The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-11-11
THE WHISTLER.

I w CGSu hCibLCl COllSGdl IlOE
quately express our joy over the de
feat OF Roderick Random Butler,
&'the most loyal man in Tennessee, >
Cadet-Peddler, Salary Grabber. Civil
Rights Dodger, etc, etc. He was
supposed to carry the First District
in his pocket. Never was a Bread
and Butter Brigade more loyal to its
chief than his.t They t'stood firm p
They fought nobly.''s The -bdgle-
horn of the highland chieftainsnever
summoned his clansnens5 in vain
| They rallied from copse and heather.
from still and mail Lear They Hbul.
lied and clustered. They .coaxed
and persuaded. They associated
with darkeys and ''armed" them to
the polls. =. They freceiVed'aid and
comfort from their brethren in
Knoxville. The Chronicle, on the
1st inst,,, said : r. -ap ae-7uH -
The Democrats occasionally talk
about beating Butler. It is. a genu-
inc case of 'whistling, to keep, their
courage up" No well-informed DEM
ocrat in that district expects AIcFar-
land to be defeated by less than
three thousand majority. The Dem
ocratic nominee leads a .forlorn
hope" etc. ,
And he kept on leading. And the
''forlorn hope kept on following,
close up. The leader never falter-
ed; the followers never halted. ion
they pressed, hooking neither to the
right nor the left They neither
Dragged nor lboasted. But they held
their fire from their foes sill they
could t'see the white of their eyes, !"
and now the ''forlorn hope" has roat!l
ed ths-BseBs sBraudz3aFkeys, '.horse,
foot, aud dragons, and-~they are
''gbne where 1thewoodbine .tRineth. ;"
Who were s'whistling to keep their
/. courage, qp,"' in the First, Districts we
| expect-WilI be apneuncedsthis morn.
ing, in the Chronicle.
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IN Ingersollslreeehtly published
life of Horace Greeley we are told
that -; Mr.. Greeley was xactfng and
sometimes dherhlous with Authority.
and, during Lncoln's, time never
ceased 70 tease the President. His
estimate of Lincoln was not very
high, hate statesmangaRdg hal c horse
jockey, and itIis remarkable that, al
though his journal was. the organ of
the'Rdvaaced Repnblcarp party. his
especial disfikes were Sumner. Phil
lips, Tbaddeus Stevens, Stanton and
ButIer.r He oYercame, the dislike to
Sumner in latter years, but never
kFealIyfforgaxelhim for fiaRinnl been
born in Boston and educated in col
lege. He never liked Grant. This
was Because Grant, was d soldier. OF
all our sol dieFs, he preferTed Thomas.
His literary tastes were marked.
Milton Yashia faEaFitelpoHty FGibbon'
his favorite pFase- writer He thought
JohRrs Hay p one4 of the best aof the
growing autAofs. Tie was fond of
Browning, and had despicable, ,opin@
ion Of Poe: It was because, he said,
Poe had treated some women he
ew'badly. Byfon's serious poems
were pleasant to him, and when all
the world was denouncing Swinbufne
he took the utmost delight II his
rytl1rn. "a Dolores he thodghtone of
the finest poems in the language. He
+ did not believe in colleges, or IL any
language but English. His especial
horror among the vices was tfntopti-
nence. This sin he never fofgave.
He thought young women should
learn to sew and cook and. stitch
shoes before learning to play on the
piano. He never told a Secret? In
the detail of politicaa management
he was sing6Iarly sagacfous, with an
auaennt of wisdom under all that has
.aot been excehed in his time. He.
was the proutlest and most sensitivel
man in North America. He showed
those qualities in his war upon Sew
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