The Osceola times., 1876-09-30
THE GREATEST YET.
darfield, the Pharisee, Put Upon the
Spit and Done to Turn.
Snlveling Hypocrisy and Lying Pa.
triotism Exposed and
Smashed.
Secession an Original Product of New
England Cupidity.
Some Account of the Puritan Slave
Drivers and Slave
Traders.
A Terrible Arrangement of Republi-
can Rascals, Cheats and
Shams.
JUDGE BLACKS OPEN LETTER.

To Hos. JAS. A..GARrIELD, MEMBER
OF CONGRESS FROM ONO: have read
the speech you sent me. am aston
ished and shocked. As the leader of
your party, to whom the candidates
have specially delegated the conduct of
the pending campaign, you should have
mot your responsibilities in very diff.
ierent way. do not presume to lecture
so distinguished a man upon his errors /:
but If can prevent you, even to small
extent, from abusing the public creduli-
ty, 1t is my duty TO try. Promising only
my great anxiety to preserve the frater-
nal relations existing between us for
many years, | follow the Horatian rule,
and come at once to the middle Of
things"
You trace back the origin of present
parties to the earliest immigration at
Plymouth and jamestown, and profess
to find in the opposing doctrines then
planted and afterward constantly cher
ished in Massachusetts, and Virginia, the
germs of those ideas which now make
democracy and abolitionism the deadly
foes of each other. The ideas so planted
in Massachusetts were, according to
your account, the freedom and equality
of all races, and the right and duty
OF every man TO exercise his pri.
vate judgment in politics as well as
religion On nih.e~.hcr1 errJ- uov.
trine Of Virginia, that capital should
own labor, that the negro had no rights
of manhood, and that the white man
might buy, own and sell him and his off
spring forever" Following these asser-
tions with others, and linking the pres
ent with the long past, you employ the
devices of your rhetoric TO glorify the
modern abolitionist and TO throw foul
scorn, not merely on the southern peo-
pie, but on the whole democracy of the
This looks learned and philosophical,
and it gives your speech dignity SEEM
ingly above the reach of the ordinary
demagoguc. Happy is he who knows
the causes of things; felicitous is the
partisan member of congress whose
stump speech goes up the river of time
to the 6rst fountain of good and evil.
But your contrast of historical facts is
open to one objection, which give you
in form as simple as possible when say
that it is wholly destitute of truth.
This, of course, implies no imputation
on your good faith. Your high charac-
ter in the church, as well as the state,
forbids the belief that you would be
guilty of willful Misrepresentation.
TOLERANCE IN NEW ENGLAND.
The men of Massachusetts, so far from
planting the right of private judgment,
extirpated and utterly extinguished it,
by means 80 cruel that no man OF COM
mon humanity can think of them even
now without disgust and Indignation.
am surprised TO find you ignorant of
this. Did you never hear OF the fright
full prosecutions they carried on system
atically against Baptists and Quakers
and Catholics? How they fined, i'm
prisoned, lashed, mutilated, enslaved and
banshed everybody that claimed the
right of free thought? How they stripped
the most virtuous and inofiensive wo-
men, and publicly whipped them ON
their naked backs, only for expressing
their conscientious convictions? Have
you never, in all your reading, met with
the story of Roger Williams? For
merely suggesting to the public authori-
ties of the colony that no person ought
to be punished on account of his honest
opinions, he was driven into the woods
and pursued ever afterwards with n
ierocity that put his own life and that
of his friends in constant danger. In
fact, the cruelty of their laws against the
freedom of conscience and the unfeelng
rigor with which they were executed
made Massachusetts, odious throughout
the world
These great crimes of the Pilgrim
fathers ought not to be cast up to their
children; for some of their descendants
q hope good majority are high-prIn
cipled and honest men, sincerely attached
to the liberal institutions planted in th,
more southern ATTITUDES of the continent
But if you are righ: in your assertion
that the abolitionsts derive their prin
ciples from the ideas entertained and
planted at Plymouth, that may account
for the coarse and brutal tyranny with
Which your party has, in recent times
trampled upon the rights Of free thought
and free speech.
SLAVERY IN MASSACHUSETTS.
Nor arc you more accurate in you
declaration that the old yankees plante,
the doctrine of freedom and equality, a
opposed the domination of one race over
another. Messrs Palfrey and Sumner
have said something to the effect tina
slavery never existed in Massachusetts,
anu YOU may have been misled by them
But either they were wholly ignorant o
the subject, or else they spoke with tina
loose and lavish unveracity which is |
common fault among men of their politi
cal sect. The Plymouth colony and th'
province of Massachusetts, bay were pro