Year: 1873

and yOn, and swinging OF arms, anu t"o ioNoi
ish rhetoric with regard to the present Crisis
have all something of the SAVIOR and the
flavor of the high tragedy OF the stage. we
know we'll enough of course that there IL
nothing in it that when these geh'iemeh
howl angrily at us from under the cover OF
torch light procession the announcement that
our liberties are in danger, they are DONG IL
mostly by the night and are paid Tor IL py
some kind of a committee that when they call
u,on Freedom's hosts to rally to the onset
tbev mean only that eternal vigilance is
the price Of the average post-oiilce, and
that the pOstmasters want help; that their
flowing periods with reference to our
country'5 bird are not at all practical; that
they do not at heart esteem the eagle
above any other kind of poultry and that
really, though they die for their country on the
platform they do it with tongue i'll cheek, and
very likely, after they have narrowed up
whole town, get up and go away with the COM
mittee, and spend the remainder of the evening
stimulating their nervous energies with an IN
feror quality of gin. In the warmth OF a
Presidential campaign we get along with IT.;
il is not certain but that we enjoy 1t. Ii we
cannot work ourselves up to believe there rs
crisis, we can watch the fellows who say there
is, and persuade ourselves that they are trying
to make us think that they believe there is
And even IL they do ramp around IKE intoxi
Gated kings, and fold themselves up in sacri-
fee. we don't get quite disgusted with it be-
cause there 5 so much of it and so many Of
them and it S good paying house.


But we do submit and we desire to do it
with something of the solemuity which BELTS
the subject, that after this has all been
regularly gone through with and the curtain
rung down, it is trespassing on good nature
and exasperating the moral sense to ring the
curtain up again within six months to show
sauabble of supes with lath daggers aud last
years phrases. This is too much. They are
doing Just that in New-lIampshire aud Con
necticut In March and April those two
| States choose State officers. Legislatures, aud
members of Congress. There is not the slight
est interest felt in the result. II will
make no possible difference in the at
| titude of parties or the relations
of political issues whom they elect to any of
these places. or of what party they There
| is nothing i'll the world before this country
to-day except the question whether it is really
of much conSequence-and how much-if the
| peoples representatives are caught III corrup-
| ton and perjury. That's all and the New
| Hampshire and Connecticut Republicans don't
touch that-haven't heard there is any such
such question. But they go right on talking
about cohorts and loyal legions" and
painting for the fray" and victory "perching
"on their banners in just that same old
windy way in which the stage supes take of
the stage heroes-pewter limitations of pinch
beck originals.


Well, now, we protest. If those two UNI
fortunate States would go along and have
their elections in quiet way and say
nothing about it, we should not care; we
might extend them our sympathy as to a fam
lily enjoying its second siege of the measles
the same season. But they are too much in
earnest about it to give themselves or any
body else any peace. They ought really to be
stopped by the nearest constable from going
on so. There s been altogether too much of
this. Some of these days-it would not be at
all strange the way things are going on
these leading political persons will persuade
themselves there is crisis. Then we should
like to know what is going to be done, with
everything used up that can do any sort of
Justice to the subject. About the only reason
we know of for annexing the Sandwich Islands
is the relief it would give our battered and
dilapidated vocabulary to run our crisis III
Hawaiian. But is there no more immediate
relief?