The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1881-06-09
S2 80 PER ANNUM.


t"fN - N1N A~eAiaNiAAe NuulleE u our
nal published articles despairinQ OF
2 Democratic future. The Republi-
can party was triumpant, enthusiast
tic, and harmonious.
The President was inaugurated with
a display greater than ever before
witnessed in the United States. Vol.
unteer troops were assembled a
enormous cost; triumphal arches and
seats for spectators were erected Il
considerable expense IN the streets
OF Washington; banners and flags
hoated from the housetops aud tie
windows, and the capital was alled
TO overiowlng with q gazing, surRina
multitude Of men AZ women-chll-
aren and dogs. e pageant resem-
bled more y coronation Of 3 heredi.
tafy prinD Ghan the inauguration OF .
Republican President
Three months have passed away.
aud what change The Republicans
are hopelessly divided, an impossible
gulf has been thrown, as II by an
earthquake, between the two wings
Of the party, and q recent corres-
pondent described Garfield as sitting,
bowed down, with head in bis hands,
and exclaiming Chow oan any man
be such fool as to want to be Pres
ident -
In the ancient Aztec worship a youth
Of surprising beauty was annually
selected for sacrifice to a deity called
"the soul OF the world" For a few
short months he was clothed in regal
splendor and regaled with incense
and sweet scented flowers, crowned
With garlands and feasled with all
Chat meat, drink, women and wealth
could contribute TO make man happy.
At tho appointed day he was led TO
the top Of Tue temple, bis palpitatinQ
heart taken from HE body by a sharp
instrument in the hands Of dextrous
priests, elevated toward the sun, and
then cast at the foot Of the deity to
whom the temple was devoted.
Gardeld's triumph seems TO be
about as short-lived in its glory, and
as fatal in its termination. The knives
are sharpened and the fierce Repub-
lean priests stand ready to tear his
ieart out Of him at tho appointed
lour. His nomination was both 40
accident and mistake of his party,
Neither Blaine nor Conkling had any
confidence in his frmness, nor any
cspeet for his feelings or opinions
,ach watched him with distrust and
suspicion until the aplit came. The
split in the democratic party in 1861
between breckenridge and Douglas
was a split on principles. The split
between Garfield ani Conkling is on
the spoils Of Office, and the points ol
difference show the difference between
the parties The one ia = party OF
principles and the other a party oi
spoils, but the division in the Repub
lican party TO day is as wide, and vii
be as fatal as was the division in The
Democraiio party then, and the
boy.sh dream Of a second term with
which Garfield entered the whit
house has vanished into thin air.
Conkling is the Lord Palmerts0I
of bis party. When Palmerts0n waI
foreign secretary, under Lord JohE
Russell as primo minister, with tha
d., .atorIal and supeFeiii0na disIe-
gard Of authority which great latal'
leots often engendeFa, be dcded hi
own leader and dlsobeyed the instFuo
tions Of the Queen, which requires
all dispatches to be submitted TO be
personal inspection before the.
we're sent Of. After several viola-
tions Of these Instructions, anl
after q severe repfimand from th
Queen, he in effect recognized th
coup d'etat Of Napoleon without 80.
consultation with the Queen or th
cabinet, and was dismissed. Tier
was at that tune an English Jealous.
against Prince Albert as q German
aud his influence over the Queen g
to foreign affairs Has greatly 70 ?
feared. Palmertaon bore bis dismii
sul with mock resignation, and int
mated that Il was the prince consorl
and not the Queen, who bad dis
missed him, and be grew In populs
favor, until subsequently he becam
prime minister himself. A recel
writer applied to him what was sal
of Leicester in seotts KonilWoFth
"The devil aids him surely, for 9
that would sink another ten fathou
deep seems but to make him aol
the more easily.n
The saua nav b sid % C0nklinl
who sounds the toeain 10 the StalWa
camp hv the intimation that bis ma
treatment by the President YES q
maltreatment Of Gen. Grant, The 8
vior of the Union.
p.lmaFatou want win the Pesllt
.,d rc~s Tcbn paaaelsa adminl
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