The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-08-22
An irrational Baby.

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Mr.. o'CosoR, of New York, the justly
renowned lawyer, gentleman, and patriot
has e touched and took the disease-the
political suall-pox-and has 1t already in tue
continent stage. lie is daft. Soo'tl 10 sas'
but it Il unquestionatly so.
In an interviewed" presentation OF Mr..
OpCosoa's opinions he IS represented as
answering TO the question els II your
4opinson that the Democrats can. by voting
q solid as party, run In their candidate be-
"tween what may now be really regarded as
!" two sets OF Republican candidates 7" thus
"Why, you can easily reason that way ior
"yourself without my assistance In iac1'
q a rational baby that has begun to THINK az
" all would he sure to argue in that way,
"and in no other"
Well, now, the answer OF the "ratlom'
babyn indicated by Mr.. VCoSoR must he
that the Democrats could in such case run
in their nominee. How? Were not the
Democrats in a minority ut the last presidcn-
tial election? Have they gained envy State
since9 All know that they were in a
minority, and all equally well know that they
have not achieved single new victory since.
What, then, can they win by running a
third candidate? The worst and the best
they can possibly hope for is to throw the
election into the House of Representatives,
where, as each State casts one vote, GRANT
would be more than probably elected. Ger
tainly there can he no earthly chance for the
Democratic third candidate in sach case.
AS this must be clear to every rational and
reasonable gentleman, we think that Mr.
O'CoNoR's "baby," so far from being IA
tionaI, is an irrational infant-rickety, hope
lessly diseased, and irreversibly erratic.
Poor Mr.. O'CoSoR! A more proper gem
tleman lives not, but, like the great majority
Of public and famous men, he has "toucbed
and took" Not one out of twenty-na!y,
we may say hundred-of the public men
escape the cancerous disease Of ambition.
One after another they are deluded by the
specious and tempting suggestions which
come in whispering accents and palser " in
a double sense,' leading them into follics
that wind up their career. Is it not that
these men of well.earned fame are threading
the downward way to the dark passage to
another world, and that as the bright things
of this sphere are fading before their failing
eyes they hope to catch the glimmering rays,
and with them illumne the closing hours Of
their existence? The charming influence of
such fancy is well calculated to dclude any
man past the tropics Of life, and more cspc-
cially one who is upon the verge of second
childhood. There is not much rationalism
in that second baby life.
It is sad to see man like Mr.. O'CoNoR
fall into the trap set by such men as the
DUSCANs, PoMERoYs, and Others of the so
cllled Democratic boilers. They arc Demo-
cratic scamps, employed to secure the cleo
ton Of GRANT, which will keep the country
involved in sectional war and the South
oppressed with the rule of the imported
thieves combined with incompetency and
barbarism. How Mr.. OCoHoR, or.any other
southern sympathizer, or how any man
claiming southern birth and southern SYM
pathy, can do anything to aid in thus pro-
longing the national discord and the southern
Affections we cannot understand.
But Mr.. O'COSoR, we are sure, believes
that the third Democratic candidate (himselfN
may be run into the Presidency. He would
in no event say so if he did not think So.
He thinks that in that way he will save the
South and the country. And yet, to think
so is to ignore the painest facts and the NEST
irresistible conclusions from them. fla baby
thinks at all, us Mr.. O'CoNoR seems to as
sumo that it may, no rational baby could
come to any such conclusion. Nothing but
passion or vanity could lead man TO enter
tain any such hone as Mr.. O'CosoR induloes
lot;on to tboir followers Tho mo, who nov,
,re CENTRALIZED NV s,c,, leaders may hro,1, IA.
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