The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-06-23
NUMBER 2.

trans parent and brave. He has been
doubly Opaque, and cast ti0o shGdolOs
.one before and the other behind
him l-valorously throwing stones,
like the little boy, at the dead dogs
OF despotlc usurpation, and almost
gliding unseen and
among the live iions-of
the MongreT Tamphitheatre. Immor-
tai honor to Jerry Bblack and old
Mr.. Bradley, for the brave utteran-
ces which make them exceptions to
the general rule of degeneracy, which
degrades a recreant bar, and link
their names Ia undying association
with that of the good and great
Roger B.. fancy! Te this day it is
not decided whether the "recon.
struction" acts are constitutions or
not! -f And men who pretend
10 be Democrats talk about Salmon
z. Chase for PRESIDENT Feed the
poor dupeS on custard blanc mango!
Judge Chase, haye no doubt, is a
gentleman in his instincts and man
ners, the Richmond Wing saws so;
and after soft, conscientious, but
good Pilumnus, what keen nostriI
he has for your kneading tray and
oven, and what a moral coward
W
greatly" but the Chief Justice has
been in can ague-fit' ever since he
saw Andy Johnson shake in his
Presidential shoes! 3rr 3.t
tThis is true courage, not brutal force
OF vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve
OF virtue and of reason. y
And If thus Chief-J Justice had pos
sesSed that Courage, ~ ana the bar
had asserted the rights of the people,
the Temple of Constitutional Liber-
ty would to-day have been resDlend'
ent with the lights kindIed from the
Temple Of the Law upon its aItars,
and reflected upon its glowing tow
ers! L have great respect for the
profession of the law. Bred to it
myself and delightiHg In its intel.
lectual excitements and sublime OBJ.
lects, always entered the court
house with something of the reVer.
ence due to the sacred aisles of the
church, and stood erect before tho
legal tribunals of my country, Gov.
citing the smiles of Justice and the
blessings of the innocent. IprOfess
that among the members of the bar.
have found the truest friends, the
purest patriots, the most unselfish
and generous patrons of benevolence,
the most cOurtly, honest and brave
men have ever known. Hence my
scorn OF pettifOggerS and my sense
of humiliation at the failure of the
bar to meet, as it might have done
and ought to have done, the awful
crisis through which our country is
now passing. The lawyers are the
priests of liberty, and alike priests
like people," If they desert the
cause of the constitution, the tyrants
Will have the people an easy prey to
their arts and violence. l Invoke
them, by the glorious memories of
our own history, by the unutterabIe
groans and stified cries of perishing
liberty, by the majesty and glory of
English and Irish precedents, by the
purity, and dignity. and divine au-
thority of Eternal and Almighty
Justice Itself, to come TO the rescue
of the Constitution and the laws, of
public virtue, and national prOsperi-
ty, and private happiness. The
bench and the bar can yet save us
and the tank of the crocodilel
''The report was unanimously
adopted ~ OF course it was. What
report was that? Why, any report
of any committee-of any conYen-
tiOn-Of anybody to tax the people
to build any sort of a railroad-tO
'fmprove" any river, lake or sea in
the World-any report to exempt
from taxation any capital that swim
ding corpOratorS may invest in any
wild cat Improvement any where.
Look at the Per-se- dings of the
Southern Commercial Convention
of Congress and carpet'bag LegisIa'
lures passive. l am tired of srepOrts!'
tired of the sort Of people who go
about to ''spout" and make ere.
ports !''-the vagabonds who aspire
] to register their names in hotels and
see them in the per-Se-dings and the
pro Sc "doiI1S." Why, Foote was in
the Southern Commercial Conven'
ton, and the whole Convention
exhibited not more than twice as
much sense as the fool who prSsides
over the National Debt (not Treasury
with so much green backing!
| On for return to stthe good old
times" of .fgood Queen Bess.''i Then
there were laws against Vagabonds
and such human trash as float about
on the popular currents, and eddyin
these Conventions, as witness the
following extract from ga very old"
and f'curious book" to wit: A
Treatise against Dicing, Danncing,
Vaine Playes, or Enterluds, Black
Letter. No date -'s @.ii,- i.---a
"Queen Elizabeth, i'll the xiii, and
xviii verses of hir gracious rayne,
two ActeS were made for ydle, va
granite and maisterleSse persons, thai
Ysed to Ioyter. and would not Worke:
should, for the first offense, have a
hole burned through the gristle ol
one of his cares, of an ynch. COM
passe. And for the second offence
committed therein, to be hanged. IL
these and such lyke laWes were exc
cuted instlye, trenIyc end severely,
(as they ought to be), without any
respect of persons, favor or friend.
shippe, thys dung and filth OF ydle'
nesse would easily be reiacted and
cast cute of thys Commonwealth
there would not be so many loyter
ing, ydle persons; so many lRuffias
Blasphemers, SWinge- e-Buckelers SC
many DrunlSards, TOSsepottas, ,Daun
GERS, -Fydlers and Minstrees, Die
Players and VI Maskers, Fencers
Thieves, Enterlude Players, Gu
Purses. Cosiners. MaisterlesS Servan
tes, Jugglers, Roges, Sturdye Beg
gars, COunterfaite Egyptians, &C., as
there are; not yet so many plaques
to bee amongst vs. as there are, il
:. these dunghille5 and flthe in Com
[ monweales were remOoued, loo keC
into, and cleane caste QUITE, by TIT
industrie, payne, and trauell of those
that are settle in authoritie, and hauC
gouerment."
''With "such- lyke -lawes," duly
executed intyle, tIenlye and SO
verelye, (as they ought to be-, T" ther,
would be fewer ''reports'' by seedy
VagabUnds and scurvy Politica
strOllers in conventions, in favor O
taxing honest labor and exemptinI
capital for the benefit of spectators
They call it tscaPital )" when, in trutI
{. it is Fictitious, bastard credit, baselS
pegotten upon the rotten, syphilitit
body of political corruption. by per
furious swindlers, ia the drunken