The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-02-15

a TRADE of abuse against every in
dividual member of both old par.
ties who refuse to join the third
party" I reply that the charge il
not true, as a reference to my artl.
cles will show. I have in none Of
them abused anybody-having nc
cause nor inclination to do 30.
tried to, and did show, that il
a party in its platforms and prin.
ciples, or want Of principles, was
bad, then the members endorsing
and acting with it must be in the
wrong; that that which was pol
itically wrong could not be morally
right, and that that which would be
Individually wrong could not be col
lectively right that in morals there
is no neutrality-that if there is a
wrong, a failure to antagonize and
oppose it is treason to the right.
And one other thing is, and I think
ought more than ever to be, appre-
hended, that man cannot know.
ingly be politically and morally
wrong and spiritually right.
"Know ye not that to whom ye
yield yourselves servants to obey,
his servants ye are to whom ye
obey"
Will the Judge answer the logic
or show the abuse in this?
Fifth. He declares "The aboli-
tionists didn't abolish slavery"
Why didn't he add as astoundingly,
the "Dutch didn't take Holland ?"
Of course they didn't. God al
mighty abolished slavery through
abolitionists, as he will abolish
whisky andDemocracy through pro-
hibitionists. In this, however, he
contradicts himself, where he de-
clares in one place that l want to
link my name and fame and ego
laundering down the ages as a
great leader along with Garrison,
Lovejoy, Giddings, Sumner and
Phillips, who he admits are hon.
ored by the cages" and came "thun-
dering" down because of their sue
cessful leadership Of a great reform,
which in another place he declared
they hindered rather than helped.
Somebody's mistaken, the lagos"
or the Judge; which?
Charge sixth: "You gloat over
electing Democrat President in
1884" Utterly false; no semblance
of anything of the sort in my arti-
oles. In reply to his comparison
of our party to London's three tail
ors, | did say that we had borne
three years curses for having elect
ed President The party did not,
nor can we gloat over or rejoice in
the success of the Democratic rum
party anywhere. Neither will our
fidelity to the prohibition cause in
State or Nation allow us to disband
or cease voting our convictions OF
duty, because of the cry in the
North, "You will ruin the Repub-
lican party" and in the South,
Your object is to break up the
Democratic party"
Replying to this clamor of old
party leaders for the dissolution of
the Prohibition party, allow me to
say for their comfort, in substance
as Mr.. Lincoln did in his reply to
the opportunities of the same char
acter of patriots, { Owho in his time
were demanding the dissolution of
the Abolition party: Granting"
said he, "frc argument sake, it
could be don it would avail you
nothing; thu hatred of and deter
mination to .Abolish the curse being
laid upon ths hearts and conscien-
ces of the people dixie Banquo's
ghost) will not down till the curse
is annihilated."
If Democrats and Republicans
expect Gas they seem so ardently
to desire) the destruction OF our
party, why don't they go about it
in the only honorable and patriotic
way; viz: by espousing heartily
in their parties, platforms and clubs,
the adoption of the Amendment
and tots4l destruction of the liquor
traffic, State and National, and in
ell their nominations forestall US
by having candidates publish their
hearty endorsement of these prin-