Just as every uiuu in this couutry
whoso ancestor was a Tory in tho
Revolutionary war is anxious to con
ceal the fact from his contemporaries,
so will tho day arrivo when the des
cendants of living or dead rebels will
keenly feel the disgrace of having
such forefathers, and sedulously cov
er up all traces which might indicate
the ancestral infamy. Ex-Gov. Wiso
is making it very difficult for his pos
terity to hideaway from tho popular
gaze, in future times, tho “irregulari
tes” of their progenitor. He is not
commending himself either to their
praises or their giatitudo, but is lay
ing up for himself a harvest of con
tempt, objurgation and curses, in
days hence. If he could stand alar
off, in the epoch to cone, and look
back, with the eyes of the then gen
eration, upon his present ridiculous
attitude, ho would rather bo disposed
to hide hinsolf in shame and hurail-,
iatioc, than, as now, to obtrudo him
self upon tho country as a Bourbon
irreconcilable.— Chicago Republican.
