, 1866-09-07

They see bower slipping from their hands-spois
eluding their grasp. They see an end put to their
vlllainy and tyranny. Their organs from the
aolest 10 the vilest are denouncing it, and warn
ing their ignorant end bigoted followers to have
nothing to do with it. The intelligent portion of
their party indorse it, and have appointed dele
gates to it.
The next "serApi'' with which will close my
invoice of contradiction, elimination and re-
crimination-is cut from the Flag of the 9th inst.
The Fag-claims to be the radical crgau-and
goes Niger clean through, The article from which
the following is taken, is editorial on the turn
out of the Union Sunday Schools in San Fran.
cisco;
On Saturday there was grand spectacle in
this City, which made the Hearts of Freedom
exultant. The Union, composed of all the Pro-
testant Sunday Schools, were out in gala.pro-
cession, in the number of about three thousand
1t was a long panorama of youth, beauty aud pu-
rity, with their mimic banners flying, and their
young hearts futteriug with joy. There were
faces like the comminglng of the rose and lily
Of Caucasus there were brown ones, like the
"Damsel of Peru" There were white, smooth,
delicate foreheads that Wealth and Luxury had
carefully hidden from the sunshine, and there
were squaresmassive, olive-tinted ones, like the
hiuuCu ClthutlS TOlu WHICH OeuluS sometimes
steps forth in the behalf of Labor to invent, en-
tighten, conquer or rule. But, horrd to relate !
and in behalf of our democratic fellow citizens,
we are dismared fright in the center Of that
radiant thong were a multitude of the children
of that peculiar people whom the Southern Bible
says were born to be slayes-"a whole parcel
of little niggers ~ We saw a number of patriotic
democrats turn away in heightened disgust. But
there were others-a little fanatical perhaps but
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on the curb stone with tears in their eyes and
joy in their hearts. Who had thought of this
arrangement so touchngly and anologically
beautliul2 There were the little coiored folks
dressed as gaily and quite as happy as the 9TH
erS many of them were almost white and very |
handsome, and-but for good old Abraham Lin |
coin, might have stood like Zoe," bushing, |
trembling, despairing on the auction block, and |
whom the democratic party-may Gods annihi-
lating curses continue to devour it I've must
beat back and keep off the blood hounds and |
man-catchers of the democratic party, until the
lids of hell shall have closed over that relic Of |
semi -ba:bar!em and savage cruelty.
l was under the impression that JEFF Davis,
freed the Southern negreos-but it seems the
Flag says i: was was old uncle Abe, SO suppose
he knows. doubt very much if the negro
think so,-they don't talk that way-they say
the Southern people set them free-by their own
acts and believe it.
Well, how DO you like the picture ? To at
tempt to follov any two of the San Francisco
(politicaD papers in their instructions on poll
tics would send sane man to the Stockton
Insane Asylum in q month. Eat then it is conn
cal to see these fiery editors meet each other on
the street, shake hands, laugh and chat-per-
haps compare nct3s-take a drink and all is
lovely. What sight this would be to some,
who seem to operate on the theory that the man
who does not agree with them in politics is a
icoqndrel, swinder and cheat, who must be put
Town at all hazards. Oh, what dupes to party
papers or party leaders The best way to find
'ut how these political editors really stand, and
What they think of each other privately and So
Tally, is to become a TRAVELLER. 1