New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-06-05
the South and North in the hands of the
Southern Confederates and their Northern
Democratic allies?
HAVE WE A JUNIUs AMONG Us7

If Mr.. E. Booth had not deemed it
duty to affix his signature to his man
letters of comment upon public affairs b
would have been the Junius of his day
There is, perhaps, another impeachment t
this anonymous fame. Mr.. Booth seem
at present absolutely without an antagon
ist. There is a column or more conse
Grated and set apart in various anti
| Republican papers into which comes MI
Booth periodically to proclaim the politi
cal supremacy of the Bourbon Democrat
and to challenge all and singular VIII
may deny to the monomachy of the pei
or tongue. For this there are some an
Gent examples. At each coronation of al
English monarch there rides forth stall
wart knight, clad in complete mail, armed
with sword and dagger, and mounted o,
a caparisoned and caracoling steed. HI
proclaims the legitimate supremacy of tn
king or queen, then crowned, and chal
lenges all persons whatsoever who ma,
controvert this proclamation to come
forth and fight him, the cham
pion. As nobody has for some
three or four centuries thought proper to
make fool Of himself by paying at
tention to this ring master of the roya
circus, it is taken for granted that there
is no dissent from the king, clergy or no
bility of the realm. Mr.. Booth adopts
the same unfounded assumption will
respect to the Bourbon Democracy. We
look in vain in his last letter for any an.
tagonist whatever. There may possibly
be foe, but the haze of rhetoric has
completely obscured him from view.
We must note a popularity in these
proclamations. Mr.. Booth is evidently a
student of science. Like Humboldt, he
is omniscientific. In pursuing this style
Mr.. Booth sometimes mixes his metaphors
sadly, and has occasionally subjected him
self to physiological criticism. Thus,
when lately auscultating the decayed
lungs Of the Republican party he used
t erms which conveyed the idea of his hav-
ing mistaken some symptoms of abdominal
disturbance for the crepitation of diseased
action.
We sometimes fear that Mr.. Booth
may have been involved in this dis
cussion, almost approaching a contro-
versy, with the inquiry whether the
developments of all science do not
tend to demonstrate universal theism
which somewhat impairs the orthodox
attributes of the Divine nature. We en-
terrain this apprehension from the many
scraps thrown off in his let
ter which would seem rather applicable to
polemics than to politics.
We illustrate these observations and
vindicate the correctness Of our view that
MIR. Booth appears as the champion of
nothing against no antagonist, by some
extracts from what may be assumed will
appear in his memoirs as about letter
Gel. to the Bourbons He begins by
sky rocket which explodes in several me-
aphorical stars. The first illumines
,ableau in which Constitutional Freedom
S sleeping She is threatened by Peril
softly encroaching IN the guise of Radi-
al administration. Attention is drowsily
weakening to the danger, when Mr.. Booth
ushes forward at this critical moment and
luickens or hurries up Attention. AS in
lreams, the figure changes, and we have
n amateur fencer, armed with foil, con-
ronting the deadly weapons of an sac
press Then the view dis
Olives, and the champion is turned sud-
Lenly, as in an Arabian fable, into ga poor,
bdurate flint, stricken by polished STEEL"
nd then there is beautiful illustration
f the theory of latent heat developed by
riction, and in this blaze and corruscation
f elements appears the hero of these
rhetorical transformations as a shower of
sparks Of light and heat, to illuminate
ato intelligence and kindle into blaze
be opinions and zeal Of the liberty-loving
eople of the United States"
We can conceive Of nothing more gor-
eous since the curtain has fallen upon
Hiss Columbine Spangle, when, all tints
nd tinsel, she ascend sto the flies amid a
God OF rose light and to the sound of |
oft and subdued music. But Lingard |
ould not change from General Washing
IN to Captain jerks with more facility |
lan Mr.. Booth puts off all this garrish |
imagery and returns to- the severe role of !
pplied science, though in this jealous
ursuit of science the professor takes
tile heed of grammatical perspicuity. |
hus:
He does not doubt that in the main the |
verage citizen has about the same idea of |
is political wants all over the country.
This ''average citizen does he have |
bout the same idea with himself OF his |
official wants all over the country, or
it'll some other average citizen? Then,
gain, what are his political wants all over
lie country? Does this irrepressible
,erage citizen want q vote in one State, a
larter section Of public land in another,
ld an Office in third? Then "hoDest
epublicans in other States than Louis
ma" season party otherwise savorless.
re we thus excluded entirely from the
lvation of salt, and delivered over to de- |
Has all salt so lost its SAVIOR
Louisiana: ii SO. vherewith shall it be
lied? With the muliate of Democracy,
} doubt. The Republicans not having
lnnoh of this saline nrincinla to-