New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-06-11
MIIIIGAN AT BLUFETON.

Proverbaliss talk Of the likeness Of two peas, but
two peas are wildly dissimilar when contras,ed with
the Photographic identity Of two Copperhead speeches
Though one star may differ from another star in glory
yet both are glorious, and 90 though one disloyal
speech NAV differ from another in iguominy yet both
are ignominiOus. The truth is, a sO-called " DEM
ocrat" sore as to his head and sour to his heart,
with great appetite for political profits and small
aptitude for the present emergencies of political
service, can DO nothing else as well he can find
fault with the doings of Others They all play, these
out.a. the.elbows political performers, upon a single
snarling string While they cannot betoo sharp upon
New Eng d. they lavish all their elaborate suayity
Of phrases upon South Carolina. They keep their
censure for home consumption and lash their friends
and neghbor as these were the consprators AMI the
Rebels Men of threadbare phrases and of moldy
platitudes, like Col l.. 7. Mllgan Of Indiana, really
believe in their nmost hearts, if hearts they may be
considered to have that the Secesonsts are the gen.
uine martyrs. Mgan who came very near being
hung by a military tribunal for treason to his own
State il just out Of the Ohio Penitentiary on ball.
His feow-creatures in Button gave him reception,
with plenty of GRASSLAND and blank-cartridge en-
thusasm-one Of those ovations which always, upon
being reduced TO their final elements, yield only bad
whisky with trace OF tobacco. In his Grafton Of
grateful acknowledgment, Mlligan initiated, not with
out glory, against the Purtans-which, considering
that they have all been dead for about two centuries
and half Millgan put himself into small jeopardy
BY doing. This is a favorite device. With nothing
else TO say, which il would be prudent to say it is al
ways in order in a Copperhead Convention to cast
foul scorn upon Plymouth Rock. Milligan followed
tho rule. Poets have praised the Puritans, and
historians have culogzcd them, and painters have
depicted their advent; millions Of honest folk hold
their memory in grateful admiration; but Mlgan
of Indiana Colonel of "The Sons of Liberty
despses them-John Alden, and Elder Brewster, and
Miles Standish-he holds them all in an equal
adherence. With a feroeity quite remarkable in
Western man. he abuses them for killing the Indians
With theological insight not to have been looked
for in Colonel he alirms that their hearts were
desperately wicked. Then Milligan, greatly to the
delight of Button assaulted Boston for Boosting Of
ga higher civilization than common Christians can
aspire to-" In that city, be affirmed. successful
crime is made the standard of respectability."
There," he said, people are educated to villainy
there vllainy is most respected" From that
Sodom "annual supplies of schoolmasters, preachers,
lawyers and bankers are sent to plunder the people"
And so with frightfully' brutal auson to the
murder Of Mr.. Lincoln, Millgan passed to the
consideration of other topics
There are moro Migaus 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 there are here in New
York who talk the same lingo, and mouth the same
Interpretations and trayesy history in the spirit
of attoncys.at.law graphing with desperate ease
and who know that they are retailing fasehood' md
mislcalI .e popular mind. These men are respon-
sLle lor .Aer mischief they are responsible for The