Daily Republican., 1880-03-29

a D0us hface AHEIy.
Mr.. Ctfr,th Of PsnnsJ lvsnia lie a
De nccratic Congressman aad represents
Franklin and Cumberland counties.
Thes counties it will be recollect d
were visited by rebel raiders during tie
rebellio. and tina battle OF Gettysburg
will awe. be forgotten. Mr.. Ccfroth
belonged 70 the class OF eople at that
time, that while they put few embar-
rass mt nts in tho march of tine army Oh
towards Il isburg, Lancaster and Phil
dslphia, did nat like to have their
horses taken from them, their effects
destroyed and their farms eorfscsted,
and so they made hat little show Of
Resistance, hoping thereby to place the
rebel horde under obligations to them
ami to ave their property. This IS
just what IL o Pennsylvauia Democrats
should not have done, for a Southern
man reaIeoss Iothing so much as bold
front. During the war Southern
Democrat Could be nothing else than a
rebel, but he was not infatuated with
the cause 80 much as not to know
that every man in the North who was
not . thorough Union man was dough-
face and coward. The rebels mad
learned enough before the invasion Of
Pennsylvania to respect real Union men
and TO Lave an utter detestation of the
class OF Democrats to which Mr.. Cot
froth belongs, who during the war
were not patriotic enough 70 aght for
the North and too ooWsrdly to fight for
the South. OF course Mr.. Blackburn
of Kentucky, a rebel died in the wool
must have an utter contempt for such
men az Coftroth and their followers.
The cause Of this violent outbarst
of ill na nTe between C,ffoth and
Blackburn seems to have been by
the latter telling the former that he
with Randall and their Pennsylvania
following Of Democrats weye traitors to
the party. Mr.. c. ffroth IN il dignant
that G rel 81 no le s, d oaght to have
been hung during TIE war shculd ar
raign him for his |, yal;y eithtr to his
party or his country and frankly re-
torted, "You are a liar" A brawny
Kentuckisn arm reached about this
ii ne f,r the Pennsylvania, but mu-
tual friends interviewed and personal
encounter on the foor Of the Houge was
barely avoided. COtfrJtb, in the hands
of his friends, gave vent to his indig-
nant feelings and told the Eentuckian
that If he woRld come outside he would
slap / is iass," ind sal / he wasn't a
going to 10 bulldozed by any Southern
brigadier, and more OF that sort Of talk.
1t was .oo bad, he thought, that he and
Randall and other Pennsylvania Demo
srati whe works 20 hard to set the re-
b,l brgs liars tack INTO Con. ress when
they o lgl TO have Eess hung, should
now ret IT. and call them traitors to the
Dem Nra 10 party. Well it is hard to
bear, bat it is nothing more than Mr..
cofroth might have expected. He has
never pret!ed by reading Rasops fable
of the farmer warming the frozen viper
into lite, which afterwards stung the
farmer 70 death. He shows that pluck
and vim now that he ought to have
showed during the war and during the
time he was taking Blackburn, B4r
Hill aud oil the other Lords Of traitors
back into Congress and when he was
greeting them with traternal kiss O.
Democratic affection. This declaration
OF Independence by Mr.. Cofffoth come.
entirely 100 late to be of any use. H.
and bis little party of the Northern
Democrats are bo1nd hand and foo! IL
the chains Of a Democratic solid south
and he mus. eth er march 10 the musit
of Dixie or get ont of the Democrats
party. Had Mr.. Coffroth been as true
to his country as he claims to have beer
TO hia party, Black bnrn would not have
been in Congress 70 call him traitor
when / e refuses to bare his back " the
southern lash.