The Portland daily press., 1877-06-08
Current Comment.

The silver question bids fair to take the
lead In this summers politics.
No amount OF hot weather or of repulse
dlscourages the imitation agitator.
The Democratic members Of the South Car
DINA Legislature propose to present Senator
Gordon with gold medal IN acknowledge
ment OF his labors in Washington to secure
the recognition of Hampton and Wallace in
the House OF Representatives last winter. A
committee has been appointed to receive
contributions.
Lionel A. Sheldon, of Louisiana, long a
Republica member of Congress, and one of
the Hayes and Wheeler Presidential electors,
mas written private letter in which he not
only indorses the action of the President, but
declares that such action was an imper ative
necessity. lie says an attempt to have sus-
tanned the Packard government by force
would have been calamitous.
The wool-dyed Democrat has found a quid
to chew, and he is dolorously happy. "War
with Mexico, war with Mexico" be screams
until the echoes roar-as when pistol is
fired in the Mammoth Cave. Right well the
Old liner knows what hypocrite he is in pre-
tending to believe in the spectre he copjures
up, but he's always happiest when he howls.
All ours are Just so.
The Memphis Appeal announces that
there can be no peace In this land so long as
the Republican party has formidable organ
lied existence. The Republican party has
been willing to do good deal for peace, and
perhaps, upon reasonable assurance that
self-immolation will accomplish the object,
it will be magnanimous enough to s'lay me
down and die." Republicans are generous
and conciliatory class.
The machine politician is, perhaps, just
now the most abused man In the country.
Yet he is one of the necessary physical forces
in the operation of all schemes Of political re-
form. He is, as it were, the material supple
ment to the moral force supplied by the party
spirit. Political reforms can be accomplished
only through parties. And parties can work
effectively only as they proceed orderly and
systematically. And. to this end organiza-
tion and machinery are essential. They are
the material means by which the moral
forces of the party are wisely and effectively
applied. The man who would neglect them
would be wild enthusiast or designing
traitor to the party.-Denuer Tribune.
In the town OF Deerfield, Mass, they keep
in glass case, guarded with all possible care,
what is considered one of the most suggestive
relics of the brutality of the American Indi-
ans of two centuries ago. 1t is the door of
Mr.. Sheldon's house. The Indians, who
descended upon the village, hacked hole in
the door with their tomahawks, and putting
a rifle through it shot woman. Two hum
dred years later mob of Mississippi Demo-
Gratis at De Kalb break down door and
through the opening shoot a woman and a
boy. Thus the white savage goes his abor-
iginal brother one better. And it may be
added, that the Indians fled for their lives,
but the Mississippi murderers sit around at
home, and the governor of the state says all
is quiet.-Hartford Courant.
This is the way Parson Nasby pleads the
cause of the ''prostrate South" "The South
wants nussin, and won't be passifed without
it. How are we goin to enter upon a career
Nv prosperity onless the government furnishes
the means? We are high-spirited but an
imroverisht people, and want to be cared for.
The war took away our labor, and left us
helplis. Go into Base com's any day, or any
mite, and you will see ther hundred helplis
men, whose fields are untitled and all Nv em
groanin over the condishun Nv things. Our
railroads are not built, our slack-watrin not
done, and everything is at standstill. The
niggers wich wuz wunst ourn, are labrin for
themselves. They are prosperous. We, the
sooperior class, are the ones wich must hev
the fosterin keer Nv a paternal and maternal
government. Let the government do this for
us, and ther will be peece. Deny US this
modrit rekests and there will continyoo to be
that sullen feel wich alluz exists in proud
tho conkered heople. May the yooserper and
his senit be wise.