Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1867-07-11
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The "saints on earth '-and they all livein
Massachusctts--ar thus photographed by the
Portsmouth iN. H. States d Union. II the
picture is not too true to life 10 suit hang Il up
in the gallery Of your admiration:
about every violent, wicked and illegal
act of our times, originated in Massachusetts,
The majority in that State are race of bcdla-
mites, unfit to live anywhere except on some
isolated island away from all contact with the
rest of mankind, if they could be either trans
ported to such place. or all piled upon huge
raft towed out to mid-ocean and sunk, it would
be better for this country and the world. A
more impracticable, crazy, faciious, dicta'oriah
self-conceited, brainless set, God never created.
Every public act of their lives proves It,
They elevate any and every sort of political
and moral standard of conduct and Govern
ment, jumpupon it shout all aboard, and put
off under full head Of steam fizzling and rat
Ting away, as though they were the surnmum
tonum Of all creation, and bid the rest OF tho
world clear the track, or get run over and
ground to powder. Everybody vcnturing to
oppose them, or even question their absolute
right in all cases and respects whatsoever, is
cursed as barbarian, branded as an outlaw OF
guillo,ined as culprit in thcdiscrction Of their
bloated sovereignty. They were evidently new
er designed to live with, or in proximity to, tho
rest Of the human race, because their natures
are too turbulent and quarrelsome to permi, q
respectable equilibrium Of society. Their an
cestors were both political and religious fana-
tics, always in row with somebody and never
at perfect peace with anybody, moi even with
themselves. These creatures Of our day have
inherited all tho instincts, oil the passion and
conceits of their fathers and mothers Of the car
ly Puritan history, and actually succeed in
keeping our whole country in state ofdemo-
MAC confusion, either by powers usurped, or by
immoral examples which stimulutc the dread
and hatred Of ali the rest not totally subject TO
the debauchment of their influence. Their
original politics was the purest tOryism, which
being overcome, appeared later in federalism,
enemies Of the country in oil wars against
foreign foe, and disseminators of scdition every
where. They burned witches and QaGkers,
whipped Baptists through tho streets because
they did not like that kind Of religion, hunted
and prosecuted every body who ventured tho
exercise Of the rights Of free thought and ex-
preston. got up one or two tobellions, nuliGcd
their own voluntary compact with other States,
shot down United States officers, in the public
streets for attempting 10 execute the laws enact
cd by the votes Of their own representatives in
Congress, armed John Brown raiders and sent
them bowling and numbering into other juris-
dictions, voted TO dissolve the Union on tho
Texas question, permitted the public burning
Of the Constitution, and settled life estate up.
on the traitor who pcrpetratcd the decd, preach
ed treason and disunion continually down to
1861, and since that time INDUCED spasm Of
patriotism which is the rankest and bloodiest
treason ever conceived and born in earth or
hell. They tried Know Nothingisrn and Ma
tive Americanism and burnt the Catholic Con-
vent at Chatestown to crafty their miserable
spirit Of intolerance and persecution. They
constructed the negro hobby, jumped aboard,
beloved for freedom and universal liberty, in
augurated crusade against tho South, con-
cocted and set in motion q causeless, bloody,
internal, fratrcidal war, broke up the Union,
turned one-half Of the country into an organ
lied hell" with powers Of expansion over tho
other half, and now rejoice in the success Of
their diabolical schemes.