The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1874-11-20
rHn PARTY OF NEW IDEAS"

"High Morality, Intelligence, Pro-
gress and Civilization" and that
their platform was one of "New
Ideas"
1t will serve the purposes Of truth
to take peep at these New Ideas"
and see what gross assumption and
they are guilty Of as a par
ty.
"New Ideas !" What are they I
The traffic in, and introduction of
slavery into the South, and then at
ter pocketipg the money, abolished
slavery, by the waging of war and
impoverishing ten Of the fairest
States ia the Union. These States
overs I'm and oppressed with carpet
baggers, plunderers and illiterate
African rulers.
Other new ideas in Reconstruc-
ton measures, and the making of
State Constitutions by corn-feld me-
groes and scallawags, and the dis
Establishment Of the virtue and in
telIigence Of the South. New ideas
in investing three millions of ignor-
ant barbarians with power to bumil>
late ten millions of white men, wo-
men and children. New ideas in
the overthrow of State sovereignty
and in the Capitalization of power at
Washington. New ideas in loading
the people with crushing debt of
billions of dollars. New ideas in
hunting down innocent men 10 South
Carolina and other Southern States
as KuKlux and outlaws, and tearing
them away from their families and
homes and incarcerating them in
Northern dungeons, with their limbs
heavily ironed and manacled. New
ideas in filching from the public
treasury double-back-pay salary
grab, and the inauguration of Credit
Mobiliers, Sanborn contracts, and
Washington Rings. New ideas in
Civil Rights Bills, to legislate against
the immutable DEGREES of nature and
natures God, (which if passed will
breed violence, bloodshed, and an
archy). New ideas in trampling
the Constitution of the u. States un-
der foot and legislating beyond their
sworn oaths, and subjecting people
to oppression and insult.
All! these are "New Ideas
Ideas from which tyrants might
learn lessons Of cruelty and but lit
tie removed from the practices of a
Nero or Caligula. Ideas Of sub
version and coercion which would
have hung George Washington and
consigned Benjamin Franklin and
Thomas Jefferson to felon cells
Ideas totally inimical to Republi-
can institutions, in that it legalizes
miscegenation, substitutes military
for civil law and prolongs usurpers
and Kelloggites in power. Ideas
that emanated from brains Of fire
and hearts of hate. Ideas PROFOUND
ed by the anarchial insurrectionist,
John Brown, and taught by the
apostolic adulterous Beecher. Ideas
that have drenched the land in fra
tricidal blood, draped the country in
mourning and dotted the South with
graves of victims.
Good Lord, in future, deliver us
from such new ideas.
But they have not been without
retributive justice. John Brown
was hung for exciting negro insur-
rection. Abraham Lincoln persisted
by an assassin's bullet. Preston
King committed suicide. Thadeus
Stephens sleeps under the sod. Ger
rit Smith is demented. Jim Lane
died by his own murderous hand
Greeley, brokcn-hearted by defeat
from his own party, sleeps in an UNI
cared for and neglected grave
Sumner yielded up the ghost ere his
legacy of hate passed. Wendell
Phillips lives but to be Knocked.
Seward died an object of pity
Beecher is tormented with black
ened reputation and will 60 down to
his grave in infamy. And so on
through the catalogue of worthless
who have figured in trying to crush
out the South with "New Ideas. ~
What terrible reckoning. The
party Of hate is slowly dying, and
Grants new idea of Third Term is
killed by democratic successes
Vengeance is mine saith the Lord.