Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-10-13
"THE WIDOW MAKER OF THE
18TH CENTURY,"

The democracy of this city advertised
as their principle speaker last Friday
evening P. V. Deuster, of Milwaukee.
He did not come, but it was not the fault
of the democratic managers here. For
the benefit of those who may not know
the antecedents of this man Deuster we
give one or two extracts from the Mil
waukee Seebote, paper edited and own
ed by Deuster during the war, and owned
by him still. The loyal potion of the
democracy of this city must feel sense
of relief at Deuster's failure to connect.
His presence would have disgraced them
and the city. The republican party may
have its faults but we have yet to here Of
its honoring man who has such damn
able record as the traitor Deuster.
On the 18th of September 1864-the
darkest days of the rebellion-The See
bote, published at the head of it's columns
an abominable caricature of the homely
though kindly features of Abraham Lin
coin, and below it published the following
articles written by Deuster:
You men must look steadily at this
gallows-bird and hang-dog face, which
you ought/to keep away from the eyes of
your wives in order that they may not
miscarry. There is fearful record in this
face In it was written: "Thus looked
a tyrant" And this is the portrait of
the presidential candidate Of the Adolf
ton party. The soul of the candidate
is as black as the party. Yes, look close
ly at this face. Study it, and you will
find the key to all the deeds which this
creature, who claims to be entitled to the
name of man, has committed during the
last three years. Look closely at this
face; for you cannot find another like it
if you hunt through the photographs in
| all the penitentiaries and bridewells. And
when you have looked at and studied
this face closely, you will no longer won
| der why the heart bleeds when it wan
ders over the ruins which Abraham Lin
coin has piled up during three years and
half: you will nc longer be surprised
that the eye fills with tears when
it gazes upon the hundreds and thousands
whom Abraham Lincoln has murdered,
the blood that he has shed, the hearth
stones which he has desolated, the wo-
men whom he has deprived of husbands,
the children whom he has torn from
fathers, the people whom he has dishonor-
ed, the laws which he has broken the
Constitution which he has trodden under
foot, the need and unutterable misery
which he has brought upon unc0unted
thousands. Fanaticism, lust for blood,
tyranny, contempt of every better, noble
feeling and honest shame, evil cunning,
trickery, and craft,-in a word, the inn
print Of the demon looks at yon from this
face. Keep this picture as a remem-
brance for your descendants, and also as
a frightful warning for Them since it will
tell them Of their folly when they chose
an Abraham Lincoln president of the
United States.
In another place The Seebote gives the
following remark Of the traitor Brick
Pomeroy: "And, if Lincoln is elected
in order to play the buffoon for another
year, then we trust that some bold hand
will pierce his heart with a dagger for
the public good" But The Seebote adds
to the above words the following of its
Own:
Strong doctrine! And yet when one
thinks how many thousands of men this
Lincoln has unnecessarily and criminally
led to the slaughter! VIII Gods wrath
impose him for four years longer on this
sorely prosecuted country?
Such things were printed and written
by Deuster the 18th of September, 1864.
against the noble Lincoln under the head
ing ''The Widow-Maker of the Nineteenth
Century"
Seven months later, on the fourteenth
Of April, 1865, the glorious reelected
Lincoln fell, as these traitors wished, by
the arm Of the assassin.
During the war there were few m en-
in WatertoWn who subscribed to senti-
ments similar to the above, but they were
abhorred by nearly every one, democrats
as well as republicans. Has the demo-
cracy here undergone a change since '64?
Are the loyal members of that party will
ing to accept the teachings Of class of
men who were capable of uttering such
traitorous, barbarous language as the
above? Evidently the democratic mana
gers thought so, else why the attempt to
secure Deuster for speech last Friday
evening.