The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-05-25
The Minstrelsy Of Faust.

The Minstrelsy Of Faust.
The worst has happened. Marcellus Eme.
ry's familiar 'tFaust, that grim old fellow
whose caustic pen used to enliven tie columns
of the Democrat before it became CONNER
cial and cautious at the same moment, losing
completely its fine enthusiasm and brave ret
rogressive radicalism-has "roused him from
the lethargy of months, seized his pen in
moment of inspiration and poured forth one
of those inimitable campaign songs" &C., be
ginning with this stanza:
.. sing the Chappaqua Farmer,
Inc Farmer COED and true;
And Horace Greeley is his name
.-...... AS known the country through.
We're going to make him President
H AS all the people say; ~
so wen sing Greeley song by night,
And beat his foes by day.
This is ominous enough when Dr. Jordan
gentleman who, in point of being Bour
bon, has decidedly the advantage of the youth
known to the world as Count de Chambord
but who calls himself Henry V. of France
lifts up his voice in the radical wilderness O
Penobscot County and awes the minions o.
Grant by chanting the praises of his ''star
proved" hero, like David Gamut withstand.
ing assaults of the bloodthirsty Delawares
by the influence of his sacred psalmody. And
Marcellus Emery joins in the chorus! To
say that Mr.. Emery is a Bourbon is a wholly
inadequate description. Bourbon! Why, if
Isabella, late of Spain, or Bomba, late of Ma
Piles, should meet Marcellus anywhere, or if
Louis XIV. should casually walk abroad as a
magnificent ghost, and should frequent the
streets OF the city which Mr.. Emery is about
to make "the second in New England, !" COM
ing arm-in-arm with that old ''original ia
cobs," Henri de Bourbon himself every one
OF these eminent personages would instantly
plump down on his knees in the mud of Ban
gor and swear allegiance to the editor of the
Democrat as the representative of the uery
Oldest ''elder branch of their distinguished
iaHfa. --u- ts. ..a. ..
reflection, it doesn't seem so unnatural
he Bourbons should follow Greeley, af
The Bourbon flag is white and so is
GreeIeys hat, and this singular correspon'
dence is of course the basis of perfect intel
lectual sympathy and intimate moral union.
Philosophers in all ages have agreed that it
COMFORTS well with the eternal fitness of things
for the adherents of white flag to run after
man with white hat without asking any
superfuous questions about his religion or
politics, or whether he eats vegetables or pre-
fers, like Charles Lamb, ''boiled babies'
And it must be confessed that there is
something more than these mere superficial
resemblances to draw Mr. Greeley into Bour-
bon company, and to prompt the Democracy
from Maine to Texas to join with one accord
in the noble refrain.
Well sing Greeley song by night
And beat his foes by day. IS. a
There is something in the career of the
Cincinnati candidate to commend him to eve
ry element in the Democratic party. First,
to the professional politicians. The way his
nomination was brought about by bargain
ing with Gov. Brown, through the active
agency of Gen Blair, author of the Broad
head letter, is known to everybody. The
testimony of Samuel Bowles of the Spring
field Republican, of Stanley Mathews, tenn
porary chairman of the convention, of Ed
ward Atkinson, and of Carl Schurz himself,
shows that the nomination was complete
triumph of political wire.pulling and trickery
over the honest purposes of genuine reform
ers Again Mr.. Greeley appeals strongly to
this class of his supporters in his letter of ac-
ceptance, in which he accomplished the as
founding feat of swallowing thirty years of
Tribune files without winking. Base is the
Democratic politician who does not make him
self hoarse with shouting,
Wen sing Greeley song by night,
And beat his foes by day. :.
And if Democratic evidence is worth any,
thing the Cincinnati candidate has commend
ed himself strongly to the most disreputable
element in that party. We have the authori-
ty of the leading Democratic organ of the
United States for saying that he has the sup
port OF every corrupt ring in New York. The
same journal charges specifically that Mr..
Greeley is on footing of int imacy with the
members of the Tsmmany ring, and that the
Tribune suddenly ceased to denounce an
equally corrupt Brooklyn ring when Mr.. Kin
sella, the leader of that ring and editor of the
Brooklyn Eagle, had been approached by Mr.,
Greeley and had promised the latter his sup
port. So let every POLITICAL adventurer and
every corrupt official in the country join Kin
sella, Tweed and Sweeney in the soul-inspir-
ing refrain,
Wen sing Greeley song by night,
Anu beat his foes by day.
AS ior the ex-Rebels, they of course can
have no objection to the man who wanted IN
let them go peacefully out of the Union who
was instrumental in giving them their first
great military success, who was ready for anv
sort of a peace in 1864, who signed JEFF. Da-,
Wis bond and has shown disposition to act
as toady for him since, and who, finally, IA
vored the instant restoration of Rebels to all
their political rights in 1865, thus sacrificing
the rights and the safety of the freedmen.
Hark! Sweet and clear comes the response
from the Southland, merging in perfect har-
mony with that yell that the bows in blue
heard with undaunted hearts on so MANY a
battlefield. 1t is the gray-coats shouting in
glad chorus,
Wen sing Greeley song by night
And beat his foes by day.
And there is the Ku-Klux Klan. Until af
ter the Cincinnati Convention Mr. Greeley
and the Tribune greatly favored what's known
as the Ku-Klux act, the purpose of which is
to enable the President to protect the lives
and liberties of Southern loyalists by suspend
ing the act of habeas corpus whenever if NAV
be necessary. The history of the last two
years has shown how necessary this humane
law is and how cautiously and conscientious
Inc President has made use of it. Now
,his law is obnoxious to the Democrats, real
80 because it interferes with their peculiar po-
~ propaganda in the South, but ostensi-
ths r;rS suse sc such laws are in derogation of
,ne righ.s OF States. No scruple of the latter
KIND could OF course trouble tho % ~
Tribune, who, whatever his fauIts no. ro' 'ne
before shown the smallest inclination - 49,.
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