The Portland daily press., 1868-08-18
Republican Meetings.
Fec, FL, Fo, FUN, or Cannibalism Inn
.uHH ..f .. ... minent. ~

The distinguished individual who smelt the
blood Of a native OF the British Isles is still
extant, the popular belief that he is defunct
being only a popular error. The gentleman
of sensitive olfactories now edits the Rich
mond Enquirer, and the sanguinary odor, if
we may say so, sautes his nostrs through
the open door of his sanctum. The astonish-
. ing fact in this gentleman's case is that there
is prescience in his smell, and in describing
him we are compelled to invent companion
metaphor for a common one that no one scru-
pies to use. We speak OF "looking into the fu-
ture;" the sage of the Enquirer smells into the
future, thereby greatly overshadowipg in emf
hence the original Fee-Fi FUN, whose
smell was as limited as Sam Weler's vision.
The editor of the Enquirer does not belong,
however, to the Anthropophagi himself, and
there is consequently strong ground for be-
lievng that his head does not grow beneath
his shoulders, like those of one branch of that
peculiar race described by Othello in wooing
Desdemona. He does not propose to eat hui
man flesh himself, but foresees that "the Ja-
cobins" will. .-''+
Philosophers who make great discoveries
quite uniformly make mistakes in matters OF
detail, and very inferior persons are lett to set
them right. Certainly the great Richmond
smelst has erred in the very first step taken
after establishing the great fact that roast
missionary is to become as popular in Ameri-
ca as horsehesh is in England. We can con
vict him of error on his own premises He
does not, as some may rashly conclude, base
his general conclusion that there is marked
cannibalistic tendency in the people ON the
mortgage that the United States government
has recently taken on the domains of His I'm
perial and Gracious Majesty, the King of the
Fee-jee Islands. No such crude reasoning as
as that for your man, we say it reverently, of
carnal mind His conclusion is reached
through much more complicated process.
First, he says, the Jacobins "a pestilence on
the request say WEI are raising the everlast-
ing African to social equality, that means mis-
cegenation, and miscegenation means fetch
worship and all manner of denominations and
and fnally-cannibalisn Now comes the fal-
lacy. The Jacobins are perhaps more favora-
bly, disposed toward granting all sorts of equal
ity to the negro than the Jacobites. but is a
matter of statistics that the Jasobites are
practical miscegenationists in the proportion
of about ten thousand to one of the Jacobins.
The mulatto race owes its origin beyond all
possibility of dispute to the chivalry of the
South 1t will be the chyary, then, who will
abandon beet steak-for what? Roast Abo-
litionist, unquestionably! 1t is the uniform
practice Of man-eating races to devour their
enemies. 1t is true that they may accord the
aged and helpless of their own friends the
honor of a place on the table with appropriate
sauce, but your true cannibal epicure will al
ways give his order for choice bit of his foe.
Alack the day! is there no help for it? Must
we see Sumner end his useful career in the
reeking hands of Howell Cobb and Robert
Toombs, and Horace Greeley served up, fig
uratively speaking, con the half shell?"