The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1882-08-04
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A Strange Dream.
NJ. IN


warfare against each other. These parties. |
thought, were known as the Democratic party
and the Republican party. An amusing part .,
ii was that perhaps not one person III II hundrci
could tell the essential difference between II re
public and democracy. There seemed To he no
essential difercnce though there were Il few in
cidental differences; but each claimed to be
government by the people. The chief difference
seemed to be merely verbal-the name of one
party being derived from one language and that
of the other from anothcr-the primitive words
meaning about the same.
y l thought that about fifty eight out of sixty
experiments with this fern OF government had
been failures; y& 1t seemed that the aver ige
{. Marstc politician never ceased to ring changes
on the superiority aud stability Of ;his form of
government.
thought | attended political meeting, which
seemed to be the anniversary of some great po-
luical event in the history of the province. II
seemed that everybody was there, eagerly wait
ing to hear address from the II norahle Yer
bose Fussaud Feathers, n SORT political lead
er and general oracle. thought that the dis
tinguisheJ gentlman arose with II dcliberat ion
aud dignity perfectly stunning, and after sur.
ing the audience. opened his mouth aud
hke somewhat thusly:
"Friends and fellow citizens Of this glorious
and mighty republic "lend me your cars.
Know all men by these presents. All! Ahm!
(cheers.) When in the inscrutable course of hu.
man events. All Ahm! it becomes necessary
for the citizens of great and peerless natiOntp
celebrate the glorious deeds Of their NOBLE and
patriotic ancestors, who fought, hcd and died
for their country-evcry one failing with his
..back to the field and rs face to the foe At
this. | thought the whole crowd jumped several
feet high and came down with yell that woull
put TO shame the whistle Uf II dozen Mississippi
steamboats, About n hundred men had actually
jumped clear out Of their boots. Yell succeeded
yell. The air full o! hats. 1t seecmel that
all bedlam had been turned loose on 'hat par,c-
ular spot.
Order being restored, the great man went
TO give glowing deScri ptiOn ot the wonicrful
progress of the country, predicting II future far
more glorious. ''ies, patriotic fellow citizens,
said he. 1.-THE time has a'realy come when.
with our liberty bird perched upon the l"ities
peak of the Alleghanies its oenk in lake Onta-
rio the emil % his tail in the Gulf Of Mexico -
the end of one wing in the Atlantic and
the end of the other in the Pacific we bii
defiance to the world (a) When the great or
,ator touk his seat. it seemed that I'll" yelling
and throwing OF hats would never cease.
What does all this mean? | thought asked
of very serious, sober looking man, who had
'nccn standing all the time under n tree outside
the crowd IL may be owing to ohtuSeness.
sad but | really lail to perceive that your dis.
tinGushed orator has sai'. anything to justify
any of this vii demonstration on the part of the
crowd.
..,lt makes me sad - the man replied '.to think
Of, the ignorance and folly Of large majority of
our people. That man, who has spoke EN-. is moth
PIE are Such fools that tkey imagine his verb ,sc
and bombnstic pla:itudcs to have been an Grafton
of supcrnal excellence"
But why a!l that noise AMI ado, even had .hc
speech been one Of the best? asiel.
"You are probably not aware of the fact, my
friend replied. ''that n large portion of our pco-
pic can he neither patriotic nor religious, with
out making focls of themselves. The religion of
people, said he, "is largely kept up by an
annual rally in the summer when vehement
e1hortations. anxious seats, and everything
adapted to work on the feelings and passions Of
the people, are m& lie to play prominent part.
These measures are sometimes carried to such
extremes that nr Intelligent laly told me, that
in her neigh borhood they could hardly have Il log
rolling or corn shuching without inviting up
''mourners' nt Tie close. "Iust 81" he conriu-
ued, is ii in politics 1t is out Of the question
for our people to carry political campaign in
quiet sensible manner. Their patriotism is of
that peculiar ;:ind which needs red shirts the
yelling of braiEleSs mnbS and the booming of shot.
less guns to stimulate, strengthen and perfect it,
Ii makes me sad TO think of il NIL. said he. for
noise and tunut mean disorder disorder means
weakness and weakness means decay"
Here. thought, was about tell him how
different it WAS on earth; but he seemed dis
posel to talk, and kept silent.
"Nrcaly, he continued, is the political weak
less manifested by noisy mObs in grotesu;c COS
fumes, owing itself in other forms Uc unmis-
taxable disease. The body polite exhibits
various symptoms of disease. of The least
u
~iption, which, in some respects, resembles
certain phases of skin disease in man, which the
common people call ''brcakngS out" Every
two years and every four years, the body polite
is nii ell with this breaking out. The Symp.
toms ARE peculiar. For some time before
tho eruption, or breaking out" actually com
mcnccs there is rcStleSneSs, with icycrIsh symu-
toms. Men seem more disposed 10 go TO public
places Al length they look and talk in an
ominous manner, as If they were convinced that
Some great event was about To happen, but were
uncertain whri it would hc. Iu II short time
the "breaking our commences. Al first not
more than one or two pustuicS appear, with slight
itching. The eruption stcadi increases and
&he attendant symptoms become more distressing.
Such notices AZ the following now begin to ap.
gear in the local papers
The v:ry many friends, relations, acquGimt.
anceS ana we'll washers of our very excellent,
m st worthy and accomplished fellow citizen
Colonel Edward Sno ks rloSt res pccttnly an
n0uncc him candidate for the very ar,,uous
important AMI responsible office Of D"gpctcr
and General Regulator. CUR distinguished
friend is too well known and his many virtues
aud accomplishments too highly apprcciatcl to
need any cOmmendatiou from us
MANY VOTERS"
THE amusing part of it, he continued lis.
that these fulsnmc notices aIc usually either
written dictated by the very excellent persons
themselves. This peculiar breaking out, Ike
continued, "nnw rapidly increases with .rrnt
restlcssness and itching The excitement and
rc~tlcSsncSS spread n.l over the badly polite. ii
n crisis IS reached On certain day the prn
pie at certain plncc'. called polls. place small
pieces of paper, or plaster upon the crurrl
portions of the cuticle If the hrIy puiiiIc Til"
effect i. magic,. Tie r">ilr~SncSS and itching
D soon cease aud the crupipnS heal up; buI the
most of them remain sore long time These
biennial and quahrcnnial hrrnkIngs out have
become % annoying, not 81 say dangerous.
that oar political doctors nave invented a Kind