National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-08-31
Rrprn11cAN nrNrnns1rY.

The generosity Of the republican party is
unbounded. 1t gave peace TO n distracted
country. 1t gave the country o sound cur
renoy. 1t gave title deeds Of liberty to
four millions Of slaves, and ever seeks occa-
sious to display its comprehensive benef-
cencc. The latest donation of magnitude
which we have to record is a gift to the
democratic party-a real bona tide present
Of first quality, unique in every sense of
the word, for there is mono other like it.
The republican party has made TO the DEM
ocratic party the present Of BEN BUTLER,
| absolute and without charge. II has had
q good effect. The democratic party has
not been credited with entertaining very
firm belief in the scriptures, but this act
Of their old enemy constrains them TO re-
mark that the bible in part is true, and
there are cases where evidently it is better
to give than TO receive That they should
accept this adagc, however, does not prove
that all other adages are to be respected,
and the first thing which they did after
taking BEN was to violate the injunction Of
HUDIBRAs, "never to look q gift horse In
the mouth" They got BEN into Faneuil
hall and looked into his mouth steadily for
a couple of hours. BEN's mouth is a mar
vel and Is worth looking into. It has held
many things as Sunset Cox has reason to
remember when he thinks of the possible
applications Of "Shoo, fly, don't bodder
me-" Some Of those things have aston
ished people. 1t has been said that the
! mouth in question was capable of contain
ing large-sized Gb. Perhaps that was ono
of the reasons why the democrats wanted
to examine it so thoroughly. A new fb is
to them a godsend, and the character which
for many years they have been ascribing to
Ben left them in no doubt of the proper
| locality where to make search. They were
not mistaken. When BENJAMIN rolled up
that honest eye Of his and said that lie had
left the republicans and come over to the
| democrats on account Of his love for the
negro they got what they were looking for
"a canard, though not exactly the kind of
a one they most wanted. STILL they cannot
complain Of its size OF freshness. Great rs
they knew was the capacity Of that Won
derful mouth, the stupendousness of such
q sumner came very near flooring some of
them, while its newness was hardly less
startling. Mayor PRINCE came near faint
| ing LEvERETT SALToNsTAIL, who had
enjoyed large experience among whoppers
in Louisiana among the WEBERs and An
DERsoNs, held his breath in dsmay. Old
Judge ABBOTT uncorlied his bottle OF
ammonia and held it to his nose q long
time, and even then seemed TO lose con-
sciousncss for time; and FRANK BIRD
swore he could hardly believe his own ears,
the sensation was so prodigious
Now it was well known that BENJA1fIN
had many times asserted with great solem-
nifty that in 1850 he voted thirty-nine times
in the democratic convention to nominate
JEFF DAVIS as the party candidate for the
presidency in orier to save the union land
had tissue ballots at that time been in
vogue it is not doubted he would have done
even better, but it was imagined that age
had so contracted the muscles Of his organ
Of speech that this performance could no.
be excelled; yet like st. Julien, he In!
.--'-ii,. l-e,.s~,tiifs O,r,s unSu teyOiu. JolneC
the democratic party $50 as to be able t.
protect the negro -! Whew! Was i
birthstone they smelt in Faneuil hall a
that moment? Did they imagine Lucife
match mandatory had exploded? DID
Rev. DR.. MINER think for moment tina
he should have to reform his theology afte
all? We don't wonder
Senator GORDON was asked by the com
mittee Of tho senate TO state under oatl
what he knew about the Iu klux. II
didn't know anything; but he did know
that there was secret organization 70
protection against the negroes" for self
protection" Tho instinct of self-protec
ton prompted that organizations the sens
of insecurity and danger, particularly wher
the negro population largely predominated
Yes, that was why the liu klux and othe
! white organizations were effected, and nov
BUTLER and GORDON join to protect tn
: same negro, against whom? Is it agains
HANCOCK and GORDON? Perhaps III
: democrats wish they hadn't looked into tn
, mouth of the gift horse Possibly the,
3 might be glad to swap him for one of BAR
. NUNS mules.