The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1872-08-08
The BanGuet Ia which Repub-
1iC0ns are Invited.

When one fairly examines the feast
to which Liberal Republicans are in
vited, and come within the sickly oder
Of horrid smells arising therefrom,
it is astonishing how any man of or
dinary sense, to say little Of patriot
ism, can for n moment remain in such
company. First he is asked to swal-
low Buckalew, Thompson and Hart
ley, trio Of as repulsive professional
politicians as ever howled partizan
cry into the cars of the people. Mr..
Buckalew has always been u loud
mouthed, illiberal, and prejudiced
partizan; a man of kinks and the
ories, dreaming of tho Utopian in
government, or seeking in ridiculous
limitations, to advance the ideas of
others He has never changed his
first convictions as Democrat, and
believes as sincerely in the right of
secession and rebellion as did JEFF
Davis. The germ of the slave hold
ers rebellion constitutes the vital
force of it political sentiments. and if
he had power TO do it, Charles II.
Buckalew would pay the slave holder
every dollar he lost by the destruction
of his property in human flesh, and
throw the rebellion debt into that of
the government. to show that he thus
is willing to make good his faith in
the justice of the Confederate cause.
Make him Governor of a great State.
and you take the first step in the cher
ished Democratic hope of sooner or
later realizing all these effects, JUS
tice Thompson is the senior of Buck
alew in years, and in proportion, adj
vanced in his devotion to all the is
sues on which the shareholders rebel
lion was fought sgainst the govern
mcnt. He took advantage, while the
struggling WAS raging, to do all in
his power, to aid the cause of the
South, and as he was tCo old to take
a musket and fire on Union iGen from
behind stone fences and masked bat
teries he resorted to sophisticle de-
cisions against the right Of the gov
ernment to adopt such forms as it
saw fit to recruit its armies and gath
er material means to carry on the
war. The men who were in rebellion
understood Justice Thompson posi-
ton and course as thoroughly as he
appreciated their acts. They knew
what he sought to do, and he was
fully aware of what they warred to
accomplish. They acted in concert,
and had their qualification and gloat-
ed in the shedding of the same blood
and tears. Hartley, while not of the
intellectual class with Buckalew and
Thompson, is their peer in treason
sympathy, and did in practical work
what the first two only essayed in
Legislative indifference and judicial
pettifogging. While Buckalew sat a
mute in the United States Senate.
regardless of the fierce contest going
on all around him for the safety of
the country, and Thompson was read
ing decisions from the bench of the
Supreme Court calculated to impede
our military operations and confuse
our financial calculations, Hartly was
on the, border signaling to traitors and
affording them all the aid and com
fort in his pov or, until his open acts
provoked the interference of the mil
itary authority OF his locality and his
neighbors kicked him below his spin
nal marrow or slapped his checks in
rebuke Of his meanness.
Such are the men whom Liberal
Republicans are asked to support as
an initial step towards the election of
Horace Greeley for President. A
vote for such candidates will consti-
tute political abnegation such as must
cover any man who casts it with
eternal shame. 1t will be practically
all the results OF the war for
good government, and mako prece-
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