The Cambria Freeman

Hannibal Hamlin.

That old blatherskite and fossil, Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, has been making a speech recently, in which he begged the young men present "to shun the Democratic party as they would a viper." "The Democratic party," he continued, "is not one whit more patriotic or more honest to-day than in the closing days of Buchanan's administration. I do not know but the Democratic party of to-day is worse than the Democratic party of 1860." There is an old saying that "one renegade is worse than ten Turks." This man Hamlin was a Democrat as long as it paid him to be a Democrat, and only became a Republican when he saw the drift of public feeling in that hot bed of abolitionism, Fourierism and all other isms, his own native Yankee New England. In his old age, when he should be thinking of his rapidly approaching end and making his peace with his Creator, he becomes garrulous and indulges in all the spleen and venom of his ugly disposition against the party which fostered and petted and fed him up until far past the meridian of his life. His ravings against better men than himself do not injure them, but only add to the many sins he will be called upon to answer for in the great hereafter.—Harrisburg Patriot.