National Republican., 1876-03-30
The LAST OF Tas M0aI3aNS.

II Is rare indeed that any of US have the
pleasure Of looking upon the spectacle of q
real gentleman. The term itself has gone
out of use to a great extent, or al least has
changed It's significance in the last decade.
Before the war they were plenty. and men
Of "honah, sab, who knew to a nicely the
quality and extent Of their own dignity,
were prevalent in the halls OF Congress
and elsewhere. The Southern cities, es-
peciary, furnished large share o: those
who assumed a pseudo -aristocratic bearin :
and looked upon work Of any kind as de-
meaning and disgusting. But in this latter
day gentlemen have given place 10 men,
and real fine gentleman, with all the
instincts and manners of the chivalrous
age, is Tara aes.
How happy should we be. therefore, to
find that there is still one in existence, and
that we all may have the pleasure of look
ing upon hun and inspecting the various
sides of his somewhat complex character.
Gentleman George is his name. He was
discovered by the Democratic party in
Kentucky, and it having been determined
by them that he possessed all the genteel
attributes Of his kind, he was brought forth
and held up for public inspection. Many
Lave been the diatribes and lectures the
country has received at this resurrection of
gentleman Of the old school. How often
have common men hung their heads at
their own littlenes~ when called upon 10
note the dignifed bearing, the afiaSility,
the instchless sang jrotd Of Gentleman
George? Odious comparisons in which
our simple hammered President and states
men have suffered severely have been in
stitUled. Stories depicting his gentle
manly condescension and naughty diEe-
card Of the trivial affairs that interest ordi-
nary people have been told. People who
have not had the satisfaction Of looking
upon the face "where majestic dignity sits
enthrcned'' have puzzled themselves to
depict Gentleman George upon their i'm
agiaations, and have set up sort of demi-
god On pedestal smiling benignly over an
unhappy land which he might rescue from
: utter decentralization by one word, but was
too languid and :uuintercsted to take the
: matter. under consideration. Democratic
conventions have sat at his feet and been
Lit UP with the radiance of his smile.
How they have plead fol words Of wisdom
from the gentlemanlY oracle How they
have individually fought for his mol Of
recognition, and truckled to him for even
word, that they might tell their fellow
mcn that Gentlemen George was num-
bered On their list of friends.
But time has passed, and now Gentleman
George is about to depart these scenes.
Citizens Of Washington must show a re-
markAble amount of agility if they want
to see him before he disappears in blaze
of blue lights and vanishes forever from
the political stage. His career is ended,
the corpse is ready. and the grand trans
figuration scene in which he appears for the
last time in the abodes of bliss, with the
Black Crook on one side and the Demo-
cratic coryphees on the other, is ION. -
Hurry, before the curtain fails.
With the fall Of G. G. the race OF "gen.
tIemen" dies out. The mold in which he
and his class we're made was badly cracked
befors, and gov 4 Is entirely broken.
Heaceferth, In history sione, may we have
the rnu6canon of looking upon the gen.
,Iem.s sf che cid school as he sits on a
,no.nment distributing patronage on one
SID and "vhacking" darkies on the other.
smiling before him with placid beniguancy
While somebody behind is tucking the