The mountain Democrat., 1864-09-24

tne olmcultyI MOI AZ all, ralner increase
it, for the rest of the family would then
have to bear all the hVSSeN pSS~N 1S%?s
have helped to share, and the monkeys
having fewer TO- attend to would harass
the rest more than ever. If the wolf,
growing completely desperate under b is
trials, should fall upon the fox, and coon
coming to.the aid of the fox, In the CON.
bat all three should be slain, would this
bring q reuedy-i- Worse and worse the
stronger and br&ver animals, which had
been in some sort defenders of the rest,
being slain, the remainder would then
suffer the incessant tortnres Of the damn
ed to a certainty. What then is the re-
medy Why, throw the Internal mon
keys fro n the cage, the last hair of them,
and then there will be peace and quiet,
and "happy family" sure enough.
We were a happy family Of States,
populated by representatives from all ma.
tions Of the earth; there was no need that
we should prey upon each other, for the
whole land teemed with plenty and pros
perity but we had monkeys in our fam.
lily, and hence our present troubles. Look
at the history of our country. Who
evinced a meddling, prosecuting spirit as
soon as they landed upon the shores of
America! Who burned women at the
stake, and hung Quakers for opinions
sake9 Who whipped men for kissing
their wives. on Sunday, and penned the
turkey cocks that they should not vain
gloriously strut? Who were the first to
resist the Federal laws, and were the get.
ters up Of the traItorous Hartford Con.
vention? Who burned the blue lights at
New London for the benefit of our ene-
mics in the war of 1s12a Who mobbed
the consecrated Converts and refused to
pay the loss? Who refused charters to
Colleges which did not subscribe to their
peculiar religious tenets and dogmas?-
Who resolved the Union dissolved be-
cause Texas was annexed? Who vel.
come negroes to the polls and drive white
men away, because Of their poverty or
place Of birth? Who imprison Democrats,
and refuse to furnish men for the army
except upon conditionsl Are not these
the monkeys, with their restless inter.
meddling, mischiefmaking propensities,
which have broken the peace of our hap
py family9
Reader, look at your own village or
neighborhood; test the thing practically
is there a schism in your church p
Monkeys are almost sure to be at the bot
tom Of it. A row in the management of
your district school? Monkeys again
Chickering'S and backbitings in the social
circle? More monkeys. And if you
see diminutive, weazen faced chap peep
ing stealthily over your back gate after
dusk in the evening, prying into your
family concerns, or on active duty as q
leading member Of smelling committee,
you may bet your life he's q monkey
What is the matter with our Chicago
Board of Trade" or Cooley, Farwell &
Shoddy'? Monkeys, to a certainty
Look at our affairs in Washington-the
miSmanagement, the blunders, the whole
sale corruption! Who rule the Execu.
tive? Who promised to leap, "like fam
ing giants, nine hundred thousand strong,
and throng the road to death as to fes,
tival," if Father Abraham would only is
sue his proclamation Who are now
crowding the by-paths of New England,
with the hurrying tread Of craven desert
erS, while their representatives in Con-
grcss, in shameless cowardice are crying,
"All is lost unless the loyal blacks shall
6ght for US !"
But let US 60 back little:
Who inserted the clause in our present
Federal Constitution, and pressed it to
its adoption, extending the slave trade
down to the year 1908, thus giving them
selves twenty years more in which to
spread and deepen the "hated institu-
tion," and to wear their ships to the wa
ter's edge in the lucrative trade?
Who have persistently denounced this
same Constitution, the sacred legacy Of
our fathers, as "a league with hell and q
covenant with death" because of its re.
cognition of slavery?
Who, when they found it improbable
on their bleak and sterile bills to hold
slaves, sold them to the men of the South
and built factories with the proceeds
Who own those factories now, started
with the profits realized from the impor-
taton and sale Of slaves, and run from
the first to the present hour with the
products of slave labor?
Who roll up their picus eyes in holy
horror at the great sin of slavery, "the
sum Of all villainies," and yet clutch with
frantic zeal the wages and profits of this
sin?
Who have f1lled the whole land with
loud mouthed professions of philanthro-
py and Christian sympathy for their
colored brethren in bondage, and yet,
when the commandant at Fortress Mon
roe begged them to take five hundred Of
these poor starving fugitives and feed
them in honest charity, positively and in
humanity refuseds Y
Who, with long faces and sanctimO-
nious professions Of yearning sympathy,
of heaven-born charity, industriously
begged the castoff coats of the people,
shipped them to Port Royal, as sanitary
stores, at Government expense, and
sold them to their "colored brethren" at
Beaufort, at four dollars a piece, payable
from promiscuous steaiiugss
Who continually thank God that they
are not sinful like other people; and yet
are covered all over with iniquity, COM
mitting daily, and with shameless indus
try and temerity, every sin forbidden by
the decalogue, ingeniously, too, as they
think
Compound for sins they are inclined to.
By damning those they have no mind to-"
Who are making history" nowf the
mildest chapter of which will be like
this:
"Little Jack Horner sat in corner,
Eating Christmas pie,
| He stuck In his thumb, and pulled out plum,
Saying, what a brave boy ami"
In other words:
"HoldiDg our sacks, to be filed with gTeenbaekS,
What sharp people are We"
Once more let US go back little:
Who planned the organization and
drillad and rnurtored f0 the mills the vast