Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-12-08

turn thanks for the eNtraVa-
gance, the rioting ard debauchery,
the extortion, robbery and outlawry
by which they have been beggared
and HE enriched! Thanks! He
commands Us to be thankful! Fol
what2 Thanks, that the Republic
of our fathers is defunct domin-
lea, dead cock in the pit of ma
tions Thanks, that a herd of per-
jured outlaws, rufiians sworn to
support the Constitution, the foun-
datiOn of all law andlib'rty on our
continent, have torn the sacred
parchment into a million tatters,
and trampled il beneath their swim
ish hoofs, in the muck and mire of
the modern Sodom. Thanks, that
nine once glorious, sovereign States
are kicked in out Of the Union bull
pen, at the will of a drunken cabal
Of Congressional conspirators-
States to pay taxes and ratify hid
eous monstrosities known as
'amendments'- Territories, satra-
pies, proconsnlates, in every thing
else. Thanks, that gibbering null
titudes Of lousy plantation niggers,
and twang shouted imported yaga-
bonds, the of-scourings and onal
Of Africa and Yankeedom, meet in
nine noble State Capitols, to legis.
late for the sons of Washingtons.
Randolphs, Pinckneys, RutIcdges,
Hamptons and Lees. Thanks, that
a nigger barber scrawls his uncouth
cross-mark to official acts and
edcs, as Lieutenant Governor of
queenly Louisiana; Chat n nigger
hotel waiter issues commissions, as
Secretary Of the State Of Missis-
sippi that Pennsylvania niggtr
fills the Supreme Judgeship Of
South Carolina; and that a grin.
ming nigger theft from Loaven.
worth, Kansas, picks his cannibal
fangs and combs his virmin creep
ing wool, in the seat once filed by
the patriot, soldier, scholar and
statesman, jefferson Davis, as u.
S.. Senator from Mississippi.
Thanks, that Federal bayonets
CLEAN around the polls in Phila-
and that four thousand
regular troops are ordered to New
York to overawe her gallant De
Thanks, that the white
wings OF our commerce have been
swept from the ocean, Ike butter
1es before a breath from hell
Thanks, that our taxes are seven
fold greater, per capita, than those
of Great Britain, and four times as
onerous as those of Austria
Thanks, that our government stands
a remorseless highwaymm, gi-
gantc oot-pad, with his blndgeon
at the head of forty millions Of
demanding money or life
Thanks, that our laboring man has
to pay sixteen doliars for the very
same cashmere coat, which Ca,
madam gets for seven Thanks, for
a tariff Of l55 per cent. on our salt
1873 on our blankets 1870 on our
horse shoe nails; and on every
thing else that We eat, drink or
wear, IN proportion. Thanks, for
# debt of $4,000, 600, 000--(or with
all their scientific lying and fancy
figuring, add one years interest,
leakage, embez2lNge and stealage,
md that's just what it amounts to.
Thanks, that the very foundations
1f right, order, morality and com
mon deoency have been over
brown That from Maine to Mex,
co, a perfect avalanche Of crime
md outrage is rolling dark and
errible and bloody, all over the
and that murders, rapes, arsons,
md suicides, iniquities and horrors
If every dye, are the established
,ule, and innocence the exception;
hat half our churches have become
mere trap. doors to damnation; sin
lgogues Of discord and hate; and
hat calabooses and penitentiaries
AVE grown respectable, compared
With Congresses and Legislatures.
Thanks, ,thatan oath bound conclave
# gallows- worthy pirates, has with
n the last few months, squandered
30, 900, 600 acres of our lands, THE +,
lands, bought and paid for
With THE PEOPLES money, upon }
,ogus corporations, Of which every
orswom Senator and Represents
I've, who voted for the monstrous !,
illainy Is millionary stOckholder, :
hanks, that the erminv uf MAJ,
hall and Taney and Grier is pol
ited by an octave of pmblind old
,probates, every one OF whom
.amped "Pcriury' in letters of a
WIN indelliblo blackness, upon his
oul, by that most fragrant of all -,
legal atrocities, the Miss q
nri Test Oath Decision, Thanks, "
rat IN our own old State, ninety
We thousand free horn, tax paying q
nlrE MEN are debarred every right q
nd privilege Of citizenship
icked like fclons from the ballot. =,
OK, while corndold niggers, vote, !,
npose taxes, elect our rulers and ~
AXE our laws Thanks than ks "
n these things Ha ha Let who
III, get down on his marrow IL
Dnes, turn his snout heayenwald, W
ld pour out his gratitude that $,
nee mighty and illustrious nation, l.