New Orleans Republican., 1871-06-09
LES MISERABLEs.

The motley congregation which hai
assumed the singularly inappropriate it'll
of the Democratic party, is in a state o
mingled generalization and disgust. 4
party of false pretences, it is suffering
from the modification of having its pre-
tences exposed and its promises dis
trusted. Nay, more; it is continually di
vided in itself, and while one half of its
leaders smile sickly smile and talk Of
"new departures, the other half gnash
their teeth and declare their determine
ton to bark and bite to the bitter end.
In Ohio Vallandigham has come to
grief He intended, like the ass that
donned the lions skin, to make a sensa-
| ton. He threw the mantle of republican
| ism over him, he clothed himself in the
thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments, and attempted to roar like gen.
uine king of the forests. Alas! The roar
was nothing but dismal braying hee-
haw; and protruding from either end OF
the imposing disguise, came the inevita-
BILE ears and the unmistakable tail which
betrayed the poor impostor.
And then came Andy Johnson, turning up
up like the proverbial bad penny, and bor-
ing the country with speech tride more
inane and jejune and tedious than any
with which he had ever afflicted it before.
What national sin we have committed to
merit such a visitation is not known,
what new freak of "cussedness should
have inspired Andrew to such dreadful
discharge of dullness, is matter involved
in impenetrable darkness; but the fact re-
mains, the speech was made, and the New
York World groans in spirit. 1t calls
Andy ''ghost," and tries to lay him.
But he will not be laid. He is deter
mined to revisit the glimpses of the moon,
frightful example of what an object a
man may become who, being a Repub-
ican, forgets the faith, and goes roaming
after the strange gods of Democracy.
And next comes Jefferson Davis, travel
ing agent of life insurance company in
Memphis, who combines the business of
soliciting premiums and the pleasure of
scolding in the same ingenious way in
which the Chicago man mixed the useful
and the sweet by taking what he called
/" a wedding and collecting tour How
many policies of life insurance ]. D. has
issued during his trip we are unable to
ascertain. A good many, we hope, for
life insurance is good thing, and ]. D.
must be pretty good agent.
81 reckon my dog is pretty good
coon dog" said the cid hunter, for the
Lord knows he isn't good for anything
else" But of the other sort of policy,
the policy of the Democratic party, as pro-
claimed by J. D., we have more accurate
reports. According to him, the war has
settled nothing. The South-that is, J.
D. and his party-are merely sleeping on
their arms. They are refreshing them
selves by a good rest, and when the
proper time comes they will make row
which will cause life insurance policies to
be valuable indeed. Out, upon your
new departures The beautiful gar
ments of Vallandigham are sham,
and his ears and tail are
those of most evident ass. And so on
and so forth. Thus screams J. D. from
the stump in his scolding and soliciting
tour. And again the New York World
groans in spirit and rebukes the plain
spoken J. d. And well it may groan, The
wire pullers it represents are no section
alists. They don't care to be accounted
lions like Vallandigham; they have no past
to protect like Johnson; they have no
Lost Cause, like jefferson Davis. They
have one god, whose name is Money, and
Bill Tweed is his profit. what I want
is facts, said Mr. Gradgrind. What they
want is Office And between them and
the White House, whittier they would go,
stand the people of the United States,
quiet, resolute, remembering the graves
we strewed with flowers last week and de-
termined that the legitimate results of the
war shall be realized to the full.