The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-11-15
Good Reading for Nationals,

we confess that the election return:
OF last Tuesday are lot prolific of con
ISOLATION to our National friends, but We
cannot say we are sorry. On the con
trary we are rather glad aud hope the y
will now take time to think the Ut atte,
over candidly, not only the matter OF
finance of which they have talked so
freely, but OF Nationalism, Butlerism.
keaTneyism, &C., in its entirety. And
with view of assisting them in this
matter we invite their attention to the
little moroccan below. 1t will be use
less to evade the matter by saying 1--WE
do not believe or endorse such doc
triDes, for while we believe that but
few who formerly acted with either of
the old parties really do SO, yet such is
the dictum of their leaders, their rec
ognized champions, and they may as
we'll realize at once that the party, if it
had ever come into power. would have
been run upon the principles of those
who controlled it. On Boston Com
mon, on Saturday night last, Butler
meeting was held, at which Dennis
Kearney was the Speaker. This Cali
fornia Spawn of al the Socialistic isms
that involve disruption of society
and the overthrow of all property
rights, introduced the following reso
lutiops, and the crowd which heard
them endorsed them. Read them:
Resotced, That any manufacturer, capi-
talist, or minion of the money-power, who
attempts to influence his employees, or those
under him, to vote against General Butler,
shall be suspended by the neck until he is dead.
ResOICed, That the hour has come when
extreme measures must be resorted to;
and that as the majority of the voters of
the State are known to be in favor of the
election, as Governor, of the friend of the
people, General Butler, if our candidate is
defeated, we, the workingmen of Boston,
and the State of Massachusetts, knowing
that he can only be defeated by unlawfnl
means, shall tnen unfurl the red flag of
revolution, kill and destroy the mInions
of capital, and free the people from ty-
ranny, as the fathers did in 1776
ReS0lUed, That we now organize into a
police force to protect the ballOt-bOx and
the rights of our fellow men; and that we
stand ready, on election day, to take the
life of any man, be he United States Su-
pervisor or any other officer, who attempts
to debar voters from exercising the right
Of suffrage
ResOsred, That as we, the workingmen,
are in the majority, we shall inaugurate
our candidate despite the frauds attempted
by our enemies. though the streets run
with blood and hell itself boil over; and
for the support of this declaration, with a
firm reliance on the protection of Divine
Providence, we mutually pledge 10 each
U;hcT Our lives, our fortunes and our sa-
cred honor.
Now we have too much confidence
in the good intentions of tine large
majority of those who profess Nation
alism to believe they would endorse
any such wild folly. But they cannot
control the purpose of the leaders, and
they owe it to themselves to cut loose
from an organization whose leaders
give vent to such repulsive teachings.
Those who first inspired the French
revolution, never dreamed of the ex
cesses to which it was carried under
Robespierre, Dauton and Marat; they
only fired the fuse which led to the
mine of gunpowder. Be careful, that
you are not one who fires the fuse