The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-09-27
Hail J. r. G. Piikin: q. I. NJ.


Hail J. r. G.. Piikin: q. I. N.
LIE RoI EST MORT! VsrE tE Roy !
The baton has lallen from the hands
of Packard, and is grasped by the
deslghty Pitkin-h;m ot che nultitndi-
nous and Understanding snitials.-
Packard had snore than ile s'suid hold;
let Pitkin sew are iest.-ko use an Occj-
dental proverb, less elegant shan eigo-
rous-*'he has bitten off more than he
can chaw." Pitkin, since he deserted
from the Confederate army at Shilobs
has set no sQuadrons. He liked the
pomp and circumstance, but his mar
sial spirit was tanned by she smell Of
that same saltpetre which has disgust
I'd taller men tliaa be, ere this. Since
this senture in the field with Mars; he
has solaced himself in the groves with
the muses.; sporting with Amaryllis iu
the shade, and with the sanglee Of
Nerea's hair. The warrior has become
phrase-monges "a coiner of honeyed
platitudes wherewith he ticklea che
bueolie palate: q droppes Of scented
Republican oil into She dull, African
ear. Get him tread warily ia the dark
and devious way upon which ho has
now entered, and be careful nos to
flourish the awful blade OF authority
toa wildly, Or lie may cut himself.
Children. and~-Pitkin, shon1dn's med
die sashiy witt. swo-edged tools.
! What il is safe for Tafe to theofize
about at Washington may be danger
Gus for Pitkiu To practice at New Or
leans. J. Il. G.. +. is 10 parlous com.
pans. By o very slight slip Of The
pen--a mere bringing down Of tho I
below che line and the conversation of
it's cross into pot hook-"Pitkin be-
comes Pip kin, and il he will consult
the Phrygian tabufist he wilt find 4
little story--familiass perhaps, TO his
youthA-about the dangers shat attend
tie passage Of frai! earthern jars, down
headlong currents, ia company with
martial and sonornus brass.
The Republican party is laborins ar
der the monstro"s delusions which De-
tober will shake and Novembct shat
ter-tnat st is the American people.
Inhated with the arrogance Of sixteen
years Of license, it has forgotten that
!. there is such q ching as law. It has
terribly moderated the quiet but stern
devotion to liberty, which is still char.
acteristic Of the American race, If i;
imagines that Gin this eentennia
year" the people propose Go substitute
for that constitutional government un
der which they have grown great. glo
sious aud free. the vulgat despotisni o
a whiskey ring.
: The Constitution will once more b.
!, paramount in the land after the 5tl u
March next. Mr.. Taft and Mr.. Game
ron and Mr.. Chandler will then lear
u that, while ''the Federal law is sn
preme," the action of Federal official
= is liable to review. That these are til
; servants Of the nation, not its masters
And if, relying on Taft's instruction
or Cameron's orders. any Of Grant
satraps, civil or military transcen
their lawful powers. be his name Sher
= idan or De Trobriand, Brooke or D
Rudio, Packard OF Pltkins be he Colo
y mel or Captain, or cow boy, or THE
he will be held to stern account be
fore the bar of that people whose an
cient and indefeasible rights lie la
dared, in the insolence of little brie
authoritys TO outrage and trample or
Pltkin may strut his short hour o
the stage. but he had better roar afte
the mildness of the sucking dove. a
. his prototype, Bottom. proffercd to d.
; For while we shall keep the peace a
all hazards and under the last provoca
e ton, "lest a worst thing befall," "
= shall also he sure to KEEP THE RECoRI
And if Pitkin pin his faith too closel
to the facile windiness of Taft an
" mistake the borborygmi of Radios
J. collie for the voice of an oracle, he ma
"a find next spring that there are sue
u things as indictments, and grand il
q ries, and jails, and the voice OF the la
u as we'll as OF the turtle in the land, an
get his precious neck between I'll
'e block and the edge of that two-hande
% engine at the door.
IL And if lie will permit US to take hi
q BY his classic hand and guide hi
fgently along the near and easy roa
J. that leads FROM the Father of Fable
+ the Father of History, we would as
him to turn from the crisp and piti
!. exercises of Esop to the garrulous e!
cursions of Herodotus (Terpsichor
25) and ponder that quaint and bea'
ie tlfnl custom introduced, with such Q!
l. ccllent results, among the ancie1
~ Persians by Cambyses, who, Iay,n
- an unjust and too Jealous official, COZ
J. verted what had been his hide into
seat for his successor, in which b
4, anticipated the discovery of later pc,
aunnuaa that tha aaat of honor Is "a