Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-05-28

ing cnaracterlsuc OF hauicbi to DC ue-
spondent About the most loyal thing
that could be said was to repeat Wash
burn's remark: " Everything has gone
TO -" The Radicals had been doing
everything that they saw fit to do for so
long time, that when they ran against
something hard they were astonished
even more than they were hurt. A coun.
try paper (ihe Hamilton Adpertiser)
gives an Illustration apropos TO Ashley 8
refusal to shake hands with the Chief
Justice, that we may quote in this con-
nection:
"Pve lost pet lambs, and I've lost fresh
cows, and horses and pigs" exclaimed
the disconsolate widow, as they we're
gently lowering the coffin of her old
partner carefully into its grave, but,
deary me dropping quiet tear there
nerer did nothin' knock me like thfsF
But the Radicals are getting over II
rapidly. They are not wasting time IN
crying over the split milk. Already they
are at something else, with the same old
vim. With larger development of the
article of discretion, the Radicals would
make an awful party. Under competent
leadership they might conquer the world.
The trouble with them is that they will
waste their strength. They want to be
on the double quick forever, but flesh
and blood cant stand that
The Democracy appreciate the vlgor
and venom of the Radicals, tor their
spirit is more like that Of the Democratic
party in its high old days than anything
else the country has produced. When
Miles O'Reilly sang the praises OF Uncle
Thad," he expressed, in his accustomed
felicity of phrase, the sentiments of
million of those who admire and hate the
old Radical heartily. Here are the gems
Of the song of Miles, the poet OF Tam
many: tt
"Gnarled and tough from seventy winters.
Agritty, grisly, bitter Rad;
Though our Union fall to splinters,
Here's to Pennsylvania Thad
Brown his wig, but green his vigor.
Angry often, never sad
| Full of wit. and prone to rigor,
Here's to Pennsylvania Thad
"Thad, we like you; you are able;
Aud the biggest brick we bays had
In our loud Congressional Babel,
Is our Pennsylvania Thad
"6o IT, my old shoulder-hitter
| For though we think your logic bad,
You're Just as brilliant as you're bitter,
He. e's to Pennsylvania Thad u
The Radical grip is good. The Democ-
| racy, once accustomed to win by audacity
and the rigor of party discipline, stand
| abashed. There was something IN the
way the impeachers went for Andrew
johnson, and proposed to possess the
| White House, that was like the rush of
storming party upon fortress that must
be taken by storm or not at all and there
never were such vials of wrath poured
upon human heads as those emptied over
"the seven recreants" The radical
! difficulty with the Radicals is, that they
wish all the time to be on the double
quick. That is pace that will do for
dash, but not for long march. We hae
a great deal of double-quick early in the
war. Green field officers, mounted upon
| chargers presented by admiring friends,
| were delighted with double-quick. The
bows who carried the guns and KNAPP
sacks we're not, however, partial to it;
and there was very little double-quick
on Grants long fight from the Rapidan
to the Appomattox, or Sherman's march
from Atlanta to the sea- One of the
greatest and best beloved of our military
chieftains, Maj. Gen. Geo II. Thomas,
was affectionately nicknamed old Slow
Trot," because he rebuksd any unbusi-
nessiike galloping and hurrying to and
fro about him. Setting forth for day S
ride, his ordinary direction to those
about him was "slow trot." We COM
mend the phrase to the Radicals, if they
propose to make long march. 1t is bet
ter than go slow" or " make haste
slowly" 1t is indicative Of steady pro-
eress. the movement Of masses, and of
reserved power; and slow trot is about
as good gait as can be kept up through
a summers day, "Slow trot, boys
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