An Abortion

A signal failure was recently made at Cincinnati in an attempt to reorganize the Democratic party.  The effort was made under the auspices of Prof. David Christy, author of “Cotton is King.”  Friend David had better stick to his scientific pursuits, he will find them both more honorable and more profitable.  There is a wide difference between conchology and politics and a man can rarely succeed in both.  The “King” has been dethroned and the Democratic party, with all David’s influence, can never succeed in again placing his sovereign on the throne.  Hon. Geo. E. Pugh, it seems, participated in the meeting and “pitched into the yellow-covered platform.”  We are rather surprised at this, as George is a great demagogue, but not more astonished than that he should have “impugned its grammar.”  What does George know about the grammar of the English language?  At school he was an ignoramus in everything but Latin and Elocution.  In spouting he excelled and since has made this point of excellence, connected with his demagogueism, the means of carrying him into the U. S. Senate.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, May 20, 1862, p. 2