The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-12


From the Tribune.
Proyerbialists talk Of the likeness OF two peas,
but two peas are widely dIssimilar when con.
trasted with the photo raphic identity of two
Conperhead speecbes Though one star may
differ from another star in glory yet both are
olorious and So though one disloya speech
NAV differ from another IN ignominy, yet both
are ignomipious. The truth is, so-called
ssDemocrst,r sore as to his head and sour as to
his heart with a great appetite for political
profits, and a small aptitude for the present
emergencies of political service, can do nothing
else as well as he can find fault with the dongs
of others. They all play. these outatthe-elbows
political performers, upon single snarllng string.
While they cannot be TOO sharp upon New Eng
land, they lavish all their elaborate suavity Of
phrases upon South Carolina They keep their CEN
sure Tor home consumption, and ash their friends
and neighbo1s as II these were the consprators
and the Rebels. Men OF threadbare phrases and
of mouldy platitude., like Colonel l.. p. Mllli-
gan, of Indiana, really believe in their inmosJ
hearts, If hearts they may be considered to have,
Ahat the ,secessionists are the genuine martyrs.
MIlligan, who came very near being hung by
military tribunal for treason in his own Sta'e,
is Just out OF the Ohio Penlte ltiary on bail.
HIS iellowcreatures in Blutfton gave him re-
ception, with plenty OF brass band and plank
cartridge enthusiasm OF those OvatiOn5
which always, upon being reduced to their final
elements, yield only bad whisky with trace of
ledgment, Millgan initiated, not without glory,
against the Purtans; which, considering that
they have all been dead for about two centuries
and a half, Milhgon put himself into small
jeopardy by doing. This is a favorIte device.
With nothing else to say, which it would be
prudent to say, II is alwaysin order in Copper
head Convention to cast foul scorn upon Ply
mouth Rock Milligan followed the rule. Poets
have praised the Purltans, and historians have
eulogized them, and painters have depicted
their advent; mill tons of honest folk hold
their memory in grateful admratlon but Milli-
gan, OF Indiana, Colonel of 'The Sons of Lib
eIty,' despises them-John Alden and Elder
Bre Nster and Mics Standish-he holds them all
in an equal adherence. With erocity quite
remarkable in Western man, he abuses them
for killing the Indians. With theological
insight not 10 have been looked for in Colonel,
he afirms that their hearts we're desperately
wicked. TheL Millgan, greatly to the delight
OF Bluffton, assaulted Boston for boasting of "a
higher civiltzauon than common CHRISTIANS can
aspire to-" In that CITY, as he affirmed, "suc-
cesstul crime is made the standard OF respecta-
b1lity.n There" he said, people are educated
to villanY-there villany is most respected"
From that Sodom annual supplies OF school
masters preachers, lawyers, and bankers are
sent to plnnder the people, And so with a
frightiuliY brutal alusion to the murder OF Mr..
Lincold, Mn.lgan passed to the consideration of
other topics. lF
There are more Milligans than one in the
country, we regret TO say. They are the spawn
OF popular ignorance and it is upon the popular
ignorance that they feed 1t is true that Ghere
are men here in New York who talk the same
lingo and mouth the same Misrepresentation
and travestry history in the spirit Of attorneys.
at-law graphing with desperate case, and who
know that they are retailing falsehoods and
misleading the popular mind. These men are
responsible for their mischief; they are respon-
sible for the sins OF such fellows as MIlligan,
who, perhaps, believes that he is really speaking
the truth. MIR. Calhoun, we regret to aver, was
the grand ancestor OF this brood of blackguards.
He set the fashion OF sneerlnC at the Purtans,
and it has been kept up with spirit if not with
vigor, ever since. 1t was a fine thing for
patriarch, perspiring from his exertlons at the
Whipping-post, to aver that the PuIitans were
also slaYewhippers, though the reason why he
should like them the less for that was not so
apparent. To prove that the Purltans hanged
the Quakers was held to be the end of contro-
versy by those who were al ways ready and eager
to hang Abolitionists. To recount the story
of Salem witchcralt was esteemed perfect de-
tense of property in man, and New EnglanderS
were held to be in equity estopped from protest
ing against modern cluelties, because their
grea,-great grandtathers were bigoted, supersti.
stitous, and intolerant Yet, no doubt, IN MIR.
Calhoun's opinion the slaveholding of Massa.
Chusetts was che brightest feature in her early
history. He had no particular respect tor
Quakers. He had no particular sympathy for
witches Yet to be able to say that the New
El.eland of 1920 was behind the New England
OF 1920 in all that appertains TO civil Justice was
thought by Mr.. Calhoun to be a rare privilege
and a reonder 10 which there could be no
response Yet it was after this fashion that Mr.
Calhoun, himself man of New England educa-
tion besotted the intellects and betrayed the
Judgment of thousands of his disciples, man
owners, and the jackalls of man-o wners, until it
became the established usage to assume in Con-
gress, in conyocations aud even, we are ashamed
TO say, in religious conventions, that all the
crimes OF the South, in 1860 were at least
palllated by the crimes of Plymouth and Massa.
Chusetts Bay In 1880.
What Bluifton may think of Boston may be of
very little consequence; but when many of these
loose-tongued Miiligans are striving to create
sectional iealousies, there being already at the
West some tendency in that direction, 1t Is we'll
to show how utterly empty and untrue Is the
Milligan style OF defamation. 1t only proves
what every body might have known before, that
there are bad men even IN the loyal States, and
that few decided Union reveIses might have
exposed us 10 all the perils of treason and In
suirection at our own doors. 1t is the hope and
desire of Milliean, as expressed in his speech
that what he calls "rhe Democratic Party, "
may "again come into power" He tells his
Bluffton neighbors that the Government Is rob-
bing them TO enrich New England. He tells
them that political power ''is in the hands of a
privileged oligarchy.n He is indignant that
Indiana should be taxed to pay the Interest on
national securities held by bloated Bostonians
and New Workers. That is, he appeals To
pockets and passions and prejudices-he Il
serving the ends of disafection, and when "thC
Democratic party" gets once more into power hC
expects to reap the tull harvest of confiscatioT
ard reputation.
The Great Work Of Thirty Days.