Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-10-19

fore me misunderstanding desertion of
political friends, denunciation, labor,
sacrifice and perhaps political suicide.
Could not action be deferred and yet
the danger be averted ? Self wished
it so, but duty was impatient and mex
orable Finally l was compelled to
ask with Patrick Henry, "Shall we
gather strength by irresolution and in
action Shall we acquire the means
of effeetual resistance by lying supine-
ly on our backs and hugging the delu-
sive phantom of hope until our enemies
shall have bound US hand and foot !?
There is no retreat but in
submission and slavery. Our chains
are forged. The war is inevitable and
let it come. l repeat it, let it come
1t is vain to extenuate the matter.
Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but
there is no peace. The war has actu-
ally begun. Why stand we here idle ?
What is it that the gentlemen wish ?
What would they have? Is life so
dear or peace so sweet as to be pur-
chased at the price of chains and slave.
ry? Forbid it, Almighty God /
know not what course others may take;
but as for me, give me liberty or give
me death! 7" So say thousands of Re-
publicans in the State of Pennsylvania
to-day: "As for us, give us political
liberty or give US political DEATH"
THE PICTURE NOT ovERDRAwN.
But, do you say, the picture is over
drawn? 1t cannot be too highly COL
ored That system which found its
embodiment in Guiteau, and its over
throw, we trust, in the assassination
of Garfeld-the nations noblest and
best-cannot be painted in colors too
black and revolving. 1t finds its true
counterpart in that system which con-
ceived a Booth and found its choicest
victim in the martyred Lincoln. In
the latter system men hold their fellow
men in bondage In the former the
creatures hold their creators in base
political and civil servitude.
THE FINAL APPEAL
NY citizens, will you longer
cherish this accursed system of spoils
and "boss rule ?" Shall the rich field
of Pennsylvania Republicanism, so
long infested and almost monopolized
by their rank and vicious growth,
longer remain under their dominion ?
Shall not the plowshares of aroused
popular opinion and the harrows OF
our suffrages thoroughly tear it up,
while the burning indignation of
long suffering and outraged people
shall consume the vile crop in smoke
and ashes? When thus cleansed,
shall we not sow therein the pure
golden seed of true Republicanism-
not unduly anxious that not single
cockleseed may be sown Herewith? ?
When this is done, shall we not care
fully watch that hereafter no enemy
shall again sow their tares therein /?
Then, when the glorious harvest comes,
Camerons, Quays, Hoyts, McManes
and McGees shall not be the highest
products of our soil, but like our neigh
boring Ohio, Garfelds, Hayes, Sber-
mans and Waites, may be the fruits Of
which we can boast The grog-shop.
the gambling den, and the ribald club
room shall no longer be the nurseries
in which our Republicanism shall be
fostcred. The Sunday school, the
public school, and the lyceum shall
nourish our Republicanism and give
to us, not for masters, but honored
leaders, patriotic and God-fearing men.
Little can be hoped from those, who,
in the race for honor and preferment in
accordance with the laws of this vicious
system, have become soiled and COM
promised thereby. Their lips are seal
ed. A collar is around their necks.
To you, old and middle-aged citizens,
who have Stunned the communicating
influences of Pennsylvania politics, let
us appeal for your encouragement, your
counsels, and your prayers, To you,
young men, for you are strong and
courageous, that, flinging away all am
bition, you here resolve with me that
this accursed rule shall cease-that oil
the ends we aim at shall be our coun-
try's, Gods, and Truths. AT the
bier of our honored and beloved Presi-
dent, let us pledge ourselves, that this
warfare shall never cease until the
boasted avenue of honorable preferment
from the most lowly station up to the
highest Office, through industry, virtue,
and meritorious public service shall no
longer be obstructed by the offensive
dung heaps of spoils and plunder As
the martyred Lincoln on the sacred
field of Gettysburg, in the presence OF
the hero-dead, called upon the living,
so in the presence of our dead Presi-
dent, let is "highly resolve that the
dead shall not have died in vain that
the Nation (and Commonwealth, too,
shall, under God, have new birth Of
freedom, and that the government Of
the people, by the people, and for the
people shall not perish from the earth"
Then will our glorious watchwords,
Virtue, Liberty and Independence"
he our crowning glory, and not our
constantly rebuking shame.
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