New-York tribune., 1879-05-10
an TVPVLSJVE CTSSr

The Editor of The Ok0lOna States, whom
THE TRIBUNE weeks ago unwillingly gave to
a most tumultuous fame, is described by one
of his former partners as - al impusive cuss
"apt to suddenly get up out of his chair
Gamble over TO you in the midst Of a dis
"cussOn. and throw himself into your lap
"with one arm around your neck, while he
"londles your face, or milks your chm with
the other hand" This is graphic portrait
ure. We can easily believe in its accuracy,
especially as to his habit Of milking
"chns." He has evidently MIXED a
great many Democratic chins Of late,
though the process does not seem to have
been accompanied with much fonilms.
4 great part of his fame is attributable to this
source. lie has not only MIXED the Demo-
cratic chin into The Congressional Record, but
has curdled their dispositions and churned
them into frOthing rage against him. He
has been almost Us successful as Hinton
Rowan Helper, whose book, The Impending
Crisis" made such a stir that Democrats
denounced as disuniOnists and traitors who
ever indorsed or purchased it, and the
XXXYIth Congress was blocked in its organ
ization for weeks by it. The OkOlona editor
makes almost as much trouble for his friends,
the Democrats, rs Helper did for the Repub-
icans.
And we can easily believe, too, that the Ollo-
Iona man Is "an impulsye cuss." As such
we consider him a representative Southern
Democrat. Congress and all the departments
used to be full Of these "impusiye cusses."
1t was the impulsiyc cuss of the Okoona
type that used to run the Democratic party
and the Government. He believed then, as he
does now, in the superiority of the Southern
"racc." and that it was born to rule He
talked OkOlOna in conventions and in Con-
gross, and, being an "impulslye cuss,"
was not so much in the habit OF fond
ling faces and milking chins as OF whip
ming out a horse-pistol and blowing off the
ton of any mans head who cOntradicted him.
He was MOTTO be entirely accurate-an inva-
riably pleasing person but he was I" an inn
"pulsive cuss,n and then as now large latitude
was allowed him. In his impulsiye way he
threatened to destroy the Union if he could
not rule it; he impulsively seeded and began
the war, and, by cOld-blooded "cusses who
are not high-spirited and impulsive, was pun
ished and brought back. Since his return he
continues to be the same . 'impulsiye cuss."
One of his noble impulses is to shoot
"niggers.p He has generous impulse to
stuff ballot boxes, and patriotic impulse to
defeat his political opponents by either kill
ing them or driving them out of his State.
And when he finds that his old party, defeated
in the Rebellion and put down in the war,
have come again to power, he has an uncon-
trollable impulse TO raise the rebel yell. And
he does it, for he is an impulsive cuss."
But they say the "impulsye cuSs" represents
nobody. SO they said that /" Brickn POmeroy,
who published during the war sheet SO full
of vile and reasonable utterances that decent
Democrats tried vainly TO disown HIM, repre-
sented nobody. The answer TO it was that
bis paper had the largest circulation of any
Democratic newspaper In the country. The
Okolona paper may have had little circula-
tion and less influence up to the time
that its impulsiye utterances began to
be advertised. 1t is said that its cir
culation has largely increased of late. Why 7
Simply because the mpulsiye cussn who
edits it utters the real sentiments of Missis-
sippi Democrats. He is an impulsive cuss,n.
10 be sure, but so are all of them, and it is
important to know what the "impulsve cussesr
think and what they propose to do, for they
are the ones to whom we are invited to hand
over the Government.