The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1890-10-08
a BIRo OF FILTH.
Hon. Marriott HrosIus' startling
Portrayal Of Lew Emery.

Hon Marriott Brosius, the brilliant and
eloquent Congressman from the Lancaster
districf, addressed an immense Republican
mass melting at Indiana Thursday night
His address was frequently interrupted with
enthusiastic applause. In the course Of his
remarks he said
The accusations of Senstor Emery have
spent themselves and likewise their author.
There is no aspect OF our politics more pitt
able and more TO be lamented than the in
clination Of the disappointed, armed with
personal grievance, loaded TO the muzzle. to
make war upon public men. 1t is doubtless
encouraged by the fact that public men can
not answer every slander that is put in cir
culation against them cannot ran down
every accusation started by those whose
business seems TO be 10 beat the bushes OF q
public mans whole liie-and IL game Is
started cali il Try, Bianch, Sweetheart, little
dogs snd all TO complete the pack and swell
the cry.
POLITICAL cARAScHAs-
These scavenger birds in our politics must
be patiently endured, for they cannot be
cured. They ought not, however, TO be en-
couraged or multiplied. The most loath-
some bird Of which we have any account is
the carancha of South America, which lives
by picking the scabs from backs Of horses.
II also pursues the carrion eating birds and
posters them until they disgorge the morsels
which they have eaten. which are greedily
swallowed by the filthy pursuer. If there
is loathsome being on the face of the earth
it is the human carancha, the character
scavenger, who sucks the filthy satisfaction
from old sores and pnrsues other birds Of
like feather who are willing to disgorge the
half digested bits for the palate Of the pur-
suer.
III is recorded in history that Roman
Senators were willing without scrupie to
sacrifice their reputation and that Of their
relations il only they could make Cesar
odious. Humanity has still to suffer the
reproach put upon it by those who derive
malicious satisfaction in discrediting better
men than themselves. In America to-day,
as in Rome ? 900 years ago, small men take
revenge on great ones by soiling them with
filth. In political controversy men do not
expect to be sprinkled with rose water, but
the slops of calumny, slander aud yitupera-
ton are only used by men of envenomed
and malignant dispositions who feast with
rancorous rapture upon the defilement they
create.
THE MARX OF GREATNESS.
There has hardly been a great man in
public life whose career. at some time or
other, was not marred by these scsvenger
birds. Washington and Adams were branded
as traitors and demons Thomas Jefferson.
il is said, was to the mothers Of Boston what
| Cpur de Lion was to the Saracen mothers
they husbed their children with fear OF the
political devil Neither Lincoln, or Grant,
OF Garfield, or Sumner. or Stephens, or any
of the ranking statesmen of America who
rose to eminence and took an effective part
in the contentious that settled policies and
established principles escaped the venom OF
the slanderer's tongue Even the immacu-
late Emery is yillifed. smirched and scan
dalized in the very prints that serve our
break fast table with his filthy vaporings
against Senator Delamater. He, too, has
realized that
"No might or greatness in mortality
Can eensure 'seape back wounded calumny
The whitest virtue strikes"
ut has always been and it will never cease
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their own total want Of consequence to the
public by trying to discredit men who are ol
consequence.
''Goaded by grievance, wounded vanity
they seem insensible of the disadvantage
they are under. Like man intoxicated
they feel most assured when most in danger
The only equipment they seem to think
necessary for their work is first to become 1
disgruntled migrate. They probably reinem
Der what all history shows, that the mos
violent inqaisitor Is the apostaie and th'
. most vindictiye prosecutor is the renegade
SOMETHING TO REMEMBER
There are two things they do not remem
Der. One is that their dispraise may be tn
one thing to be added TO the praise of othe
men to put above reproaeh the characte
: they assail and the other is that those VIII
begin a controversy by spatting venom ar
likely to end it by dying oftheir own poison
Senator Emery furnishes q most graphic il
! lustraiion of this blindness, for no man cal
contemplate his situation in the politics Q
Pennsylvania without that feeling OF aw
which effects one who approaches death
, bed"
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