The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-10-27
.FREEMEN, TO THE RESCUED
PhiIanthropists, Lend a Hand!
STARTLING IF TRUE!!
Your Daughters in Danger!H
:. Double Distilled Black-Louing III
hans, snsinuotiag Themselves anto
the hearts of yoar family
circle!i!!"
"Have YOU daughter 7''-Hannlet.

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He has written a letter and it has been
published in the Patriot. We do not
blame Mr.. Wise. Had we the "motivc
aud the cue for passion that he has, we
might have gone and done likewise. We
cannot describe that letter. 1t would be
an exhausting work. 1t would dreadfully
deplete our stock of adjectives. But we
give its concluding portion:
Democracy has made our country
what it is. She is the protectress of the
Constitution and of the Union, while
Repubicanism is the smooth-faced, I'M
principled hbertine, seeking by arts and
hypocrisy to seduce her, and whilst bask
ing in her confidence, destroys the con-
stitution and pllages the country. Will
the people allow this to be done? Will
they sit quietly by and see their country
ruined, and all the proud hopes and ex-
pectations of humanity dashed to the
ground, and a burning blister of shame
set upon the brow Of the Goddess of Lib
erty? No. Then countrymen look about
YOU! Behold the sleek hypocritical enc
my ingratiating himself into the hearts of
your family circle. Daring to pollute
your hearts by publishing his tainted
words in your fair daughters ears. Free
men arise, throttle the double-distilled,
6lack-loying william, and rid the land of
the sly, insinuating, dsorganizing mon
ster, Black Republicanism. Do it at
once. Do it now, and save yourselves
from the agony of future ages of remorse
of conscience.
"Do it and future ages will revere you
and the Gods will bless you.
Yours truly, P. V. WISE"
We know not how to express our feel
ings. We fancy we see every honest
man in the land, with dismay on his coun-
tenance, groaning as Othello did over
poor, dead Desdemona, 80! O! or
How artistic is Mr. Wise's picture!
The smooth-faced ibertine Republican
ism, at the same time is plying the sly
arts of seduction, and pllaging the coun
try. If il were not madness to doubt
such authority, we should think there
was slight incongruity here.
But who is this "her" that the wretch
is seeking to seduce? Is it the constitu-
ton or the Union? Probably the latter;
for the constitution, though interesting to
statesmen, weuld be rather dry subject
for rakish lover to victimize Yes, it
must be the Union, and how doubly
damned must the villain be who would
seduce such an aged, matronly, respecta
bic creature, with a family of thirty-two
promising children, and more expected.
No wonder Mr.. Wise calls out with fran
tic energy, "Wilf the people allow this to
be done?" AS far as we are concerned,
we reply that to the best of our knowl-
edge and belief they viii not.
What an awful picture is that of the
proud hopes and expectations Of human
ity dashed to the ground, our country
ruined, and the once fair Goddess of Lib
erty sitting among the ruins with burn
ing blister on her brow. That blister
would injre her looks, certainly, aud
might be somewhat painful, though the
pain could doubtless be assuagcd by using
Railways Ready Relief"
Then it appears that Republicanism,
like the mumps, measles, or any other
disease, is catching. Mr.. Wise, address
sing his countrymen, says the enemy is
"daring to pollutc your hearts" How?
Why, by publishing his tainted words
in your fair daughters ears" Probably
the faint entering the ears, strikes to the
"inards" of the girl, affects the whole
system, and the fond parent, breathing
the malaria of the sick room, becomes
polluted. Natural process, very. Won
der if vaccination would not put stop to
the ravages of Republicanism, as well as
OF the smallpox? aaf
But patience, readers, we are not quite
through. You are called upon to "arise,
throttle the double-distilled, 5zack-loving
villain" Now, we think we know what
e +brrtJn', ,,,oon, - ~ ,IoLa W.
think we know what distilled" means:
but that there may be no mistake, we
print Webster's definition -"
DISTILLED, PIP. or a. Let fall in DROPS:
subjected to the process of distillation; ex-
tracted by evaporation
Now, take a villain and distill him.
either let him fall in drops, or extract him
by evaporation. Repeat the process, if
possible, and you have " double-dis-
TILED villain"
Now, throttle him. SAY, there's the
rub" How are you going to do it?
How choke william who has been twice
let fall in drops, or twice evaporated?
"Do it at once" says Mfr. Wise. We
are ready to hold Immediately, only it
appears to US that the "disorganizing
monster" is himself disorganized by be-
coming 'double-distilled" But still, Mr..
Wise says, ''do it now" and he gives two
reasons why we should do it.