The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-09-23
The Second Edition of "Jimtown"
Suggs.


remind the reader that il only applie'
10 party principles, opponents and
leaders The masses, i'm the main, an,
honest, conscientious citizens, many
of whom are my friends, aud thousands
Of whom drift with the party without
affinity, but repealed from the Demo
Gratis by the idea that Democracy
means all that Is obnoxious To n lover
of the Union aud Constitution.
IL is quite charitable, If not compli-
mentary, to say that Garfield was moi
familiar with the particular history oI
Plymouth, and that he WAS misled 10y
Summers notorious lie. | grant moth
ing that does such discreiit Ia his in
telligence. He WAS brilliant and
avowed leader, and was perfectly
familiar with the political a. we'll "a,
general history Of the country. lie
knew what thuse germ ideas" planted
at Plymouth were. and was only toe
willing 10 feed his proscriptive mind
upon such pabulum. He knew the
Pasksns who had taught him all his
doctrine and notions Of public law and
public duty were secessionists, traitors
persecutors, robbers, bigots, and chuck
led over the precious right 10 traffic in
the flesh Of Indians and negroes He
WAS no better than sherman, and
Sherman lie no better than Blaine, and
Blaine i- mesner than the sneaking
Puritan that stole the Indians pot and
corn.
Before 1897 these graceless zeslots,
whose Puritanic origin Is as marked al
the nationality Of Jew, conspired
with Canada TO make a Republic OF
New England under British protection.
This was natural sequence to the pop
ular leaning TO monarchy led by HAM
ilton and in perfect accord with their
notions of secession.
boon after this cabsl plot TO destroy
the union, that typical predecessor Of
Garfield, Blaine and sherman, John
Quincy announced TO Congress that
they would leave the Union "peaceably
II they could, forcibly il they must"
When the war of 1872 hogan they
were virtually out Of the Union, and
not only refused 10 assist il, but aided
the enemy all they could. And when
Jackson's route, at New Orleans, OF
l2,0o0 picked veterans from Yelling
tons army fresh from Waterloo, with
about 1000 raw Kentucky and Tennes-
see militia "closed the war in blaze OF
glory" "New EnglsDd's commissioners
at Washington found themselves only
the discredited agents Of meeting OF
secret coraspirotors against the unity Of
the Republic Uhich had deserted their
country an as hour Of soI est neod.-
Clay and Webster, although emanci-
pationists, warned the Republic against
these Pilgrim Fathers, who now wore
Ahclftionism as disguise, declaring
that "if ever they got hold upon the
organized physical forces of the country
they would rule Without Iu,o, scof at The
authorities Of The courts, and thro,o
dorm all dJenses Of Girl i6erty.r
How prophetic and how true the sequel
proved.
We now approach an epoch when
We may justly deny the party Of what
ever is extenuating in fanaticism.
When the Blue Laws were rampant.
When IL was unsafe to express even a
doubt Of witch's guilt, when Roger
Williams was banished for saying the
Indians ought to be paid for their lands,
and a man ought not 10 be punished for
honest convictions, when the fifty~five
witches writhed in the flames of tor
tnre at salem, when the Dol. Quilted
Puritan's stomach was nauseated by
the fumes Of roasting negroes, when
the blood Of Quakers cried out to God
for vengeance. say. II 1t is any satis-
faction or extenuation, you may call
this blind, ranting .anaticism, for
heaven knows they need an apologist,
priest and prayers. But now we ap-
proach period when we may Justly
deny even this poor compliment. For
the leaders to whom they gave their
uubounded admiration were ribald inf.
dels, who cursed the Constitution.
swearing 1t twas q league with death
and covenant with hell" attacked
the church, cursed the Bible and reviled
God Almighty Himself
When that cold blooded murderer.
John Brown, stole mules in Mo-. his
party said It was ''lawful booty ~ when
he crept like an assassin into that
peaceful Virginia town and murdered
its defenseless citizens, he was lionized.
and when he died the ignominious
death Of q felon on the scaffold, the
pesns OF martyr were wildly sung
throughout the North-savage orgies
around which me seems / see the
CHASTITY forms of betrayed Indians,
murdered Quakers and dead "niggers"
fitting, and like Nemesis accusingly
pointing long CHASTITY fingers at these
descendants OF Plymouth.
Seward immortalized himself by pro- |
posals Of measures (which would re-
suit In civil war, and promising that
the negroes should be melted to rise in |
'btdckest insurrection.' "Free Love-
Community of PropertvU and all
other nasty and novel socialisms be-
came plastic, dough-faced elements in |
the hands Of these impIacable crusaders
against the South. Our Southern
fathers chad lead US through the perils
81 the revolution, settled our institu-
tons and given our country Its high
place In the estimation of the world,n
and why should the South desire to
dismember the Union Nothing could
have driven them to so desperate a /