The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-04-06
An Abolition Senator Described by
an Abolition Pnner.

Ex-Secretary Harlan, an ex-Methodist
preacher, and at present United States
Senator from Iowa, was charged by the
Cincinnati Gazette (Rep) and the
charges proved, with great number of
villainies, which, without proof, would be
incredible. Thus:
"While Secretary of the Interior, he
sold to favorite parties an immense body
OF Iowa lands for two dollars and fifty
cents an acre, which was resold immedi-
ately after for twenty dollars an acre; we
shall not show how servants, carpets, fur
niture, horse blankets, stationery, etc,
etc., were charged in official accounts to
the Department of the Interior which
were for the exclusive private use of the
high moral Secretary, or how, while run
ming the Department on the principle of
pure religion and high morality, he dis
charged Walt Whitman for writing un-
sanctfied poetry, and turned out to starve
two score or more of female clerks the
widows and daughters of soldiers, because
one OF them was unjustly charged with
using profane language"
The Ohio State Journal-abolition to
the core-thus follows up the attack:
"The point we here wish to make is,
that the psalm singing hypecrite's unfit
ness for a seat in the Senate Is not because
he IS void of honesty, but because he is
void of brains. Before Harlan smuggled
himself into the Senate, he was an timer
ant Methodist preacher. This was no
discredit to him, if he had been an exhor-
ter ofrespectable capacity. But the evi :.
denee OF ones ears is against this charita-
Bile supposition. He cannot speak the
English nor any other language His at
tempts to pronounce the common French
word dO1tce1tr convulsed the Senate. sHe
gets absurdly wrong the commonest quo
tatlons, and spRtters when man of sense
speaks. He allows solitary substantIves
to mourn the absence cf their favorite
verbs, and compels verbs to disagree with
their nominatives in gender, Hefnber and
person, when they have a grammatical
and constitutional right to agree He
knows no more of constitutional history
or the science of government, than he does
OF medlaeval architecture or Roman an
hqultles. He can not open his mouth
without blunder, or attempt to argue
any question without exciting contempt.
Were we to correctly describe Harlan's
personal appearance, we should be accu-
sed OF having some enmity toward him
No man with his face could be anything
else than a public plunderer, sanctimo-
NOUS hypocrlte, and a superlative hum
bug. 1t is the. manifest interest of the
party to drive into obscurity |
all such brainless knaves as this"
The same paper goes on to speak thus 0 |
Senator Pomeroy of Kansas, known as
"Old Beans, because he made himself rich
by appropriating the contributions made
by the charitable to the destitute people
OF Kansas, q few years. ago.:
old Beans is slab-sided, broad bel |
he'd, broad breasted man, with a full moon
face which has the intellectual expression
Of frozen squash He is a coarse-nat
ed, vulgar small-minded man.
ignorant of science, of literature, of laws |
learned IN the science of corruption and |
crafty as thieves are crafty. He never ad- |
vocates his schemes in open Senate from /
lack of capacity to write or speak, but |
sees his men privately, and springs /
bills when the Treasury watch dogs are
absent He is a fatulent humbug of gi- |
gantic outlines"
And this is the class of men who have |
assumed to reconstruct the Government. |
These same writers ought now to sketch
Ulysses hisself.