Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-08-21
ExpositiOn of the Political Situation


Exposition Of the Political Situation.
Barnes Greeley, a brother of the
"Chappaqua Farmer" gives the follow
ing resolutions in the ChdutGuqud Nelrs,
which have been stereotyped and will
be sent to Greeley committees through
out the county to be read and adopted
at Greeley meetings. Barnes lives near
the Chautauqus county lines, in War.
rem county, and has not met his brother
since the resolutions were published:
WHEREAS, The millennium has
dawned, and the wolf is laying down
with the lamb, and the lion is eating
straw like al OK, and the a~bolitionists
and secessionists march under the same
flag, and the radicals and rebels walk
arm in arm, and the free traders and
protectionists are cheek by jowl, and the
Irish and negroes eat out of the same
dish, and Horace Greeley and JEFF Davis
sleep in the same bed, and the little
girl is playing on the hole of the asp, and
women vote and ride straddle, and
e~verythingi is lovely and the goose hangs
high, therefore,
ReSolUed, 1st, That inasmuch as the
time has come for all men to eat dirt
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thinks what he says, nor believes what
he thinks, we unanimously recognize
the absolute equality Of men, including
negroes women and Chinese that we
believe a mules ears are as short as a
horses and that a leopard can change
his spots, and that the negro is a man
and a brother and have always favored
his admission to the ballot box, we now
welcome him to the social circle, having
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was born a monkey, that things are not
what they used to be, and that there is a
good deal of upside down-ness and
downsideupwardness, and a bewildered
mixed up-ativeness generally.
RESOLVED, ID, That being in great doubt
whether the rebellion failed or succeed
ed, n not being certain whether Grant
or Lee surrendered at Appomattox, and
being of the opinion that the South was
either right or wrong, and that the
North was either wrong or right. and
that neither was either to hurt, we are
unanimously in favor of letting bygones
be bygones, of burying the Stars and
Stripes in the same grave with the Stars
and Bars, of mixing three parts of
Dixie" with n OF Yankee Doodle"
and of marrying the Union eagle to the
rebel buzzard.
ReSolUed,3 Sd, That beingaliberal party,
we favor iberality in all things, in poll
tics and in religion, in virtue and in
temperance, giving perfect freedom to
all, freedom to men and freedom to
women, criticising no ones opinions and
no ones actionsi pardoning an occa-
sional clean shirt and washed face; |
neither averring that there is a Heaven, |
nor yet denying that there is a hell;
holding the Almighty in proper respect, |
at the same time not forgetting our old
friend Satan; believing that nothing is
up or down, but that everything is
standing or sideways. and all things
holding very fast with one hand but
altogether letting 60 with the other.
ResolUed, 4th, That the constitution as
it is is better than the constitution as it
was; that the Bible is all very well in its
place, but the Book of Mormon is newer
and the writings of Confucius older, and
every man is master Of his own con.
science and conduct, and has & right to
maxi a God to suit himself; that free
whisky and universal ignorance, with
free love and universal salvation, will
make earth a paradise and heaven a GER
tainty T; but that, neverth eIess, all things
are turned round and the times are out
of joint, every straight road is crooked
and the world turns backward on its axis,
AhOA haAe Nt5LdS anu LuclE DIdlQS are Il
topsy-turvey, the world is all bewitched
woman is the coming man.
Resolved, 9Th, That inasmuch as Judas
Iscariot, though once a wicked man,
became IN apostle, and mas
much as Benedict Arnold shed blood
for American liberty, and inasmuch as
JEFF Davis was not nominated, we are
heartily in favor of Horace Greeley, be-
heving, as we do, that democracy is not
dead, but sleepeth, and that all roads
from Greeley go to Grant; that Greeley
was an original abolitionist and an
aboriginal secessionist; that the alb
and secessionists work to the
end, and their combination is only
a renewal of past cooperation.