Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-03-01
From the New York Heraid!l 81 400
EPOIificalI RecOnstrue tion -TYle Tm-
RalneiidinS Crisis In COmnecticut.iE


IFrom the New York HeraId.l igi 800
Political HecOnsfrue e tfOn The gm-
Pdl PendiDg Crisis In COnnecticut.
We live, in wonderful times. The march
of ideas is carrying every thing before it..
1T is tlie momentum of a heavy railway
train descending one of those long sweeps
of the Alleghanies, and the cry, is ssC1ear
the track!'' The patriarch Noah, the
builder Of the Grisip9l Great 5ESstsEn SdeE the
lived six hundred years before the flood,
who sailed his big ship over the flood, and
who survived three hundred and fifty years
alter the flood passed, we dare say, through
a small experience ia the progress of ideas
compared with that, for instance, of Will
liam, Lloyd Garrison or Wendell Phillips:
The ancient patriarch, it is true, passed
through great deluge of water, but Gar
rison and Phillips have passed through a
deluge of fire, the most terrible in the
worlds historys and they still liVe.r
Only look at itI In October, 1885, a fe-
male anti-slavery, society was ,riotously
broken UP in Boston by collection of con-
| -erty and standing - and Mr.. Garrison, who
went to the meeting to deliver an address,
after attempting to conceal himself in a
carpenters shop from the fury of the mob,
was captured had his clothes torn off and
| was dragged through The. streets with a
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preaching in Boston negro emancipa ation.
| Cotton, then, was king, even, among the
.Puritans. Still later in the day, in New
York, the famous Democratic Empire
Club annually set apart a contingent fund
| for the reception of the aboiitionist Phillips
with, a welcome of rotten eggs. Now,
mark the change. Garrison is hailed as a
public benetactor every where. He has had
"a jnbilee in Charleston. He is the object
| Of a fifty thousand dollar subscription fund:
/ and as for Phillips, if he now becomes com
paratiyely ttme,in his philippics, it is, be-
cause he misses the Inspiration of Captain
Rynders and his shower of :, eggs Are
| not these among the wonders wrought in
Israel in these latter days? 49,, q
Who can tell what next is coming? With
the country turned upside down and inside
| out there is no telling what may come to
the surface. In, the work of political; re-
construction the materials at hand must be
used.9 Thus,our hard set Democracy in our
last November election were compelled to
| were headed by the banker Belmont and
his coach and six; two years later, in New
York, the ex-pounder Of Yankee Sullivan
the banker MorFissey ffaro and keno), is
called to the rescue, ;, He pays his way and
! goes into Congress, but his friend Hoffman
ofnthe old Democratic pattern. is left in the
4 lnrch., He. was. not sufficiently recon
structed,, like Morrissey, to win. He was
in fact, behind the drift, of events and the
/ spirit of the age He was still running. the
old go-cart. of the Dred Scott decision
1 against the steam engine of emancipation
and so Hoffman was capsized, while Nor
risseyt is, hailed as the. new Democratic
champion for the belt in Congress against
/ the mighty Ben Butler. ,.-f......4 - r..
4 - Profiting from this example of new ex-
4 pertinent to meet the new order of things
4 the Radicals of Connecticut have struck
upon still bolder adventure. They have
made the irrepressible P. T. Barnum,, the
/ living embodiment of Y Yankee notions, thefl
champion and their new platform, against
VIM. n. Barnun, an old fogy, famous only
for those old fashioned virtues of times gone
by and for his well earned success in the
i iron business. But he and all the other Bar.
NUNS must give way to The Barnum, as al
4 The O'DOnoghues stand back in the pres.
ence of The O'Donoghues. And what are
Garrison and Phillips compared with this
/ Barnum Men. of one idea against q man
i of ten thousand ideas. Take, for example
twenty-five years of the career of Phillips
and twenty-five of The Barnum, and mark
the contrast. Phillips begins, with some
silver and, gold in his possession, to preacf
emancipation; Barnum begins his negotia
tions for the old American Museum will
nothing but brass; Phillips continues, yeal
4 after year, out of pocket, harping, like Pag
4 anini, on one string; Barnum plays on
4 harp of thousand strings, and thousand
4 different tunes all in the same sky. Ye
/ he, too, has had all along one grand idea
| Old style people might call it the idea O
4 is more than that. It was the poets idea O
mermaid painted on canvass outside the
museum and the dried up head and arms O
the monkey deftly joined to the tail of
Goldfish inside the museum; it was dray
load of old bones transformed into Green
ornd Nryho oil If n hr1Y.5
i ash cart changed into a ferocious monde
script captured by, Colonel Fremont on tn,
1 Gila. river after q three days chase with
squad of dragons; it was in the day whel
Santa Anna was mighty hero, the trans
formation of an article bought, perhaps
next door, into Santa Anna's wooden leg
it was in the person of a leprous African
the living embodiment of the negro turn
ing white, a point of philanthropy in. be
half of Sambo which Phillips and Garrison
have never tried to reach. -, .,',
Nor does the record of The Barnum stol
here. Sir Philip Jones says that men con
stitute a State. They are certainly tn
Barnum has sought the improvement @
the various breeds of dogs and chickens il
his dog shows and chicken shows, he ha
also sought the Improvement of man, an
the white man, in his baby shows, and has
llperhaps, "done the State some servicep /
n his premiums for the lady hOnoring her de
Lighted spouse with the product at on
birth of the best four the best three, or tn
best two babies in the market. What
contrast in this encouragement of popula
tion is thus presented by Barnum Iagains
4 the original ruling idea of John Morrisse
OF. pounding the life out of men for pre-
MUM ...-... d
l. Against this Barnum and the progressiy
Radicals, what chance has the other Bal
mum in Connecticut? None. The otht
Barnum is behind the age. 50 The Hon. BE
Wood himself would stand no chanC
u against the Barnum who commenced ,th