The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-06-04

A Puritan. a Methodist, and an
Abolitionist this man is OF the very
aristocracy of the Republican party.
HIS family in America is sprung from
smote the "malignants" hip and thigh
on many a stricken field. and was
never so happy as when shedding hui
man blood for the glory OF God and
the triumph OF His elect. In Ameri-
ca the Purftans established what they
called religious liberty" but it was
a ~theocracy that robbed Indians,
hanged Quakers. and banished Bap-
lists. Mr.. Henry CABOT Lodge has
made the wonderful discovery that
horse racing and cock fighting in the
colonial South was evidence OF total
depravfty and miserable unthrift,
while WITHDRAWING in olonial New
England was only q manifestation of
the deep-seated religious principles
and fnflextble morality OF the Puri-
tana.
The father of Charles Warren Fair
n o to Ohio from New En-
gland. and continued h battle of life
in the then frontier. He carried the
New England conscience and the New
England morality with him, which
vas this: If the law does not fit your
conscience and conform to your mo-
cality. why. break the law, which Mr..
Fairbanks accordingly proceeded to
do by making his house a station of
the underground railroad" Nullifi-
cation was a local question, desper-
ately wicked at the South, enraptu-
rously %virtuous at the North-that is
compact is binding on the r~eprobate.
but a thing that the elect may put
aside with impunity and with divine
appreciation.
The elder Fairbanks believed in the
70 wings Of William How'd Corrjdnn
and the brutalities of Benjamin F.
Wade and violated the law of the
land every time opportunity offered.
He held to the higher law as does
your anarchist of the present day.
Understand me, I have no intention
70 SANDER or abuse the abolitionists
Of the middle of the last century. I
merely describe them for what they
were-men who held that the Consti-
tuition of the United States was "a
with He'll" That was John Browns
faith. Is not Brown a saint In our
political calender? Garrison, Phillips,
Sumner. Giddings, Wade. Beecher,
Stevens, Chandler. Wade. Gerrit.
Smith, and the whole bilin' Of them
believed that conscience was above
all law, and they advised the nullifi-
cation of any law that came foul of
conscience. No doubt they were hon
est. Certainly they were fanatic.
Charles Warren Fairbanks was
born in 1852 and reared a Metho-
DIST and an Abolitionist. His father
taught him to work, made a mechanic
of him., instilled into his character the
lessons of self-reliance and self-de-
NAL. The boy managed to get an ex-
Cellent education and studied law. He
was industrious and had no bad hab-
its. BY no means a genius, he out
stripped many a genius in the race OF
life. What Tom Marshall would have
been with Fairbanks conscience. Fair
banks diligence, and Fairbanks hab-
It's, we can scarce imagine except we
know that he could ave accomplish
Cd anything he set his mind to. Fair
banks was no such orator as Julian,
no such lawyer as Harrison, no such
statesman as Norton; but his success
was as certain as that of any one of
them. He made a fortune at the bar,
became a candidate for office, served
eight years in the United States Sen
ate, and is now Vice-Presiaent of the
United States.
He is a candidate for President and
may attain to that exalted station.
The American people do not draft
their presidents from the ranks of the
brilliant and the Advantageous ClaNs,
C~slhouns, Websters, Douglases,
Bfeckinridges, Blaines; as yet not
from your organs. Dobbin max es a
better race for that great place than
L IoSy lIlS ~ cA1 pSN~N ~ANO
hare in the grand Presidential derby.
Fairbanks is in the class of Polk,
Pierce, Hayes and Mckinley. The of
flee Of President does not afford the
best opportunity for an American
statesman. Jackson, Lincoln and
Roosevelt are the only Presidents who
made the most out of it, and jack
son made himself a hero in the field
before he got to be n age in the Cabi-
net. Cleveland WOul have been as
&c --+.- 49, not
turned lunatic and forbade him. AS
President Clay. or Calhoun, OF Web
ster could hav done nothing n q
would have given him half h fame
either one of them got out of either
one of half a dozen speeches he made
in the Senate. The same IS true OF
Douglas. It might be we'll enough to
elect Albert jeremiah Beveridge Presl
dent Just to see what the statesman
ship and eloquence he delivers him
self of in the Senate would be IN &C
ton. It is wonderful in the abstract,
What it would be in the concrete no
Imagination, however eXuberant or
~riotous, can conceive.
But if Fairbanks should be Presi-
dent the aurora horealis would not
shed its brilliance over the White
House with his consent. The admins
tration would be what the fathers IN
tended-the attaching Of the executive
sign manual to documents official.
Congress would govern; representa-
tive government would be restored to
the American republic. The big stick
would be split into cordwood with
which to cook bacon and cabbage: ND
more White House diplomas would is
sue to knights Of Ananias. The SUI
perlative degree would be abolished
and American politics given a rest.
Indiana produced the greatest of
the war governors of the Northern side
Oliver P. Morton. next to Lincoln.
the greatest man on the Northern