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
