The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-09-26

Especial Correspondence Of the Democrat1
WASHINGTON, D. g., September %, 1878.
infer from an editorial which I recently
read In the DEMOCRAT that the action OF the
Democratic convention In Massachusetts yes
terday will not be hailed with much enthu-
siasm In your Office. However, / shall ven
ture upon few observations which may tend
to show that there is really no occasion for
any tearing of the hair or loud lamentations
on the part of the Southern Democracy be-
cause of ',..,.....s. .--ss-... ..ef..
THE NOMINATION OF BEN BUTLER
by their reputed brethren, SO to speak, In
Massachusetts. At the outset, let me say
that the convention, in nominating Butler out
and out considerably overdid not only the adj
vice OF their friends outside the State, but their
own original intentions as well. The original
programme had been not to nominate Butler,
but simply to abstain from making any NOM
ination whatever This indeed would have
been in Buffers interests, but 1t was method
of Indirectly helping him or rather Of using
him to smash the hated she'll of Massachu-
setts Radicalism without mourning any party
responsibility for his future action as Gov
ernor. It is easy enough to see how, in q
State like Massachusetts, where the Demo-
cratic party has nothing to lose,
THE DEFEAT OF THE RADICAL PARTY
and the overthrow of its organization was
the chief desideratum, and also that such
consummation approached perfection just In
proportion as the defeat might be made
humiliating and its pill nauseating by cir
cumstanees.
I look upon that peculiar development of
Radicalism which hourishes in Massachu-
setts as the sublimation of human meanness
dastardliness. base cunning and the brutal
cruelty that always accompanies cowardice in
power. regard that State, and particularly
Boston, as the centre, hot-bed and hatchery
of all the devilishness that has racked our
national system and distorted our institutions
for q quarter of q century. From the parent
belly of Massachusetts, like little snakes from
forth two-thirds of the vermin who for years
have been defiltng places Of power and honor
in the Southern States, robbfng the Southern
people and demoralizing the fabric Of South
ern society.
Every base, vile and daStardly statute cal
culated to
TURN THE SOUTH INTO A NEW POLAND,
which are commonly grouped und or the head
| of the reconstruction acts, has been con-
| ceved In the brain OF some Massachusetts
| Radical, and every foul ism in the semi
| maudlin, semi-M Maehiavellfan school of politi-
| cal philosophy, rife since the war, has had
| Its origin In the can't the hypocrisy, the Gu
pidity Or the cowardiee of Massachusetts.
I need hardly mention names. Edmunds,
whom long ago described as hiding beneath
| the countenance OF st. Jerome, the heart of
st. Just; Dawes, Boutwell,, poor, SOLDERING
old Henry Wilson; the sleek and oily Hoars ;
Butler himself-all Massachusetts men by
birth or residence-these are the authors Of
the woes which, as it now appears, have
| driven the country mad. [ never knew but
one honest man to come out of this American
| Nazareth. That was Sumner, and he was
| honest because he was mOnomaniac How
ever, as Daniel Webster said,
| MASSACHUSETTS NEEDS NO DESCRIPTION.
| There she stands, with the history of nigger-
ism and carpet-baggery hanging on to her
| forever.
WE'LL, I had thought these things 50 often
and SO bitterly that [ came to think of Mas
| sachusetts Radicalism as a cobra d5 cnpelt0 or
a rattlesnake, to be Drained with the first
| cobble-stOne one could get his hands on; the
uglier and more misshapen the stone and the
| more useless for any other purpose, the bet
ter 1t seemed to me to serve the end OF bruis-
| ing this snakes head. I state this as my own
| feeling, which absolutely itself trenched on
thousand times that I would give two years
| of my life for the sake of occupying Boston
with command of Federal troops, and
| would have died content after playing the
part of De Trobriand In her State louise.
Under these circumstances I have watched
with great interest
BEN BUTLERs EFFORTS TO OBTAIN THE
GOvERNORsHIP;
and the sole earthly consideration which
saved his ugly person and still uglier history
from utter repulsiveness in my eyes was the
tocracy Of Beacon Hill, Boston, hated him and
dreaded his designs. This particular aristoc-
racy of Beacon Hill appeared to me to be the
natural enemies Of the human race; Butter
was nothing worse than gadhy, and, so long
could be endured. His election as Governor,
no matter under what auspices or by what
votes, would be pill forced down the throats
Of these oligarchs of Radicalism almost as
from the pediment of Bunker Hill col
umn. His lifelong sport has been to revile
them, to sneer at their pretensions and de-
n0unce their hypocrisy. His pet diversion
has been to humiliate their arrogance and
over them as Collector of Customs, and by
numberless other and lesser
CoNTRIvANCEs OF HIS BUSY AND MALIGNANT
BRAIN.
And at last he has embraced an oppor-
tunity to cap his climax of spite and ven
Governor, elected he most certainly will
be-despite all their expedients and all their
money.
As / look at it, New Orleans and Louisiana
ought to gaze upon this prospect with the
grim satisfaction of one. who sees the curses
Of his neighbors unerringly going home, to
roost. The real Democracy of Massachu-
setts is the Irish-American elemena There
are some old pumps in Boston, living in the
neighborhood of Beacon Hill, who pretend to
be Democrats, but who are in fact aristocrats,
and whose sole idea of political usefulness Is
to wait until g. Democratic President Is elect
ed by the vote OF the West and South, and
then gobble up the, Federal patronage. All
these solemn old storks are bondholders and
national bankers, and deserve no more con-
sideration from
THE REAL DEMOCRACY OF THE COUNTRY
than If they had never seen the color OF a
Democratic ticket. They are the men who
not only opposed the nomination Of Butler,
but opposed the policy of abstainilng from
nomination and, in their capacity of central
committeeman, sought to force the conven-
tion to nominate one Of their own coterie,
which would have assured the election Of the
regular Radical candidate But the Irish
American element controlled the convention,