National Republican., 1875-09-14

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Then rose he like meteor,
To wear the golden crown.
Gone to meet the fellow who struck glycerine-
can with sledge-hammer.
prominent Mississippi Democrat has ex-
pressed the opinion that If the outrages there
can be kept up long enough, the Democrats
can carry the State. Rather frank admission,
that.
An enterprising undertaken of Cincinnati,
who has been in consultation with a medium,
is busily engaged in constructing a mammoth
coffin to bury the Rag Baby in on the 10th day
of October.
Doctor Mary Walker, encased In her pull
back bloomers, has settled in Salt Lake City,
and Brigham Young's last wife is already up
roofing his locks periodically, because he per-
sists in talking about those panta-Whewl
There are sixty-nine bloody shirts in Mis-
sissippi that ought to be shaken before the
gaze of the people until they learn that con-
cilistion is not a pair of shoes that can be
jumped into at one leap, but that they must
be pulled on with care and caution.
Sam. Cary, of Ohio, accounts for Providen-
tial dispensations by saying that the reason
the rich are not blessed with children is be-
cause their young would 'grow up to be
drones," while the poor are favored because
mechanics are wanted. Samuel cut his teeth
on the silver spoon, then, certain.
If the Khedive isn't jesting, It will not be
long before Ftz Hugh Lee will be singing:
81 was there all the while
At the battle of the Nile;
At the battle of the Nile,
l was there all the while"
Get up, whoop la, charge of the Black Horse
cavalry.
"The most effectusl way of destroying the
color line is to completely annihilate the black
man."-Southern Exchange.
The surest way of blasting your prosperity
and making yourselves forever odious in the
sight of refined and christianized humanity is
to continue this infamous talk and carry out its
precepts.
By the subterfuge of beets aad rutabagas
JEFF. Davis is slowly insinuating himself into
general politics, and should the Centennial
gush gain vigor during the next decade Of
months, the possibilities are that this man, the
being above all others who should be expelled
from the political arena, will be brought forth
as the standard-bearer of the Democratic ex-
Confederate military ring for the Presidency of
the United States.
The manner in which the American people
are submitting to the impositions of Jefferson
Davis evinces spirit which the past and pres
ent find pervading the communistic and unsta-
BILE elements of France. Ten years ago we
publicly consigned him to political oblivion.
We coiled the rope which was in justice woven
for his execution, and, in spirit Of magnan-
unity, the gracious and yet impolitic humanity
OF which the world had never before witnessed,
we told him to 90 forth and find some spot
where he could pass the remainder Of his days
in seclusicn and quiet reflection on the ruin he
had wrought. In our broad humanity, how
ever, we did not fail to stamp upon his brow
the brand of infamy, stamping it 80 deep that
we believed no tide of human events, no change
in the affairs Of men, no mysterious workings
of Providence could ever sufficiently obliterste
it to make the mans presence for a moment
sufferabIe or tolerated in the great arena of
public life. Scarcely ten years have passed
away since these sentiments found welcome
harbor within the breast of every loyal heart,
and now the cry has gone forth, "Giye the old
man another chance" Gradually, day by day,
this man, who tried to undermine-the very
foundation of our National Government, is
looming up in public life, the observed Of all
observers, the idol of Southern chivslry, the
one thing altogether lovely. Along the line
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one continual ovation. Crowds gathering at
the stations to greet the old leader and
chief, shouted "Vive la lost cause, /" "Viye
Ia Davis" and from the North, borne on the
gushing winds of mistaken policy of concilia-
ton, came the responsive strain, "Give the old
man another chance" This is the spirit and
these the dangerous sentiments of revolution
ary France. Impetuous, wild, sentimental,
they barely cry, "Le roi est mort" before their
lips are burdened with the song of 'Vive la
roi." The French change their form of gov
ernment, reyolutionize their social ideas, over
throw long-established customs, destroy the
equilibrium of society, and disturb continental
Europe by their unstaid and uncertain policies,
which they seize upon and adopt according to
the foolish fancies of the hour. This spirit is
growing and marvelously gaining root in
American soil. Our people are giving them
selves away to sentimentality and mistakened
ministrations Of humanity. They have Just
emerged from internecine war. The green
cemetery, the pensioner, the orphan, the Grip
pie and ten thousand recollections all remind
us of its widespread calamity, and yet, while
these are still fresh in mind and come crowd
ing back upon the memory, we find them will
ing to listen to the harsngues Of men who,
deep down in the damnable pits of their black
hearts, Matched the treason which has wrought |
out these manifold miseries. In this respect, as
American citizens who saved the Union, we are
acting without dignity; as victors, We are act
ing without armness, and as the powers that
be, We are acting without just promptitude |
and severity.