Bad Taste

If Aüstin Blair was eugaged in a political carnpaign we should expoct him to say some foolish things, some bitter thingf, some slaDderous things. It is a way sotne "stump speakers : have, and on such we are nol, inclined to waste words in fault-finding. But, frorn Gov. BlAm speaking in an official capacity, in fact frorn Gov. Blair delivering a formal message to the Legislature of the State, we should tiardly havo expeoted such words as the foliowing : Nor have our victories been those of tbe field alone. The loyal and true men of the country have crushed and silonced at the ballot-boxes, those more iosidious enemies who, under specioua political pretenses, plead the cause of the more manly traitors who are in arms. In 1862 Gov. Blair was re-elected by the meager - for tbis State - majority of 4,614. Of his feüow-citizens 62,102 .voted for anolher man. Those 62,102 men, peers of Gov. Blair in rights, privileges, and patriotism, would have voted against the admioistration candidates had they been residents of the States whose elections are above referred to. And, if their fellow demócrata in Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, or other States, are " insidious enemies,'1 un manly " traitors," then are the 62r 000 democratie fellow-citizens of Gov. Blair "enemies" and "traitors." - We submit that suqh anguage in a Governor's message is not on!y in bad taste, but that it is an outrage upon the proprieties of the occasion. Such slang had better ba reserved for the hustings or the pot-house. It would be even out of place on the floor of a respectably consiituted political convention, or even ia the columns of a second class political journal.