Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-11-22
ONE OF THE CAUSES.
[From the St. Joe Gazette.l

Those who are seeking for the causes
of the late overthrow need not travel
from Dan to Bersheba to dId them.
They are all about. They are in the
door yard of the inquirer, and ut his
very feet. The following specimen of
republican rot, which has been the
only whine of the party i'll the battle
heretofore, and after the fight is over,
and will be as long as the party has
footing OIL earth, is one OF the causes:
"Press dispatches from the south Sal
urday night mentioned the tact that
the display of rebel flags. the singing
OF "Dixie" and the .sBDmnic Blue
Flag" and cheers for jeff. Davis were
quite common at the Celebrations" of
Cleve and's suppose election. OF
course. They believe down there that
is at last vicl oriuiis, aud that the rebel
brigadiers " i'll soon be- ''im the saddle"
A party which makes such ooze rs
the above its constant twaddle and its
only platform ought to be beaten. This
present brilliant scintiilation is made
up from the lying dispatches manutac-
tured for the New York Tribune and
for Blaine and sent over the prostituted
wires of the Western Union Telegraph
Company. 1t is such drivel as this,
false in the start and made more obnox,
ious by the use it is put to by the radi-
ca press that has driven from the ranks
of the party thousands upon thousands
of good and trne men. This spirit is
the very essence of the bigotry which
has been the principal characteristic OF
the republican party. But it is long
lane that has no turn; and the path
which the party has trodden with so
much hatred and ignorance, supersti.
tion and unyielding intolerance has at
last had turn. In all the twenty
years which have passed since the men
on the other side laid down their arms
aud gave up the fight, not once has the
thought Of reunited. common coun-
try, for all and for the good of al,
entered the bigoted heads of the fana-
tics who have been the professed lead
ers, ward politicians, buffers, bum
mers and shoulder-hitters of the repub-
lican party. We have nothing so un-
American, so unlike the republic, so
unlike Jesus Christ i'll all the history of
this land. But the fires which these
Inaligners have been heaping upon the
iASo0o Va tdC iuCh lO 1TOIu tueu
in politics have been turned upon theu,-
selves and are burning their way into
their benuddled, bedraggled bedeviled
and bigoted brains.
Against the brilliant scintillation
above referred to We would like to set
the following resolution adopted at the
grand democratic rally at Savannah,
Ga, OH Tuesday night, in a locality
almost wholly inhabited by the mel,
whom the radicals have been abusing
tor II generation Of time:
Resolved, That we will welcome the
day when there shall be no solid south
and no solid north, but a solid union as
it was eighty years ago, and when all
American citizens, white, black, native
and adopted. at home and abroad shall
stand equal before the law and be pro-
tected by our cOuntry's flag"
We see no brilliant scintillations
based on this simple resolution, as pure,
as noble, as any that ever emanated
from the lips of the fathers OF the re-
public, who pledged their lives, their
fortunes and their sacred honor.
Let the hall mark and legend of this
malignant party, as long as honest men
permit it tc live, be that of the old time
corrupt and polluted mimic stage: Ig-
norance, Bigotry and Superstition.