The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-02-11
"Can the Ethiopian Change his
Skin?o

olitionist, died in . billiard room
abroad, whore he was representing the
revolutionary government that had
just promoted and rewarded him.
Gerritt Smith, another, fled into lu.
natic asylum through fear of violated
law, and the gallows. John Brown,
the saint martyr and murderer, the
fanatic fool and tool of others not lesa
criminal than himself, hung on a cross.
tree alone, where should have cluster
ed q score Of similar celebrities.
Henry Ward Beecher has eentempla-
ted suicide and the question now is
whether the country aud Plymouth
Church would not have profited had
he consunated his purpose before a
Sharp's rifle was ever sent to Kan sas
or nest-hiding became . sacrsment.-
1 Lincoln fell in q theatre, in bloody
conformity to the times he had inau-
gurated, and as proof that somebody
F"was hurt" Horace Greeley. who, as
supreme editor of evil, asked my SUBJ
scription and received it; but who
mistook his figures in summing up his
collected merits and asked my vote
and did not got it; died as the fool
dies, of the silliest wound, when he
should have felt thankful that there
were yet some remains of retributivc
justice among men. Benjamin Frank
lin Wade ia waiting on the votes of
the Giddings district, and keeps guard
over the several arsenals of arms
/ which himself and the John Brown
family failed to get to Harper's Ferry
in. time to squelch out the last of the
.Washingtons. Verify, Garfield is his
reward The Stows-the world has
not yet decided which Of the crops,
LADY Byron Vindicated," "Uncle
Toms Cabin" or her lemons in Flori-
da, 10 the sourest.-Then there are
others; writsrs, a. Garrison and Hell
per; judges, a. Cartier, Leavitt, and
Durell ;counsellors, as Riddle, Parsons
and Garfield purse holders.t turn keys
and caitiffs; but . short article may not
descend to notice them further than
to cay, that they all float in q CORES
ponding medium Of organic dissolu-
ton and putrefsction, which Carlyle,
when responding to the inflated invi-
tation Of the n. Y. Tribune, in the
outset Of the late war, mildly or ma
liciously defined Shooting Niagara"
They compose q procession, which,
L n N inn in hA
of the elder Adams, received acces-
sions from anti Masonry and Know
nottingham. They were drilled in the
illumiDations of the greasy Wide
lawakes-were marshalled uuder Lin
coin into vandals of ruin, and are now
quartered on the North and South as
Grants minute men. They all, from
the least to the greatest, are trying 10
look like the pictures of Washington
when he was serving his country at
his own expense, and their wives (if
they keep any have peculiar resem-
blance to Aunt Martha. They hold
Reunions frequently to remind the
Grangers who feed and c!othe them
and pay their bills, that next to the
glory of plunder, is the honor of work
ing IA hours day to create things to
be plundered. They hold commits
sIons, al ttbitQM, al nauScuh,, from
every head-center of political effiuyia
and disease known to the land preyi-
Gus to 1850, and from tho administra-
tion authorities since. They all ex-
pect 10 make page in history yet,
and claim TO be "marchiug on" after
John Browns soul. The good every
where pray they may overtake it, and
abide forever afiectienately in its
warm embrace.
s. And these arc they who gained cred
1t enough to involve a glorious and
prosperous republic in civil war, at
the risk OF its dissolution, and the es-
Enlistment of Eastern despotism.
Those are they who have tora down
our ancient altaTs, and put out their
fires. Such are the names that have
sGpplsnted the ancestral trainers of the
constitution and have denounced their
work as "a covenant with death and
league with HE'LL Such are the men
who said: 'let the negro vote and
Congress will be done with all its
troubles, and the country will be at
peace" to rsa
Z" Harrassod and importuned, the
country at length yielded-the strife
/ intensihcd-not war OF 60 days, but
a war Of years came, and it is not cer-
tainly ended yet. The freedman votes
aud now where is the fulfi lment of the
PROMISE? Who're is the feast that
was to be set before ns3 Shall the
people, ike the BARRIERS sixth broth err,
say the bread is white and sweet, the |
rayouts delicious, and that the fruits
and wine are capital, when no servants
sppear with anything and will they i
weary their jaws with eating aud |
drinking only in idea, merely 10 fur
nish amusement to bloated aud stuffed
Barna.les? Where are tho Bless
ings? Arc they never 10 be tasted 4? |
How long will the people be willing
to be mocked? Is it proved that a |
negro and white man will ever live |
together in political and social equali-
tv! Ii not, when is ii supposed it |
will be proved? What suds will do |
1t, and what the ingredients What
problems are solved and what new
ones have arisen? Whose sons live
like princes. and whose daughters
wear $30O,OO0 necklaces? Who are !.
they that affect the simplicity and no.
bility of Washington. W hen surround
ing and arranging themselves in all