Year: 1868

in the South connected with the war-Rich-
mond and Petersburg, Old Point Comfort, the
Rip Raps and the rest, for example-an entire
seminary of young ladies from the interior of
the State having, it is stated, engaged passage
for trip to Virginia in the splendid new
steamer Isaac Bell which has just returned
from a successful trial excursion to that very
interesting section of the country In short,
the coming one bids fair to rival all previous
seasons in piquancy, uniqueness and variety OF
attractions. All that is wanted to give it
JUNCTION and completeness is an abundance of
cash and plenty of confidence. 4.~~~"


Newspaper Partisan Saturnalia-Commence-


ment of the Presidential Canvass.


With the very sensible nominations made at
Chicago the Presidential campaign opens, and
the first feature of this opening will be the
saturnalia of the party journals-the indul-
gence Of all the promptings of party spirit in
print; the showing forth to the light without
any restraint of all the vile things that float or
swim in the dirty element of partisan writer's
thoughts the exhibition in revolving naked
ness of all the vices and mean instincts that
degrade human nature. Foremost on their
respective sides in the division of the party
press stand the New York Iridu1e and the
New York World. These take a shameful
precedence, as Byron's romantic cutthroat did,
by daring to be first in all assaults on things
that decent men respect-by simply having
less scruple to SANDER and vilify. Reckless
because they forfeit no character in these
excesses, these journals yet give the keynote
to the press of either side, and are followed
with subservient fidelity by the small fry that
would rather be atrocious than tame and
know no way between the two.


Recently we had from these respective lead
ers in party vituperation taste-just enough
to indicate favor-of the way in which they
already regard the high and worthy names of
either side. One of them spoke of Governor
Seymour, a man of pure character and dis
tinguished position. and who may be the Presi-
Dental candidate of the democracy; the other
spoke of General Grant who actually is the
candidate of the republicans for the first place
in the nation, and whom the people may
describe in the very words of Homer as ''the
father of well -warred victory" And what were
the terms in which the journals spoke of men
of this character? One of them actually dis
cussed Governor Seymour as liar and the
other argued upon Grant as a ''drunkard.
Without shame, with an impudent attempt to
browbeat public sentiment from its disap-
proval. one of these creatures complained on
this occasion that society is squeamish because
it is not willing to tolerate the public discharge
of its disgusting vocabulary, because it turns
away in loathing from the exhibition OF its
frantic dislikes while the other is so in the
habit of using this style that it is, perhaps, not
yet conscious of having in any way overstepped
common decorum. And these manifestations
occurred while the journals in questions were
under the softening Influences of festivity,
while the Dickens dinner was still blooming
thing and all the amiability of which they are
capable was in full play. Let men imagine
what their style may be in less agreeable
seasons.


Such was the. prologue Pursuing its char
acteristic career qpe of these journals has since
discussed before the country the only statesmen
of its party-seven in number, the honorable
and nobly distinguished men in the United
States Senate-who repudiated the notion that
they were political chattes, and defying dicta-
ton, voted on their consciences against i'm
parchment In discussing the course of these
men the radical organ adhered to its
old notion OF ''calling things by their
names" There is nothing that the world
has so differed upon as to what
the names OF things are. Indeed, all the differ
ences that have deluged the earth in blood
began at just that point Since the dawn OF
civilization the faggot has increasingly burned
around roasting humanity only to convince
men of error in regard to names. Heaven and
Hell differ not more widely than the names by
which the burners and the burned called the
same thing. John lIuss, burned at the stake,
believed that he was burned for truth and pure
religion while the whole Church of Rome-a
very respectable authority as to names-de-
clared that 1t burned him for heresy, schism
and the whole category of sins. Simply DIFF
ference as TO the names Of things! IL was
always the same, and one would suppose that
the experience Of the whole human family
would by this time have made men modest In
the declaration Of names. II has not, however,
and they go on. Only the public sees that
man who 'calls things by their names" calls
them by what he fancies their names are, and