New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-12-09

through q politico-biogaphical notice
down to his appointment to the Senate.
Of which he will make useful member.
There then comes hiatus of several
sentences in the quotation. These SEN
fences are imrhaterial, in this, that they
make comparisons of fitness between the
Senator and other prominent men Of Con-
necticut The quotation then continues
in repetition Of the Legislative merits Of
Mr.. English, in the course of which it is
said that che will be found always on the
side of hard money and national honesty, ="
and will bring to the position ''the plain,
practical talent of successful business
man, and that is needed, perhaps, as much
as any other one thing in the discussion Of
economic questions to which the country
must soon address itself"
Here the quotation ends, and to this the
scissorist appends "New York Tribune"
We regard the first omission repre-
serted by stars as perfectly proper. 1t
intimates that something has been left
out, for which the reader may see the arti-
Gle quoted if he chooses. The clip of the
scissors, however, terminates the Tribune
article, without any distinct intimation
that the quotation does not include the
whole article. This might be set down to
inadvertence, were it not that the closing
sentences of the Tribune render the Democ-
racy of Senator English wholly incompati-
BILE with that of the States rights Democ-
racy of the South. The Tribune adds:
Upon other matters-suoh ss administra.
tive reform or any questions into which par
tisanship Is liable to enter-we shall hope to
see him taking the same manly and courage
GUS stand when in Congress during the war,
Is when he rose above party, and not only
supported the icar measures of Ldncolr's 0d-
ADMINISTRATION, but voted for the abolition of
slavery in the District of Columbia.
Then follows, also, this obscure phrase:
Since then, We are aware that he has on
several occasions, when he has been candi
date for Governor, consented to and perhaps
advised something in the way ct political
management which were very far from be-
ing conducive to the publication of poll
tics.
1t will be seen, then, that according to
the Tribune test this Democrat was an
abolitionist and supported the war meas
ures of Lincoln" These interesting facts
are accidentally clipped off by the partisan
scissors, and the Northern Democrats are
left to believe that Senator English. of
Connecticut, is the same sort of Demo-
Graf with Senator Gordon, of Georgia.
We should suppose, according to the
usual geographical description, the Sena-
tor from Connecticut should be "a Yam
kee." From his votes he ought to be o
Yankee abolitionist, and also a Con-
necticut Republican Yankee. All these
valuable attributes are clipped away
by the partisan shears, and Senator
English will go thorough the South as
"hard money" Democrat of great worth
and ability, who has defeated some Re-
publican Connecticut Yankee, and came
to aid in securing Democratic majority
in the Senate of the United States. Bull
wer said the pen was mightier than the
sword. Every editor knows the scissors
to be mightier than the pen. Had Bulwer
been an editor he would have simplifed
his apothegm, and made a better as well
as q truer antithesis by saying, "the
scissors-in the hands of a partisan-is
mightier than the sword"