The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-29

ion. there would be no d,ubt OF the coming ses-
sion being made memorable by grand on
slaupht upon Mr.. Hayes at the hands Of the per- |
soss who recently counted him into the Presi- |
lenoy. But fortunately, or unfortunately, AZ
the case may be, the pronu1ciamsnto Of . ltadi-
cal leader is MT nee essarly sgnihctnt aa ID |
what his sotlon will bs. rms ESinl VIE whfcf |
the
wApHs AND THE BLhsHs
Of Redicalism threaten or promise one thing and
d. another when the time comes, has never been
eouaed uuess II be by that other facility with
whioh they do one thing, aud then cay they have
d ne another. The primary accomplishment OF
the Radical leader ia to lie 4, whether the lie pre-
oedes the act. of tho act the lie, is matter OF
small consequence, iuasmuch as the act is
morally certain TO be "a vicious as the lie is vile
In either event. Reasoning thus from the i'm
pressions of a long and intimate familiar
ity with the nature and processes OF
The Radical leader, / am not inclined
to attach much Importance to the late
manifestoes of Wade, Blaine et a., viewing
them M forerunners Of future action. II is, per-
haps. In the nature OF stretch Of charity to at
tsch to them any Importance whatsoever inas-
much az the manifest, in one oase proceeds from
a man whose dotsge is az fixed as his retirement
from public life is assured while in the other
case II bears the sign manual OF person whose
tentative grip upon the public crib is
AN ANAoHnos1sn
compared TO whijh the sway OF the
Mohommedan Turk In Christian Europe may
be accounted sign of human progress.
So far as | am able to discover. the
believers in The star of Blaine are Blaine
himself, his otherwise bright sisier-in-law, Gail
| Hamilton, aud the petr fled editors OF two or
| three en- al sheets up In the remoter hooks OF
| New L gland. can not include Bob Ingersoll
ia this list-athuugb Bob is attached 10 Blaine
for the reason that Boo ia not believer in any.
thing: and the epy reason why he pins his filth
10 Blaipe's future il because such Q profession
| practically amounts to n
pEtIBr IN NOT HINa.
Here then we rescn the conclusion that Baine's
pronuncismepto is Of Importance neither as al
Indication OF his own sentiment, nor as re6es
OF any general feeling which he may be assumed
| to represent. But IL still has value, when We
come TO regard il in its true light 30 symbolizine
the dsatb-r which is gurgling in the throat
New England ~ aruasKs sssAsl &zsssssanpesi
tics The position Of New England if aaf na
tional politics reminds me of the professions
methods of quaok doctor who used II
paddle pills and otherwise act as pur
veyor TO the graveyards in the region o
G ntral New York where your oorresp
grew. II This doctor could get hold OF an oil
m aid afflicted with hypo0hon dra aud provided
with a en- Ill moons, the ingenuity he would dis
play in plying her with just enough drugs b
K ep up the hypeohondria, but not enough t
produce death, would have amply served bette
physician In better cause
THUS NEW ENGLAND,
whenever she can get the rest OF the oountr
into real or fspoied state OF illness through th
operation of exacerb, ,.ing ideas upon the bod
politic. she adopts the practice tf the q ,ao
| aforesaid. whereby each dose is nicely calculate
I to neoessitste further treatment, aud thus re
alize profitable fees from the prolonged tortur
OF tbs patient. And, as my old fiend The qnac
I was never known to be In g bad way except whe
everybody olse was well and happy, 80 New Eos
land is never observed to be 10 q state OF exacel
. baton except when all the rest Of the country
: at peace. The happy set tlement OF the last I
/ the local
TRoUBLEs IN THE SOUTH
o and the consequent relapse Of the nation into
period Of rest, quietude aud good feelipg whic
IL has not known before since New England bt
!, gan her abolition crusade, thirty years AT
quite naturally throws that SEC ion into turn
. and travail And you will find that the quiets
:. and more peacefu the rest Of the country b.
: comes, the wilder win rage the emotions Of Ne
7 England.
>1nx 20 haun au1 nj mil n
euardsman who obtained a great reputation as
n fghting man by bearing ohsl lsrges between h
! brother officers; or, perhaps, more familiar Il
Iustration would bs that Of the traditional ind
d vdual who acquired legal eminenoe by informir
}, his nj ighbors how they could get up swsuts wit
= one another. SO New England has obtained
Il great reputa ion - the
0 HoTBED or MORAL IDEAS,
|, or to change the metaphor. as the nursery of r
' forms and conservatory OF human progres
whereas in ,int of fact, she has never d me an
. thing but devise ways and means OF setting 9th
' people by the ears her owo share the oonftt
being limited to an imp .rtial riff ng OF thsp cke
s og h 9TH com sants VIII on they hal given b.
', their Jackets 70 hold.
i. Two years ago l spent some part OF q va z
!. bond srmmer in p regrinatols sbou' ,hs Nc
- England Stats, spending most OF my time Ia 1t
Il Connecticut Valley aud along the uud coast.
e was st,uc by one fact of tremendous sguifcaac
% which have not seen properly commented upt
in the public prints. Now England is beoomi'
a country OF small towns and second-growth Il
: ests For example, on trip through 'h' Fsii
ington Valley, IN Connecticut. discovered that
least ,bres-i hs OF the land formerly calvat
e. had been abani med and fores OF sspings we
. growing where corn aud oats had grown for
& years before Al FIRST imagined that these M
forest gr 'wths were desIg led to promote t
r, great Connecticut industry of
q WOODEN NUTMEGs,
20 but upon inquiry wa, told that the people h
found it so much ca sier to dig tn 'ir living ont
r the pockets Of other 70 ks tuan out OF their o.
coil, that the latter industry had been defniti'