The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-25
WHO ARE THE INIPERIALIsTs;
From the N. y. Herald.

From the NJ y. Herald.
The high court of imperial nincompoops has
been in session in this city for some time past.
1t is hard to tell whether they arc a branch
Topped from trunk of themselves or an offshoot
from the imperial houses of China, Japan,
France, Russia, Prussia, Austria, Muscat Brazil,
or Hayti. The glOricS of the Shah of Persia,
the Sultan of Turkey the Khan of Tartarv, the
Great Mogul, and the High COckalorum of the
New Dominion of Canada sink into insignif-
canoe before the piercing lights of this new inn
peria Yankee revelation. To read some of our
exchanges one would think that the republic
had gone TO the empire of the dogs, and that
cats and uttesnakes were commanders of the
situation. They copy articles from two and
Catchpenny concern in this city that has an
imperial crown surmOuntiug its title heading,
as a washtub would a laundry advertisement
ndeXng its character \ fools cap would have
been a more appropriate emblem. But the
fools or lunatics are not all dead yet or we
should not see such vapid caricaturc upon
journalism placed upon the news stands. Some
have thought that the publication of a sheet like
this would kindlc II riot that the Police Com
missioners would be obliged to double the force
of their department in view of the tremendous
influence it would exercise in eXasperating our
liberty-loying and republican-loving population,
and in contributing towards the cheerful specta-
Gle of pulling down houses, smashing up presses,
knocking type into cooked hats, all illuminated
with dssolying views of editors and reporters
with their eyes done up in elegant lines of black
and blue, streabed with yellow. But the teach
ings of this organ of Imperialism and the YapOr-
ings of its followers would be innocuous were
they not farcical They make men laugh and
any dlstemper that eXcites the risbcs of man
kind is always calculated TO make them think
Byron said:-
"a single drop of ink
May make thousands, nay, Millions think"
solitary laugh in an audience of thousands
has made more than one man ponder. There
fore a good laugh is almost as potent II drop
Of ink for the purpose of ventilating an idea
When Daniel Webster spoke of the city of New
York as the 'Imperial City" of the New World,
he did not refer to it in the ridiculous sense
now attached to the phrase by these imperial
monkeys and apes of foreign pomposity
Talk about making the United States an en-
pire We are an empire already-an empire of
republicansm, an empire of free thought, an
empire of progress, development, intelligence,
| and civilization By the aid of steam, cash.
genius, enterprise, and electricity, we have be-
| come an empire whose diadem contains gems
! that shed rays to the uttermost parts of the
| earth. attracting hither the forlorn, the down
| trodden. the frugal, the Industrious, the pro-
! gressive of all nations.
Imagine an empire in this land after the man
ner of the empire of Hayti, with a polished and
magnificent bald-headed philosopher in goggles,
like Greeley, wearing the imperial purple, as the
| greasy and sooty Soulouque wore his. Think OF
| what the court OF the Emperor Horace might
| consist of. taken from among his bosom friends
and most intimate confreres. Colorado Jewett
as his Lord High Chamberlain, with the title OF
| Duke OF Clap-trap ana the legend sass et brass
in his crest. George N Sanders as the Imperial
Cup-bearer, with the title of Lord of the Rag-tag
and Bobtails, his chief employment being to
hand the imperial cup to his imperial master,
after testing the juice, upon principle peculiar
TO Lord George himself, to ascertain whether
its stimulating properties have been pro-
| perly eXhaused. George Francis Train,
| Prince of Flap-Jaclls and Jump-up-Johnnies
| Grand Usher of the Household and Tier-up in
| General ef Feminine Apron Strings; his Royal
! Highness Prince jefferson Davis, Baron Jake
| THOMPSON. and Niscont Beverly Tucker I'm.
! perial Bum-bailiffs and PrOcurers-General o
Bail for his Imperial Majesty whenever his I'M
perial Majesty gets his imperial body into tight
! places 4 court composed of cavaliers like these
would eclipse the Day ~ Martin shine impaired
to the court of SOuouque, with all its pceten
tious and hgh-sounding titles OF Duke of Lemon
ade Prince of Softshells, NiScount Marmalade
Lord of the Cocktails, Baron Brown Stouts
and 50 ON.
But we have had qudRtum sut. of this impe
rial ridicitlltS mus. Salts cum iHjpertO. 1t ha
been talked about long enough and imperiousl.
enough, and our people want its advocates t.
cease their clamOr in regard to 1t. Ii is n fl
theme for an amusing negro minstrel cNtraya
ganza and nothing more
REUNION OF THE NORTHERN AM
SOUTHERN CHURCHES.
From the Y. y. World.
The debate which took place on Saturday i
the General Assembly of the Old School Presby
teran Church on the question of re-establishing
unity OF organization between the Northern AM
the Southern branches of that Christian denOmi
nation, brings up topic of great interest whicl
will perhaps bear discussion by the politica