The daily gazette., 1875-04-24
Sublime "Ifnpudicity."

This last term is an invention of Il.
W. Beecher, and though it at first
struck us as quite absurd, it certainly
is appropriate to the great "Centen-
nial" doings at Concord and Lexington
this week. Think Of it! Grant and
Hoar, and the carpet-bag Chamberlain
and their crowd, insulting the memor-
les and desecrating the graves of the
sterling patriots of 1775, who shed their
blood and gave their lives for the
sacred right of Massachusetts to gov
ern itself and to manage its own af-
fairs! Even .hose wretched liars, hy-
pocritca and hun y igs dare not say the
CONGO I'd and Lex'u', .ou men shed their
blood for the "Upion," for there was
no Union, nor for the Republic, for no
such thing existed then, nor even to
abolish slavery" for the martyrs of
ITS, these very men of Concord and
Lexington, were then busily engaged
in the slave trade" and most of the
wealth their descendants now enjoy
had its origin in the negro service
sold TO the men in the South! They
fought for self-government, for the
natural right of governing their own
affairs, for the people of Massachusetts,
to rule themselves instead of being
| forced to pay taxes and submit to the
rule of Englis' ncn. 1t was not pre-
tended that England oppressed them
Jerwise, or practiced on them other
wite, or practiced on them any high
er law" such as Russia or Turkey, or
ch as Abe L icoln end Seward and
Grant aud their crowd have practiced
| on millio Is of Americans since. 1t w-s
simply and solely question of taxa
tion, clail ed by British Parliament
ld rejected by the people of Massa-
| chusetts, unless represented in that
Parliament, and instead of any princi'
pie of Democracy or Kepublicanisln
or freedom being in :ssre, even now,
hund ed years after, tlere are few in
deed, if any people in that State, capa'
BILE of comprehel ding it. The South
ern, and, to large exte the peo le
OF the Middle States, fought for 1. ee
com, for Democrecj for new civ.iiz
| Ion, for that, in short, which the Nir
ginia mind afterwa ds, under the lead
of Jefferson, gave such grand devel
opn 1t to, and which existed in its
grandeur and bene1c4 ce u Ill the ia
tai advent of Abe Lilco.n and the rule
of Massachusetts.
Massachusetts, fought for independ
ence, and that alone, and scarcely was
it accomplished when she set to work
to found New England, or modified
Britishism, that should enable her Il
rule the rest of the country, and fail
ing in this, was always disaffected tc
the government established, never hav
ing furnished a solitary soldier o
spent dollar in its defense, and tianal
ily, plunglng the country into civi
war, she was first in the field, and il
1861 shed the first blood to strike dow
self-government in South Carolin
thus exactiv reversing her own wOrl
Of 1775,- when she so nobly shed he
} blood to uphold that glorious right Il
Massachusetts, But the cases, afte
all, are not quite parallel, for in trut
I the wrong inflicted by England,
continued century, would not equa
one day Of the enormous and unprc
4 nounceable wrongs inflicted by Gran
g Co. on South Carolina. Look at tn
q facts--the English Parliament take
l. the Concord and Lexington men will
out representation. Will any man i
, all this broad land deny that Congre.
has taxed South Carolina for ten yea
past, or say that South Carolina-tl
. real people-the descendants of tho'
= who fought side by side with Massach
sets in 1776-have had any represe
tation in that Congress ? But this
Grant and Massachusetts sent an arm
!, there to protect and uphold the vile
Il scum ever known among white me
J. while they, using the miserable neg
D. barbarians as their tools, 60 throul
ii the forms of law and plunder the pc
IS, pie of their property, and at the sar
40 time do their utmost to corrupt the
- wretched creatures, so that even in t
~ future social order shall become i
ne possible. No-there is no parable
70 nor anything but absolute lunacy,t ,tt
r. can explain the unutterable crimes
ly Grant & Co., and that precious croN
now showing their nakedness, withc
even the capacity of shame, at Coneo
and Lexington. day Book.