The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-06-14


have churncd ourself into "A great rage
! against man and then have almost
sworn that we would hate him tor life
In these outbursts we have said to our.
self admiringly: "lf old Sam johnson,
who loved a good hater. were alive now
and acquainted with us, how he would
admire us, for we hate that man as ne
hate the devil r. But.we were mistaken.
We didn't. And as time went by, we
were sure to become mellow. and in the
end to forget that We hated the man at
all-lndeed have often let friendship
drive out our hatred, and leave the fellow
as bright as summer day in the sun.
shine of our good will.
Now, the man Blaine has been to us
provocation. lie has of late been our
pet aversion. With the most insolent
parliamentary bullyism and the airs of
the plantation-with the swagger of a
manly art man and the cracking of an
overseer's whip, he has trampled upon
our political friends with letters COLI
victing him Of ways that are not lighted
by exact propriety and a high sense of
honor, taken by him with force from their
possessor, he has put.on the airs of injur-
ed innocence with-well, in short, he
has been. a sharp and long thorn in our
Democratic flesh and we have not liked
him. In fact, we have hated him, and
had made up our mind to continue hating
him until the last chapter if not syllable
OF recorded time. But now that he is
down sick we are inclined 10 repeat the
words of the Southern man WHO said to
the Washington correspondent Of the
Chicago Times: 81 hate Blaine like hell,
but personally love him like brother
He is the Quickest man of his time, and
il death claims him now for his. no one
will mourn him more sincerely
than L." Hate HIM and love
him? Rather paradoxical, but
this Is, contradictory as it may seem,
about the fact. for Blaine's opponents
seem to hate and love him at one and the
same time. They hate him because he is
so infirnally provoking, and like him be-
cause he is so really kind. If Demo-
crat suggests amnesty, he will get up in
his place and howl in opposition, shak.
ing the bloody shirt; but the next
moment he will himself sug.
gest amnesty and be cooling
ard billing with Lamar and Hill.
About three-fourths of the time
Democrat is anxious to hit him on the
nose, and the Democrat ought not to fail
to dose. The other quarter OF the time
Democrat is anxious to embrace the i'm
pudent rascal, and the Democrat ought
to do so. Political highwayman he may
be i; political pirate he possibly is; but
never was there more gallant political
road man or political terror of the wave.
AS Turpin fell just short of being great
general, and Kidd of being great naval
hero, so Blaine has fallen just short
Of being "a great statesman,
and is one of the ablcst
and best OF the demagOgues. He is a
political actor. He puts Oh the dress
and assumes the voice of Radical TRACE
dian, crying with strut: "lIa. ha
Blood, boys, blood; give me buckets full
Of it f. Pour it out until old ocean shall
become puddle in comparison Blood!
blood !" THIS he does with ability,
while all the Radical peanut boys of the
pit, shout! Bravo, Blaine Speech
speech!' And, in truth, Blaine
is only an actor. lie plays
high Radical tragedy because it pleascs
the Radical peanut boys; but, at heart,
he is not the bloody rascal of the play
not by several miles. OF course he is not a
good man, because he is hypocrite an
actor, when acting is not a reputable
proiession-and therefore lie is not to be
applauded rs man; but he is so able in
his meanness--so bravelin his assumed
parts-that he challenges admiration;
and now that he is down on his back
sick, We find our dislike Of him oozing
out at our fingers and toes, leaving behind
kind of regret that so good man is so
bad man-that this gallant hero Of
bluff failed to become the great man Of
his day, the paciticator OF the Republic,
the.promlnent statesman instead of the
prominent demagogue of the Centennial
year.