National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-03-13

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when Georgia became a rebel State. The
tongue ofNr. BEN HILL subsequently served
as u veteran in the Confederate Senate.
Since the war the tongue, whatever else it
may have said, still continued to serve the
rebellion on all proper occasions, and its
gallantry and activity arc undiminished al
though its field Of operations have been
changed to the Senate of the United States,
and the States of the Conlcdcracy have dis
appeared from the public gaze rs power.
We again repeat that Mr.. HILL procured
a career for himself in the service of the re-
bellon, and the exploits Of his veteran
tongue in that service has earned him dis
tinction. In his upward conflict to the
floor of the Senate he has brandished his
armament to some purpose. The pensive
public breathe out the touching sentiment
that the true and the beautiful are one, of
which Mr.. HILL may perhaps he pleased to
make note. as it refers to civilization
which is clearly not his; and his attention
may also be called to the illustrious
EvADSE, who said:
Since ! can do no good because am woman,
which is good advice, though a little off
color in his case, and out OF his line of con-
dict. Nevertheless the people are inter
ested in him. both for what he was and
for what he is; for what he said when he
laid about him and smote hip and thigh
the opponents of rebellion, and his insolcnt
disoyalty to the country which forgave
him; and the people arc interested i'll and
are watching to discover when that veteran
tongue of his shall be mustered out of the
service of JEFF DAVIS and his friends and
engage itself to undo the appalling wrong
of which Mr. HILL has been guilty.
But it is time that we come TO deal with
Mr.. HILL as an inventor and owner Of n
civilization that illunts IN unpleasant de-
iiance in the face of stalwart patriotism and
of the men who saved the Republic from the
cruel and bloody hands OF rebels. Mr.. HILL
paraded at the Confederate Association Of.
Georgia, in 1915, and fired the Southern
heart with his reasonable utterances. lie
was there in all his glory, slandering the
men who had saved him from punishment,
and in full fighting trim. He was in rap
lures, so he said, and the fiery clement OF
talk rushed forth in streams. Fancy Mr.
HILL, arrayed in his dry war-paint, gorge
Gus and enthusiastic, praucing OFF on his
Whipped stud Treason" amid the wild APP
plausc of his audience, among whom was
Bob - TOOMBs, who said lie would call the
roll of his slaves at Bunker Hill, but he
didn't tell them that
Secession was mistake, n terrible mistake,
hut secession was no crime. 1t violated no
oaths. II sought to shed no blood.
Rldicasm is no mistake. ] arraign
Radicaism (the Republican party Tonight be-
fore the bar of this outraged country as the
only real, intentional rebcl in American his
tory land Mr.. HILL was not ducked in the
peghboring horse-pOnd). The great
and final struggle to settle the question
whether constitutional liberty on this CONT.
nent shall be continued or not, is to be fought
in 1876. Can it be successfully fought Mt the
ballot-box? o, j look forward to
the discussion with real rapture! Who in
American history is rebel? If we
fnil at the ballotbox in 1s76by reason of force,
a startling question will present itself TO the
American people. l trust it will not fail. The
indications are in our favor
OF course they were All that the South
ern rebels wanted was q clear stage and no
favor They wanted the troops withdrawn
that the disloyal rufiians might shoot down
Republicans enough going to the polls TO
intimdate Others and stuff the ballot-boxcs
with fraudulent tickets to account for absent
votes. But the willy Democrats overdid the
thing, not only in 1876 but in 1873, too so
that as n political party the Democracy OF
the South has shown themselves the most
impure, the most reckless, and the most
fraudulent that ever was helped by the flu
ent tongue of n man whose mind was too
callous to understand the principles of JUS
tice, or of truth or honor, as applied TO the
rights Of Others. But Mr.. HILL is only the
victim of fashion, like his great contempo-
rary, MUMBO JUMBO, King of the Cannibal
Islands. This glorious monarch was not q
monOgamist, and the idea of the beauty OF
woman in his realm was excessive obesity
in the first place, and the second consisted
of the breadth OF the cartilage of the nose,
which was to be adorned with a ring. Thou
sands of dusky beauties were being raised
according to the fashion, from whom the
King was to make his selection and take
them to his heart. With Mr.. BEN HILL
and his grotesQue civilization the fashions
only differed. What good men loved lie
repudiated. lie talked of the purity of
election while under his nose fraud
was perpetrated, and he reioicod
MUNIBo JUMBO is his brother; and Mr. Hill
is only rebel, of which he boasts-a differ
,, cnce of fashion merely. MUMDo JUMBO
is a great man, with all the adiuucts OF
greatness around him and in his home tC
swell his heart and flscnate his eye. Mr.
Hills civilization is equally marked and
peculiar, absolutely homebred, yet only one
of many. He cannot dissociate himself
from it, and therefore he carries it with
him, walking with no mincing steps but il
: great seven-league boots and in spNwling
earthshaking strides. He goes swinging
. along at such pace, though the space il
confined in which he operates that it is al
that men of other minds, and with a highe
' sense of honor than Mr. HILL can do tC
get out of his way in time. But if one,
Mr.. HILL caught the population mapping il
. might so very hard with the pensve pub