New Orleans Republican., 1875-11-30
DEMOCRATIC LITERATURE,

We are enabled to add somewhat to the
flowers of Billingsgate with which we edi-
fed our neighbors the other day, by refer
ence to the columns of no mean imitators
Of the blackguards who assailed Washing
ton, Jefferson and jackson. If all that
was said Of President Tyler by the parti-
sans who charged him with treachery and
violation of every principle of truth and
honor should be collected-which God
forbid-it would seem that good deal of
slanderous talent was developed in regard
to that statesman. The Cincinnati En-
quirer, during the late canvass, was
greatly enraged agains' Governor Tilden
because he was advocating the cardinal
doctrines of jackson. The Commercial in
effect spoke to him as if he were dis
reputable old hummer who was destroying
the prospects of party success, because of
bull-headed cbstinacy which would re-
spect no reasoning. 1t threatened him
in the coarsest terms with what would be
done to him by the Ohio Democracy if be
even dared to aspire to any Office within
their Gift. More recently it has attacked
Senator Bayard, of Delaware, for some
dereliction from its programme. The
Courier-Joounal, another Democratic ex-
cavator, when it chooses to be so, thus
handles the Enquirer for its brutal as
saults upon the character o. respectable
people:
McLeans Cincinnati mud devil is now
wasting it's impotent fury upon Senator
Bayard, of Delaware. 1t has the etfrontery
to say that if he should attempt to utter
such sentiments before a Democratic meet
ing, "he would be hissed from the stand"
This OF Democratic statesman eminent
for his abilities, his services and his purity
of character.
To have said such thing of "a Demo-
crat' is shocking. 1t might have passed
if spoken of a Republican. The Courier,
however, reiterates its epithets:
But our little mud devil goes still
further. Plying its tugboat from one Dem
ocratic pier to another, it dumps it's load of
filth upon the State of Delaware in general
and upon the Baysrd family-grandfather
father and son-in particular, rot emitting
to splash a portion of its nastiness upon
Senator Salisbury.
The Enquirer having called the State of
Delaware ''rotten borough" the Courier
asks if 'this execrable ragpicker," the
Enquirer, has gone over to Wendell Phil
lips on consolidation, IS well as finance?
The mud devil is set down as solely
disseminator of slime, having no purpose
except to bedrabble all who do not fall
down and worship it."
We have, then, good deal more of the
mud devil and his spirit, in its peculiar
sewer and, at last, with words of amity
and of amnesty, for those erring papy-
rists who have seen the error of their cal
culations, and are willing to come back to
the hard money altar, the Courier shows
no mercy to McLean's "little mud devil"
Of Cincinnati;
As for our little Cincinnati mud devil, we
have no hope of it. 1t started in to destroy,
and must be wiped out, rump and STUMP,
Not grease spot of it should be permit
ted to remain anywhere.
With these graceful little excerpts from
kindred literature, our ambitious anna
teurs must, for the moment, rest content
They can cultivate any natural gifts of
obloquy or fulsome favor, as oc-
casion may serve, and, in time, if they
can not corrupt the sewer of public poll
tics with the offensive vigor of Bache or
a Blair, a Calendar or Kendall, any one
may make very nice s'little mud
devil of themselves by copying sedu-
lously the Cincinnati Enquirer.