Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-10-10
Political.

The following resolutions have been
prepared for the benefit OF Greeley
meetings:
WHEREAS, The millennium has dawn
ed, and the wolf is lying down with the
lamb, and the lion is eating straw like
On OK, and the abolitionists march un-
der the same flag, and the radicals and
rebels walk arm in arm, and the free
traders and protec,ionists are cheek by
jowl. aud 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 aud ride a
straddle, and everything is lovely and
the goose is suspended in a superior
altitude; therefore
Rcsolved, LIST. That, inasmuch as
the time has come for all men to eat
dirt and turn soncrsaults, and no man
thinks what he says, or believes what
he thinks, We unanimously recognize
the absolute equality Of men, including
negroes, women and Chinese; that we
believe q mules ears are a. short as a
horses, and that leopard can change
his spots, and that the negro is a man
and brother and have always favored his
admission to the ballot box, we now
welcome him to the social circle, hav-
ing something of an idea that all tho
world was born a monkey, that things
were not what they used to be, and that
there is a great deal Of upside-down-
ness and downsidc upwardness, aud q
bewildered mixed-up-ativeness general
~.
Re.olred, I'd. That, being in great
doubt whether the rebellion failed or
succeeded, and not being certain wheth-
er Grant or Lee surrendered at Apo
mattox, and being Of the opinion that
the South was either right or wrong,
and the North was either wrong or
right. aud that neither was either to
hurt, we are unanimously in favor Of
letting by-gones be by.gones, Of bury
ing the stars and stripes in the same
grave with the stripes and bars, Of mix
ing three parts Of "Dixie with one
part of " Yankee Doodle" and of mar
rying the Union eagle to the rebel buz-
zard.
RESOLVED, Sd, That, as liberal party,
we aver liberality 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 NO.
men, criticising no ones opinion and no
ones actions; pardoning an occasional
clean shirt and washed face; neither
averring that there is y heaven nor
denying that there is 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 let
ting 60 with the other.
Resolved 18th, That the Constitution
as it is is better than the Constitution as
it was; that the Bible is all very we'll
in its place, but the book Of Mormon is
newer and writings Of Coofucius older,
and every man is master Of his own
conscience and conduct, and has right
to maxe a God to suit himself; that
free whiskcy and universal salvation
will make earth a paradise and heaven
certainty; but that, nevertheless, all
things are turned round and the times
arc out Of JOINT, every straight road il
crooked and the world turns backward
on its axis, men walk zigzag and their
brains are topsy turvey, the world is all
bewitched, aud women is the coming
man.
Resozocd, 5tt, That inasmuch as
Judas 1scariot, though once wicked
man, afterwards became an apostle and
inasmuch as Benedict Arnold shed blood
for American liberty, and inasmuch as
Jeff Davis was not nominated, we are
heartily in favor of Horace Greeley,
believing as we do that democracy is
not dead but slecpcth, and that all
roads from Greeley 80 to Grant; that
Greeley was an orig inal abolitionist and
an aboriginal seccssionist; that the
abolitionists and scccssionists work to
the same end, and their combination is
only renewal Of past cooperation.
CHARLES XIV, the King Of Sweden
and Norway, who died on "Wednesday
night was 46 years Of age. In 1857,
owing to his fathers illness, he became
Regent. and continued to act us such
until King Oscars death, in 1859.
when he ,cceeded to the throne. King