Year: 1868




As The Widow of Ephcsus with one cycailtc-
ticnatcly fixed upon the mau,olcum OF her dead
husband. with the other Shot amorou, glanccs
at q stout soldier who happened to bc standing
near by, 50 the Demoouiic party j, agitatcd
! by conflicting emotions and hcstatcs before
it bcstows the prodigious honor of lis Prcsi-
| dental nomination between - scmi-suryiyng
/ politician like Ptndlcton and a living mariner
like Fauagut. A correspondent of 4 Democratic
/ paper, greatly. We suspect, 10 the aStonlSlment
of the worthy Admiral, suggests his name to
| the Democratic National Convention, and com
! plains that the Navy, though the idol of the
American people, has never furnished Il can
ddate for the Presidency This is not eX-
| actly correct, for both Stewart and Stockton
were at one time Il good deal talked about, al
| though neither of them ever achieved ma
tiOna nomination. But wha. is true of those
who do business upon the great waters is
equally true of the clergy and as the Demo-
Gratis never have tried the experiment of nom


mating paison, and as they have several
reverend gentlemen III their ranks who seem
to be of no use whatever as Spiritual advisers
although extremely ardent and v0cifcrOns rs
stump-speakcIs, why not select some unfrOcked
minister of the Gospel to lead, like Peter the
Hermit, the foiiOrn hope of the Democracy
Or, if not a curatc Of souls, why not curcr
OF bodies the inventor of some extraordinary
pill, or that sage physician whose sands of life
are nearly run out ? We agree with the writer in
q Democratic paper that law and the army should
not "monopolize the honor of the candidacy
for all time" especially since the honor
! has 50 long been and 50 long promises 70 be
s,l.o Co1k H..
candidate of the Democrats for the Presidency is
too much like treating human being as if he
were nine-pin, and common regard for
| benevOlence would seem to suggest the selection
of gentleman like some OF our representative
men who can beara great deal of knocking down
without being particularly the worse for it, Now


it is safe to assume that man who has been
dead for a long period of time, if he should
he nominated and disastrously defeated, would
experience less agony than one subjected to
such torture while still in the flesh; and we
therefore respectfully recommend Our Demo
cratic friends to rally under the banner Of
somebody who is in his coffin, and who cannot,
therefore, write damaging letters nor make I'M
polite speeches. Why not start n ghost TO
scare the country as shadows brought terror to
inc hOUl OI hlCDulul why not run memory,
and rally round Shade The party itself is
nothing but tradition, myth, q reminiscence,
a voice from the tomb, an ancient and fish-like
smell it is like the Humane Society only it de-
votes itself to the vivifcation of dead issues;
and there is no reason why il should
not nominate a dead mau while there
would be an exquisite and logical pro-
priety in such an experiment. 1t would he
quite as rational for the party to rush in solid
phalanx to the polls, then and there to vote
for Thomas Jefferson, as it is for the same
party to be constantly bewailing an utterly ex-
tinct institution, and sedulously seeking some
method OF resuscitating it under new and
scarcely modified form. We could mention
twenty men, from Taney to AtheIton, who
being dead, might be made to speak, and who,
while the party remains in its present aimless,
purpOscless, and simply hungry condition, might
do good service in keeping the dry bones to-
gether until day of brighter fortunes should
dawn. IL would be as easy to vote memory
as to drink il; while hero and there, in closely
contested districts some Democrat, under the
protection Of great name, might slip into the
House Of REPRESENTATIVES. (e have some