Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-08-29
.,ss.cuusrrTs AND SOUTH CAROLINA.

AND SOUTH CAROLINA.
The Springfield Repablieaa, which is
rural New York Herald tempered by
Massachusetts radicalism, has had its
sentimentslity touched as kecnly as Mr.
.JOhuson's BY the grand spectacular drama
of Massachusetts, and South Carolina at
the Philadelphia Convention. People
shouldn't make fun Of it, so they shouldn't
says the Republican, for the moment as
solemn as an cid guy or grandmother.
why will you trampls upon the hnest
feelings of our nature. laugh at the beau
tiful and tender outgusbipgs Of the heart
ridicule that heavenly mood which mel
ted Massachusetts, and South Carolina into
magnificent oneness? queries the Repu6-
ucan. at is great DEAL" says the ro-
mantle amRepubEcan THAT after -four
years of bloody civil war, representatives
of Massachusetts, can fraterDize with those
of South Carolina for common political
object II Massachusetts,, alive and
awake to the events ofthe nineteenth cen
fury, is represented by exhumed Hunkers
who in the presence of a compromise with
the Southern patriarchs, like "the fine
old Irish glntleman" in the presence of a
whiskey bottle are mot such fools as to be
dead" and by Democrats who, like the
snake charmer's serpents, still posses
their venom but are without their teeth,
If Massachusetts, renewing. her vigor
every year and growing young every year
and growing young every day. is represen.
ted by men who are walking about be-
cause maliguity has galvanized them into
spasmodic respiration, then indeed was
the ridiculous exhibition of fraternity "a
great DEAL" and worthy OF Reverdy John
sons rhetoric, and Andrew johnson s
But Massachusetts, by which the world
means, and in this particular the Repub-
lican pretends to mean, the best ideas of
the coutry, as regards human liberty and
| civil and political rights, was not 'repre-
sented" as fraternizing with men who
went to Philadelphia to see how little they
must yield to the Massachusetts ideas
that conquered in the war Civilized Mas
sachusetts no more walked arm inarm
with regenerated South Carolina than if
! Vallandigham had marched by the side
of Robert Small There was nothing new
in Massachusetts, hunkersm claspng
hands with South Carolina rebels. They
did that during the war. Aud now, for
sooth, because they made public display
of it. the Convention must "slop over, y
Andrew johnson mnst invite member OF
Cabincnt not ITO smile" bat to weep
with him, and the Massachusetts petrfne-
tons. under the lead of the Republican,
must gush like the rock which Moses
struck. t,, s. ... .4..y .l...... .a.-a-
We suppose that even in Massach usetts
grown men must prate and palaver of un-
ion and fraternity, and clasping hands,
when that means union of Copperheads
and rebels, fraternity Of the New York
rioters of 1868 with the New Orleans ri.
oters Of 1866. These men, we presume
occupy place in the natural economy Of
the world for nothing quickcns except il
die, and corpses yield their per centage Of
sustenancc for future life.
Such jibbering and mumbling keeps
some idle people out of mischief, though
it is childs play for earnest men. AT any
rate it is less harmful than drinking, and
not as expensive as gambling If il
makes men ridiculous it docs not make
them savage, and if it reduces their IN
Auence, it does not diminish heir purses
I-Detroa Times
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