The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-08-16

politicians of his vicinage. He pays
no heed ; he stands by the bed Of his
sleeping party like Hector's ghost
not Hector-and don't even try to
wake it up. Then, too, the old war
horse of Ohio Radicalism is quietly
stamping in his stall at Ashtabula.-
Like the Homeric Greek OF old, Mr..
Wade, stung by the San Domingo
snake, is s'left behind"
MOI is this all. The Greeley par
alysis has struck the lower limbs of
Radicalism, and leaders of far inferior
note stammer as awkwardly and pain
fully as they. There lies before us
the speech recently made at Mount
Auburn, Ohio, by the Hon. Aaron F.
Perry, the Representative from the
First District of that State. 1t is
called an elaborate speech, and is
reported as it was, or at least those
portions of it which are considered
important, sit being evident" says a
friendly Republican critic, "from Mr..
Perry's expressions, that he rather
confides in the good intent and sound
sense of the people than in any pre-
else theories of his own!" We have
to be content only with a fragment of
eloquence of this 'forest-born De-
mosthenes"-that is, what he says
about the President, his doings and
character. At first, in homely phrase,
she draws it mild" by informing MS
that "a considerable check has been
put upon tendencies to conspire against
the Treasury" adding, "The proper
ton of Executive appointments, which
Indicate attention to character and ca
pacity, has been rather above than
below the average of former admins
%trations." Rising with his theme, Mr..
Perry becomes historical and classic,
and, Plutarch-like, he plunges into a
parallel, not, however, being especial
ly accurate as to facts: "In President
Grant is produced several of the per-
sonal traits of Vespasian, first of the
Roman Antonines." Our Roman his
tory is, we are aware, becoming rusty,
but it seems to us about as accurate
to describe Vespasian as "the first of
the Antonines," as it would be to say
that the Hon. MIR. Perry fought the
battle of Lake Erie or opened Japan.
As to the moral and intellectual re.
between General Grant and
the Flavian Emperor, we regret there
is not something more specific. We
we'll remember that the Roman had
objection to some highly favored
items of internal revenue, and we
know he prosecuted the Israelites "as
a class" The old books, from which
Mr.. Perry no doubt delved his ana
tell us that she gave many Off
ces to his family ;" that Glove of mon-
ey was one of his faults" that she
had some great qualities and some
mean ones-a combination" says the
historian, "not at all rar y ''he
had n taste for little savings, coarse
humor, and low company" and che
died from drinking too much cold wa
ter'-which General Grant never will
10. Whether these, or any of them,
ire traits common to the ancient En-
peror and the modern would-be EN-
Deror, We do not presume to conjecture
None other are visible to US, and Mr..
Perry makes no new revelation.-
thus lightly on the Repubf-
IAN Executive, the Ohio orator dashes
'uriously-and again in classic piano.
the Democratic party, which
ne likens to Lapithe, and Centaurs,
md all sorts of hybrids. Chief JUS
ice Chase is 'tthe human head en-
on the launches ofthe ANIMAL"
ind Democracy is pleasantly likeaed
0 ga babe with no source of nourish-
nent but the breast of q dead MOTHER"
n to fat Sir John "babbling of green
ields," MI. Perry quoting at length
Hostess Quickley's description of that
amiliar scene Snch is the feeble
waddle which under the name of po-
itical discussion, the grave examina-
ion of momentous subjects, now
rickles from the lips of the leaders of
he Radical party, and that too in a
State where, in both parties. cultivated '
Intelligence has vast scope and power, :
md where able men are far from few !
t can but mean that the creeping pal ]
y of deerepitude has fast hold of the
nee burly frame of Ohio Kepubli-
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