The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-02-08

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wait and consider the necessity and
propriety of a third party move
ment before engaging in it, you
rushed into print and assumed the
burden of proving such necessity
and propriety." Bat the indica-
tions are that you have become
painfully conscious of the fact that
you are neither a Garrison, nor a
|-Lovejoy, nor Glddings, nor a Sum.
ner, nor Phillips, and that the
"thundering" to which you looked
forward with such rose-colored an
ticipations, won't thunder" and
that your experience thus far in
the role of a great leader of a grea,
"new and better party" has been
anything but gratifying. This un-
pleasant awakening to sad reality
has put you in a very bad humor,
and one of your great troubles is to
know what to do about it.
If you had taken time to inform
yourself, and had cared to be in
formed, you would have learned
that the Abolition party proper
accomplished nothing toward the
abolition of slavery, and that every
thing they did tended in the oppo-
site direction. As a political party,
all they ever accomplished was to
draw votes from the Wing party,
and in this way aid the Democrats
in electing their candidates to of.
fee. BY this policy they defeated
Mr.. Clay for the Presidency in 1874,
by giving the State of New York,
to Mr.. Polk, who stood pledged to
the annexation of Texas, a slave
holding State, to the United States,
thus increasing the slave power in
Congress, to which they professed
10 be deadly hostile. And they
did then just what you are doing,
and propose to do now.
And you do it, as they did, with
your eyes open to all the conse-
quences. You know that you can
neither adopt. nor aid in adopting
the prohibition Amendment by
your proposed third party move.
ment, and that its adoption can
only be- had by the aid Of the votes
of Democrats and Republicans who
belong to these parties. And yet
you deliberately pursue toward
these voters line OF what you call
argument, but what l call a TRADE
of insult and abuse, which you
know will prevent them, if they
have a particle of self-respect, from
joining yoatr party.
And in this connection / desire
to call attention to that part of
your late production in which you
refer boastingly to the fact that
your party has "berne three years.
bitter curses for electing a Presi-
dent, and whose late votes in the
State of New York the Republican
Chairman of that State declares
virtually settles the next Presiden-
cy." You admit the truth of all
this, and gloat over the result Of
your political action in electing a
Democratic brewer Of ale and beer
to the Office of Secretary OF State
in New York in 1887. And yet you
have the supreme assurance to ar
raign me as inconsistent because, as
you say, my "Christian patriotism
permits" me "to march to the pollf
and cast for the rulers of this
Christian land the very same bal
lot voted by his (my) 10000 soul
destroying rum.selling fellow Dem
ocrats." According to your logic
the election of Mr.. Cleveland to the
Presidency Was crime, in which
you say l am particeps crnsiaais
and 1 cast the charge back into
your teeth, and say that if casting
one vote for Grover Cleveland in
West Virginia, which in no way
affected his election, makes me 8
particeps crimsimis to this alleged
crime, your course, and that of your
party, which actually resulted in
his election makes you ten thou.
sand times more 30. L#B.
And, therefore, allow me to sug
gest to you the propriety of ceasing
to pirate of your honesty, and your
conscience, and your religion, and
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