The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-09-17
FRANK nAGGETT'S OPINION OF
THE ANTI.NIONOPOLI

that differences ofsopinion can only De
discussed with fisticuffs and kicks.
There should be something better in
journalistic encounters than the mule
argument.
He SAYS we blush as we quote it:
Donnelly:s paper is getting a largecircula-
ton and promises to prove profitable H.
vestment He sdraws" as well in bis role
of Journalist as he has heretofore on the
stump or in the lecture-room. We find
many things.in his paper to commend, and
many others to cendemn
1t is = singular paper. as unlike other
Journals as DonneIly is unlike other men.
It is in the strictest sense personal jaurnai,
bearing the impress OF its editors peculiar
genius 1t is brimtull of fight and fun, and
bristles all over with invectlye and ridicule
of the editors personal enemies and Is as
dangerous plaything as porcupine. 1t Is
always erudite humorous, sareasticand gen.
orally logical: It will accomplish some
good, but we very much fear THAT II wall OIL
set that good by an equal amount OF EARN
He then continues:
In almost every column you can read the
deter1ninat on of Mr.. Donnelly TO over
throw and ruin the Republican party, no
matter what may come after. II breathes
hostility 10 every Republican measure,
hostility bitter as death and as uncompro-
missing as fate. The very principles that
Mr.. Donnelly once advocated on the stump
with all the power of his brilliant eloquenoe,
it denounees most fervently, making up in
vigoc what its arguments may lack IN Iogl-
cal trnth.
Now, Frank, is this fair What
principle that VIC advocated in the old
days, save and except the one questioa
of Protection, have we ever deserted !!
We opposed slavery. The whole world
opposes it to-day. We favored the
suppression of the rebellion. Who to-
day does not! We were ia favor of re-
construction upon basis of justice and
equal rights--alike for the white mas
ter and his former slave. Who takes
issue with that to.dayl No one. But
who could have foreseen that nation
al administration would, for party pur-
poses, have encouraged robbery and
fraud, using the negroes as tools, and
South is swept bare and desolate as if
occupied, for generation, by Calmuck
Tartars
Was this the natural outcome Of the
mild and generous doctrines of Seward.
Chase and Lincolnl Did the doves
egg Of justice breed such scorpions as
Bullock, Moses aud Pinchback 4? No.
1t was your Grant and his satellites
Matched them outk And if we preached
liberty for the black man with what
you are pleased to GAIL; eloauence; if
we labored to lift him up and make a
man of hing shall We NOT labor with
co ual zeal to defendAo ahhite breth-
eren from the calatnities which have
come upon them IKE flames from
heaven $500
God forbid that we should ive the 4
allotted span Of life in this world, sees
ing all these things, and not strive to
make that South prosperous, hsppy,
enlightened, as in our own North. But
it will be, by first removing from her
throat the vampires now sucking out
her life-blood. Fancy State with
hundred McIlraths, Munches, See
CARS and Joe Wheelocks, backed up by
vast horde of ignorant voters who
are mere unthinking, unquestioning
tools in their hands! Fancy Minnesota
given over to such gang! Our pros
perity disappearing under the tax-gath-
erers hammer our prosperity swal-
lowed up in sea Of minute. Would
we not be turbulent! Would not you.
Frank, as you did years ago, shoulder
your musket to defend your rights. All
that is man in you would cry out for
justice. And if Grant marched in ne
groes from the South, to compel obedi-
ence, while the McIlraths and Munches-
continued the work of plumber, would
you submit
No. We must cry peace, peace to
the embittered races. We must drive
off the blood-suckers. We must pro.
tect black and white from each other.
We must cause industry to revive; for
from that shall flow prosperity and
from that contentment, and from that
peace: and from that love.
| This is our reconstruction.
What say you, Frank, will you come
in and help US in the great work We
cannot promise you perfect party; We
cannot promise that we will all be above
greed and Selfshness: but at. least we
will work towards the right: we will
strive to advance the interests of our
country and of mankind.
You fought to save your country.
You do not want to see it wrecked on
the shoals of corruption. And whittier
is it going now with Ben. Butler on the
quarter deck, and Bill King at the
helm
Come up to the help of the Lord
against the mighty.
ST. CLOUD is to lave new Democratic