"We will not weary our readers with any further attempt at unraveling the
opinions, illustrations, and rhetoric of Mr. John Harrington, Democrat and
orator. The possession of an abundant vocabulary without any especial use
for it in the shape of an idea will not revolutionize modern government,
whatever may be the opinion of the individual so richly gifted; nor will
any accomplished Democrat find a true key to success in following a course
of politics which consists in one half of the world trying to drive
paradoxes down the throat of the other half. It will not do, and Mr.
Harrington will find it out. He will find out also that the differences
which exist between the Republican and the Democratic parties are far
deeper and wider than he suspects, and do not consist in such things as
the existence or non-existence of a Civil Service, free trade, or
mudscows; and when these things are forever crushed out of his imagination
it will be time enough to give him a name, seeing he is neither Republican
nor Democrat, nor Tammany, nor even a Stalwart, nor a three-hundred-and-
sixer--seeing, in fact, that he is not an astronomical point in any
political heaven with which the world is acquainted, but only the most
nebulous of nebulae which have yet come within our observation.
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