Show ENLIGHTENMENT AT LAST 1 So benighted have the Democrats always been and still are and so enlightened en-lightened are the Republicans and so profound are their principles and saving in their action and so little being known of these principles although much sought after that it is with great joy we are able to say that at last they have been found and published and we republish them for the benefit of all Democrats and Republicans Repub-licans alike We take them from The Nation The principles of the Republican party are I so eagerly inquired for and there is so much mystery about their exact nature and whereabouts I where-abouts that the sUghtcht sign of an intention to reveal them excites the liveliest interest allover I all-over the country The appearance of two lenders of the party Messrs Lvarts and Dawes at the dinner of the Middlesex Club in Boston on Saturday last to make speeches was therefore there-fore hailed with much delighted expectation Mr Evarts opened with some account of his boyhood in Boston and then called attention to the fact that he was speaking on the anniversary anniver-sary of the fight at Lexington and that while the English date American independence from the treaty of lid the State of New York dates it from April ID 1775 and that thirty years ago the people of the Northern States were brought face to face with the question whether force and right should combine against tyranny and oppression in Kansas Coming down to the present he intimated that a rapacious combination com-bination was now in possession of power und that a certain experiment tile nature of which he did not describe was not likely to be repeated unless this combination surrendered np every office to us The exact meaning of m le cJ nttO lJe t lU Miiu v u MUTT tiit nfiai1 tnnr ll tiidv TAUDTI nl lo to get at but we feel satisfied that it contains a principle of some kind Mr Evarts further added that he was resolute reso-lute as to the duty and the purpose and the expectations of the Republicans of New York as to what they were going to do He was also much interested in finding out what the Republicans of UassachUhClts were going to do about it and felt no doubt that if we do not mean to do it in New York you the Republicans Repub-licans of Massachusetts mean to do it for us On rending this we felt sure that the thing here described as it which the Republicans both of Massachusetts and New York were going to do was the principle or principles of the Republican party of which we were in search We accordingly followed Mr Evarts through the rest of the passage with every sense on the alert with the hope of hearing what it was but he refused or neglected to describe it The nearest he came to describing it was in affirming that the country which prospered under the Republican party would prevail iind that some future exhibition to the admiration ad-miration of the world would be under the same auspices and the same array of banners and trumpets If this points clearly to any thin it IB to the reappearance of the London and Barnum show next year under the same management which we presume nobody seriously seri-ously doubted Mr Evart next divided the Union into two segments one containing region between the Hudson River on one side Cape Cod and Long Inland Sound on another and Canada the north thc other the rest of the country and observed that this first segment fur uiHhed three members of the Cab inet while the West only furnished one Colonel Vilasand concluded that when Colonel Vilas under these circumstances sfts in thi fnliitipf Iw rmmf xrmnlnf ivlir rn 11111 I the people come from Why i he should i wonder unless he is sullering from some cere i bral malady it is hard to see Apparently however 1 how-ever this proposition had some connection in Mr Evans s mind with another with which lie cloned this branch of his subject that for himself Mr Evarts if he can look at this I country and what is now broodin in the minds I and breeding in the hearts of the American I people they do not look with favor on the dis o tributlon of power by the Democratic party i But it is hard to tell hrtTv anybody feels about I offices and who has brooding going on in his mind and U breeding going on in his i heart at one and the same time The presump tion of course is that he feels badly but the newspapers are filled with advertisements of I remedies for such cases Mr EvarU next gave an account of the mean 1 lug of his own election to the Senate As well aH we can make out it meant that instead of I disorder iu the ranks perfect unanimity of feeling and harmony was to be the ruJe in the I future He evidently however contemplates the possibility of another defeat at the next State election but he provides for that bv i promising o to show and prove that ever Re I publican had done his duty and that if an I I honest count showed that the Democrats had i i won why iu that wise they were to retain tne i State offices One thing he said he could not undcr taiid and that was that certain persons I I who valued and loved the principles of the I Republican party could go and vote for the candidate of the other party because the did I not like that of their own party But here again I he failed to mention what the principles were He only knew that if such things could I be things hail come to a bad pass Mr Dawes was no more instructive than Mr Evarts lIe mentioned the principles of the I Republican party only to say that they were laid in the foundation and built on the superstructure super-structure of the past and there he left them In the rest of his speech he devoted himself to asking < < what the Administration was U going to I do about the great continental policy and about time emancipation of tms continent from I foreign control and about a certain tribute i winch our commerce with the Pacific States I mays to the rule and capital of Europe and I I what alhlwer it was going to make to the demand de-mand of the great army of the unemployed I and another greater annv of the discontented I who are calling for n readjustment of the rela dOll between capital and labor We trust the Administration will not try to answer these inuatious To answer mime questions surcess fully one has to be as silly as the man who pro t I pmuulH them We tniht therefore that the President will let Mr Dawes answer them him s < ilf Nobody else is quite equal to it But SIllS fur the grand old party when it is thus that it speaks or is Mpoken for ou parade das Twenty years ago who would have thought I that it would live on after its brains were gollerTile Xalton April 3rd j JHW B HMMU M M MH |