Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-05-08
The White Mans Emancipation.

reigning despot upon the free soil of
America. M 5aoaWsE 8I moi
A little more than seven years ago
that small party of fanatics and lunat-
les, which openly avowed that for thir-
ty years it had been engaged in the
work of destroying the fabric of gov
ernment so wisely woven by the pat
riot soldiers of the first American
Revolution, and the Union cemented
with their blood; the party that for
thirty years has spit upon the Consti-
tuition of the United States, and pro-
nounced it a covenant with death and
an agreement with hell, and in their
wild and hellish fury have frequently
committed it to the. flames amid the
m0cklngs and scOtflngs OF the savageS
who danced around; the party that
for years has sneered at and jeered
the flag OF our country, and sought to
bring it to scorn in the eyes of the
world by prononncing it "a Haunting
lie;" this party seven and half years
ago succeeded, despite the opposition
of majority Of the people of the
United States, in electing an obscure
loafer from some of the Illinois bar
rooms to the Office of President.
A few months after this, Abraham
laincoln sneaked through to the cap
ital Of the nation in disguise, guilty
at heart, and fearing, lest the honest
indignation of an honest people, who
had been outraged and insulted ia the
election Of SO vile thing, should lead
them to destroy his precious life.
His were the fears of coward.
He was inaugurated, and took into
the position that has once been filled
by Washington, Madison, Jefferson and
jackson, not one semblance of states
manship, but all the vile and obscene
stories of country bar room, all the
animus of that reasonable party that
had supported him and many more of
the essentials of a tyrant more damn
able, because less reasonable and ex-
cusable than any that have polluted
Gods green earth for years agone.-
He Immediately became surrounded
by an accursed set of plunderer8, con
tractors, spectators, swindlers ,pimps,
thieves and roughs, all clamoring for
offices, the most accomplished in crime
and yillany getting them.
This was the party, and these the
men that inflicted Abraham Lincoln
upon the people Of this country, and
their most willing tool he proved him
self to be- ..-
As the subservient instrument in
the hands Of designing and wicked IA
natics he beean at once to enforce the
seditious measures that were hatcheC
and nursed so long, under the shadoy
of Plymouth Rock, In Puritan New
England, and, as Que of these meas
ures, continued the war only a few
years previously begun by John Brow
: and for which that old horse thief wa
hung
In the five dark years of the oil
, scene LincoIa's rule, this country
proud America-has been dragge,
from among the leading nations OF th
world, and come to be pitied and dt
spised 10y all.
This vile buffoon-accidentalI
placed IN power-suppressed tha
, freedom Of speech and of the pres
that had existed since the Declaration
of independence, and was one OF th
prOudest boasts of Americans every
where. Men who were not favorabl
to the hellish policy of the clown wer,
taken from public and private life ant
shut in from the world, their familiet
, and the enjoyment Of freedom, behinc
, the creaking iron doors Of a politica
bastile, all without charge or trial
where many died-murdered by 4A6rG
ham LincoLn-while others were be
reft of reason, returned to friends
and relatives raving maniacs. doomed
, only to eke out a blank existence a
some mad house, while an outraged
people could make no resistance.
), During the reign of terror and des
potism brave men were torn from thei
t homes and taken to the slaughter-pen!
; of abolitionism, their families left IN
protected, while the thieves and spie
, sent out bg the devil incarnate, stol
. even the shelter from above thei
heads.
, During the years Of Lincoln's dy
> nasty, we have witnessed the destruC
tion of the business prosperity of th
: country; the lessened respect show
= to our flag. We have had the disgrace
q ful spectacle of the chief magistrate O.
the greatest nation on earth enter
e tanning and disgusting the embassa
dors of other countries, members o
e Congress, and other prominent mel
q with low,vile, and obscene stories, ,tha
! the vilest rough at Five Points woul
! hesitate to repeat to his pals! La
: And all this when the brave men o
s the whole country were engaged upo
: the field in those battles he had inst
d gated, but was too cowardly to pa
: ticipate in; when brave men wer
e perishing upon the battle field, whe
/ houses far and near were draped i
y mourning, and stricken ones groupe
n about the hearth-stone sobbing an
s sorrowing for those murdered By him.
i This is a picture-damnable thoug
v it be to the records of pretende
b civilized country-that will at ono
e come home to the hearts of man
e poor, weary ones in this broad lane
e 1t is no imaginary one. God graz