Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-05-19
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z.a..Aesrrne rough, wild manuers OF a barbar-
Gus people are innovated upon by more
illuminated and human tide Of opinions.
The contrast is equally strong 10 the hope
full age Of history with that Of mountain
beauty, all the lights and shades Of ro-
nance ,and poetry being reflected in both.
AS d people we are cestainly descending
/, on the mountain TO the plain, from the
rude gorgelo the huniane,gher mind and
conduct shall be the meaaure Of character.
The shareholders whip shall not much
longer be an apology for using the Irish
man as dog, or cheating the Dutchman
out of his wages, or Withholding from The
children Of the poor au education which
hall make them the equals Of the rich.
likeness will soon have no excise III a false
interpretations of the Constitution which al
lows the capitalists to own their laborers
and work them under the whip-a power
which Almighty God could not delegate,
nor all the Priests, councils, synots and
conferences upon earth, aided by all the
Kings and tyrants, venture TO ordain.
Some things are impossible with God and
this is one Of them, to authorize one man
to own another; and it is just as impossi-
hle for men to make right and lawful what
is impossible with God as to beget a SUI
perior to God. There is no sophistry about
This; no idle fancy or delnsion. Suppose
some one should claim you reader as a
slave; would you not question the right,
esq n were a warrant from the hand Of the
Almighty. countersigned by all the courts
and sacred councils upon earth. shown to
you under seal and witnessed by all the
tbunderinas, beginnings and miracles which
accompanied the Almighty in delivering
to Moses the ten commandments. oh ye',
you'd protest and violate the interpreted
Constitution Well. but you are white,
with a free ancestry. But where in The
pible and constitution is the difference II
YOU are white; according to either you are
just so made fit sui Jet for slavery as
black man or a half black, a quadroon. an
Indian or any other biped; the naked
truth is, YOU are free by nature, Constitu-
ton and God-just as all are free and none
liable 10 slavery BY nature, Constitution
and God.
"Oh, but we have prejudice against
the niogersm Vel, so have some q pref
udice against the Yankees, Others against
the Germans. tbs Irish, the English. But
such prejudices are wrong, and for the
most part invented by demagogues as a
means to get your votes. But seven or
eight years ago such demagogues raised a
storm against the foreigners, especially
against Catholic foreigners, but it was all
a sham to cheat people out Of their votes
Just now such demarogues are intent upon
firing prejudice against the blacks, and
you vii. see how many votes they make
out of it. Any poor. defenceless people
may at any time be thus STACKED by The
demagogues, and Cor time be crushed.
True, the weight is soon removed, TO be
used in crushing some other, so that each
bondman is freed in turn, ami the oppTess-
or annhilated with the rise of each weight.
All this reader, you have got to see H.
Illustrated right along for some years to
come. And as you have got to be On act
or in each scene, we counsel you TO be right,
mercifu! and on the side Of the poor of all
nations and colors.