Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-09-28
Larrabee's Pro-Slavery.

| : want to say to you gentlemen of the South
that L am not Stakeholder as you know, and
| do not propose TO discuss here the merits or
dement's of your institution of Slavery. sSgI If
lived IN your midst, as said before, l would
own Slaves. and yet not deem that was doino
moral wrong to any one'i-Ch IT. Larrqbee :
We have heretofore proved to our read
ers that Slavery is the elimination of evil
and the greatest exhibition of human de-
pravlty. Few parents could look upon
son Or daughter, and not feel that they
would sooner bury their beloved offspring
than consign them to slavery Our read
ers, every one Of them, would plunge from
a preclplce and dash out their brains, even
as thousands eff poor suffering slaves COM
NIT suicide, rather than be slaves But,
although the evil is too great to be faith
omed by human comprehension, CHAS.
Il. LARRABEE endorses it with relish
and gusto Of which sensible shareholders
would be ashamed He not only covers
himself with shame-he glories in it. I'm
agining other people as degraded as HIM
self-looking through morally jaundiced or
gans, which reveal the fires which rage
amidst the rccesses of his debauched soul,
he has the foolhardihood to fout enormi-
ties which excite horror and disgust
The apology until lately invariably made
in behalf Of shareholders, by both them
selves and others, was the necessitating
circumstances they were in: the extreme
difficulty, not to say impossibility, of get
ting rid Of relations and conditions to which
the nation was born. The Democratic
party North, although really in political
propinquity and league with slavery and
shareholders, has always stenuously deni-
ed being in favor of the institution But
the distinguished misrepresentation of
this District, the Democratic re-nominee,
at the distance Of thousand miles from
it, gratefully snuffs the peculiarly rich
odor of the African race and shows the
temper of his stomach by publicly avowing
his affinity with an institution detested by
all decent men. Reared and educated in
the Free States, the utmost that Christ
ianity could do for him has not irradicated
from his soul the base ambition and sub
lime cruelty essential to the system. He
lusts after slaves as the Jews did after the
feshpots of Egypr. Gold coined from the
sweat and blood of destructive toll, which
reduces plantation life to the brief average
term of seven years, excites his cupidity
The bloody lash in the hand of the un.eel-
ing master, and shrieks and groans of abu-
sed bondmen, are exactly suited to his ele-
waited aims. RS Half-clad negro vonaen,
unprotected by law Or public opinion, and
too ignorant to understand the sin and evils
of unbridlcd RIGHTEOUSNESS, at all times
ready to his beastly embraces, are just the
aliment for his lecherous spirit. He toss
es upon his bed it is the burden of his
dreams by night and of his impious thoughts
by day; he cannot make speech to a SER
enading band when called from bis bed at
dead hour of night, without introducing
the theme, ''Wine and Women 70 and his
great soul breaketh, and even fainteth, for
the longing that it hath at all uimes, to be-
come Slaveholder-a greater than Jo
Smith, Leonard Kimbal or Brigham Young
the august master of Southern Seraol-
10 or Harem Of beautiful Slaves! Having
had taste during his stay at Washington,
he comes home with mhetted appetite, and
now wriggles, and whines, and pleads to be
reelected and supported during another
Congress for the same high purpose. z@ga
Surely people who know the Golden
Rule, need not to be informed how SUI
perlatively and insufferabIy offensive all
this Is. The idea of countenancing or even
toerating such a blot upon society is sheer
insanity To propose to respectable peo-
pie that they shall vote for such monster,
exceeds splitting in ones face, or throwing
brick-bat at the head.
If the Democratic party does not fully en-
dorse slavery. and that, too, in its worst
forms, why has it re-nominated this man.
after his shameful avowals? If the party
in this District does not wish to saw to the
South, "You are right, go ahead !" if it
would not lend itself to bolster up and sup
port man whose infamy has been spec
tacle and theme of inefable DISGUST to
the whole country, it certainly will not
again vote for Larrabee The opportunity
Is now thrust upon it to show it's hand
Freedom or NSlavery-and if it sunports
this nomination, it will stand on record
the patron, not only of Slavery, but of the
legion of his infamies. Let the people
mark both the men and the presses, so to-
tally devoid of principle and lost to shame.
as to support such man; to such we rec
ommend that they take step towards ref
ormation, by supporting, in stead, old
Nick himself, who of the two would GER