The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-07-26
Shows the Cloycn Foot Again.

A mans secret opinions will occasionally
leak out--cspccially when he's a little ON
the weak order. some days ago. the editor
of the Journal published an article reflect
ing upon the country pcoplc-cspecially
In Democratic ncighborhoods. We took
him 10 task. This ought 10 have put hin,
on his guard.
But In his article this morning on the
"PRIMARY MEETINGS" the cclovcn foot sticks
out again. Icis very much afraid OF the
common masses" W. he calls them, having
everything their own way; SO he calls on
the merchants and manufacturers 10 be on
handi Thus he says:
"Thc influential men Of the Union party,
unfortunately, need stimulation tO do their
duty TO the public. The common masses
need no urging"
Again:
Gan the influential men reasonably cx-
pcct the common mass Of citizens to labor
for themY'
This nice little distinction between the
"common mass" of our fellow citizens and
the merchants" aud manufactures Is q
leading idea In the philosophy Of the editor
of the Journal; aud hence It win escape oc-
casionally into too public view. But II
shows where a mans sympathies and ten
denotes are whose interests he has at stake,
and the value ofhis opinions; or the reason
ofhis support.
That We are not mistaken IN the state
mcnt that the only idea the Journal has OF
the people" is Of rich fellows, merchants,
&c. Let us quote a little moro;
"The offices belong TO the people, aud the
people ought 10 I'LL them Just as they would
| iill places in their c0uHtlng-rO0ms-wi the
best men for the situation they can find
Veyy good advice. But what proportion
of the 'pcople" have coUHting-rooms TO Gll ?
The fact of the matter is that if you will
read merchants and manufacturers in
stead of "people, " You will have the editors
notion what constitutes the people,
very vague word in general use.
The Puritan-Then and Now.
The Puritan, says the Baltimore Gazette,
who burned or sulIocatcd Pequods and
Narragansetts, because they were "lleath-
en-" was quite in his element, but he had
already become demoralized by rudimental
Yankceism, when he began to poison the
savagcs with rum In order to cheat them
out of their pcltries. lie had reached the
consummaton and disgrace of his meta
mOrphosis, In the late war, when he stole
cotton and became burglar of teaspoons,
MS a Major General or army-chaplain, con-
sccratcd 10 the enforcement of "New Eng
land IDEAS In fact, the very substitution
OF the word idea" for the fierce aud intol-
Grant but downright thing which the old
Puritan called ''Glith," seems of itself to
tell the story. II is easy to see, from the
difference, how the one drove man TO
slashing with his broadsword, while the
other sets him to whiting nutmegs. We
can no more imagine the SUMMERS and Ev
ERETTs and FEssENDENs to be HAMPDENs
and PYMs and VANEs. than we can mistake
General BUTLER or General BANKS for II
CROMWELL, or expect to find 1IABBAKUK
MUcKLEwRATH attached TO the Frecdman's
Bureau, piifcring rations between morning
and evening prayers. 1t would overtaX
the powers of Sir WALTER ScoTr himself
to conceive the mctamorphosis of n hill
side Covcnanter into bOunty-jumper, or
10 trace in Government contractor, SELL
| ing rotten steamboats, and wooden oats, the
spirit of the steel. clad Round-lIcads who
repelled the fiery charges of Prince
RUPERT.
When General BUTLER, in one of his
speeches at Boston during the war, appealed
To 'our Holy Religion" in justification of
some iniquity or other, the appeal was de-
voutly responded to without murmur,
though every one well knew, who heard it,
that BUTLER would have traded away the
twelve Apostles themselves for six bogs-
heads of tobacco, and that every man OF
his audience would have joined in the
transaction for commission of two and q
half per cent. In fine, to use a happy
LINCoLNIsM, they "run church," inside
Of which are the appointed rulers of men
all those on the outside being merely Gen
tiles, whose hermitage may righteously b,
dcspoiled. by what tests the faithful ar,
to be distinguished from those ia outel
darkness, the faithful, themselves, of course
exclusively determine. At the present mo
ment 'loyalty" Is the touchstone. Onl,
loyalty has rights-disloyalty having 'n'
, right but that of sepulturc, and that onl,
, by favor," rs the illustrious PiArr once eX
pressed It in Baltimore, when he was chic
} of staff to the yet more iilustrious SCHENcR
r Loyalty has the advantage of charity, il
Q not only covering multitude of SINS bu
} in forever justifying all the sinners. Dis
loyalty, on the other hand, not only cover
4 up all virtues past but renders IL impossi
BILE for the disloyal ever to be virtuous an,
, more. The disloyal can never attain grac
l. the loyal never can fall from it. Black o
I white thief or liar, fool or knave, the loya
. man has the right 10 govern the land hence
: forth, he, his heirs and asslgns-thc bust
e ness of the disloyal being only to pay take
= without voting, buy loyal mems goods 4
4 high prices, eat dirt aud be walked over
.
. Wisconsin.
The Democratic State Central Committe
! in Wisconsin have appointed Hon. H. |
PALMER, Col. GABRIEL B6tcK, MnTo