The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-18

"METHINKs THERE BE SIX RIoHHoNDs
IN THE FIELD."-The appearance of PETER
the Hermit caused a host of crusaders to
spring into life. The firm attitude of King
Arthur surrounded him with myriad of
patriotic Saxons. One LUTHER caused the
Reformation; and one NAPOLEON, on his
return from Elba, resurrected million pa
triots in France. And al OF these great origi-
nators OF change, the reversers of the wheel
OF custom, and iluminators of a new era,
risked their lives and regulations to secure
their end, and many of them fell, after see
ing their triumph, victims to the prejudices
which they had sought to overcome. Truly.
"the blood Of the martyrs is the seed of toe
Churcl." And the ruin of one mans fame
has venerated his age.
Such thoughts as these probably flooded
the mind OF ScovEL the Great. Of Camden
when he bolted the Republican nomination.
He Yves tired Of the idle and degrading SUBJ
serviency of party pledges. He deprecated
and despised the trammels of a caucus. and
considered the whole fabric of American
politics an Augean stable which he would
cleanse. Why should he hesitate because OF
the contumely which would follow the origin
ator OF what honorable men had been accus-
toned through habit to consider dishonor-
able? Did not Admiral CoLIGNY die for
principle, yet his fame is bright Did not
CBANMER's derter perish in the flames. vet
he is honoredp And why should not he
SCovBL, sacrifice himself to the Inauguration
of new political code of morality even if he
did sink beneath the indignation of the slaves
OF the ring?
lie would be mountain partridge" and
rise like the Phoenix from his ashes From
his example thousand SCovELs would arise.
and reform tie earth and purify the foul air
of cauhuses. "The blood OF SoovEL
would be the seed of partisan secession,'
If the great JAMES argued thus land who
can doubt, when ne marks the lofty tone Of
sublime martyrdom which pervades the efFu
sions of tie SCoNEL pen p, then has he beena
prophet, and possibly the son of a prophe.
As il he had been a single mushroom seed
sOwn in the evening, we find in the morning a
score Of fellow-mushrooms covering the field.
In April SCOVEL scorns all The claims of what
men are accustomed (by habit) to call honor;
in May the pod has been waited as far as
Connecticut and, benold, the Senate of that
State boasts three SCovELs. If the reform
spreads in arithmetical ratio. by the time
our Legislature meets in January, a majority
will be composed or''bolters." 1t will be dit--
ficult to persuade a candidate to accept of a
regular nomination if the custom continues
to increase. And what a noble position does
the juvenile father OF the detection occupy!
We have referred to LUTHER, but LUTHER
moral reformation, while
SCovEL will have inocdlated the whole land
with a new political religion. What was the
German Retormer OF the Eas. n M HoMMED
to compare with him? True, his enemies
may say that he was urged to the great work
by his hatred and jealousy OF Mr.. CATTELL
but was not LUTHER urged on by contempt
for the priests who sold indulgencies? Was
not his incentive personal one and did not |
this motive resemble that of SCoVEL? and |
are they not both on an equality?
But the SCovEL reformation is progressing
ar faster than that of LUTHER. The latter
had but one MELANCTHoN, but the former
has already received the aid of three un-
known State Senators in Connecticut. Truly
our first exclamation at seeing the conduct of
his lovely trio was the quotation of RICHARD
there lbe six Rchmonds in
he field" America now boasts of four
ScovELs. Whether the fructifying power of
he great partridge" will continue at the
present prolific rate, aided by the sunny
smiles Of official favor, we know not; but we
nope, for the country's good, that the feeble
OF old age will speedily fall upon
lis doctrines and prevent an increase of con-
7erts to this modern scheme of political
or, as some would unkindly term
lin, political renegade.