The Portland daily press., 1869-11-08
THE PR ESS.
Monday Morning, November 8. 1859.
,,,,;,icnl ComprnchicOs.


,..,i,icnI Comprnchicos.
v;o.or Hugo commences his latest mover
,u;tb an account of those gipsles, KNOWN ui-
tbn;r Spanish name ofComprachlcos, VINO
..,,do If a profession two or three centuries
ano 20 distort and disfgure the human form,
raan,,e,cturing monstrosties for the amuse
80. of the courts and nobility of the times
Tor,ino humanity in its infancy they would
dwarf it by compression, or by other diaboli-
cal arts compel it to assume some shape or
expression abnormal and hideous. The hero
of Hugo's story, who gives it title, is the son
of an English nobleman, stolen from his
home in childhood by these Comprachicos
Who by a surgical operation, make his coun-
tenance assume the appearance of perpetual
laughter. He is thus adapted to appear as
the clown of their stage and untitled for any
other position or occupation OF lie.
The Democrats are the Comprachicos of
politics. They deal with the noblest senti-
meuts and inspirations of the heart, and the
fundamental principles of our republican
government only to compress, distort and dis
figure them. In justifying separation from
the mother country our ancestors proclaimed
the right of self-government and the political
equality of man; the Democrats have warp
ed and distorted this grand enunciation, so
taught with hope for the down-trodden of the
whole world, to meaningless pirate about ga
white mans government" Their only ex-
c1se for prolongins their party organization is
to check the natural growth and defeat the
full development of this principle of political
equality, as. embodied or foreshadowed in the
fifteenth amendment. The Jeffersonians pre-
tested against compulsory support of any
particular theological opinions by those to
whom such opinions were hateful. They de-
clared against any connection between church
and state and destroyed the last vestige of it
here in New England; leaving every man
free to aid, by voluntary contributions only,
those doctrines which to him seemed good.
They especially decried the admission of the
oioeic dugmas into our institutions OF Learn.
ing sustained by the State. But in the great
metropolis which is now the stronghold Of
Democracy, separate schools are maintained
olt of the school fund contributed by the
citizens of the whole State, in order to graft
fy those who seek to preserve and perpetuate
that religious system embraced by the largest
proportion of those who vote the Democratic
ticket. Special love for the Union and the
keenest anguish at its dissolution wer. for
merly the loud professions of those who as.
sumed possession of the promised bantlng Of
l)pmOcr1py Their ohio n1r,ior
greatest and most enduring popularity to the
firmness with which he declared that the
threatened integrity of the Union should
be preserved. Those who claim that his
mrntle descended upon their present proph-
cts were almost unanimous in declaring it
impossible and unconstitutional to defend and
save the Union, and vigorously oppose anu We
hemently denonnce every measure taken in
its defence and for its salvation.
Benton won the cognomen of "Old Bullion
by his persistent clamor for an exclusively
specie currency, and by his Remuneration OF
the banks with their "rag- money, and his
party all joined in the chorus. Now the,
have so far departed from this correct idea OF
metallic standard, of worldwide accept
ance that they insist upon an exclusively pa
per currency, irredeemable, and manufactured
out of rags" by the government itself; and
wish it iss ued in unlimited quantity.
Honest dealing, the widest liberty, personal
and political, civil and religious, the prompt
payment of honest debts in sound, metallic
currency, or its equivalent, and the uphold
ing at all hazards of an indissoluble union OF
all the States, were the characteristics of in
g. FAINT Democracy in America, and m arked it at
he time it fell into the hands of its present
proprietors. How thoroughly they have
eradicated these traits and substituted their
opposites is seen and known of all men.
Their pretended sheer and smile of contempt
and derision for Those who have adopted and
upheld these principles which they have
a>andoned and so laborious striven to Grad
CUE plainly a manufactured one, and fits
tneu' oniy = act the part of mountebanks in
the pohticai lena. Notwithstanding the
painful grin mechanically produced on their
faces, their hearts are 4eallv filled with shame
and rage as they see how-aip have been tbei,
efforts 10 smother and de-roy those vits,
principles which are greater Ran anv na,tv
SANITATION and which if elhinated will
create and find refuge and success il, an ,tber
The Paroguayur War.
The Paraguayan War is not over as it vas
said to be. 1t seems to have as many lives g
cat This is not the first time it has beef
announced with more or less flourish that th
conflict was ended by the triumph of the al.
lies. 1t turns out that Lopez has no idea O
giving up the struggle, but has only beer
compelled TO retreat to regions more inaccess.
lole where he still shows fight, and is likley to
give business to the allies for some time to
come. In such a contest the natural features
OF the country, as well as the devotion and
discipline OF his subjects are in his favor
With the allies on the other hand every step
becomes more difficult. In country so
sparsely settled as South America, and SO
poorly provided with facilities for transport
ing supplies and communicating intelligence,
it iS1o easy matter to support an army at any
considerable distance from its base. The in
vaders OF Paraguay have found it an uphill
business, thus far, prosecuted only at an i'm
mense cost OF men and money considering
the limited resources of the combatants. The
BRAZILIAN exchecquer, which is the main de-
pe1dence of the allies. is exhausted, and the
nation has no extensive resources upon which
to draw. To disinterested observers it would
seem that the South American States with
their limited resources could find bet
ter business than to waste their sub
stance in war. Exhausted as they
now are by the long continuance of the
struggle, its further prosecution is madness.
Toe allies assume to be the knight of
civilization waging crusade against the bar
barian Lopez But it threatens to be some
what costly business before it is finished.
A HORRIBLE affair occurred at Poughkeep-
sic early Thursday morning. For some time
past Migrants have been in the habit of crawl
ing under the arches over the boiler at the
lower furnace in the city to sleep nights, be-
cause Of the warmth obtained there. We'd
nesday night one OF the poor wretches, named
Peter Ferdon, crept there. While he was
sleeping the engineer opened the blow off
cock, and the pipe leading into the archway
where Ferdon was asleep soon filed the place |
with one dense volume of steam. Ferdon,
Yelling with main craylad ont bec+ 10 Il