The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-02

A Puritan. a Methodist. and an alb
olitionist, this man is OF the very aris-
Socracy of the Republican party. His
family III America is sprung from one
of Cromwell's Ironsides, who smote the
maltgnaDts' hip and thigh on many
stricken field, and was never so hap
.py as when shedding human blood for
the glory of God and the triumph of his
elect. In America the Puritans estab-
hshed what they called religious lib
erty;" but 1t was a theocracy that
robbed Indians, hanged Quakers, and
banished Baptists. Henry Cabot Lodge
has made the wonderful discovery that
horse racing and cock fighting in the
colonial south was evidence of total
depravity and miserable unthrift while
wis~S-burning in colonial New England
was only manifestation of the deep
seated religious principles and infiexi-
bic morality of the Puritans.
The father of Charles Warren Fair
banks moved to Ohio from New Eng
land, and continued the battle of life
in the then frontier. He carried the
New England conscience and the New
England morality with him, which was
this: If the law does not At your con-
science and conform to your morality,
why, break the law, which Mr.. Fair
d
making his house a station of the ''un-
derground railroad" Notification was
a local question, desperately wicked at
the south, enrapturously virtuous at
the north-that is to say, the solemn
obligations of a compact is binding on
the reprobate. but q thing that the elect
may put aside with impunity and with
divine appreciation.
rawlings of William Lloyd Garrison 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
iof the present day. Understand me, 1
have no intention to SANDER or abuse
the abolitionists of the middle of the
last century. | merely describe them
for what they were-men who held
that the constitution of the United
States was "a league with death and a
covenant with hell" That was John
Browns faith. Is not Brown a saint in
our political calendar? Garrison. Phil
lips, Sumner, Giddings, Wade, Beech
er, Stevens, Chandler, Wade Gerrit
Smith, and the whole bilin' of them be-
'lieved that conscience was above all
law, and they advised the notification
of any law that came foul of con-
oNiChCCs NJ ln6N were honest.
Certainly they were fanatic.
Charles Warren Fairbanks was born
in 1852 and reared a Methodist and an
abolitionist- His father taught him to
work, made mechanic of him. in
stilled into his character the lessons of
self-reliance and self-denial The boy
managed to get an excellent education
and studied law. He was industrious
and had no bad habits By no means
/ q ha
! JUS in the race of life. What Tom Mar
shall would have been with Fairbanks
conscience, Fairbanks diligence and
Fairbanks habits, we can scarce mag
inc, except we know that he could have
accomplished anything he set his mind
10. Fairbanks was no such orator as
Julian, no such lawyer as Harrison. no
such statesman as Morton; but his sue
cess 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
senate. and is now vice president of the
United States.
He is a candidate for president and
may attain that exalted station. The
American people do not draft their
presidents from the ranks of the bril-
liant and the dazzling, your Claws. Cal
NUNS, NeOSleIs, OOuSiaSeS, BreckIn-
ridges, Blaines; as yet not from your
Bryans. Dobbin makes a better race
for that great place than Bucephalus;
The tortoise beats the hare in the grand
presidential derby. Fair banks is in the
class of Polk, Pierce. Hayes and Nc
kinley. The office 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 il. and Jack
son made himself a hero in the field
before ne got TO be sage in the cab
met. Cleveland would have been as
great as Jackson if his party had not
turned lunatic and forbade him. AS
president, Clay or Calhoun or Webster
could have done nothing that would