The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-19
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Political Notes.

1t is stated that Ben Butler and
Blaine have agreed to abandon old quar-
rels and stand by one another, Blaine
in the Senate and Butler in the House.
When Butler was intervieYed the
other day he said with keenest irony:
81 am as happy as can be. We arc
all happy. The whole country is hap
py. We have all been waiting long
time for the blessed consummationt that
has come to us under this new political
dispensation-the political millennium.
God moves in mysterious way his
wonders TO perform. All our quafrel-
ing and pickering, the strife between
the sections, are ut an end; in truth,
the lion and the lamb are lying down
together, and (glancing in what to the
Herald representative seemed the direc-
tion of the Executive mansion) the lit
tie child is leading them. ALI our
political disputes, contests and riYalries
are over now and there never was such
blessed condition of AFFAIRS"
After few minutes pause and some
vigorous puffs of his after dinner cigar
Gen. Butler said: Would you Ike TO
hear from the Bible definition of this
Louisiana commission business7" lay
ing down his cigar the general took
from q smBll bookcase near his desk an
edition of the Bible, and after sfumb-
ling over it for some time, read, with
an indescribably humorous facial ex-
preston the following: HiDs1
"And unto the angel Of the church
of the Laodiceans write. These things
saith the amen, the faithful and truo
witness, the beginning Of the creation
of God. '-'9'
81 know thy works, that thou art
neither cold nor hot. / would thou
vert cold or hot. So then because
thou art lukewarm, and neither cold
nor hot, L will spue thee out of my
mouth" f4f
"How ! should liks.n said be. !. ,.to 3,
piled to the administration in PEARSON
Newman's church." He continued,
'You read the resolutions OF the New
England Methodist Conference few
days agol Those ministers represent
the sentiments Of the New England
Methodists. Every one OF them Is
Republican,. The old-fashioned Re
puDlicans of New England believe In
precisely that doctrine, no matter what
you newspapers may say"
80.
If there is defect which, above all
others, is signal in Milton, winch in !
jures him even intellectually, which
limits him as poet, 1t is the defect
common to him, with the whole Puri-
tan party to which he 'belonged-tho
fatal defect Of temper. He and they
may have q thousand merits, but they
are unamiable. Excuse them how one
will, Millions asperity and acefbfty,
his want OF sweetness Of temper, Of
the Shakspearean largeness snd indul-
gence, is undeniable. Lord Macauley,
IN his essay, regrets that the prose
writings OF Milton should not be more
read. ''They abound" he says in his
historic way, with passages compared
with which the finest declAmAtions Of
Burke sink into inHgnifcance." At
any rate, they enable US TO Judge Of
Millions temper, of his freedom from
asperity. Let US open the ssDoctFine
and Discipline of Diyorce,p and see
how Milton treats an opponent How
should he, a serving man both by ma
ture and functions, an idiot by breed
ing, and solicitor by presumption,
eyer come 70 know or feel within him
self what the meaning is Of gentlefD
What q gracious temper! '.At last
and in q good hour, we come TO his
farewell, which is 20 be concluding
taste of his jabberment In Law, the
dashiest and the fustiest that ever cor
rupted in such an unswilled hogshead.n
How ''sedate and majestic"