Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1882 — The Old Guard. [ARTICLE]

The Old Guard.

It was said of Napoleon’s old guard that they knew how to die, but did not know how to surrender. The Grant Guard do not know how to die. They still live, and will continue to survive as long as there is a cob of com left in the public crib. The handsome thing has been done for Effigy Sargent, for the ancient Taft, for Biographer Badeau, for Fish, for Francis, for Dayton and for others. They are to ornament the diplomatic body in foreign lands and to illustrate the glory of Grantism. But several of the shining lights that adorned the two terms of the expectant third-termer have not been provided for, and they are on the anxious seat. Belknap is yet to be booked. Babcock wants to be vindicated by a higher place than the one ho now holds. Boss Shepherd longs to return to the scenes of his former greatness. Landaulet Williams sees the Senfltorship in Oregon fade away by the veto of the Chinese bill and the votes of Republican Senators, and therefore wants a mission or something cheerful to console his heart. If Badeau and Sargent and Taft and the like have got soft places for their loyalty to the third-term candidate, why should not Belknap, with whom Grant regretted to part company, and Babcock, whom he saved from the penitentiary, and Williams, whom he tried to make Chief Justice, and Shepherd, whom he made Governor, be taken care of ? That is the question of questions, and what is President Arthur going to do about it ? -New York Sun. Ann the original MSS. of Longfellow’s works, both in prose and vsrse, have been preserved and bound by him.— New YvrJt Evening Pott.