The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1880-08-14
Husscy's Speech.

| AG inc appearance oI Itlt NpuSe
article We gave it Il llasty pcrusal
and laid it aside, not thinking of
ever being called upon to admire it;
but as tho Republicans seem to DO
thrown into ccstacics over it, and
appear to be determined TO keep
tho pitiable defamation before the
eyes Of tho public, We rceur to the
speech for a reconsideration Our
honest opinion is, that the sooner
the ribal(lry inflated rigmaroleis is al
lowed to DO forgotten, tho better it
will bo for the youthful orator. 1t
is nothing to his credit, nor to the
cause of tho Republican party, to
keep such q thing as that before tho
scrutiny of intelligent people. Do
they who persist in circulating
those disrcputablc fabrications,sup-
pose that any portion Of the Amer
ican people arc so utterly lost to
dignity and self.rcspect as to give
car to such glaring misrepresenta-
tions as arc embodied in this bonn
bastic nothingness?
Tho Pail Nal Gazette said. Of ono
Of Tcunyson's. poems "a little
water will make q great deal Of
steam." The same may be snid of
the performance under corsiderA-
ton. Strike outsome hundred un-
necessary adjectivcs, suppress tho
supertluous verbs, reject the utter
nonsense, and instead ofa column
and a half Of steam, wo will have Il
line and n half OF muddy ,rater. Tho
gifted politician, having borrowed
this much substance, proceeds to
heat it by the Pandalonic fires Of
ignorance-his imagination supply
ing what truth cannot-until from
out the heaving cNldron Of his
grandiloquence those smokes and
vapors aro sent up annain!
Conscious that he could say moth
ing against Hancock, he makes up
deficiencies BY swooping down with
his flying artillery upon the almost
forgotten Southern Confedoracy !;
and didn't he mako the fur fly
And didn't he weave it into some
glorious ad adjective-bespanglcd SEN
tencesl Ho has caught tho conta-
gion now raging among the lower
class of Republicans-tllat Of
whooping up the awar issues =
Point us out u frit-class Republican
who does this !! Show us a Repub-
lican5of anything like a fair! reputa:
ton as a politician, and NO will
show. vol, q man who is silent on
The subject the war.@Co Conliling,
Cameron, Thompson and Sherman
arc good Republicans, and you new
er hear them raging and=s storming
about 800 and 49," True, they
J sneak Of tho w:c.r. occasionally, G but
thoy roIor to ~ i. a. a. thing OF i: If
past. It is those little Local !, 'ttst
clans only who keep bowling and
ye1ping about Secession" )" it is
those only who from their limited
amount Of information, or from the
blockheadetlncss OF their nature,
cannot sec the true meaning Of the
question, and who talk of "moulder-
ing among Confederate ruins,' &c.
If the gentleman whose name heads
this article would devote to the
study Of United States History the
time which hc spends in ramsack-
ing his dictionary for high-sound-
ing superlatiyes, he would hc more
rapidly qualifying himself fof n
speaker; and If he would take the
time, he might learn that "to prove
is one thing, to rail at another
Had he known this he would have
left out the blood and thunder part
Of his defamation; but we disdain
to cnswcr any man, poet or politi.
cian,who is so absolutely demented
as to make use of such means as
these to gain an endl The war is
over, and why not let it rest9 Or,
if he be so full of this stuff as to
render an exonerationl physically
necessary, let him stroll out aienc
upon some mighty ::prairie Of Mis-
souri, and there roll forth the vile
volcanic torrents Of his boiling fury
till the very earth tremblo beneath
him; but let him not again disgust
m enlightened audience by such
repulsivo calumniations Although
he Affects to be exceedingly war
like, yet we would venture anything
short Of our salvation that werc he
to hear Of 4 grey coat at ST. Louis,
one hundred miles away, he would
in n very rapid manner make tracks
with their heels pointing in the di-
rection of the aforementioned city.
But the Democrats are not and
never were rebels, rs he and some
others of about equal mental abili-
ties would make them out to be.
OF course, sonic Of them rccrc, but it
does not follow that all of them are.
In that immortal speech of his he
uses this expression, speaking Of
Democrats "rheir Shiny arms
have fondled n man who fought
them MS rebels" While We shall
cndcavor 10 coniinc oursClf to some
what moro refined language, wc
would call his attention to q fact
(which, if ho knew us much history
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