St. Landry democrat., 1884-11-29
A Malignant Demagogue.


to fill to the brim the large measure
Of the public Joy over the defeat of
James G. Blaine. It would be
found in the atrocious speech OF
that brilliant trickster, swindler and
demagogue, made to a serenading
party at his home in Augusta Tues
day night.
Twenty years have elapsed since
the war !; we are in the midst of
profound peace; the long paralyzed
energies of the defeated and de-
vastated South are beginning to re-
cover, and her people are animated
by new hopes and ambitions.
They have not forgotten, it is true,
to reverence the heroes who led
them in the war, nor to mourn their
patriotic dead, and we trust they
may never become SO degenerate, 50
unworthy to be freemen as to do SO !;
but a deep and abiding affection
for the Union, as 1t IS, reigns su-
preme in their hearts, and the true
men everywhere are reioiced at the
fullness Of the reconciliation between
the sections.
But in the midst of this era of
peace, above the hum of industry
and trade, and the glad shouts OF
the people over the result OF the
late election, the voice of Jaues G..
Blaine arises to invoke again the
fierce passions of sectionalism and
strife; to preach once more the
evangel Of hate. Indeed his utter
ances, man enlightened and peace
full era, are not less atrocious than
those of the Infamous Barriere, in
toxicated with blood, in the midst Of
the Reign of Terror. "The rebels
are conquered, shrieked that most
malignant spirit of the French revo-
luton, "but are they all exterminat-
ed? No weakness. No mercy.
Let every one be slnitten. :
Beware, above all things, Of that
fatal moderation which talks Of
peace and clemencv." Such Vio-
lence and wickedness was to have
been expected from the French
demagogue in time Of anarchy and
blood and yet to read them now
they send the hot blood of indigna-
ton mounting to our brows, and we
shudder at the expression of such
Yillainous sentiments, even from
such source. And the utterances
of Blaine last Tuesday night are not
a whit less atrocious, incendiary
and malignant, while they have not
the poor excuse of those of the
French butcher.
This shameful speech of this de
feated demagogue, who seems to be
inspired by the sentiments OF a
common ruffian and murderer, would
not deserve serious attention had il
emanated from a less conspicuous
source but as the deliberate, pre-
pared and well considered utterance
Of man who has risen into SO great
notoriety that he was nominated
for the Presidency, and received
the support of nearly half the Amer
lean people, it must startle the
country and provoke the universal
denunciation of every man who had
spark Of patriotism in his heart.
It is believed that Mr.. Blaine as
sumes, that the sentiment of sec
tional hate still fingers in the hearts
of the Northern people and that il
can be famed once more into 8
fame that may light a sectional and
malignant leader to the Presidency
in 1888. There can be no othel
possible explanation Of his savagery
unless we attribute it to the ebulli
ton of mean and contemplate rage
at his defeat, but the evidence o
careful and deliberate preparation
which the speech indicates forbid'
this latter assumption.
If the first surmise be correct
Mr.. Blaine falls lower than ever il
the scale, we will not say of states
men, but of political tricksters. Ht
tried this line Of fight in the latte
days Of his canvass and the Ameri
can people rose up and rebukee
him. In 1888, after the country. hal
witnessed four years of wise, con
servative and patriotic Democrat,
rule, such villainous diatribes al