The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-09-22
Garfield TI0yeU.

Judge Black is always forcible and
sparkling, but his letter to General Gar
field will be deemed especially so by at
least the Democratic portion of the peo-
Die, who will thoroughly enjoy the clear
Dreseutation of the historical facts that
prove their party to have been the Jealous
guardian of the union of the states, as
sailed 10y the canting Republican hypo-
critics, whose devotion to libir:y sla-
very. union or disunion, was but ques-
ton of profit or loss. General Garfield
delivered himself of an elaborate speech
i'm Congress, intended for campaign cir
culation, in which he Orazenly undertook
to picture the Abolitionists, who gave
origin to the Republican party, as the
friends, and the Democracy the foes,
of the union aud of liberty. This was too
much for Judge Blnck's phlegm and he un-
dertakes to show General Garfield that
things were not as they seemed to be to
him, or at least as lie pretended they
seemed. 1t will be the general belief
that if Garfield is not historically instructed
by the perusal Of Judge Blacks letter.. it
will be because his mind Is not just now
susceptible to the plainest demonstration.
If General Garfield does not realize that he
has misconceived the facts of history, GER
taiuly the intelligent people of the coun-
try, to whom he addI essed his misrepre
SentittiOn. Will see lndt foiacK mas
completely exposed the disingenousness
of the attempt to show the Abolitionist to
have been "a patriot and the Democrat a
traitor. Under the judges handling of
history these parties change places, and it
will trouble Gen. GaIf field exceedingly to
show fallacy i'll his argument or an error
in his facts.
The letter Of Judge Black will reach
him to day in Indiana, where he delivers
once more his congressional speech it will
he laid in pamphlet form before the au-
dience that he addresses, SO that with the
bane they will get the antidote. AS re-
suit we may expect that Gen Garfield will
lay up bis speech in lavender for the rest of
the political season. 1t would never do
for him to essay to speak before an audi
ence that had read Judge Blacks reply.
1t is very embarrassing to tell lies before IA
people who are able TO recognize them.
They do not like it, and are apt to make it
uucomfei table for the orator who under
takes to impose on them.
In the opening pages of his letter, Judge
Black crue lily entertains himself with show
ing the devotion of the original New Eng
landers to slavery, and how they traded
their Indian cdptives for more servicea Die
negI oes how, too, they went to war with
the Indians that they might make ''gayne-
ful pilladge,' by securing .'stock Of
slaves" in their prisoners; and how, fur
thermore, they demonstrated their peculiar
devotion to Liberty by whipping women
and banishing men of heterOdoX religious
opinions. The germ of this idea of liberty,
the judge remorselessly suggests, blossomed
famously among the radical leaders when
they undertook in our day to kidnap aud
imprison thousands OF citizens for eXercis
ing the freedom Of speech, which was their
constitutional right.
Judge Black, not content with showing
the canting hypocrisy of the Abolitionist's
love Of liberty, demonstrates his love of the
Union to have been equally hollow and
meTcenary. Before the war of 1912, New
England was intent upon dissolving the
Union, because of its supposed injury to
her commercial prosperity, and the Hart
ford convention III the war OF 1912 would
have done the work had it not been for the
early and successful closing of the contest
by the victory of New Orleans and the
treaty Of Client. Even up to the outbreak
Of our civil war, the Abolitionists of the
East were constantly calling for the dis
solution OF the Union, because of the main
tenauce i'll it of slavery, which was no
longer beautiful in their eyes because it
had ceased to be profitable on their soil.
Tear down the Haunting lie" was cry
which greeted us from these people up to
the time that the war opened and it only
tben ceased because it became prUfita BILE TO
he loyal.
The devotion of the Democratic party
of the North To the Cuion, Judge Black
shows, never wavcrcd. Its only demand
was That the war should he prosecuted
solely for the restoration of he Unicn and
to secure its cooperation Congress solemn
ly pledged itself tIa. this should be its sole
object. That pledge was broken the gov
orning party has since been guilty of the
basest crimes against popular liberty aud
Judge Black dcduces natural sequence
the rOttenuess which permeates it. OF this
lie speaks with fer,or. "You may take
the roitenest monarchy in Europe, go over
its history for hundred years, and pro
duce the worst acts you can tihd of fraudu-
lent spoiation upon its people, and if 90
not fiiid something worse committed here
under the auspices of the party now in
power. | will give up the case" Again,
declaring that Scott Lord in his Beiknap
speech did not attempt to whitewash the
administration, he puugently avows, ''if be
bad meant to do 50 he could not have sue
ceeded. for there was not wash enough
III his bucket to go over the twenty uhorIs-
. and,h part Of the Job - which is saving a
good co;sl, but all the people will think is
saying just the truth.
Judge Black S letter is not revelation .
II is simply relation. 1t is a presen,a A.
ti'n in an admirably clear and forcible way
ot well known facts of history. whose iuxta-
position is a sledSe hammer demolition of
NcpublIcan pretension to be the exponent
Of all the loyal and liberty-loving sentiment
( iii the natiOu.-L0ncaSt6r I4teEiqencer.
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JUDGE BLACK's OPEN LETTER. The
open letter OF Judge Black. Of PenusyIva
MIA, to General Garfield, of Clio, which we
pilnt this morning, is simply awful He