The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-10-27

! Sieoe tdstc ioi Theatrical SHoStS' Ills
principle gives color to nearly every hui
man action, and frequently gathers itself
| into clean exhibition.
The prophetic young wife makes a
! modest ostentation of her needle work of
small garments. Beauty weeping at the
grave likes to display wet handkerchiefs.
About two years after the Second Bull
Run, whilst moving in cavalry corps
over that famous old battle ground,
noticed horseman dismount and shove
a wormy hard bread into the bleaching
jaws of protruding skeleton. Even the
dogs Of war love to show their teeth and
bark dramatically.
Those anti-Christ wretches that pray
&c at the corner of the streets, were actors
of biblical renown. And [ suspect that
even good Daniel had an eye to the
scenery, when he prayed with open win
dows.
During the severe campaign of Count
Schomberg in Ireland, whilst his army
was wasting with disease and starvation,
his soldiers would sit upon the dead bod
| les of their companions and drink usque-
| baugh to the health of the Devil. This
was theatrical. And SO that wild hungry
mob that lead the revolution of 1889,
when they pulled the red cap Of the
| Jacobins over the ears of Louis XVI, in
his own palace, was theatrical The late
| degenerate emperor Of France, after
| that little affair at Saarbruck, which was
hardly worthy of a picket line skirmisi,
made such hullabulloo among his tickle
people that all Metz and Paris were ilu-
minated in silly glorifcation. And then
too. his mentioning his baptism of blood
and his sons tranquility under fire was
enough to start the juice from sap-gag
This was theatrical Napoleon would
have made the play perfect if, at that
time, he had slipped, like one of the
heroes of Knickerbocker, in the excre-
mentitious deposit of cow But at
Rezonville the French learned lesson
of different import from show of rich
colorings and gorgeous drapery. And
the late queen of fashion, when she
caused ''two sweet little hospital tents
to be erected at the Tuilleries, so that
court ladies at their leisure might show
royal charity, was theatrical. But the
theatre is becoming less and less stacy
(if | may coin term), and Is projecting
itself more and more upon business life
1t may be this principle is no where more
strongly exemp,ified than in the political
world. 1t is amusing to see how low
born assassin can be exalted into noble
hero of more than christian excellence.
Witness the case of tie young murderer
/ zeal of New York, recently buried with
| political honors. His obsequies were
theatrically performed by the red eyed
devotees of the whiskey ring. Newly ork
is eminently fitted for such exhibitions.
New York is the home Of the political
multiplication table, where by a slight of
hand moral, votes are created. There
democracy wriggles its vigorous tail in
the excrement Of Europe.
So far as politics are concerned New
York is sink spout Of hell There
leperous and lecherous dwarfs are herald
ed through Tammany whistles. Pick
| pockets, old wharf rats, dark. alley loung-
ers, iackals Of poverty-ground women,
champions at large who show leg power
in the slum of Five Points, phlegmy m on
| strosities of nameless diseases, such as a
political element cut, fine figure before
the moral world
The Democratic party has not had a
positive national idea for the last ten
years. The head Of the party has been
dizzy with whiskey vetoes. It's history
for the last decade is heap of Shiny
negations. Any man of common sense
knows that the party which is to rule an
energetic people must be positive and
reformatory. The Democratic party does
not know the word reform. Against
every effort in this direction of the Re
publican party, it has invariably butted
with instructive 6ulitsm. 1t has been
! (if [ may change metaphors ike an
| everlasting nightmare to the moral
world. 1t has broken many halter Of
reform by pulling back with stiff neck
upon asinine platforms. Now [ am no
slave to party, but | au political critic;
and as such assert that the Republican
party still retains the echo of its historic
glory; whereas the Democratic party is
like dead sea Of slops. Let us have a
! panorama of such assassins as Booth,
such traitors as Jefferson Davis, such
riots as were got up in New York by q
gang Of bull-headed, whiskey saturated
miscreants during the glorious days of
the war. The Democratic party Saving
exceptions) is set of unsanctifed rum
les pitted against all decency, and with
great itching for spoils. The Demo-
cratic party is the embodiment of sour
rility, and from the depths comes up a
| horrid smell of dead carcasses iellied by
butting blindly against the engine of our
national genius.
1t glories in such a representative as
Brick Pomeroy, a vile-mouthed miscreant,
who was never known to utter decent
thing in his whole life; but who. judged
from his papers, must swab his mouth
with excrement and dip his pen in swill.
To throw sterling principle before such
a party. is Ike casting nearls before