New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-06-05


What this doomed party" is to trans
fuse from, since there is no honest,
accessible, unless it is to introduce
and absorb the Bourbon blood, we ca,
not see. The political friends of Mr.
Blair, of Missouri, are said to b.
extremely careful about the politica
| opinions of those from whom he derives
the ruddy drops that warm his heart Blu
unless we could get into the magazine o
DR.. Whitaker review of this mine O.
scientific metaphors, it will be impossible
to do it justice. We have "a concert O.
identity" which becomes stumbling
block over which the Radical party is to
fall and perish. We have the afinities Of
the atomic theory of chemistry, varied by
a figure drawn from the states of natural
philosophy. Honorable citizens are by
application of this last screw made to
''gravitate" toward an element" intend
ing ga succ essful career" This allegor-
ical element is explained to mean
national Democracy. 1.-The malcontent
third party idea" of such sheet as the
New Orleans official organ
Is quite distinct from the noble, cour-
ageous, self-denying independent" thought
and word OF such men as the lllustrious
California gentleman (which his name it is
Booth whose name was cited by you as a
specimen protestant against Democratic
faith and doctrine.
Perhaps, however, the paragraph most
difficult to reconcile with the rules of
grammatical construction and consistent
rhetoric is the following:
1t is this devotion TO indentity as an end
instead OF a mere means which will prob
ably lead the Radical chiefs to despise all
offers OF independent" thinkers, to assim
ilate themselves with the honest fragments,
and weld them into coherent and purified
party mass sufficient in bulk to affect the
councils of nation which runs its political
machinery at high speed and with seven
million roster power.
We will not tackle this extraordinary
conglomeration Of figures. When Junius
hayed the then Duke of Bedford with
such terrible excavations, the latter did
not want for defenders. Of one of those
replies Junius said racks, masks and dag
gers dance through his pages in all the
mazes of metaphorical confusion. we
find all these concomitants of mired and
broken metaphor in the sentence above
quoted. A nation running its machinery
by super-heated steam, and with boiler
surface of one million square miles, with
the north pole for cylinder head and the
tropics for an escape pipe, is splendid
Americo-Hibernian figure, and should
have been reserved for the next or sue
ceeding fourth of July; but we do not think
our neighbor of the Picayetne, or its proof
reader, have done justice to Mr.. Junius
Booth. 'The seven million roster power" is
a variation of the meton omy and introduces
a new figure. One word printed is evil
IDENTITY an error; by reading "the seven
million rooster power" the grandeur of our
country is made manifest. We are a ma
ton of growers. Our "rooster" power
excels that of any or of all nations. Who
does not remember by tradition the
Democratic appeal to Chapman to crow?
Who has not seen these Democratic roost-
ers, who sit draggled and dispirited for
long years, brought forth and paraded
with lifted wings and outstretched necks
whenever ''Confedrit Y Roads" has gone
''Dimmycra tic?" With the change of
reading suggested. the sentence becomes
complete, pc werful and expressive.
We pass the literary phase Of this letter
n which Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is
INVOKED, and in which the sterling old Eng
ish ballad "Rise Up Young William Riley
md Come Along With Me" is attributed
o the voice of ''many waters" and thus
ravestied: Stand up, William Allen"
"This happy day is implored to
haste, botanical figure about the rose
nd an pathological illustration from the
'ampire close the treatise.
In anticipating the return of peace and
he disappearance of corrupt organs,
gnorant Legislatures, venal judges, |
Wheeler compromises and usurping Gov
rnors,' we would respectfully suggest, as
n addition to the category, that of ridicu-
GUS preterders to scientific and literary
bility and political consistency. With
his addition, we unite with Mr.. Junius |
;ooth in his happy hopes of a prosperous
uture.