The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-02-05

book, make the figure pialner.
OF Hnbbard's work. In rome sense
Isee the picture. Itsoutlinessare all
there. I read another third. The tale is
told again, perhaps, yet the scene grows
stronger, l read the rest, and then, as
if the final block OF the printer complet-
ed my Christmas picture, the painters
idea bursts full Of beauty upon me-the
book had not been perfect without these
three impressions.
To review Lester Hubbnrd's true elos
quence, know we should adopt q line
OF quiet language. So, ! am at once un-
fitted for my task. l can not sit unmoy-
ed by truth, put all SO poorly; how, may
i contain my spirit when the things
would to have said are burned and
branded into my own conscience by a
weight that l can not withstand? For
instance, he piles each separate and stu
pendous treason on old John Browns
head. Ossa and Pelion, Teneriffe and
Atlas, Etna and Chimborazo; heaps OF
lawlessness are put between John Brown
and peace-between John Brown and
order. This was treason, one treason,
two treasons, three, four, FIVE, six! Did
ever soul this side OF Satan so deserve
the lawful glbbet OF Virginia?
He was captured, tried. condemned
to death" says Lester Hubbard, "and
the I'd day OF December, 1859, while
walking to his doom, stopped andkissed
a negro child, then mounted the scaffold
and was hanged. On that day, all oyer
the great. North, church bells tolled,
women wept, and men greeted one an
other with solemn faces. On that day
millions nedoyeranexecuted Grim
NAL guilty OF reason on treason. Tell
them that he broke the law OF the lana
and trampled the Constitution under
loot, and with reasonable complacency
they reply. Very true, but he was also
a hero and a martyr. for Re unselfishly
wrought and brayely died for human
liberty" "All OF this" says the author
! "goes to prove that a traditional 10y
atty to ones country, and perfunctory
: reverence for its constitution, are all
: very we'll and perfom their functions
/. smoothly, under ordinary conditions
e but hearts over-full with generous rage
. and souls aname at sight OF noble deed'
. quickly declare themselves emancipatec
S from all orthodox formulas that woult
compel"
Ihave copied the words OF this pass
age. but we can notconvey the eloquenc'
], or power OF the chapter.
lam almost silent with admiration 0
), the knowledge which Lester Hubbard
S shows. To the Illinois miners OF Sprin'
Valley, Pencoyd, Uniontown, Johns
S town, 1877, Des Moines River, Lowe]
Western Union-all the cancers tina
peck our body politlc-these are but tn
G LIES aving eruptions that bespeaIk tn
disease OF which Lester Hubbard treats
n His session, his seat, his saddle in HI
subject, is as firm us Colonel Norton
knowledge OF money and banking.
h read this book-I smell this broth int
e. which the plutocrats have stirred ii
% eye OF newt and toe OF frog, and I begi
e. at last to feel that Lester Hubhal
ot knows better than | how hells philt'
re has been brewed.
4. I am glad l read this book at AZ. II
years ago l would have gone into Lest
Hubbard's house OF thought only
gain ideas OF building formyself. lwou
have demanded more form and less ge
or JUS. Now I read and rest-and lear
OF II every prosecuting attorney OF patrit
tmuvmn 'tnis" shameless age s"tN' s mi;
MS band Of men in the Unitd States nc
a stands adjudged, in my mind, not OH
he Of having plotted treason to Hamilton
ed aristocratic federalism, but also OF ha
ed ing wrought destruction to democrat
tn The rule Of the people does not ne
seem possible without the defeat OF {
he most powerful oligarchy that has y
IN risen In civilization.
So The book is before mankind. | a
tie sorry it was needed. am sorry if
sd making the road to liberty it blazes a
heart that had left, in auricle or vent
II Gle, some drop OF christian blood. b
10 if ! be OF sound mind, and if 1 have al
thing worthy OF the heritage left me
tb Thomas Jefferson, l say solemnly tn
~. [ am glad it is written. A wonderl
JIG scribe rose up to inform scoundreIs
nearly all their villainy.-John NcGc
re ern.
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