Middletown transcript., 1874-07-04
Creswell.


appeared TO his old acquaintances, the correspon-
dencc shows that the step was voluntary, and
| altogether he makes civil bow and decent
exit. Chorpenning had nothing to do with il of
course, and he is not to renew his partnership
with Earle. What is it, then? The mystery
must be unraveled. Too many are wondering
over 1t to let it pass without solution. When
Creswel leaves an Office with no visible boot in
the rear his motive is worth knowing. And it
is not far 10 End.
Creswelf is a rat with an abnormal develop
ment Of that rodents proverbial instinct He
loves sound ship, well provisioned, and when
he has found one to his mind in these essential
particulars, he creeps aboard with tread so
| stealthy that she is frequently afoat a long time
without notice of the sleek passenger in the hole. .
But with the least gurgle OF water, the slightest
creak OF the tmbers, this wise creature suspends
his feast, and upon the first opportunity deserts
Since his entrance into politics Mr.. Creswell
has been on both sides of every important issue,
and whenever there was third side he managed
to take that also in his way around. He was a
Whig until 1852, when Pierce swept the country
He was at Cincinnati for Buchanan, and Mary
land being strong Democratic State, be actual
ly continued for the whole space of four years an
ardent pro-slayery man, winding up his service
in that capacity by vote for Breckinridge.-
Then in 1861 he was Chairman of committee
which reported series of ntra-secesssion reSolu-
tions to public meeting at Elkton, and he be-
came captain of a militia company which he
never led into action, simply because he consid-
cred 1t expedient to join the enemy before the ac
ton began. He opposed and denounced Winter
Davis with indecent acrimony, and spent the
rest OF his days in urging an importunate claim
tor credit as the friend and eoadjutor of Davis
He slipped into Congress by fraud, force and per-
sonal treachery, over a political associate for
whom be had implored the people TO vote at that
very election. He stigmatized negro suffrage as
al q a nd tod II
phantic and disgusting speech, protesting that
from his earliest youth he had entertained no
higher ambition than to get " a chance :" of vot-
ing alongside Of the negro" He was war and
anti-war, Davis and anti-Davis emancipation
and anti-emancipation, negro suffrage and anti
negro suffrage, negro-equality and anti-negro
equality-anything in shert that promised rea-
sonable returns.
IL is very remarkable, and creditable to the
instinct by which he is guided, that III all this
long and checkered career he has never made a
mistake, and never left rising party to join a
failing one. His numerous passages between
them were never i'll timed, and always bounti-
fully rewarded. Possessed of none but the most
ordinary abilities, politician of a very low
grade, known to be a constitutional renegade
and thoroughly INSCRIPTIONS, he has managed
to plunder every camp in turn, and comforted
himself with the spoil. Never in at the BATTLE
he was invariably high at the FEAST and when
other.
The Grant ship is sinking. Creswell thinks il
time to get " a character " from the master and
leave He has no taste for wrecks and no
stomach for storms. The old thing is doomed
and Creswell would not bo Creswell ii he failed
to slip over the side in time.
The above article from the New York Sun de-
scribes TO life certain class of patriots" and
" Statesmen" to which the war gave rise, and Of
whom Mr.. Creswell is fair type. Many of the
leading men in the Republican ranks were once
what might very appropriately be termed
loud Democrats. That is, though they never
attained TO high rank, or TO any eminence in
that party, they were exceedingly blatant and
frequently pushed themselves into noticeable po-
sitions and became, in a certain sense prominent
only for their impertnenee Of this class are
Butler, Creswell and many others, including some
lesser lights, some of whom were to be found
even within the limits of our own State. The
turning, twisting and dodging by these men, in
their anxiety to get on the strong side, at the
outbreak of the war, was almost wonderful, and
is most faithfully portrayed in the Suns little
sketch of the political history of John Andrew
jackson Creswell. Had it added that that gen
tleman, in the Fall of 1860, stood upon plat
form near the R. r. depot at this place and, ad-
dressing Breckenridge Democratic meeting,
predicted that the election of Abraham Lincoln
10 the Presidency, and the consequent success of
the Republican party, would be the precursor of
war, and the invasion of the Southern States,
and declared that it was the duty of the South
to arm herself and prepare for the approaching
conflict and that should single regiment, or
company, of troops be raised in Pennsylvania to
invade Southern soil, Maryland should resist its
progress and that he was ready 10 sacrifice his
life in defence of the South and her rights, the
sketch would be nearly complete.
But Mr.. Creswell is not alone. Many kept
him company in 1861, and many will keep him
company now. Even as these "rats y deserted
the apparently sinking ship of the Democracy, in
1861, when that patriotic constiution-revering
old party refused TO engage in the fanatical,
bloody crusade against the South for the aboli-
ton of slavery, under pretense of preserving the
Union, SO now these same i" rats - will desert
the scuttled, sinking ship of Radicalism, and
will ere long be seeking place and position within
the ranks of the Democracy.
The following is the text of the Pasta pe hill nc