The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-12-09
Landaulet William ms and His Second
Sight.

VI oustlCO 10 IACo, dilu UcCOlucS pTO-
phetic.
His horoscope for the Democratic
party is a gloomy one. Elated by an
overwhelming success, and lunatic in
victory, it is to rush wildly into ex-
tremes of reaction, and madly revive
old issues which are beyond the resur-
rection Of pre- Adamite Bourbonism.
1t is to be feared that the Attorney
General has glamour of vision both of
the living present and the coming fu-
ture. Far be it from our intention to
traverse his right to speak Of the past
or prognosticate what is to come in the
progress of his ancient friends. He has
an inherited authority to express i'm
pressions which natural sympathy and
long association have left upon his re-
membrance. The error he commits is
this, if he is not above all lapses of
Judgment in politics as in law, that the
Democratic party now is what it was
when he numbered its organization and
clamored tor its bread. He forgets that
in the general purgation which it has
undergone in his apostacy, and the like
Of him, newer life has been revived.
Unhappily for the Republicans, the
gain of the old party was a ruin to
them, and the only impending danger
to the purified Democracy is the return
of such recreants as he, when the
savory vianls again smoke OH their
platter.
He belonged to the lowest of the low
grade of Jewellers and agrarians in his
juvenility, standing not on the ground
floor, but on the mud sill, and taking its
most mental service. No hungry adj
venturer could taunt a Wing or an Alb
olitionist with greater JUNCTION of ha-
tired, or malign "nigger" with a Bit
terer intensity of scorn. BY a fortui-
tous accident elected Judge in judi
cial district of Iowa, then just out of her
swaddling clothes of territorial ward
ship, he carried after the expiration of
his term his limited stock of law to the
wilderness Of Oregon, where he dis
pensed such legal lore as has never
been known out of the moot courts of
law schools or the jurisdiction of Judge
Lynch.
In the mean time the war Of the re-
bellion brought with it sad portents for
the fortunes of the party. The Demo-
IeiotlO SiCUC vas Ill III anu CiC SICCii
| pasturage scant and shrunken. After
cursing the Abolitionists for a year,
with prospect of very irregular vista
tians of the pay-master, he became pa
triotic and intensely anxious for the
Union and its integrity. the colored
brethren, and incidentally for Il seat in
the Senate soon to be vacant. With the
keen nostrils of the slouth hound, seem
ting disaster, bankruptcy, and liquida-
ton Of the old party, he packed his
slender stock of principles, and not en-
barrassed by the ownership of any such
sentimentality as conscience, moved
into the Republican party and the Uni
ted States Senate. Since then he has
become national, and is not likely to 60
out of our history in his ignominy. I'm
fortunately, perhaps, for public morals,
the old penalties for malfeasance in Of
fee are not now in enforcement. Hemp
treatment is not of our modern school
of practice, unless in the cannabis in
deus of pharmacy, while the tough
fibre Of Missouri or Kentucky growth
is in regretted disuse.
His next divulgence to the hapless re-
porter is that the third term of General
Grant is all "moonshine. Possibly
the easy and facile Acknowledgement
believes this. The man who can give
credence to the ferocious fables of the
mendacious Hays, must have an impress
sible and contiding faith. That the
President has made no disclosures OF
bis purpose to him Is, certain. His
phlegmatic egotism does not open out
! tN ho
us soon expect the muleteer to hold COLI
verse or take counsel of the donkey
that groans under his panniers.
Of one thing we may assure him
Whatever plumbers may be- committed
! by the coming party, they will avoif
the pitfalls into which lie and his
adopted allies have fallen. They vii
be shy of embarking in the business o.
manufacturing State governments ir
the granite offices of Washington, es
tablished by the columns Of the Score
tary of War, and supported by the flo
tillas of the Minister Of the Marine
Secor Robson. The judiciary of Judg
Durcll will not be the order of a new
Administration, nor will the baton o
Marshal be borne by the coadjuto
Packard. 1t is quite possible that tn
incumbent of the portfolio of Justic
will not be an urterer and publisher Q
libels upon the citizens of Alabama, O
send to the State as cOnservatOrs of tn
peace the scourings Of the slums of New
York, or the sweepings Of State peni
) tentiaries, or infest South Carolina wit
an official banditti clothed with author
ity of law to grind out the lingering re
mainder of freedom that military sui
,, iugation has spared. Nor will the IN
> terpolated practices of the present al
! ministration be continued. The Alton
: ney-General will forbear to take seigr
forage of cotton claims and royalties i
= land, subsidies. Tariffs Of rates in az
E peal eases may not depend upon the lal
| CESS of the party in interest. .a
: The prudent thrift of the Attorney
e General does not need suggestions fc
q his advantage. He will undoubtedl
: make the most of his term, which 8
' far seems to have been, peeuniarily r,
+ numerative. Public obloquy has II
); terrors for him. If moral sensibility'
9 a weakness, he has been chary of i
y exhibitions; but it is possible that thel
l. may be a remorse and deathbed repen
e ance, when he will regret ,+l;.'
y "That he joined the rogues and pro
pered, and became
a A renegade of most Indifferent fame
- 49, my. Sun.
t, GRANT AND COLD WHIsKY.-The Was
, ington correspondent Of the Cincinna
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