Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1881-10-22

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The insulting remarks of Sena.
tor Edmunds, Of Vermont, proceed.
ing the rightful election Of Thomas
Francis Bayard to the Presidency
Of the United States Senate, in.
vites retrospect. Senator Ed
munds spoke of "a prize drawn in
the lottery Of assassination" as ap-
piled to that election. However
chat gentleman may be exalted
into . statesman by partizan jour-
mails and envenomed Republicans,
In that episode the Vermont st.
Jerome simply approved himself
to be arst-class blackguard.
When we find this dyspsptic
pseudo statesm an thus venting his
gall, we are invited to certain
"reminiscences of our national his
tory. The Democratic party has
gained q great deal Of undeserved
reproach because it was, par eGoel-
lsnos, the constitutional party-the
party which respected the compro-
misses without which the forma-
ton of the Federal Constitution
WAS impossible. From no section
Of the South was there the slight
est impeachment to the formation
of q Republic in which the Slave
Trade should be denounced as
Piracy. But Massachusetts
sanity Observation-Disclosures in
the way. That fine old Puritan
Commonwealth was being en-
riched, hourly. daily, weekly,
monthly and yearly, by the profits
In the trade of human flesh. Mas
sachusetts-aye, Massachusetts, and
no other Commonwe alth-impeded
the formation of that "mors per-
feet Union" which succeeded the
Articles OF Confederation under
which the Revolutionary War was
waged. 1t was the sanity Massa-
chusetts which said that unless the
Slave Trade was legalizsd for TWEEN
ty years the further Union of the
American States would be impos-
sible. The fine old colony OF Mas
sachusetts Bay succeeded in defeat
Ing an enlightened and humane
impulse, postponing the amsliora-
ton Of the sweating slaves in ship
holds for twenty years. By her
special act the Infamous provision
was inserted in the Constitution of
tho United States which prohibited
the abolition of the Slave Trade
until the year 1908.
This fine old New England Com
monwealth, Massachusetts,, de-
sired this interregnum of twenty
years so that her people could sell
all her "niggers" to the South and
start In on the "Higher Lawn sgi-
tation. Just as soon as the thor
oughbred descendants of the fine old
Puritans Of ye ancients time had
earned treble interest on the hulks
engaged in the slave trade, and sold
the last able-bodied ''niggsr," at a
large figure, to the Southern States,
they became enamored of liberty.
Through successive eras, begin
Ming with the manly and eloquent
crusade of John Quincy Adams,
they got finally to the stage Of
proclaiming the "higher law" one
Of the most interesting phases of
neutrality-suspicious. development.
John Brown was the first lunatic
developed under this so-called
higher law.
John Wilkes Booth was the sec
ond. Fortunately the whole his.
tory of the Booth family In the
Omitted States is we'll known. His
father was crazy English actor of
fine genius, but there is no energy
even of Imagination which can
force this family on the Democrat
10 party. John Brown was "crank
No. l." born of the "higher law"
and John Wilkes Booth was
"crank No. q" born of a febrile
theatrical enthusiasm arising from
the Brutus nonsense.
The Republican Guiteau, fell
low whose antecedents are equally
we'll known, was "crank No. 80
He was the last and most precious
ef1iorescence OF the Republican
"higher law" If this "higher
Law" shall continue to make its
appearance In American politics we
expect all kinds of enormities, but
IL will require the sublimated
cheek of an Edmunds to connect
the Democratic party with any
phase Of these possible and prob
ably Inevitable excuses.
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