The Portland daily press., 1867-10-10

Fancy pack OF hungry wolves, in some
desolate region near the head waters OF Salt
River, assembled after six days ofenfOrced alb
stinence from food, in grand council What
a howling and yeIping, what display ofwhite
teeth and red, empty Jaws, what savage nips
and sullen roars, what fierce, inarticuate re-
examinations and in general what bloody
row might naturally be expected. For if well
led dogs delight to bark and bite, how much
more hungry wolves; and if hungry wolves
how much more hungry dema2ogues. Here
have the Democratic politicians been starving
not for six days but for sixyears, growing lean
and lank till their ribs can be counted through
their seedy coats, tantalized with little ''gains"
which looked promising but were Offset by
horrid losses at the next election; sinking
deeper into the mud with every struggle to
get out, stepping out of the bog Of State
Rights into tie morass of the Peace Policy,
and thence into the bottomless duagmire Of
Repudiation--how can you expect gentle
men, so hopelessly mired, befogged and unut-
terably hungry to be quiet and amiable! -
Here was Mr.. Smart snarling and swapping
in the State Convention last summer at the
gentlemen who didn't want him to speak,
while another Democrat improved the occa-
sion by barking vigorously at ssGovernOf'
Pillsbury in the street. just now the Ban
gus for its shameful advocacy of General
Grant for. President, and "W. L. p" of Saco,
writes the New York Day Book, fiouting the
"cowardly Conservative Democrats" in good
set terms, as follows: aeB agUoi lai19I t4
The cowardly Conservative Democrats as
they seem proud to call themselves, who dare
not open their mouths In defence of Democrat
ic principles for fear they shall offend some Alb
clifton traitor, and never give cent toward
carrying an election, are ready enough to hur-
work and .pay) OF all the credit when we gain
a victory; they are ten times more hateful than
the backest Republicans. ,a t ,t.
The victory" seems to have soured w. l..
P:'s naturally amiable disposition, and indeed
the long succession Of similar victories has
had a like effect all over the country. A Dem
ocratic paper in Indiana has honestly hoisted
Vallandigham's name for the succession at
the White House, but the New York World
politely isneers at the /" insigniicance' of Mr.
Vailandghan, whereupon the New York Day
Book reviIes the editor of the World as a "col
lapsed Aboltionist.R If Mr.. Marble ever was
an Abolitionist he has certainly collapsed. In
Chicago, the Democrats have been talking of
buying up Democratic newspaper because it
was injuring the party and in the New York
Convention the other day one delegate iGl-
plored another to hold his peace, because evt
cry moment of his talk was depriving the par
ty of hundreds of votes in the coming elec-
tion. 4Has, .5ft 5,d |
In New York city, Tammany Hall has been
sold to Mr. Dana for printing Office for his
new Republican paper. The sachems have
got new house further up town, but "there's
nae luck aboot the house, Tammany is rent
into opposing factions, and besides mus
struggle for the supremacy with Mozart Hal
and Miles O'Reilly's Union Democrats. 1t is
fact that the Democratic party in New York
city is rent into these struggling fragments
and each Of three fragments INTO minor
eliques, and for the first time in many years
there is probability, almost a certainty, =
the Times says, Ii wise counsels PREVAIL
that the other party wflI elect half and possi-
bly, the whole of the county, judicial and leg
islative officers to be chosen on the first Tues
day in November. II the Republican party
concentrates its, $4,000 votes upon lis best and
strongest men, there is glorious possibility
that it may be able to do more for the welfare
OF that misgoyerned city than the Society for
the Suppression of Cruelty to Animals could
accomplish in half century. Ths little feuds
and jealousies which prevail among our down
east Democrats are mere lovers quarrels to
the fiundying hates and irreeoncilable enIni-
ties. which are said to be nourished in the
great metropolis. 9i 2sJ .aiaH- odi q uniGi