdelity and
anarchy, and general wreck and confusion,
and amalgamation, and distress of mind to
DR.. Lord and despair to Bishop Hopkins,
and the final prostration of white folks, and
an everlasting light and tobacco last
Total extinction. of Slavery What words
are these to come from Copperhead mouths?
What then will become of Canaan? We see
him now with the curse imposed upon him
by the Everlasting God, taken off by the
greater authority of the new party-we see
him imprudently walking about in redeemed,
regenerated, and disenthralled condition,
giving the lie to the Sacred Scripture, snap
ping his fingers at ethnologsts, and turning
up his nose at Greek photographers, and
going into the business of human life gem
orally as if he were really human being
! Alas what waste will this involve of logic,
philosophy, philology, osteology, craniology,
and all other 'ologies whatsoever!-to say
nothing of Constitutional Law Of the Web
sterio-Curtian and Divinity of the Doctor
Southsidc-Adams stripe Ito say nothing of
cords upon cords Of pamphlets as yet unread
put out by the Society for the Diffusion Of
Constitution knowledge!
Our gratuitous hut sincere, and, we be
lieve, wise advice, to all misguided men, who,
hungering and .thirsting for the Presidency,
expect to attain official bliss through the dis.
interested wiggles of the Copperhead serpent,
| 10 " StNO up thCli liltll ia tLdO ue-
ceptive reptile at once and forever. At any
rate, no prudent man will accept a nomina-
ton from his snakeship without he is secured
salary, as candidate, of at least $4,000
per month. II will be Eorth the money, and
any average human being would sell himself
abominably cheap for such a service, even al
such price, although paid in advance, even
as it would certainly be if ever paid at ALL
1t is worth great deal of money to be used
for time and then flung away like a squeezed
lemon, never more to be used in the brewing
of any political punch. Our elective battle
fields are already strewn with these blood
4 less and broken-boned corpses. A long and
ghostly train of Presidential aspirants.. VIII.
have been the candidates of newspapers but
never the candidates of conventions outside
small counties, shadow a solemn warning tc
all Generals, whether of the Major or Briga
der species; and from the Golgotha Of eau
cus-murdered men comes up despairing cry
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