Owyhee semi-weekly tidal wave. [volume] (Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho Territory) 1868-1869, 1868-12-29
rHE aAConINs AGAIN.

The JacOhius have been haunting
the brain Of the editor Of the i0ahO
World during his late illness Fright
cncd nj the picture Of modern dem
ocracy their history presents, be
casts about for means 10 drive away
the ghost but il twill not down.
The well-kBown characters Of their
dearest friends are so plainly marked
in the little sketches we gave from
Scott that modern Marats begin 20
"see themselves as others see them.
They see in the character Of Robes
pierre the smooth hypocritieal Pen
dieton, with his cold, exaggerated
strains Of oratory, attempting to be-
guile the ignorant and the vulgar by
accommodating his flattcry to their
passions and scale of understanding.
They see the people listening TO this
modern RObespierre, as the lower
orders did 10 his illustrious prOto-
type, when, as Croly tells US, be
twanged out his aposirophes of
Pdatae People, People uertsue'lr >"
We shall not have 10 90 to Scott to
learn that the portrait of the elder
Fendleton was hung in all the haunts
Of vice in France aud that il was
rudely stamped on their bills Of ex-
change, of which the greenback Por-
traits OF this modern Robespierre,
still visible in parts of this country,
afford striking illustration.
They see also in Theirs account
of Danton the rough Hampton
whose countenance was that of an
ogre on the shoulders of Hercu-
les" The latter, like the former,
occasionally melting TO humanity 50
az TO be- approached with safety, when
he would 4" laugh at the terror his
defamation had excited. "
Then in Rossean, Button, Mon
tesquieu, D'Alembert, Diderot and a
host of the leaders of the crusade
against law and Government may be
plainly recognized the lives and
characters Of n Seymour, Blair,
Voorhees,, a Vallandigham, etc, who
in the eighteenth century kept out of
harms way themselves, but urged
their tools and miniOns to the perpe-
tration OF unheard of crueities
against the Government OF their
country and the loyal people who
supported it. These parallels might
be run on until the last JacObin in
France had found counterpart in
modern democracy in the United
STATES, but our space is unequal to
so elaborate an exposition, besides
we have said enough to awaken an
interest in the matter should the
charge Of Jacobin be- again made
against Republicans.
All We expect to accomplish is to
induce readers to search out these
characters themselves and see how
yileIy they have been attempted to
be imposed upon by either an igno-
rant or wilful Jacobinical press. We
cannot suppose the Marats of to-day
TO be ignorant Of the resemblance
they bear their elder brother, and
therefore set the whole thing down
AS an intentional deceit.
The Worlds readers will observe
that the only argument it has found
against our position is abuse of Sir
Walter Scott as historian, whom
1t compares to Gulliver, etc. Now
we grant that so far as Napoleon or
the French as a nation are con-
cerned, SCOTS views are taken with
much allowance. but certainly he
had no undue bias against the Jaeo-
bins who attempted TO destroy that
Government nor has the World at
tempted to show any discrepancy be
tween Scott and other historians on
the points of resemblance between