National Republican., 1880-07-24
CoNFEDERarE nRIGADIERs.

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CONFEDERATE BRIGADIERS.
Notwithstanding the sad experience of
RANDALL, Cox, HURD, MORRISON, and
LEOPOLD MORSE of Boston, in their dismal
training under the lash Of the confederate
brigaders during the two last congresses,
they have not been able to twist their neclks
put Of the infamous collar and are going in
for another campaign Of seryility under the
same inexorable masters. There was just
moment, when RANDALL was elected
speaker over BLACKBURN, that the indica-
tions lured some people into the belief that
the power of the brgadiers was broken, or
so essentially impaired that hereafter the
eminent northern statesmen would shape
legislation aud WELD the destinies of the
great democratic party. This deluson soon
passed, as every one saw it must pass who
knows anything of the aforesaid brigadiers,
or of the materials and compounds which
go TO make up the democratic organization.
The two reasons why such delusion could
not last are, that the brigadiers are not
mado of the kind of stuff which trains
under anybody, and the northern dem
ocratic statesmen, socalled, were not in
tended by Providence for any role but the
one which they always have occupied and
always will.
The brigadier is born commander and
hherits in his blood the cumulative will,
intent and experience of u generation of
tyrants. In his cradle he kicked against
authority lorded it over mother, nurse and
attendant, walloped the colored companions
Df his youth as steady recreation, and
grew up saucy, staggering, domineering
md aggressive animal, whose reckless pas
mons and hot temper it was dangerous to
oppose OF trine with, and whose right to
rule in whatever situation he might be
placed must never be opposed or questioned.
In the last house there were some thirty of
these fellows who had held commissions of
rank in actual warfare, leaders and COM
manders, and beside them stood three
quarters of hundred more of the same
stamp, who only failed of q similar distnc-
tion by the want of opportunity.
On the other hand were the Randalls,
Coxes, Woods and Others, comparatively
few in number, born destitute of any ideas
Of generalship holding mighty ambition
for Office without any sense or notion of its
dignity or of the personal force required to
perform its duties and discharge its func-
tions with distinction, bound to no princi-
pie and governed byno motive but securing
victories, not for their honorable achieve
ment, but for the division of the plunder
w hial inhf fall IN, thair lat n,N1
this so miserably craven as not to insist OF
even claim as much as q third portion OF
the spoil, which brigands of any note OF
pretcnsion never think of relinquishing
without n struggle. The northern demo
cratic statesman is only n politician of tho
spaniel breed, intensely eager for crumbs
and yet almost willing to go hungry il
allowed to wear q collar and follow dash
ing fellow with sombiero hat, soiled
ruilled shirt, and check fully distended
with tobacco or the pungent saliva which
it copiously engenders. This is the occupa-
don which pleases his tasto and seems most
satisfactorily to fulfill his destiny--an in
satiate longing to be under somebody and
be counted as the tail-end of crew who's,
oped in the head of the procession. In thii
state Of things and with such materials thc
idea Of q north is no more discovered nov
In democratic circles than it was thirt,
years ago when prematurely announced by
DANIEL WEBSTER.
he bngadiels have it all their own way
md will When the house became demo
cratic and northern men came down L
Washington with their scholarship, cleal
Shirts and honorable scars to be rewarded
with the share Of patronage which the rea
two population of their section entitled
them 10, they sat in rows of heightened
perspective in corridors and bar-rooms, wait
ing and weary, to see all the choice tit-bit
nabbed by the rollickng confederates, VIII
ran away with them yelling as significant,
ms they did with McCLELLAN's baggag
thrown in their way on the banks Of th
Chickahominy. BRAGG of Wisconsin
the only man who had the courage even {
protest against the rapacity of the briga
hiers, and no was wise enough not TO re
peat the offense, while RANDALL, HURi
and the facetious Cox smiled grimly be
hind their raised palms intended TO cove
the mortified goze Of wrathful aud disap
pointed constituency.
There is dim impression on the mind
of many of the office-seeking fraternity tina
tho nomination Of HANCOCK, a norther
general, win change the face Of things, au
that somebody who never wore gray clothc