National Republican., 1878-05-23
THE CHTsOLM oBsEoUIEs.
The Doctrine of Total Depravity Illustrated
by the Democracy.


wAsHISGToN, ID. G., May %, 1873.
To the Editor ofhe National Republican:
Sir The doctrine Of the total depravity Of
the human race, caused by the fall Of Adam,
has been strcnuously denied, and lattcrly stall
wart "Pagans' like Bob, ,Iugersoll and some
of tho more prominent and advanced Christian
preachers have denied the existence Of place
designed for the eternal punishment Of the
wicked. without intending to enter into the
illogical discussions II eau hardly be denied by
any one who read the Democratic organ to-day
that total depravity must exist, and that II
there Is no hell there should be one for the
punishment OF SO vile slanderer rs the writer
Of the article entitled "Gil. Haven's Her
| archy."
The hyena among animals and tho ghoul
among tho creations Of imagination have
been described as descending into the grave
and preying upon the bodies Of the dead,
and both have boon used as synonyms for
tho most dotcstablo of the creations of ma
ture or fancy. The Democratic organ has
united their supposed characteristics and
added to them those Of Ananias and Sapphira
In its attack upon the ashes Of the late Judge
Chisolm.
1t takes the opportunity offered by tho SOL
emn ceremony, not heretofore performed and
not permitted by the political associates Of the
organ, whore the bodies Of Judge Chisolm and
| his murdered children were committed to the
earth, not only TO attack him In the grave TO
which he was consigned by tho foulest muir
derers who have ever disgraccd the earth since
| the days when another bowling mob like 1t,
! shouted In the streets of Jerusalem "crucify
| Him, cruelty Him." but to vilify and abuse the
| Republicans of tho South, men "the latchets OF
whose shoes such sanderers thoy Of tho
organ are unfit to loose"
The charge that Judge Chisolm or any other
Republican In the South ever melted negroes
| to commit rapcs and other crimes" IL so in
famous n falschood that 1t brands its author rs
one who would bo guilty Of that or any other
| crime, no matter how hideous or fearful, that
| ho might consider necessary to further his
ends 1t marks his total depravity. and makes
him an object Of loathing and scorn for every
decent man In any community.
Language fails to express the contempt that
should be visited upon the man who could be
guilty Of so foul aud Infamous o statement
which this organ denominates "a historical
fact" There arc numbers of decent men,
gentlemen In the Democratic party, and they
should 'spue OUT this unccan hyona rs dis
grace, not only to their party, but to the hu-
man racs, whose semblance 1t Is supposed to
wear. They should protest against being
made responsible, oven by silence, for the dirty
emanatiOns that come like the exhnlations of a
manure heap from this organ" of the Demo-
cratic party.
The rawlings of a luuatic aro harmless, be-
cause we know that reason has been de-
throned; but the deliberate expressions of the
sentiments quoted from the organ" unless de-
MED and repudiated might, when tho charac-
ter of the uttercr Is unknown, be regarded as
true and In time be accepted as historical
facts This makes it a duty to brand these
utterances rs being false Us the father Of lies
himself
The time will come when Justice will be
done to the Republicans of the South. To day
It Is fashionable to SANDER and ignore them,
but future history will show that to them the
South owes all the progress 1t has made sipce
1t emerged, crushed and poverty stricken, from
the war of the rebellion. The hundred thou
sand FREQ school.houses dottng tho hills and
wales Of the South, many Of them made habi-
tations for bats and owls by the Democracy,
stand as q monument, prouder In its proper
tions than the grandest structure Of ancient or
modern times to the Republicans of the South.
The thousands Of miles of railroads that trav-
erse the country In every direction, tho shrill
| whistles of the locomotives on which wakcn
I, the soil and make II teen with riches, are an
other of the monuments of Southern Republi.
cans These will speak their praises and send
} their names down the corridors of time" rs
the civilizers Of the South when such SANDER.
crs as the organ" will be known as tho vile
aud poisonous toad that squatted upon the
: graves of the murdered and spit its venom al
|
inc to exist.
Other monuments, mournful ones, exist tC
{ attest tho fidelity to principle, tho bravery
{ the sclf.dovoton of Southern Republicans
Thousands, yes, tens of thousands of namcles.
graves, where repose the bones of mon, Rcpub
licans, white and black, who have died In the
r vain effort to establish free thought, free
speech, and free labor in the South, will tell tC
the future OF what material Southern Rcpub
licans were made. Broken homes and shat
, tered households, from which men, women
: and children arc sent forth wanderer
. upon the face Of the earth, speak loudly o
what Southern Republicans were and how they
I have been treated.
Neither the lying of Democrats nor the COW
ardce of some Northern Republicans can de
tract from the namo which the Republicans o
: the South have built for themselves. The Ad
s ministration which they placed in power niay
: turn from them and help to place the heel O
their enemy upon their PROSTATE heads. Tn,
men they have put aud kept in Office may
II fawn upon their prosecutors and murderers
- Lying scribes like the 'organ" may slaude
the living and defame the dead, but "the blooC
i of the martyrs is the seed Of the church" an,
c when such slanderers as the Organ" and suc
n Republicans us by their acts endorse 1t hav
. passed into the limbo forgetfulncss, the Repub
: licans of the South will stand iu history as.t
i noblcst excmplars of men battling for freedom
n aud principle since the days when the Huge
nOts of France followed the white plume Q
Henry Of Navarro, or fell in tho massacre
e, Saint Bartholomew, victims to o fanaticisI
IS aud tyranny that is lighted up into freedor
n and peace, when compared with that whic
has for tho time crushed the Republicans q
)i the South.
D. Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet the
grind exceeding small,
Though with patience stands the waiting, with ei
N acnCss grinds lie ALL"
re And we are willing to wait for history
Ia tell the story, but must always be ready |
~ meet aud reiute such ISLANDERS as the organ
l. is guilty OF, in any and every way as is you
y correspondent.
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