The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-26
A RUTHLESS GUARDIAN.

Some Remarks on C~leveiand's Telegram to
the South.
Seattle Post. Inteliigene
Mr.. Cleveland ~telegraphed the De-
mocracy of Birmingham. Ala.
Prosperity and happiness to the South. at once
the cradle and guardian OF civil liberty in k.aer-
lea. GROVER CLEVELAND.
The South must look and feel about Is
queer when il reads this dispatch as q
handy leg ICED or bow-legged man does when
he is complimented upon the beautiful
symmetry of his lower limbs;n he begins to
suspect @ taste OF ironical compliment in
such Ian guage.
The South has been the "oradle and
guardian of civil liberty" with a vengeance.
much free speech did the South cradle
in the days of human slavery when Samuel
Hoar, an accredited representative of the
State of Massachusetts,. was mobbed with
his daughter In Savannah. Ca; how much
free speech" is permitted in the Southern
..cradle" to-day; how much was granted to
General Weaverf
Free ballot and q fair count is part of
''civil liberty" How much free suffrage
qnd fair count takes place to-day within
Cleveland's 'cradle OF civil libertyp What
kind of q guardian of civil liberty" un-
der law is Q section where the laws are
openly defed and nullihed by fraud and
violence in order that this cradle and
guardian of civil liberty" may be solid
dent OF the United statesf What
kind of "a cradle of civil liberty"
is O section which was q nest and
marsh of human slavery for seventy years
of our national life and to-day is made
solid for the Democratic party by whole
sale illegal suppression of free suffragef
What kind of "a cradle of civil liberty" is
it, and what kind of o guardian" of said
"cradle 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 confiscated suffrage
and votes on the stock il has stolen in both
Congress and the Electoral Colleges
The cradle of civil liberty the South
never was; Ii Is become the grave of civil
liberty rather than Its cradle. From the
cradle to the grave" Is the history of civil
liberty in the South. The guardian of
civil liberty" has been it's butcher 80 often
that the guardian may be said truthfully
cradle" and made the sO-called cradle" q
vast and hungry grave.
When we remember that the South
maintained human slavery for seventy
years; that 1t began its war on the Union
TO establish q confederacy whose corner
liberty, both at the baliot-box and behind
IL. has been brutally trampled under foot
and made q bloody burlesque OF during ell
the days of the political life Of the
S0uth, 1t does seem as III calling that
section 1.-The cradle of civil liberty
and its guardian" was the most stu
pendous, open. gross and palpable lie that
Grover Cleveland has uttered since he
wrote during his first presidential term
that John l.. Calhoun was a shining ex.
ample of true patriotism to be commended
to the attention of our American youth.
Calhoun's patriotism" was treason to
the American flag and assertion of state
supremacy for South Carolina. q most de-
testable fraction of that section which
Cleveland calls at once the cradle and the
Guardian of civil liberty" Calhoun and
Cleveland: Cleveland aud Calhoun: their
statues ought to occupy the same niche in
the South's gallery of "Heralds and Cham
pions of Freedom"