The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-05
Bogus Equality.

Bogus Equality.
From The ". Y. World.
II there be one thing on which the radicals
have particularly insls ed it is that all men
are equal-exoept "rebels." That all States
are equal is, however, a matter that these
radicals have just as particularly opposed
and this inequality of equalities suggests q
reflection or two that Is thrown out for the
consideration of whom it may concern. States
are, after all, but aggregations of men, and as
these aggregations are more or less numerous,
1t follows that in certain sense there is rea-
son in the radical view of State inequality.
They do not say, to be sure, that the States
are unequal, but they do that way, and this
action OF theirs, taken in conjunction with the
dogma. OF the equality of all men, will some. day
grind radioalism into powder in its own
strongholds. Some days q strong man will
rise, and IL, looking at the field, he sees that
this dogma of equality can only be gotten out
OF the people by a reductio dd dbSurdl,n, he
will proceed to that reduction, and in the
process utterly triturate the saints into
nothingness. This is about the process. II
all men are equal, man in New York should
count as much in the Government as a man
in Rhode Island; but it so happens that one
Rhode Islander is, gOvernmentally speaking
equal to four New Workers. On the figures
OF the last Presidential election it takes % 143
voters in this State to each vote the State has
the rate is IL, 6S8. Now, if we are to have
equality; If one man really is as good as
any other man; il the States are not equal,
but unequal; II the Constitution is to be dis
pensed with and the Higher Law used instead,
down with this New England inequality.
Away with it. Let us commend the poisoned
ehalice prepared for others lips to the taste of
its own fabricators.
The voter in Maine, Massachusetts,, Connec-
ticut and New Hampshire is one hundred and
fifty per cent. better than ihs voter in New
York or Ohio; in Vermont he is two hundred
per cent. better; in Rhode Island four hundred
and fifty per cent, or four and q half times as
good. This, 1t is evident, is worse than the
three-ffths rule, for that was only sixty per
cent, less than half of the minimum New
England per cent, when all is said and done.
Down with the bogus equality of the Saints.
Personal Abuse-Grant and Jackson.
From ne ~. y Herald.
There is q curious similarity between the
present Presidential canvass and that of Gene
raj Jackson in 1928. In Jackson's time there
was no limit to the volume of abuse poured
upon him by his political opponents; yet he
not only survived the attacks, but rose upon
the very waves Of personal hostility, until he
was lifted into the highest place in the Govern
ment. Every effort TO defame his character
proved only stepping-stone to his success,
and the intemperance with which his private
life was assailed served as but tanning gale
to watt him into the Presidential chair. Twice
this game OF his purblind enemies was tried.
The phials Of wrath were opened again in
1882. We will not repeat the language which
was applied to General Jackson or the oppro-
brious names which were heaped upon him.
We will not recall the violence with which the
sacred veil that should have sheltered the
sapctity OF his home was torn asunder. Suffice
II to say that this method Of political antago-
nism defeated itself, as it is very likely to do
now in the case OF General Grant; for the same
plan is being pursued by the public prints en-
gagged in the object of defeating his election.
During the past two or three years the
Democratic party has been governed by two
distinguished newspaper men--one in the East
and one in the West-Sam Barlow represent
ing the Orient, and Brick Pomeroy represent
ing the Occident. The wit Of the one, coarse
though it was, and the dullness OF the other,
which long since reached the limit OF tolera-
tion, might have been little original in the
beginning, when they opened FIRE upon the
character OF General Grant, because there is
always piquancy about anything novel, even
though II runs in q coarse or stupid vein.
To assail man who is admittedly one OF the
leading characters OF the age, whose reputa-
tion ia withoutspot or stain, whose fame stands
high not only in his own country, but in all
Europe, is, to say the least of II, very petty
piece Of business, and only shows the short
sightedness OF these partisan journals which
by deiamiDg him, would make him greater
than Jackson in the days when personal abuse
of the candidate resulted in his triumph. The
abusive tone OF the Democratic organs may
have won little popularity at first, but we
see that 1t has ended in almost universal dis
gust. The wit and humor with which the
organ of Brick Pomeroy garnishes its violent
attacks upon the character of public men
were somewhat Of a relief to the dullness the
empty pomposity and horrible brutality of
Sam Barlow and his men. IfGeneral Grant is
elected he may safely claim that he Is largely
| ipdebtt To these journals for his suooass