| Show ENLIGHTENMENT AT LAST I 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 so eagerly inquired for and there is so much mystery about their exact nature and whereabouts where-abouts that the slightest sign of an intention to reveal them excites the liveliest interest allover all-over the country The appearance of two leaders of the party Messrs Lvarts and Dawes at the dinner of the Middlesex Club in Boston on Saturday last to make speeches J was > therefore there-fore hailed with much delighted expectation Mr Evartb 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 1783 the State of New York dates it from April 101775 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 Kaunas Comimr down to the present he intimated that a rapacious combination I com-bination was now in possession of power and that a certain experiment the nature of I which he did not describe was not likely to be repeated unless this combination surrendered up every oilice to us The exact meaning of this we nave not after much study been able to get at but we feel satisfied that it contains a I 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 lIe was also much interested in finding out what the Republicans of Massachusetts 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 reading this we felt sure that the thing here I described as it which the Republicans both of Massachusetts and New York were going to I do was the principle or principles of the Republican party of which we were in search I 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 I but he refused or neglected to describe it The nearest he came to describing it was in I affirming that the country which prospered under the Republican party would prevail and that home 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 thing it is to the reappearance of the London I and Banimn show next year under the same management which we presume nobody seriously seri-ously doubted Mr Events next divided the Union into two segments one containing region between the Hudson River on one side Cape Cod and Long Island Sound on another and Canada at the north the other the rest of the country and observed that this first segment furnished fur-nished three members of the Cab inet while the West only furnished one = Colonel nXi1as and concluded that wHen ioiouei vims unuer louse circumstances Sits in the Cabinet he must wonder where nil the people come from Why he should wonder unless he is suffering from some cere brat malady it is hard to see Apparently however how-ever this proposition had some connection in Mr Earts mind with another with which he closed this branch of his subject that for himself Mr Evarts if he ran look at this country and what is now brooding in the minds and breeding in the hearts of the American I people they do not look with iavor on the its tribution of power by the Democratic part Hut it is hard to tell holv anybody feels about offices and who has brooding going on in his mind and breeding going on in his 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 remedies for such cases I Mr Evarts next cave an account of the mean I ing of his own election to the Senate As well as we can make out it meant that instead of disorder in the rank perfect unanimity of I feeling and harmony was to be the rule in the future He evidently however contemplated the possibility of another defeat at the next State election but he provides for that bv promising to show and prove that every Re I publican lund done his duty and that if an holiest count showed that the Democrats had I won why in that case they were to retain tile I State offices One thing he said he could not understand and that was that certain per ons I who Valued and loved the principles of the Republican party could go and vote for the candidate of the other party because they did I not like that of their own party But here again he failed to mention what the principles were He only knew that if such thIngs could I be things had come to a bad pass Mr Dawes was no more instructive than Mr I Evarts He mentioned the principles of the 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 SIJeech asking what the Administration was going to do about the great continental policy and about the emancipation of this continent from foreign control and about a certain tribute I which our commece with the Pacific States I pays to the rule and capital of Europe aud I what answer it was going to make to the de miind of the great army of the unemployed aud another greater armv of the discontented I who are calling for a readjiTtmcut of the rela I tions between capital and labor We trust the i j I Administration will not try to answer these yueations To answer some questions success I I fully one has to be as silly as the man who pro pounds them We trust therefore that the I President will let Mr Dawe answer them him self Nobody else is quite equal to it But alas for the grand old party when it is thus that it speaks or is spoken for on parade days i wcnty years ago who wouhl have thought that it would live on after its brains were goueTlle Nation April 3rd |
