The Hartford herald., 1885-02-18

of oLr fam of Cove trnment- "A Gov
ernment of the people, 10y the people,
for the people"
When | heard of the death of Presi-
dent Garfield, at the hands OF "a crazy
fanatic of his own party, who had been
melted to the horrible deed 10y the in
temperate utterances of mcmbers of the
Republican party, shed tears of genu
iue sorrow. Had Garfield never com.
menced the prosecution of thieves and
"SIar Route" rascals in the sweet
Republican party, he might be living
To day!
The Puritan always gave fellow
liberty in civil and religious matters
liberty to do as the Puritan did. Ifyou
did not, he banished you like he did
Roger Williams, or bored hole in your
tongue with hot iron like he did the
Quakers. Old John Adams had AN eve
single to this system about the time of
the "Alien and Sedition Laws" Ditto,
the Republican party when they said "a
"sympathIzer" should not "smile over
southern victories"
We were all in the same boat, origin
ally, in the matter of slavery. At the
adoption of the Cons, tuition, in l7S7,
all the States, save Massachuset It's alone,
had slaves. These Massachusetts fell
lows conquered and enslaved the Poquot
Indians, hut finding Mr. Pequot some
what intractable, they swapped him to
the West India planter for the dociie
Negro O-and cheated said Planter
wofnlly Next, finding the Negro uu.
profitable on the barren. black hills of
New England, they SOd him To- the
SOutherner. 80 soon us the cash was
pocketed they began To demo inmate
slavery sin" and the STAKEHOLDER "A
nuisance"
Had il not been foI Washington,
Marion and "Iighthorse Harry" Lee, ,oi
the South, the Independence of our coun-
try would not have beeh gained. Cleo
Washington, in letters To friends, spoke
of the Massachusetts people who
thought more of getting money and
Office tl.an Of fighting. He called these
speculators 10y the name of "Forestall-
ers."
He, Washington, was harassed 10y
Northern members of Congress aud by
y an l. tl
Conway Cabaln and the treason Of
Benedict Arnold, of Connecticut And |
when the Revolution did end success
fully for the Colonies, some of these
Northern officers actually proposed
having "hing," aud made overtures
to Washington TO induce him to accept |
the crown.
All the traitors To this country, from
Arnold to Hull, have been ef Northern
birth. Traitors in the Revolution,
traitors in 1872 with "Blue Light Sig
mails" to the British, and a Hartford
of New England "Seces
sionists") traitors in the Mexican War.
called Wings, who hoped to God that
the Mexicans would "welcome our sol.
diers with bloody hands to inhospitable
graves" Federalists, Wings, KEow-
nOthings, Republicans have always
been lie to their names. Tney have
never been what their names Mould
seem to imply.
The Federalists, and, lastly, the Re-
publicans, strove to subvert the genuine
principles of Il Eederd Republic.
The Democrats have always con.
tended for the rights of the people and
Df the independent, sovereign States
our Union under compact.
Nattel is good authority for our form of
He says: Several
sovereign aud Independent States may
mite themselves together by perpet
Ial confederacy, without ceising to be,
zach individually, "a perfect State"
The Puritan Federal Wing Know
nothing Abolition Republican party is
very patriotic for power and pelt. This
o-called Republican party burnt the
.alled the flag "lie" But, when our
ate war came up, being somewhat du-
,ious of the qualities of Southern lead,
hey called the truly patriotic Demo- ,
rats To do battle for the Union, Consti. ,
ution and flag, while they staid at :,
home, principally, To take fat contracts, .
'windle the GOvernn ent, buy up legis-
alton for mOnOpolies, found National
make "treasOn odious," ,
Yes, the facts of the ease are,
md the figures show, a majority of the
Oldiers of the Union Armies were
Democrats. Ii could not be otherwise,
when the largest enlistments were from
South. western and Western
States. The "blue- bellied Yankee did
lot amount to chill of beans" with
he Confederates. Yes boys, ''you uns'
\ whipped I'VE uns ~
Now, you Democrats who whipped ,
IL Democrats, read this loving Republi>
'an "Ode to the American Flag"
Tear down the Haunting lie:
Tear down the American Flag:
Insult no sunny sky
With Hates polluted ragr
Now, didn't "these people, the
party to which "Schoolboy" belongs,
owe the "Stars and Stripes" before
he War:
Well, yes was member of the
18th Regiment Kentucky Confederate
Cavalry, belonging to Gen. y. b. For
rests Command. also got dose of
a Northern lead; :" but it all failed to
make jeff. Davis my "second God" or
Rob TOOmbs nv ''secOnd Sayjur -