Year: 1860

Our Brecknridse friends are in a truly
pltlable plight. but the ridiculous antics they


cut up makes it difficult whether we should


sympathize with or laugh at them. They


are between two fires. Ii they stop fighting


one, the other is upon them scorching them
IN the rear-a most tender place-and if they
turn back, the fire in the opposite direction
I atfirlghts them by the intensity of its heat,


and makes them cry out with pain. When


the great Bell rings, they start out tranticaly


in the vain effort to stop that Finding it


impossible to accomplish that object and be-


coming diseourag d, they wheel round an,.


round, striking hither and thither2iike mad


men upon a hot gridiron. That Bell keeps


ringing louder and louder. Indeed, it rings


so loud that there is not village in the


whole country where is is not distinctly
heard Every time the capper strikes it
| irisi.ts the very souls Of the Breckinridgers,


and paralvzes them with fear. Under this


dreadful state of feeling, they hear shouts in
Virginia, Rhode Island, New York and else
where. They listen attentively, supposing
the shouts are for their 1avorite Mistaken
| souls, that dream of office They hear the
name of their whilom companion, Meester
Dew-glas," and their pens and walking
sticks drop from their nerveless grasps The
fright over, they rush franticaliy at the sound, ,
o"1 ~ Soes "hA1ihs ldst tueiu 10 Staftle
more of their dreamers, and is repeated
again by their Democratic friends The next
moment they hear that terrible Bell again,
and the perspiration starts ont Of them at
every pore. They feel that the very earth is
giving way beneath their feet, and they have
no power to stay the earthquake--no power
to help themselves. Well, they have brought
the mischief upon themselves They have
sown the winds, and they are now reaping
the whirlwinds, with the prospect Of a boun-
tituI crop. They have kept up the slavery
agitation for no other reason in the world
than to make political capital and keep them
IN othce, and now that agitation is about 10
oyerwhelm and take from them that power
they have so shamefully and so long abused.
II is retributive Justice. They already feel
its force, and they will strive in vain to
avoid it. They might as well try to escape
the fierce tornado. Their rawlings will do
them no good, and their threats to break up
which they know is inevitable, only damage
their cause. Every threat which they utter
is nail driven INTO their political coffins.
We trust they will keep on threatening.
Nothing will damn them so surely. so hope
lessly. They mistake greatly the temper
and spirit OF the American people if they
think they can drive with their party lash.
and all booted and spurred, and under threats,
the intelligent and independent voters of this
country to keep them longer in the posses
sion of the trusts which they Fave abused
The party in mower now resembles strikingv
the party OF Martin Van Buren, that was ia
power in 1910. The profigacies of this
party, like those Of the party of Martin Van
Balen, have become too great for further toI-
erance. The people have borne them till
forbearance ceases to be virtue. They have
risen in their might and i'll their wrath to put
an end to these corruptio7s, and this abuse of
power, to overthrow this demagosnerv and
these demagogues and they Will do it.
Neither threats. nor raIoEery. humbug,
nor weak devices. nor anything else can pre-
vent 1t. / ne party in power may Weld
gracefully to the determination OF the people
10 place Bell and Everett IN Is place, or y
may blUster and roth. ana hns increase the
popular contempt TOR It, Inc people are in
dlfterent which course the party takes The
result will be the same Ia either case-N O.
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