New-York tribune., 1874-07-21
4 GEORGH "1DDRESS.r


considered very fine at the time, and probably
answered the purpose of firing the heart OF
the French soldier, wei are quite disposed to
think that the Emperor Napoleon made mis-
take when he Illuminated the startling sugges-
tion to his army that forty centuries regarded
them from the nights of the Pyramids 1t was
a mschievOus legacy to literature. Since then
that style of SAYING things has become alto
gether too common for comfort. 1t Is so
| startling and sudden and jerky that 1t never
| ought to be used except on the most moment
Gus occasions and in the most tremendous
crises. And we must be permlttedto say 1t never
| ought to be used in hot weather. Particularly
| in a season when hydrophobia Is epidemic anu
lyssophobia stalketh at MONDAY. Nothing couiu
he more risky or more fraught with fearlul
| nossibilities in the hydro and lysso-phoDla
line than to arrest the average citizen who IS
pursuing through per5piration and WEAKNESS
his ordinary avocation with the exasperatihg
remark that forty centuries are looking at nm
from somewhere, or the soul -wrenchinS demand
that he should "Look at South Carolina
And yet this is pretty much what Mr.
Thomas Hardeman, jr, Chairman OF the
Democratic Executive Committee of Georgia,
does to the people of that State III what Is
c,lled an Address, We presume It's warmer
in Georgia than here in New-Gork. Conse-
| ouently it must be more dreadful TO be
howled at by State Committee who grasps
YOU by tho collar as you are seeking some
! cooling shade or contemplating tumGler with
a straw, and whirls you round swlth the VOL
| coDic remark that "YOu are soon to engage
"in another election for the control OF your
"State.n And this is precisely what Mr.
| Thomas IIardeman, Jr., of Georgia does Not
| ONLY that. The average Georgian has not had
time 10 recover from the shock Of this abrupt
announcement before the cheeks OF Thomas
Ilardeman, jr., bulge with the hair-lftlng
conundrum, Arc your forces ready Tor the
| "feld2r which he follows quick as lightning
with the inquiry, Is there union and harmony
ain your ranks p Then, having started the
ewes of the average Georgian out OF their
sockets, and very likely scared him into swear
ing off drinking by this mild foreshadowing
of the delirium tremens he stands him up and
pursues him with the forty centuries business.
"Remember bleeding South Carolina" says
Hardeman. Then, having compelled him to
this effort of memory, he hurls at him the
somewhat astonishing inquiry, anatomicaly
"iealouses and endanser your success y The
answer os the average Georgian has not come
to hand, but it is to be hoped that he VIII
consider the whole question seriously, ana IL
he can possibly do it without too great sacrl-
fice make up his mind not to split up into
petty jeaousies and endanger his success. lie
ought to do it If only to please Hardeman,
who seems really quite worked up about It,
Then says Hardeman, following up the appeal
not to split, "Thnk of down-tr0dden Louis
"iana" to which he Immediately adds IN
sort of jumping-jack way, which however
fine, rhetoricalY considered must be very con-
fusing to the average Georgian who under
takes to follow his directions" Look at plum
"dered Florida "-and-well, now, really isn't
Hardeman carrying this thing too fart
Undoubtedly Hardeman means well. lie
thinks the Georgia Democrats have got the
disease known among the people who hold
post-ofiices and those who want to hold them
as Apathy, and he means to arouse them with
the forty centuries business. lie says TO
them: "The cause is worthy of your efforts;
"its success should be the day star of your
"ambition,n though why day star we fail to
cOmprehend-possibly because the longer you
look for it the more you don't see it. LET
the campaign" he says, "be quick, sharp,
"decislven "Look well to your nominating
conventions" Without wishing to criticise
Hardeman's general orders, we do feel con-
strained to say that what with Remembering
South Carolina, Thinking of Louisiana, Look
ing at Florida, and Looking to the nomina
ting conventions, he has made too large
| programme. He asks too much. Moreover he
| wants them to Look with distrust upon 'peo-
"pe's ticket So citizens candidates. when
brought forward "in opposition to regular
| "DOminees."
And Hardeman closes up his address"
which is really the most torrid production of
the season, with this forty centuries sort of
climax: "Men of Georgia, the issue is with
"you. 1t is big with consequences. Do your
duty, and all will be well with you and your
"noble old State.n We repeat that Hardeman
undoubtedly means well. But any man who
in the latitude of Georgia, with the mercury
in the nineties, and nothing lively going on,
can lead out the State of Georgia by the ear
and address it in this narrowing way ought
not to be at large. And as for Napoleon Bo-
naparte, who started this jerky style and set
the pyramdal forty centuries looking so anx-
iously at our American town meetings, he
| ought to be censured by act of Congress.
|
| IN ABSINTHE PROPHECY.
There is o gentleman in France who be-
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