National Republican., 1876-01-08
tional pride and national hatred, cut each
others throats indiscriminately. The sight
may not be pleasant, but 1t will be grand.

tional pride and national hatred, cut each
others throats indiscriminately. The sight
may not be pleasant, but 1t win be grand.
Miss Sara Jewett is responsible for great
deal of devastation through her appearance
on the stage, but it is doubtful if she has ever
before drawn forth such torrent of gush as
bursts out in the following extract from the
Louisville Courier-Journal: ';Miss Jewett
achieved q heart-thrilling impression. The
susceptible youth were captivated in shoals.
She invested her personation with SO many
winsome graces, 4 manner so artless, voice
so melifuous, that, with the charms which
nature, in joyful mood, so layished upon her
dainty figure, it is no wonder she is, par er-
celleaee, the stellar magnet of the dramatic
constellation that pales its light before her
radiance" All, boo hoo hoo, wont some one
carry this young susceptible out on feather,
and let the gentle zephyrs Of mellow winter
day fan his feVered brow and revive his senses.
Merit has its reward and demerit is quite as
sure Of the same treatment. The reward OF
demerit, however, always comes in the form OF
punishment, and demeritorious Senator Al
corn, of Mississippi, has recently been the de-
served recipient Of it. Within the past yeal
this man has sacrificed himself, his party and
its principles simply for the purpose of pursu-
ing political phantom which the evil power
of a morbid ambition had created to tickle his
pcrrerse fancy and allure him to destruction.
He has fallen by his own hand, and l.. Q. {.
Lamar has dropped quietly into his political
shoes. When Republican Mississippi was un-
Il bo Of hlnoIy
paign, if Alcorn and few other men in whom
the Republican party had reposed confidence had
stood firmly and honestly by their constituency,
his political head might still have been upon
his shoulders, and the great State saved from
the rule Of the White Line element. Lamar
is fearless, outspoken Bourbon, and Acorn
was a timid, milk and-water man, with but
little moral stamina and less political courage.
Lamar won and Alcorn was defeated, and
therein is a, lesson more profitable for polit
clans 10 study than is the examination of an
cient styles of architecture for the cultivation
of fthe tastes of the modern architect. bust
ness man to prosper must adhere strictly TO
business principle: he must hew to the line.
A MINISTER to preach logical sermon must
stick to the text; and a politician TO succeed
must he faithful TO party duties and watchful
of the interests of his constituency. If the day
ever was it has passed when politicians can
serve two parties. 1t is just as impossible and
much more impracticable for man to serve God
and mammon. A traitor to party whose
principles arc right can never find sympathy
in the American people: an apostate is loath-
some object in their eyes. Judas had his
thirty pieces OF silver, Benedict Arnold had his
commission in the British army, Marat had his
Charlotte Corday, and Alcorn has now his
dishonorable discharge from the confidence of
the people of Mississippi. Heaven has con-
structed places for lepers, social parasites and
political party apostates. Let them hic away
to their respective dens. The American peo-
pie, sickened with their nauseating presence,
bid them deDart.