The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-12-02

THE CRADLE AND THE GRAVE
OF LIBERTY.

Mr.. Cleveland telegraphed the Democ-
racy of Birmingham, Ala:
Prosperity and happiness TO tho South, at
once the cradle and guardian Of civil liberty In
America GROVER CLEVELAND.
The South must look and feel about as
queer when it reads this dispatch as a
bandy-legged or bowlegged man does when
he is complimented upon the beautiful
symmetry of his lower limbs;" he begins
to suspect a taste Of ironical compliment
in such language.
The South has been the ''cradle and
guardian of civil liberty" with vengeance
Free speech is part of civil liberty; how
much Stree speech" did the South ''cradle"
in the days of human slavery when
Samuel Hoar. an accredited representa-
tive of the state of Massachusetts,. was
mobbed with his daughter in Savannah,
Ca. 4; how much free speech" is permitted
in the Southern ''cradle'' today; how
much was granted to Gen. Weaver?
Free ballot and fair count is part of
"civil liberty" how much free suffrage
and fair count takes place today within
Cleveiand's "cradIe of civil liberty?"
What kind OF guardian of civil liberty"
under Law is a sec ton where the laws are
openly defed uullifed by fraud and
violence in order shat ''this cradle and
guardian of civil liberty" may be solid for
Grover Cleveland for president of the
United States2 What kind of "a cradle of
civil liberty" is section which was nest
and marsh Of human slavery for seventy
years of our national life and today is made
solid for the Democratic party by whole.
sale illegal suppression of free suffrage?
What kind Of "a cradle of civil liberty" is
1t, and what kind Of guardian" OF said
''cradie Of civil liberty" is the South.
which steals the votes Of thousands of
American citizens by violence and fraud
in shape Of illegally suppressed or confis-
Gated suffrage and votes on the stock it
has stolen in both congress and the cleo
toral collegef
The cradle Of civil liberty the South
never was; It 10 become the grave of civil
liberty rather than its cradle. "From the
cradle to the grave" il the history of civil
liberty at the South. The guardian of
civil liberty" has been its butcher so often
that the guardian" may be said truth
fully to have throttled civil liberty in "the
cradle" and made the so-called "cradle"
vast and hungry grave.
When We remember that the South
maintained human slavery for seventy
years; that it began its war on the Union
to establish confederacy whose corner
stone was African slavery; that civil
liberty. both at the ballot box and behind
II, has been brutality trampled under
foot and made bloody burlesque
of during all the days OF the political life
of the South, it does seem as if calling
that section 1.-The cradle of civil liberty
and its guardian" was the most stupen-
dous, open, gross and palpable lie that
Grover Cleveland has uttered since he
wrote during his first presidential term
that John c. Calhoun was shining ex-
ample of true patriotism TO be commended
to the attention of our American youth.
Calhoun's patriotism" was treason to
the American tag and assertion of state
supremacy for South Carolina, a most de.
tcstabe friction Of that section which
Cleveland calls "at once the cradle and
the guardian of civil liberty" Calhoun
and Cleveland; Cleveland and Calhoun ::
their statues ought To occupy the same
niche in the South's gallery of "Her-
aids and Champions of Freedom"