The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-01-31
A MEETING OF JACKALs.

q certain 6lEedh vi SCuthhShs hhAh B
through him. 1t is of the post morton
sort. Not only does he worship at the
shrine of dead issues, but he has a
weakness for mourning, in public, over
dead heroes. The American public can
never forget the vigor of his lamenta-
tons over the body Of the dead Douglas
how he went in state, swinging around
the circle of bereavement, to lay the
Constitution and flag of the Union upon
the tomb of the Little Giant. Inas-
much as he was bitter opponent of
Douglas during the lifetime of that
statesman, We may suppose him actu-
ated by 20 much of feeling as is convey
ed in tho words of the great poet:
The evil that men do lives after them
The good is oft inferred with their bones.
But critical public was ungenerous
enough to ascribe the sel6shness of the
Demagogue as the incentive to this os-
tentatious pilgrimage by the author of
"My Policy"
Having failed to compromise Grant
and Farragut by making them part of
his circle swinging expedition, and fail
ing also to make prosslytes to " my
policy" of the Douglas Democrats who
had Joined the Republican party, having
met with an ignominious failure in fact,
one would have thought that the Presi-
dent would have experienced a violent
distaste to mourning parades, and VOW
ed in the future, to let the dead bury
their dead but his presence at Antie-
tam showed him still disposed to mingle
his speech with the names of the de-
parted. Indeed, his impartial regard
for the rebel dead would seem to prove
his prediction for defunct humanity,
regardless of species, so long as it had
once been " white"
But Mr.. Johnson's apparition at the
grave of Douglas and on the field of
.Antietam seems but to have given him
an increased taste for revelling with the
memories of the shrouded past. On
the eighth of January, instant, His Ac-
cidency, in company with his fellow
accomplices and advisers, Jere Black,
Extra Billy Smith, Attorney General
Stanbery, the Blairs, Mr.. Tom Florence,
~ r,sxaI nf
Copperheads, Conservatives and ex-
Rebel officers, held party at the Me-
tropo!itan Hotel, Washington, nominal
IL in commemoration of the Battle of ,,
New Orleans. 1t was really feast of
" funeral baked meats :" and right
greedily was it partaken of by the poll
tical jackals that we're gathered there.
Il was remarkable party The chief
spokesman for the President was Mr.. ,
jeremiah Black, the man, who as Attor- &
ney General under James Buchanan, !. .
furnished forth the Constitutional "
reasons which governed the old Pub y
lie Functionary in asserting the uu- b
coustitutionality of any attempts ct 9
the rebellious States into re- l,
in the Union. That incon- K
sistent head of the Bread and Butter
Senator Doolittle, finding him a
self the only original Free Soiler pres n
ent, and feeling it incumbent upon +,
himself to justify his war record, made A
\ speech in which he shrewdly advised II
he Democracy to steal just as much IL
Radical thunder as possible. What T. !,
this all had to do with old Hickory" m
Dr. the Battle of New Orleans, it is hard
10 guess; and the problem becomes +,
still more Difficult. of solution when We 6,
notice the remarks that got utterance
y Mr.. Stanbery. That gentleman
makes confusion worse COMPOUNDED by m
lis speech. He said: di
trust, Mr.. Chairman, that I may escape
he charge of egotism, if l take few mo- m
aents to explain how it has happened that re
,serer hare been at a Democratic celebration ha
n times past, and hoso 1t happens that am ar
ere a01c. co
de may have treated his bearers to III