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

the preservation of the Union belong
to the Union Democrats.)
All my grandparents came from
Virginia aud commensurate with IN,
pride in being native Kentuckian.
, glory in old Virginia as my moihe
State. This means all that is inheren
. In politics. 1t means jamestown
against Plymouth; jefferson agains
Hamilton; Democracy against Alb
solutism; honest convictions and lib
erty Of thought against hide-bounc
Intolerance and Puritsnic prescription
Ii means, il there is anything in tn,
AryaD theory, and it is well wortl
study, the SONS Of God against the sou,
of men.
jamestown has nObly taught us I,
cOncede freedom to all races, and the
right and duty of every man to exercise
his private Judgment in politics rs well
rs religion. Freedom of religion,
freedom of the press, freedom of the
person under the protection of hdbeds
corpus and trial by Jury impartially
selected" are the principles planted at
jamestown and taught by Jefferson, and
have "formed the bright constellation"
that has guided the steps of our party
from time immemOrial. There are
Aryans, and every Aryan on earth,
from Eden till to-day, has been DEM
ocrat. While, on the other hand, that
old eye<sore that poisoned them in the
side of the Republic Plymouth, maiD-
tanned that 'capital should own labor"
that 1.-THE negro had no rights of man
hood" and they carried out these the
cries to all their logical consequences"
1t is a theory that "whenever 1t is
demonstrated that any people are too
weak to defend their homes and fire.
sides against an invader who visits
them with fire and sword, they may
idicfubv-heaven spare the mark =
he stripped of their property and they
themselves, their wives and children
may Justly be held as slaves or sold
into perpetual bondage.
This absolute domination of brute
force, this logic of blows, this muscle
against brains. which always argues
with the "butt end of a telegraph pole"
however fatal to the convert, was
planted in Plymouth "soil, propagated
away its contemporaries and faithfully
transmitted to the Republican party Of
to-day" 1t has been practiced, preached
aud enforced as vital tenet from the
landing of the Maytiower till Sherman's
Mount Gilead speech, last week, in
Ohio, which reeks with partisan, pro-
scriptive, lying, hatred, and threatens,
after claiming all honor for the "precious
fruits of the war" to use the war power
again against the South. Il refer to
Sherman because he is the least partisan
of all their great leaders.)
An "absolutism tempered with assas-
sination," which time and the tread Of
civilization has been unable to anchor
ate; for it has been as vindictive, re-
lentless and untiring in all its dealings
with the South AS it was with Roger
Williams, Southwick and the Salem
witches.
With no cause to blush, Democracy
traces its origin back, through the an
mails, unerringly to jamestown, just rs
surely as we trace that Of the Republi-
cans back, alike a dirty stripe" in the
warp and wool of our political history
to Plymouth, a name Odious and exc.
cradle to every Baptist, every Quaker,
every foreigner, every Indian, every
negro, indeed every human being that
ever differed with them in politics,
morals or religion. Who that is famil =.
lar with their history and has common
humanity does not have religious
horror for the very names May
Pilgrim Fathers, Plymouth. and that
Internal nightmare upon the Union,
Massachusetts,.
They left England in order that they
might worship God In their own way,
and with bull.headed savagery force
everybody else to worship just as they
did; and they fined, imprisoned, en-
shaved, beat, mutilated, burned aud
murdered all who would not grovel and
ogle through their little pitiful key
holes. Roger Williams "whom the
writhing worm in his path feared not"
that great conscientious Baptist apostle,
for merely suggesting to the authorities
that man ought not to be punished for
his convictions was banished, which then
meant little less than lingering death,
and even afterward pursued with a ma
lignance and ferocity born of demons
Their crimes against freedom of con-
science has strained their name with all
that is gripping canting, cOvetous, en-
viOus, sneaking, whining, intOlerant
proscriptive, rapaciOus, avaracious in
getting, penurious in keeping, and sOr-
did in spending and truely indeed ha.
it been said their "enmi:y to the rights
of private judgment has come down to
the present party by consistent and reg
ular succession" Anniversaries of the
Pilgrim Fathers are enthusiastically
celebrated i'm the North. Does any one
doubt their sincerity and sympathy?
IL you doubt that their theory is that
"all rights of men are resolved into the
nights of men," go read that highly
connected and influential leader, but
canting hypocrite, Emanuel Downing's
1643) written argument in favor of a
war upon the defenseless Naragansetts
He argued that "If the Lord, who held
them responsible for the religion OF
their neighbors, should deliver them
into their hands, they could swap them
off to the West Indies for blackamoOrs
. (negroes), which would be much more
'qaunefm paldge.'" "Out with the