The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-01-22

JecJ 10 Jhelf little Freaks OF great
ness, / beg to remind them of an
incident in a body which this Con-
gre"s very strikingly resembles in
many respects-the revolutionary
assembly of France. It is related
that, when the Abbe Sloycs OBJ
jected to the eonfscation of church
property which was proposed IN
one Of the debates, Mrrabeau turned
to him and said my dear Abbe,
you have loosed the bull. Do you
think he will not use his horns p"
The logic was unanswerable. And
so with Congress and the carpet
baggers. They have not only loos-
ed, but created a set of tho vilest
wretchos that God in his wisdom
tolorates to live, or mar in his folly
hesitates to hang-and when they
look for anything but what they
now complain Of, they only repeat
the mistake of which Mirabeau re-
minded his colleague.
HINT EoR DEMOCRATS.
"Mr. John Scott, of Huntingdon,
has been unanimously elected Sen
ator from Pennsylvania, rice Chas.
r. Buckalew." The reader natu.
rally enough, inquiries who IS Mr..
John ScottH Well, Ill tell you
who he is-and thereby hangs a
tale with a moral TO it. MIR. Scott
is a Pennsylvania politician, OF
small caliber, who never before had
aspirations beyond a scat in the
State Legislature. Ho is, however,
one of those "liio-long Democrat"
who are gradually monopolizlng
the front ranks Of tho Republican
party, and dong far moro than the
eldest of the original Republicans
to give vital force and energy TO
Radicalism. The moral is this :
That If the Democratic party would
succeed, il must, in some degree at
least, follow the example Of It's one.
my in this regard. 1t must liberal.
ize tho terms Of admission TO it's
ranks, and cease to DO u close cor
poration. AT present, all that is
given To tho now convert, ue he
great or smallin his capacity for
promoting party interests, ~ por-
mission 10 vote the ticket. For the
rest, he must cit upon tho mourn
or's bench and wait till The shock Of
heavenly electricity reaches his
nervous center before ho cen Lo
received, even on probation; aud
after that he must tarry with tho
roar guard for an indefinite period.
L do not pretend to discuss the rel
atlve right or wrong Of these two
lines Of polIcy-that of the Rcpub-
lican party, which is attraction, or
that OF the Democratic party, which
is repulsion. Results are the best
tests OF such matters, and it Is suifi-
cient to say that the Republican
party has boen successful on the
attraction principle when It would
have signally iailod under the poll
cy OF repulslon. No sane man can
doubt that If the Logans, the But
lers, the Boutwclls and brakes had
not been literally treated by the
party TO which they deserted, that
party would to-day have been in
tho minority all over the country.
There is not State IN tho Union
in which some prominent Democrat
has not since 1861 been persuaded
INTO the ranks Of the Radical purity
and rewarded by the best Office in
It's gift, 1t will not do 20 meet me
ut the threshold of those suggos-
liens with a shrug Of vlrtuous in
dlgnation and the remark that the
Democratic party will not sell out
ITS principles. ! asl:, in reply, has
tho Republican party sold out to
Tho Democracy in accepting Butler
ns its leader2 On the contrary,
Butler goes TO work with the zeal
Ot II now convert, and makes even
Ben Wade appear conservative.
There Is material enough In this
par agraph, and the thoughts and
arguments it suggests, for much
more than can write to close a
otter with. / shall recur to IT
again, for | am convinced that 1t
the full secret of recent
Republican successes aud recent
Democratic defeats. MACK.
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IT is estimated that the entire loss
he Government sustains from the
.buse of the franking privilege, is less
han the loss il an fi,apa from ono Iiet1