The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-08-05
A Parallel.

III tic casIuei years vi luc dispute De-
tween Great Britain and her srebelious''
and"treasonable" colonies of Massachusetts,
and Virginia, but not until many acts of
oppression and violence had been commit
ted by the parent country, the Min stry
made proposition to withdraw the troops
from Boston, and forego the enforcement
Of certain obnoxious statutes, provided the
eolon'sts would pay the expenses incurred.
DR.. Franklin, then in London, replied to
the opposition by the following story, ex-
temror.zed by HIM for the occasion.
An rate Frenchman, one day, took
great trouble to heat a poker in the CRATE,
and when it was of the required redress,
sezed it and rushed into the street, and
demanded Of the first stranger he met that
he be perm tied torun it through h S b )dy.
The agreeable proposition was of course
declined in emphatic language. "Sare,"
sad Crapeal, "then let me run this poker
into you one Lite SIX inche." This prof
fered favor, warmly rendered, was laughed
at, and Johnny abatec his demand, and
asked to have the pleasure of burn;ng on e
hole if only an inch in depth. This was
decidedly refused. when the Frenchman
protested that he was ill-used, but agreed
to compromise: "sare, den you shah pay
for de trouble Of heat d. poka!n We do
not give the story in the Doctors words
but withsuficient correctness to convey to
the readers mind the absurdity of the
M nistry's proposition. t9dl e
The sham Democracy viii fail to see
the APP olication of FRANkLIS's sarcasm to
TIL existing condition Of affairs in Kansas.
We Pr esulne it is plain enough to others
whose completely in the war upon Kansas
has been less danaing. the ring-leaders
Of The Democratic party large prize
fighters aud prize hunters have not only
heate | the II N, bnt have thrust it through
thu Y csifn. They now send governor
to collect the bill for heating the weapon.
{ The cases are parallel, with this excep-
ton, that the Frenchman first solicited the
privilege of stabbing, and RETAINED when
the ceremony was objected to. whereas
the Government of the United States has
driven the instrument Of torture through
and through the helpless, Territory. Bor-
der Ruffians -red-hot compend.ums of
whatever is infamous are first permitted
ia overun the occupants of the soil and
reduce them to subsection. judges, Gov
errors and Marshalls of the'United States
are then selected either from the invading
army, or elsewhere With reference to sim
ilarity of qualification, to force the felon
rule upon the conquered and grind them
wretchedly under the hoots of the conquer
ors. Last scene, most base, the Governor
Of the p;llaged Territory sets forth with
seven hundred bayonets to make the peo-
pie pay those invaders for desolating them,
those assass.ns for numbering them, those
plunderers for plunder.ng them. This is
'aaw am order," as defined since Bu-
cHANAN became president, and WALKER
went to Kansas as '.pac ficator."
We have already expressed the hope
that the free state men would resist the
collect on of these bogus taxes to the bitter
est end. 1t was said by no less a states
man, no less patriot than THOMAS JET
FERsoN, that ''the tree of liberty must be
refreshed from time to time with the blood
Of patriots and of tyrants. 1t is its natu-
raj manure To argue further against
the atrocity of the felon taxes is hike de-
monstrating the Improperly of grand
larceny, or alleging facts to show that ar
son, murder and highway robbery are i'm
moral practices. It is waste Of argu-
mcntation where no reason is accepted but
the rhetoric Of blows. The day of talk
should give place to dseds-deeds which
appeal to the love- of life 50 implanted in
every instrument of tyranny in Kansas
or elsewhere. If the dogma of taxation
neutrality-suspicious. has returned to this
continent after an absence of eighty one
years, it may as well be grappled now as