Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-05-19
Par Mobile Fratrum.

!. OdsThad Stevens remarked to the delegation
| of South Carolinians who waited on him the
other day in the, vain hope of having some OIL
| the obnoxious features of the South Carolina
| Constitution modified so as to make it endura
| Bile to the white ctizens-''that what they 1.-THE
whites) consider the most Objectionable parts OF
| the Constitution he thought its most ylrtuous
| features. - f-.'~ ia -i-'-i' .'+-t
Whenever we hear men of the Stevens and
Butler kidney talk about virtue, we feel pretty
sure that they are contemplating some rare vii
| ainy. Butler and Stevens are two OF the hap
| piest men, IN their Wdy in the whole country.
| Butler is the type of the successful ScOundrel.
| Everybody knows that he is scoundrel, and
he is perfectly aware of the fact himself The
| primary impulse of every man who is in the
room with him is to seize him by the nape OF
the neck and kick him out of the room. But
Ter knows this, and it gives zest to his life to
know that the men who are talking SO courte-
ously to him with their tongues, have toes
itching with desire to kick him into the mid
die Of next week.
We have long had desire to cowhlde But
Ter, or to sit in the gallery Of the House and
hit him with a rotten egg in his squlnt eye. 1t
requires the restraining influence OF the prayers
OF several OF our most plouS friends to prevent
us from going on to Washington to crafty these
laudable impulses.
As for Stevens, We can only account for the
phenomenon OF his career by the suppostlon
that he has long since lost his own soul, it he
ever had any, and is now possessed by the
transmlgrated soul OF some old fish-woman who
divided her life between Billingsgate and eel
skinning. The combination of foul mouthed
cruelty which is exemplifed in Stevens cannot
be accounted for upon any other supposition
Show me your company, says all Old prOverb,
and will tell you who you are. And 1t needs
no other key to understand the innermost spirit
of Radicalism than the fact that it selects such
men as Butler and Stevens for it's leaders and
representatives Hell itself is governed by law,
and naturally organizes itself according to spirit
ual law around head centre. When it pro-
jects its influences into human society the same
law holds good, and the ''Rump-Hell'' at
Washington rallies around its head centres, who
may be called his Satanic majesty vice gerents
on earth.
If any man doubted what manner of man
this Stevens was and from what source sprang,
the spirit which actuates him, his doubts will
be dispelled when he reads Stevens blasphe-
nous avowal, that he regards Johnson as a
greater criminal for attempting to thwart the
designs of Radical rascality, than were the men
who cruciied the Saviour, because, as he said,
they only put to death single individual,
whereas this man johnson would save ten rebel
States from torture and stop the carnival of
plumber and pillage and SPOIL the profit and
pastime of many needy Radicals.
Butler and Stevens These be thy gods, oh
Radicals and doubtless they are good enough
for you-good enough for robber churches and
sanguinary saints-but they will yet disappoint
you. There are some heather nations in which
the worshippers of idol gods are accustomed to
whip them when their prayers are not prompt
ly answered. If the same rule is applied to
Stevens and Butler, what glorious castigation
awaits, them Munchausen was but type of
these liars of the first magnitude, and when
their deluded followers wake up to realization
of how they have been gulled, unless old Ste
vens manages to give them the slip, by putting
his 'tother foot into the grave, he may conf
IDENTIFY expect treatment which will give him
a strong sense of pre- existence, for it will re-
mind him strongly of the eel-skinning opera
tons of bis soul when it animated a fish woman.
AS for Butler, it would require the genius of
Dante to make a proper disposition of him-so
we give it up as conundrum. -|etersburg In
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