The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1884-12-25

erty, ana the richee or inc state. lie
publican patriot saints now, are the ia!
Goulds, Vanderbllts, etc, not TO men
ton Blaine, Dorsey, Brady u 90. witt
them
"a saint In Grape s twice q saint In lAwnl
And poyehy's disgusting 10 such upAwnl'
Long years ago, the then Republican
party, not lost to all sense Of right
were disposed TO canonlze Charles Sum
ner, Horace Greeley and Henry Ware
Beecher; but these have long since beer
displaced from the list OF Republican
saints, Had Lincoln llyeda year or tw'
longer, betoo, would have lost HIS place
Killed as no was, at the close OF IN,
war, and before the era Of reconstruc
ton and carpet bag ~thieyery, LincolI
continues q Republican saint, on cours,
'Old John Brown, who inaugurated civi
war, occupies the frat place as q Re
publican saint Great Republican
party
II looks as II some old gas bag Of
Republican war editor had taken hole
Of the Repository, and wanted 10 distin.
gulsh himself and %extingulsh the DEMO
Graf, In his article headed Lincoln
aud M~cGregor," no speaks "of one who
sympathized with slavery, secession and
rebellion" etc, This writer IL no doubt
zone" who sympathi2ed with John
Brown and thought the old murderer a
grand and lofty character" We will
wager a ~pIcayune this fellow did moi
risk his valuable hide to put down
slavery, secession and rebellion," Great
Republican sham
The Repository writer speaks Of the
grand and lofty character Of Abraham
Lincoln" Now, 10 Mr.. L~incoln's credit
DO II said, he put on noairs OF grandeur
Assumed no holiness Of bearlngl HI
made no ~pretensions TO piety, was al
ways ready with q genial or rOcy story
TO suit the occasions and In fact was q
pleasant, whole souled, companionablt
man. His hands were clean his per
sonal integrity unqueotloned. How un'
like the Blaine Republican leaders Of
TO day. Has It not got TO DO q great old
Republican sham2
But tho Rep, article takes 40 TO task
for saying "the time Ia not here yet
probably, 10 tell the full. plain, unvar.
nished truth about Lincolni" aud again
that no doubt Abraham Lincoln was a
character somewhat groteeque, even In
his appearance" Now, Mr., Lincoln
has been represented by Republican
writer's as a man greatly different from
what he really was, When tho Chicago
preachers called upon him, and urged
that no Issue n proclamation to abolish
slavery, no told them II would be like
tho Pope's bull against tho comet. This
no doubt was hio honest opinion. He
reyoltod at lrst NJ the Idea OF
depriylng old people, widows
aud orphan minors OF that
species OF property, recognized M prop
orty for generations; and no knew, as q
lawyer, that no court Of equity would
sanction uchaproceeding In this coun.
try. Ito remembered, too, that Great
Bdtain paid for the slaves In tho West
Indies when she abolished The inetitu.
ton thore, Soon after hie answer 10
the preachers, however, tho proclama.
tlon OF emancipation was Issued. show
Ing Mr.. Lincoln'e m~alloable character,
Tho Republican party OF 10 day has no
claims upon Abraham Lincoln, Had he
lived, like Horace Greeley, Charles
Sumner, Henry Ward Boochor, George
William Curtis, etc,, etc.. no would Gull
tho Republican party u fraud aud 4
sham. Away with this X, OPP
Like tho shoidy patri N OF tho 4, o,
D., NJ all timce, this sneak writer makes
amusing refproncoto tho war timee, and
10 "walcly retrlOulion ia the Ohio
canal" etc. lilo ought also TO have ro'
forred 10 tho wantun ana co war lily do.
etructlon Of u Democratic p hitting OF.
Zoe, inetigated no doubt by himself.
and enjoyed and approved, or course
eu h cowpfdly eneakS we're not tho fol-
lows 10 lend q hand II probably, too,
was on this stay NJ home patriotic 70.
quest that thtoe hundred troops were
epnt 10 Canton 10 seize two pr lvate citl'
rens without logl Proc y, md who,
after weeks imprisonment NJ
Camp Mansfield, were eet W liberty
without trial. II IL evident Che fellow
ENJOYS all tbia yetl Could any better
evidence bs giyon Of the ,oft Of scala.
wpge aud dirty dose hat now largely
compose, no leaders, tho sham Republi-
cpp partyp
The Rep article Maya, IN history much
IL omitted, That 10 why there Ia much
fraud Ia history" Whin the ! nth,
TO whole truth, aud n thug but tho
Truth" Ia told VI Mr.. LiDcolo'a period
wo opine " will appear hat his w1e ths
batter spirit thorc, but Dot tho ruling
spirit by any means. Be had MT the
calm, tolid, aboaphtiui quai iee Of
washington, nor In philo ophic ken
and ssgacitv Of Jeifers ~. IL fact 10
wNa . very d flerent man. cast In quito
q different mould. All speak Of his