Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-05-01

| that they may be prepared the better to
lead the people to Christ; our editors send
North for the type and the presses they
use in abusing the Northern people, and
our aristoeratic leaders with Northern
hats on their heads, Northern coats on
their backs, Northern shoes on their feet,
and Northern jewelry to adorn their per-
sons, swell around, denounce the North
as Preston did, and boast of their superb
GRITTY over the statesmen of that section.
1t is time that these men stopped this
bombastic nonsense, and went to work to
improve the condition of our people by
increasing the intelligence of the masses,
thus making our section wealthy and
powerful.
CONCLUSION.
In conclusion, gentlemen of the State
Council of the Union League of America,
L beg to remind you that our organization
is a champion of the ideas that have made
the North great and powerful. We be-
lieve as do the statesmen of that section,
that cit is the undoubted right and boun-
den duty of the government to provide
for the instruction of all youth" We
hold that every one should be subject to
taxation in proportion to his property to
provide such instruction, "whether he
himself have, or have not, children to be
benefited by the education for which he
pays" We regard this as a wise and lib
eral system of policy, by which property,
and life, and the peace of society are Sc
cured. We seek to prevent, in some
measure, the extension of the penal code,
by inspiring a salutary and conservative
principle of virtue and of knowledge at
an early age. We hope to excite feel
ing of respectability and a sense of char
acter, by enlarging the capacity and in
creasing the sphere of intellectual enjoy
ment. By general instruction, we seek,
as far as possible, to purify the whole
moral atmosphere, to keep good senti-
ments uppermost, and to turn the strong
current of feeling and opinion, as well as
the censure of the law and the denuncia-
! tions of religion, against immortality and
crime. We hope for a security beyond
the law and above the law, in the preva-
lence of enlightened and well-principled
moral sentiment.
The Southern Historical Society is a
representative of the ideas of aristoeracy
;, and caste that were brought to this conti-
!. nent by the Jamestown emigrant." The
q men who control that organization seek
= to promote the interests of the aristocratic
class alone, comprising few of our peo-
;, pie; we labor to improve the condition of
all the people. They represent the aris-
tocracy-not more than one million of the
Southern people; we represent the views
of the commonality-not less than thir-
: teen million of our people. We admire
. the beauty and virtue of the women who
- belong to an elegant select society, and
the great ability that representatives of
. the aristocracy have displayed in the
= field, the cabinet and the learned profess
sions, and we should take from that class
none of its wealth; but seek to elevate
the common people to a higher plane of
- civilization. We would not, if we could,
injure the aristocracy, but we do desire to
elevate the community, that their daugh-
- ters may be more beautiful and refined,
: and their sons more highly educated and
:. better fitted to perform the duties devol-
. wing upon them. Thus will we add to
the glory of our section, thus will we add
to its wealth and power. Then will the
Southern people, the common people as
10 well as thesaristocracy, be equal to any
er peopIe on the face of the earth. This is
our mission.
III It is a noble mission! Let US enter
2 upon it with courage, knowing that we
oe are right, and that the right will triumph
III if we are true to ourselves and to this
great cause.
OF HOW Mr. BOggs ran For. office:
Boggs was as peaceable man as eve
he lived.
on He was sober, honest, and respected.
lat He had never pounded his wife.
ly Never taken any interest in dog-fght
ed Had never been known to pawn some
ne body else's watch.
gs And never had attempted to steal 8
er saw-mill.
Boggs' character was above reproach.
. He was a shining light of society.
IS All BoggsviIle looked up to and hon
ored him.
he But change came, fearful, direfu
IN change.
tn, In an evil hour Boggs accepted tn
cir nomination for constable of his nativ
es' village.
It's, Alas! poor Boggs!
ise Little did he understand the deceit an(
ee- treachery of the wicked world.
Try His eyes were soon opened, however.
The In less than a week after he was nom
pc mated the opposition had fully estab1ishe
'ge the following damaging charge agains
ore his character:
try l. That he was free lover and an il
re- ffdel.
lp- 2. That he had fed his neighbours her
IN on poisoned corn.
ant 3. That he had broken his mother-il
OF laws jaw with an iron bootjack.
to f. That he on one occasion gave
ith- whole 1rocon-los7 of qraan vvatermelol
og- to an orphan asylum.
Tor .. That he had served a term in Il
at State Prison for horse-stealing.
u Of 6. That he had set fire to his ne.
9eo- neighbor's barn, merely because he 7
ain fused to lend him hoe.
is Z. That because he found button
not his shirt he tied his wife to the bed-po;
luse and mashed in three of her ribs with t
red. stove-poker.
ver- s. That his chief Sunday amusemen
were cock-fighting and card-playing.
}. 8. That he sold his vote every ye
the regularly to the highest bidder.
ited 10. That he wasn't fit for the pls
y of anyhow.
With These charges, though without /
Hill slightest foundation, were religiously !
the lieved by the majority of the voters
9TH Boggsville.
and And Boggs' political goose was cook
lity His chances for hRino alactad were