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Show Presidest G east's recent speech in regard to a republican serenade, iu which he Baid that the "rag baby had beeu suppressed" in the late elections, is alluded to by a Herald correspondent as undignified aud absurd. He might have added that when the president of the United States descends to the use of a Blang phrase to characterize a political principle which has large numbers of upporters.his taste is as questionable, as is his patriotism in his public depreciation of the standard currency of the nation. |