The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-22
The Democratic Jonah.

From ne ". Y. Herald
We must frst tell of the Bible Jonah, Jonah
the Prophet. The word OF the Lord came TO
this Jonah to 90 down TO the wicked olty OF
Nineveh, "and cry against it, Tor their WICK
adness Is come up before me-" But Jonah ran
away and went down to Joppa, paid MS iare,
and took passage on a ship bound for Tar
shisb ."But the Lord sent out great wind
into the sea, and there was mighty tempest"
aud the mariners were frightened and began
TO pray each man to his god, and they light
enad the ship by throwing the cargo over
board. But they found Jonah "down into the
sides OF the ship, and he lay and was fast
asleep" They reused him up and cast lots,
and the lot fell upon Jonah. Then they CROSS
examined him, when he confessed to them
that he was oarpet-bagger and scalawag.
Sand he said unto them, take me up aud cast
me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm
unto you, for know that for my sake this
great tempest is upon you" But those were
humane mariners, and not of the order of the
Ku-Klux Klan. So they worked hard to save
their vessel without sacrificing Jonah; but all
to no purpose. Then says the inspired nara
Uve:--
IA. Wherefore they cried unto the Lord, We
beseech Thee Lord, we beseech Thee, let us
not perish for this mans life, and lay not upon
us innocent blood: for Thou, o Loro, hast done
"i6. So they took up Jonah and cast him forth
into the sea, and the sea ceased from hsr raging
ingly, and offered sacrifice unto the LORD, ana
Gin other words. they adopted new plat
III. Now the Lord had prepared great Il sh
belly Of the fish three days and three nights"
How Jonah prayed unto the Lord ''out Of
the fsh's belly" how he was "vomited out on
the dry land, - how he went to Nineveh and
preached according to his instructions, how
the Ninevites repented and put on sackoloth
IAsrv oh,
became every angry" that the city was not
destroyed, and how he was brought to better
frame of mind by the lesson of the gourd vine,
we need not here repeat. Oar text is the
fifteenth verse of the first chapter of the Book
of Jonah:--
$50 they took up Jonah and cast him forth
into the sea, and the sea ceased from her raging"
Now the Democratic ship, bound for Tar
shish or Salt River, is in the midst of mighty
tempest, but the mariners, instead of praying
to their gods, are cursing and swearing at
each other and the captain and mate, Seymour
and Blair, demanding, first, that both shall
be thrown overheard The captain ia ready
to decline once more, but the mate "don't see
it." He is willing to do anything for the
cause, but his instructions must come from
the Democratic party. Whsreupon a certain
clique of Egyptians and Bohemians in New
York, having cast lots, say the lot has fallen
upon the captains mate, and they call out
the mate by name, and denounce him as the
Jonah of the ship, and they insist upon his
being cast forth into the sea- no matter
whether q great fish has or has not been pre-
pared to swallow him up. These mariners,
after their fashion, have worked hard to save
the vessel; but she has been striking among
the rocks, she has sprung leak, and they
know that for Blair's sake this tempest is upon
them. Seymour is all right Blair is the
false prophet and the guilty fugitive fro M
Two hoo I'd ha
Now, the manner whereby this man Blair
was coupled with Seymour was this: rue
Nbloated bondholders'' of Gotham and the
East, having, by their cunning devices in the
Tammany council chamber, made Seymour
captain, on q new platform declaring certain
acts of Congress unconstitutional, revolu-
tionary, and void," certain men of the West
and the South said, as ye have so declared we
name the valiant soldier, Blair, as second in
command, inasmuch as in your platform ye
have adopted his Brodhead letter. And all
the men assembled in Tammany under the
idol of the big Indian said Amen. And then,
rejoicing in their work, with a mighty yell,
like that of Southern army, the Convention
adjourned. The Egyptians aud Bohemians,
followers of the Manhattan Club, however,
would make the honest Blair the scapsgoat or
Jonah of the Tammany Convention. They
call upon Belmont and his associate high
priests OF the temple to do this thing if Blair
will not take the hint and leave. But will
Blair, as a scapecoat or Jonah, carry off that
revolutionary edict from the new Tammany
book of Democracy No; but as that was
the work of Wade Hampton he may withdraw
1t. Let it be So and what then? Then Hamp-
ton and his posse will retire in disgust; then,
while all the North 60 for Grant, all the South
will go the Same way, and the Democratic
ship, as well as Jonah, this time will be cast
upon the dry land.