The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-09-09

swap them off for negroes, having dis
covered that the latter made much NOR
tractable and dOclle slaves. And I'm,
colored friends. here is a precious morse
! for you to chew the shameless inhu
manity with which these negroes wer'
used made slavery in Massachusetts
the sum Of all villsiny.'" Chief Just
ice Sewell rated the negroes as hogs
Emancipation was forbidden by law
and when they found them to he un
profitable "they," says Belknap, "wer'
given away like puppies"
Every one knows that slavery II
Massachusetts was never abandoned be
cause it was wrong, cruel and inhuman
as ii was, but simply because ii did moi
pay. slavery was pertinaciously al
hered to for generations and never re-
pented of or formally repealed"
Practically and Theoretically they
maintained that human slavery, in Its
most malignant form, was perfectly
just, proper and desirable institution,
entirely consistent with Christianity
and founded on principles of universal
Jurisprudence"
Is it ANY wonder Democrat works
so tractably IN party traces. winking at
irregularities, and votes with the EN-,
phasis of pile driver, when he knows
that old Plymouth doctrine Is as RAM
pant to-day as when poor old South
wick and his good wife, after suffering
fines and imprisonments and persecu-
ton till robbed Of all but honor, were
banished for honest convictions, driven
into the woods to starve and die, while
their two little children, Daniel and
Provided, were basely condemned to
be sold as slaves to the West Indies;
but, when baked of this by ProvL-
dence, contented themselves with strip
ping the little girl, with several virtu.
Gus Quaker women, and publicly
whipping them. Oh! why did not
every drop of blood shed by these pure,
innocent, martyred women, bring down
some terrible judgment of God upon
these miscreants' head, and every tear
of anguish wrung by their brutal lash
blister, like the fires of Pluto, the souls
Of these fiends. Inscrutable justice of
God, that turned aside his angels of
wrath and let so dsmnable deed pass.
The Talmudists believe that Adam had
a wife called Lilis before he married
Eve and of her he begat nothing but
devils. Who knows but It's true and
for some wise and inscrutsble purpose
God Almighty sent a batch of these
implacable bastards over i'm the May
Flower to fasten like malignant para
sites upon the continent.
"WithOut provocation or even warn
ing they fell upon the Pequods, massa-
creing many and made slaves Of the
survivors without distinction of age or
sex. About 700 were sold to the West
Indies on public account and the pro-
ceeds turned into the public treasury;
one hundred and sixty of these unfortu-
mates escaped, but agreed to surrender
if the authorities would promise to
neither kill nor enslave them" With
long faced solemnity they gave the
promise, to be broken atterward with
As little remOrse as "A modern abolition
ist would violate his oath to support the
constitution"
Ask me not why am a Democrat,
and, being Democrat, 1 voted for
Tate. He is an old-time jamestown
man, tried and true. as against Ply
mouth and Massachusetts, the very hot
bed aud incubator Of cant, hypocrisy,
intolerance, prescription, secession and
slavery.
Now let me link the threads of this
historic sketch, which will preclude the
escape from the shame of this history
of any full-bloOded Republican by
claiming that he is not of the Plymouth
stock, at least in principle, or by claim
ing that they have improved the Ply.
mouth doctrine as becomes an advanced
civilization. The late history of the
party will justify no such conclusions.
but what is unanswerably convicting is
that, no longer than eight years ago,
that peerless leader and sainted apostle,
James A. Garfield, Ito say nothing of
Blaine's late canvass, Sherman's speech
few weeks ago In Ohio and thousands
of others made by acknowledged lead
ers), declared boldly, boastingly to the
world that "his party had no doctrine
Of public tap, no notions of public d,ty
,ohich we're not planted at Plymouth. ~
Who that has traced their history from
the landing Of the Mayflower to ''Sher-
mans march to the sea-" then on.
through that Internal job of reeonstruc-
ton, down to the present, doubts that
what Garfield said is intensely true?
They captured whites In England,
heretics and Indians at home and
snapped them for negroes; they drown
ed witches, whipped quakers and
roasted negroes till an ordinance was
passed TO burn no more on account of
the nOxious fumes. "As soon As they
got possession Of the Federal govern.
ment under John Adams they began
to Use it as an engine for the suppression
of free thought" '"Their alien law
gave the President power to Danish or
imprison 'Oithom trial foreigners whose
opinions might be obnoxious to his
support" Their sedition put every
Democratic writer and speaker under
the heel of the administration Who
but narrow gagged Massachusetts Re-
publican can read that law without q
blush in the name of free thought and
civilization; laws which could flourish
Ia none but that peculiarly fitting soil.
How can any foreigner against whom