The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-08

from Portland or Tacoma meaiss that Port
| land and Tacoma will be found working
heneeforth for the Lake Washiagton canal.
| Only oratorical enthusiasts or political
| hypocrites pretend to think. that the
shameful spectacle of the South made
solid by blood and fraud woula impose on
Lincoln's eyes and be accepted by that
great spirit as q realization of his pro-
| phetic vision of genuine peace
with honor, peace with liberty inn
partially enforced under equal laws.
Abraham Lincoln in life ne*er Inistook
the show of peace for the substance of it,
as the Mugwump doctrinaires.do who are
either idiotic or disingenuous when they
maunder about the evil OF suppressed
suffrage after voting for ClexeIand. who
was made president by suppressed suffrage
In 1892 as he was in 1851 anCs it is quite
| possible will be made president by sup
| pressed suffrage again in lS9t: Does any
| sane, intelligent supporter & Cleveland
sincerely suppose that Lincois. living to-
day, would regard his ''propl:etic vision"
so far fulfilled by blue and the gray bar
becues that he could have voted for Cleve-
land with Wayne MacVeagf. or does he
| think Lincoln would have continued to
vote with John Sherman, Joe sIaw!ey and
| Benjamin Harrison?
| The late United States Senator Gibson,
| OF louisiana, after being reelected in 1883
| to the United States senate by: the Demo-
cratic legislature, whose egction was
| obtained by shameless, systematic stamp
ing out of free suffrage in LOUISIANA. rose
| and said
| think the wisest and best thf3g is for the
| Southern people TO make up the5 minds that
| they will accept in good faith the amendments
| to the constitution OF the United states, which
| we have all sworn to support H05s could We as
| men of honor do otherwise?
! These words of exhortation 'to accept
| in good faith the amendmentseof the con-
stitution" falling from the lIry of Con-
federate brigadier, whose elestion to the
| United States senate had been secured by
| wholesale suppression of the Suffrage and
violation OF the amendments of the con-
stitution. were perhaps mere shame
less than Curtis invocation of Lin
coins name at the blue. and the
| gray barbecue at Gettysburg in 1888,
but they were not halt so stupid. Mr..
| Curtis thought that Lincoln would con-
found the fact OF "blue AID the gray"
blatant barbecue at GettysEurg with a
| genuine realization Of real: not tech
nical, peace between the secSons, for the
sentimental soul of Curtis WIS incapable
| Of taking the measure of Line1In's states
man-like mind that never in iie mi stook
the shell for the kernel or tbs shadow for
the substance. If Lincoln ever looked
| down on one of these "blue ard the gray'
barbecues, redolent Of transmit whisky
born and bred patriotism ans fraternity,
his disembodied intelligence vas filled not
with Joy because of the fulfil sment of his
prophetic vislon," but wi6l the deep
sorrow that all great and nob8 souls feel
when hope deferred maketh their splendid
hearts sick.
| The spectacle of an old tine supporter
of Lincoln stopping to vote f5r Cleveland
and suppressed suffrage in 1874, deploring
plaintively suppressed suffrage in July,
1855, and yet voting for Cleveland and
suppressed suffrage in November, 1883 and
1892, is about as melancholy and con-
temptible spectacle as that q man of
| good family and honorable record preach
ing an eloquent sermon against the social
evil and stepping down an@ out of his
pulpit to marry strumpets These old
time renegade Republicans aee either elo-
| quent hypocrites or oratorical, sentimental,
| political inebriates intoxicated by the
exuberance of their own versosity." To
make a speech in protest against sup
| pressed suffrage and then illustrate it by
sickening devotion to the pjsrty that has
just been placed in power, aftsr the Attn of
March next, by means of suppressed suf-
frage is to bid for historical il; fanny or im-
becilitv. If a man knows batter he is q
political hypocrite, and if &c does not
know any better he is political senti.
mentalist to the point of naudlin men,
tality.