American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-05-08
Party rJicknanes,

Tor years, s'.tO throw city into "A
tumult, or shake the foundations of
the State 1t requires, indeed,
! either supreme consciousness Of
right, or a certainty of the support
! of the masses, to bear the burden of
Slur involved i'll a cOntemptECus
epithet. Parties have gone down
before them, as the Old Guard be
! fore the charge of Blucher's squad
rons. But these parties We're, we
think, instrinsically weak. The
truth is, a strong party is made all the
stronger by ridicule. The principles,
in time. come to sanctify satire: and
that which was h9lrled in tarnt, like
the arrows Of Prince HasSan, are
caught in an enchanted quiver and
become weapons of attack History
is fCf of these political wlIes which
fall as harmlessly as rain upon the
ocean. " GHeur the title given.
for instance, to the first revolutionists
Ill HOliand-iS scarcely as pleasant
as a compliment by Lord Chester
field. 1t reveals, at once, without
other garniShment, the relative posi-
tons of the asSailant and the aSSail-
ed. On the one side. we have the
Count de Barlamont, and his class.
turning up their aTiStocratic noses
at an outbreak of vulgar factioniSts:
on the other, the people, rough,
course, and What is mOre-in the
right. Here is Dives tlinging curses,
not crumbs, at Lazarus. There is
Lazarus. receiving the curses as
complacently as if they were a haunCh
Of veniSOn, or Jewish outlets q la
HGrechdIe. TO be sure, there was a
good deal of Dutch stubbornness
among these same Gucur. They
welcomed the insult eargerly., They
threw aside breaches, and put IN
stead, the little wooden platters on
their hats, that told of the profcs-,
Sional beggars. Two proverbs we're
falsified. The beggars became
chOOsers. The gift-horSe was looked
at i'll the mouth. Firc les GHeur paI'
tout le monde was the raIlying cry
and it really seemed, for d spell. that
it would be echoed across the frontier,
and wake the Sons Cu'0H $, doing
menacingly on the Seine, years and
years before the dawn.
Of the same stamp was the nick
name given to the French Protes-
| tants. 1t was not at all intended as
a badge of honor by those who so
christened them. A famous hobgob-
| lin-dreaded of children and the bete
J Roire of grandames, gGssipin@ around
stealing out at night. From him, it
Is supposed that the name OF Hugue-
nots was derived. Now, accepted
by a great party, it throws dignity
around them, and is associated with
GREAT memories. So it has been with
thp PuritanS. 1t was name given
to their opponents by the gallants
who laughed in the train Of the
First Charles. To them. it represent
ed the extreme of folly and hypocri-
sy. BY these TO whom it was ap
piled, it was welcomed as a pledge
of pure iAtentions. We have Puri
tans in these days, as there were
Puritans then. Those who will come
after us. Il century hence, shall SET
Them as we see them now. DraytOl
has Sketched off this class very clev
erly. by the by, when he says that
t to Get a painted glass window, the
= would have been willing to pul
down the church. To give anothe
! instance, one might imagine that tn
$ name of Sans CulOttcs would haV
| Droyoked some little of mGUrGlS
< h0nfc in those fiery and ragged me
who, in their generation, made Elt
Il erty by-word for all time. Clearl
II a mistake. 1t was, after all, only a
: ancient truth told in new way, g
o Miss Thackery has given q new pre-
S tiness to certain dear old fairy tale
Did the Sneer rob the clubs of 81
'. :. patriot '-IIenriOt of one follower
y the Sections Of one riOter-Robe
'e nierre of one toCl-France of OF
m butcher-Christianity AMI Civiliz
ton of one reproach? Did it at
" one safeguard to erGlnaud and II
Of brother Gir0ndists2 Did Dant,
/ cain one adherent from it, when i
IL heart came to turn sick at bloOdShe
Up and he Strove to marshall arou
If, him the forces of Moderation '
i'll look through the dry desert OF
thousand turmoils, and We see Il
one truth proclaimed. 1t has alwa
no been useless to crush popuI
II. movement by opprobious epithe
yn based upon the poverty or hrunb
he ness of its indicators. The sa,
an man who is ashamed of his Ia
no when iostled by an exquisite, glor
Ite in them when borne as one of q Ill
ed OF revolutionists. Aristocrats ha
oh never vet learned Gas probably IL
lie never will Iearn) thai to attack
)b people through their poverty. Is
nd array the class of millions agai
lG, the class hundreds. Principles n
possibly witner under ridicuIe.
She the RAGS of mobS are inVnlnera
me against it. They are a potent m
. | arch by the very right Of their ii
lis Thcir throne is stronger than
der CmSarS'-wi9I out live The Gnelph
ich will be cxctllcd, we dare say, @
not by the houses the Gravemak
Ais builds.
OF The American people have b
active in this application OF pollt
1t uicEnameS: but we doubt Wh"1
nk any Of them has been So effective
"i, those Given and taken by Eur"p
NhI factions. It strikes lis rs the hit
ana the rattlcsnallc, with his tangS pin
am ed out. We nave more than
ele- share of them now but. outside
yer terms that are simply representa-
ll>h or p,iucinlp$. or are in themselves
DrnductiomS of past political f
what names remain after the wal
oIh compare. in bitter hatred and IN
'ia" tensitv of satire, with the Cue
'h' and the GhibellincS of Italy, or
''A Pepoli and the Maluezzl OF Bolog
UP The truth is, as people, we are
inclined to argue upon pnncIple
title shine in new assaults against
+ in munitics. We prefer to east rid
g to upon mans ideas tn throwing
upon the class III which he M