The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-03-03
ORR PHILADELPHIA LETTER.

III
letter. there was an election held IN this
CITY. at which for the first time in many
long years. the voters generally prepared
their own tickets at home before leaY-
ing for the polls, and paying no atten-
tiOn to the ticket mall at the window,
voted pretty much as they liked. It
was very cold day for the bosses.
While Philadelphia's Democratic roOs-
ter to-day is not exactly the Old-fashiOn-
ed, full-bTed chicken. he is pretty good
cross between a Democratic shanghai
and the Reform hen. 1t is by able and
honest minorities that good government
is commanded from majorities, and
there is now in Philadelphia Councils
such a minority as will protect the tax
payers. The Democrats have now one
third of the Select Council, and in the
popular branch have fraction less than
a third, which will be an able and repu-
table minOrity-what the people of Phil
adelphia have long needed, and over
which there is general rejoicing" The
bosses and jObbers got an awful chill on
Tuesday last. The honest Democrats
gave some instructive lessons to some Of
their leaders.
PARRICIDE-FILIAL LOVE AND DUTY.
In the last issue of the FREEMAN is
reported the hanging of a man in your
adjoining county, Indiana, for the muir
der of his father, and quick follow
ing the hanging of the Indiana coun-
Uy parricide comes the startling intelli-
gence of man killing his father at
Worcester, Massachusetts. The horrid
chine Of paTriciGe is becoming common
III this country. Scarcely a year passes
that the crime Of killing Of parent is
not recorded in its history. Something
more than ordinary punishment should
be meted out to one who stains his hands
with the blood of the author of his be-
ing.
In nothing, perhaps, have the ways Of
heaven to man been more signally juSti
fed than in the punishmentwhich sooner
or later follows deviatiOns fIOm fiiial
love and duty. The Persians held the
crime of domestic rebellion in the great
est detestations. They looked upon the
striking or Staying of parent as being
an impossible offense, and when an Oc-
currence of the kind happened, they ad
judged the offender could not be a child
of the party injured or slain, but must
have been surreptitiOusly imposed upon
/ them. In China, should a son be SO in
SOlent as to mock the father, or be
guilty Of such an Offense as to strike
him, all the people of the province where
the act is committed are aroused, and it
/ even becomes the concern of the whole
empire and of the Emperor himself. All
the mandaTins in the place where such
a crime occurs are removed for negli
/ gence of duty, and even the neighbOrs
/ are reprimanded for allowing such fla
grant act. In China the flial duty is
/ the same with the prince as with the
/ peasant. They think there must be
/ some hopeless depravity of manners in a
! l.,
/ longs. The unhappy wretch is cut into
/ pieces and burnt the house in which he
lived is destroyed, as well as houses that
/ stand near by it, and the ground on
which It stood is sOwn with salt. In
! Rome the punishment ordained for one
/ who stained his hands with the blood of
/ the author of his being was, that he
should be tiayed, then sewed up in a
sack together with dog, a cock, an ape
( and viper and then thrown into the
/ sea. The Jews were not the only people
/ that looked on disobedience to parents
as worthy of capital punishment. In
/ China let a son become ever so rich, and
| a father ever so poor, there is no sub
mission, no point Of obedience that the
/ father cannot command, or that the son
can refuse. When a tather accuses a
/ son before a mandarin, there needs no
. proof of his guilt, for they cannot be-
lieye that any father can be so unnatuT-
! al as to bring a false accusation against
1 his own son. Tins was considered filial
. love and duty by many nations in for
, mer ages of the world. and it is a stain
I on the character Of the more recent ages
/ that the crime of paTicide should be toll
Grated as that Of an ordinary murder.
HONORING GENERAL GRANT.
The bill passed by the United States
Senate placing General Grant on the re
tired list, with the rank and pay of a
/ General, is sadly lacking in any essen
tial to command the respect of the Am
erican people. 1t is an unwarrantable
and Gnjustifiable piece of American leg
islation which should essentially damn
every Senator who voted for it. The
/ Democratic Senators who sustained and
voted for the bill are filter subjects for
prison criminals than for United States
. Senators. If not fit subjects for pri-
son, they are fit subjects for a lunatic
/ asylum. The honest portion of the Re
. publicans of the United States viewed
with alarm the dangerous length to
. which their party leaders went in their
I infamous efforts to advance their politi-
I cal fortunes by violation Of what had
become a part of the unwritten law of
the nation. by forcing Grant upon the
.
thousands of the honest Republicans of
the country regarded it as an insult to
their intelligence to present to them for
. their support for a third term one whose
record showed that he was simply set as
a trap to catch the unwary-one whose
past reputation would put them on the
defensive-whOSe inability to resist
temptation was pIOveTbial, and whose
personal ambition lead HIM to regard
the public service as mere instrument
tality for furthering his own avariciouS
/ ends.
Whittier are the American people
/ drifting Has the lessen of wisdom
which should have been taught the Am
erican people by the Grant dynasty been
lost Grant was the principal actor in
She great political crime of the century
the robbery of the dearest rights of the
people Is the new era coming wher
crown is to be placed on the head OF
an American Such was the prediction
of the men whom the managers of the
Grant boom had chosen to speak theil
thoughts of the Republican State Con.
vention held at Harrisburg on the 14tI
of February, 1880. In that convention
w. &. Moreland, of Allegheny county
the man who had been slated to talk VI
Grant said, ''tbe petU era 1CiU come lCheT
are place the cr0lCp on the head Of Z. S
Grant In this declaration we have
the startling proof that the Republican
leaders of Pennsylvania would crown
Gen. Grant as their king. They would
crown a man as their king who has nc
appreciation of what is necessary to so
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