The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-10-05
TnE GREATEST YEE.
iarlleld, the Pharisee, Put Upon the
Spit and Done to "a Turn.
Snivelins 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 Hon, JAS. A..GAnrIELp, MEMprl
| or NuN"HESS FROM ONO: have read
the speech you sent me- am aston
lShed ana shocked. As the leader OF
| your party, to whom the candidate,
have specially delegated the conduct Of
the pending campaign, you should have
met your responsibilities in very diff
lerent way. | do not presume to lecture
so distinguished man upon his errors:
put II can prevent you, even to Il small
extent, from abusing the public crcduli-
ty, it is my duty to try. Promising ngonIy
my great anxiety to preserve the fratcr.
mai relations existing between us for
many years, follow the IIoratian rule,
and come at once TO "thc middle of
things"
You trace back the origin of present
parties to thc earliest Immigration al
Plymouth and Jamestown, and profess
to find in the opposing doctrines then
planted and altcrward constantly cher
lShcd in Massachusetts and Virginia, the
germs of those ideas which now make
democracy and aboitionism the deadly
foes Of each other. The ideas 50 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
vatc judgment in politics as well as
religion. On the other hand, YOU set
forth as irreconciIably hostile the doe
trinc 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 of.
spring forever" Following these assor-
tions with others, and linking the pres
ent with the long past, you employ the
devices OF your rhetoric to gl0rify the
modern abolitionist and TO throw foul
scorn, not merely on the. southern pco-
pie, but on the whole democracy of the
country.
This looks learned and philosophical,
and it gives your speech dignity seem.
ingly above the reach of the ordinary
dcmagoguc. Happy is he who knows
WV N'''hNn vi lhlIIS0, lNllCllOuS Is llt
partisan member of congress whose
stump speech goes up the river of time
to the first 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,
extirpatcd and utterly extinguished it,
by means so 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 Quakcrs
and Catholics? How they fined i'm
prisoned, lashcd, mutiIatcd, enslaved and
banishcd everybody that claimed the
right of free thought? How they stripped
the most virtuous and inoilensive 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
fcrocity 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 uniccling
rigor with which they were executed,
made Massachusetts Odious throughout
the world
These great crimes of the Pilgrim
fathers ought not to he cast up to their
children; for some of their descendants
0 hope good majority are high-prin-
cipled and honest men, sincerely attached
to the liberal institutions planted in the
more southern ATTITUDES of the continent.
But if you are right in your assertion
that the abolitionists 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 are you more accurate in your
declaration that the old yankees planted
the doctrine of freedom and equality, or
opposed the domination of one race over
another. Messrs Palirey and Sumner
have said something to the effect that
slavery never existed in Massachusetts,
and you may have been misled by them.
But either they were wholly ignorant of
the subject, or else they spoke with that
loose and lavish unveracity which is a
common fault among men of their politi-
cal sect. The Plymouth colony and the
province of Massachusetts, bay were pro-